PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Piranha Chonan (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Renji Abarai (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Abarai has chosen Before I Forget as his entrance music. Both fighter's entrance songs getting the crowd jumping here.

Chonan
vs
Abarai

176 cm
22
195 lbs
8 - 0 - 0

183 cm
27
190 lbs
5 - 2 - 0

Good wrestling
Solid boxing
Granite chin

Powerful takedowns
Counter fighter
Powerful

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the middleweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 8 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Piranha Chonan!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Renji Abarai!
The judges for this bout are Sosuke Kotani, Yukihiro Shimada and Shirou Masuda.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Chonan has closed the distance and engaged Abarai in a clinch.
I was talking to Chonan's coach per-fight and he was telling me that they'd been working on the clinch in the runup to this fight.
Chonan lands with a short punch from the clinch.

Abarai jumps into guard, dragging Chonan to the mat.
The fighters are tangled up in the ropes here. We might need a restart if the fighters can't break free themselves.
Abarai is trying to control the position but Chonan postures up.

Chonan wants to stand up, so he's looking to wriggle free of Abarai's closed guard. He's half up but Abarai has locked on to an arm! Uh oh! Abarai pivots and extends the arm, Chonan falls face first to the mat and taps??... does he?? YES! He's tapping! Excellent counter grappling there by Abarai! Well done that man!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:31 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Renji Abarai!
Renji Abarai is the new middleweight champion!
A relieved looking Renji Abarai thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.