PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Roi Asher (ranked 5090 p4p, 243 weight class) and Masatoshi Shinosaki (ranked 8676 p4p, 310 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Shinosaki's choice of entrance music: Rae Sremmurd - Black Beatles ft. Gucci Mane. The atmosphere really building for this one as we go over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Asher
vs
Shinosaki

170 cm
25
134 lbs
2 - 1 - 0

165 cm
19
135 lbs
0 - 2 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Brawler
Good chin

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Heavy handed

Dauntless

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the bantamweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 2 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Roi Asher!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Masatoshi Shinosaki!
The judges for this bout are Ren Mimura, Hirohito Nitta and Yasuomi Hirokawa.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Shinosaki scores with a crisp jab that stopped Asher in his tracks.
Shinosaki takes a step towards his opponent and connects with a left hand, before circling away.
Asher takes a shot to the eye socket. That's gotta hurt.
Asher closes the distance and clinches up with Shinosaki, looking for a takedown. Asher pushes Shinosaki against the cage but Shinosaki circles to the side and manages to break the clinch.
Shinosaki cracks Asher with a right hand to the side of the head.

Asher is rocked!

Asher shoots in for a takedown! He's got it and he's managed to land in side control! That's better than Asher was expecting from the takedown attempt, I'm sure!
Oh Asher is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Shinosaki is working hard to escape and get back to his feet. After a battle for position, Asher asserts his dominance and retains side control.
Asher seems to have got his legs back now.
Asher passes to full mount! That's big trouble for Shinosaki!
Shinosaki is in a horrible position here. Asher smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.
Asher lands a shot to the body, followed up by a shot to the exposed head of his trapped opponent.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Shinosaki has left one of his arms exposed and Asher doesn't need a second invitation. He's isolated it and locked on a tight armbar. Shinosaki screams and taps out, obviously in a lot of pain. Hopefully there isn't permanent damage to that arm.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:19 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Roi Asher!
In his post fight interview, Roi Asher started talking himself up. Luckily his charisma kept the crowd on side and gave him a good reception.