PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Teemu Karjalainen (ranked 1021 p4p, 113 weight class) and Severo Del Bosque (ranked 1927 p4p, 191 weight class). Karjalainen's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, Poisonblack - Sun Shines Black. Del Bosque has chosen Mimosa - Drippin as his entrance music. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Karjalainen
vs
Del Bosque

171 cm
28
163 lbs
14 - 8 - 0

175 cm
26
165 lbs
14 - 13 - 0

Good wrestling
Dangerous knees
Insanely flexible

Excellent grappler
World class MT
Good gas tank

Sportivité
Aspire Clothing

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 14 - 8 - 0, fighting out of New York, Teemu Karjalainen!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 14 - 13 - 0, fighting out of London, Severo Del Bosque!
The judges for this bout are Yves DeLean, Steve Smith and Trevor Gratis.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
A punch combination from Karjalainen misses.
Karjalainen staying out of range there.
Del Bosque tries to clinch up against the cage, rushing in to close the distance. Karjalainen manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat.
Karjalainen misses with an uppercut
and Del Bosque connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
Del Bosque checks a low kick from Karjalainen.
And an attempted straight right on the counter from Del Bosque! But no joy.
Karjalainen tries to move into range but Del Bosque moves to the side and lands with a nice right hand.

Del Bosque gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
Karjalainen prevents a body shot from Del Bosque.
Karjalainen misses with a punch on the inside.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Karjalainen.
Del Bosque swings wildly with an uppercut but Karjalainen uses good head movement to avoid it.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Karjalainen is pushing Del Bosque up against the cage, for a bit of lean and pray action. Action being used the in the loosest possible sense of the word.
Nice body punch from Del Bosque.
Del Bosque on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Karjalainen lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.

It looks like Severo Del Bosque has been cut.

Del Bosque pulls guard successfully.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Karjalainen sitting in guard here, content to control.

Del Bosque has managed to work for a loose triangle. I think Karjalainen should be able to defend this one pretty easily though. Oh, Del Bosque has tightened it up now! Karjalainen should have reacted faster there - he's in big trouble and yes, he's tapped out! This one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:22 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Triangle). Severo Del Bosque!
After the fight, Severo Del Bosque was humble in paying tribute to his opponent but made it clear he wants to go on to bigger and better things. It seemed to go down well with the crowd who cheered him loudly.