PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Alexander Bagration (ranked 24768 p4p, 3402 weight class) and Hanzo Hattori (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Both fighter's entrance songs getting the crowd jumping here.

Bagration
vs
Hattori

194 cm
18
192
1 - 2 - 1

189 cm
16
194
2 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Big heart

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Very confident

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 2 - 1, fighting out of Tokyo, Alexander Bagration!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Hanzo Hattori!
The judges for this bout are Tatsuya Matsuyama, Yuuki Gou and Yukihiro Shimada.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Bagration pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
Jab from Hattori.
Bagration throws a hard body shot but it just misses.

Bagration clinches up against the cage.
Bagration is trying to push Hattori away but Hattori has him pressed against the cage, so he's going nowhere.

Hattori breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Hattori tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Hattori slips under a jab.
Hattori throws a big counter head kick but Bagration avoids it with no problem.
Bagration tries to close the distance and clinch up but Hattori swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Hattori is looking for the big counter here.
A head kick misses from Hattori.
Hattori misses with a wild combination.
Hattori tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Hattori lands a brutal head kick. Bagration looks out on his feet and Hattori throws more strikes until the ref is forced to stop the fight!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:45 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Kick and Punches). Hanzo Hattori!
Hanzo Hattori was full of energy after the big win and talked about how he thinks he can do big things in this sport. The crowd were appreciative of his determination to succeed.