PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Ichiro Naruyo (ranked 3575 p4p, 4377 weight class) and Jans Schmidt (ranked 337 p4p, 397 weight class). Jans Schmidt has the power to score a knockout today if he connects clean with Ichiro Naruyo's chin.

Naruyo
vs
Schmidt

180 cm
23
148
1 - 1 - 0

170 cm
21
140
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Big heart

Decent wrestler
Brawler
Tends to cut

Barry Bonds Performance Enhancers 160q Str/159q Re

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Ichiro Naruyo!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Jans Schmidt!
The judges for this bout are Dillan Fox, Yves DeLean and Alec Ball.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Schmidt gets a double leg takedown into Naruyo's guard.
Schmidt with a flurry of punches that miss.
Schmidt loading up with the ground and pound but he's missing more than he's landing in this flurry.
Schmidt is working the ground and pound from guard. He might want to try advancing position though to get more of an impact.
Schmidt postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
Schmidt passes easily into side control. Nice work.
Schmidt lands a few punches from side control.
Naruyo managing to avoid any damage from the strikes thrown by Schmidt.
Schmidt connects with a decent looking elbow from side control that caused Naruyo some visible discomfort.
Schmidt wants to control but Naruyo is keeping him busy.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Schmidt landing strikes.
Schmidt has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Naruyo struggling a bit here.
Naruyo is working to avoid the ground and pound but Schmidt connects with a decent elbow.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Naruyo takes a big shot right to the temple there but he's taken it well.

Naruyo is rocked!
Naruyo taking punishment in the form of punches.
Oh Naruyo is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Schmidt scores with a couple of short elbows.
Schmidt throwing strikes but missing, from side control.
Schmidt throwing strikes but missing, from side control.
Naruyo takes a couple of big shots there - the referee warns him that he has to defend himself better.
A big shot lands for Schmidt! That's hurt Naruyo! Will he recover? Schmidt fires away with more strikes and the referee has to step in to stop the fight!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:48 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Jans Schmidt!
Jans Schmidt 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.