PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Bjorn Hathoffsson (ranked 5007 p4p, 4941 weight class) and David Shark (ranked 560 p4p, 557 weight class). David Shark acknowledges the crowd's support as he enters the cage.

Hathoffsson
vs
Shark

190 cm
18
195
1 - 0 - 0

190 cm
18
185
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Basic striking
Self confident

BJJ White Belt
Decent boxing
Heavy handed

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 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Bjorn Hathoffsson!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, David Shark!
The judges for this bout are Roosa Järviläinen, Marco Blurström and Arvi Lind.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Shark throws a looping left and ducks down for a takedown. He's got his arms around Hathoffsson's waist but Hathoffsson gets an underhook and avoids the takedown by throwing Shark off to one side.
Hathoffsson looks to have improved his striking defense since last time we saw him fight.
Hathoffsson tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Hathoffsson checks a leg kick.
Shark walks straight into a jab right on the nose. That one stung - he's blinking and trying to clear his head.
Shark throws a nice looking combination but Hathoffsson bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Shark with a jab.
Shark misses with a wild body shot.
Hathoffsson fails in his attempt to clinch.
Hathoffsson feints and then cracks Shark's leading leg with a nice low kick. He's obviously looking to slow Shark down.
Hathoffsson tries to clinch there but Shark circles away.
Hathoffsson throws a body kick but he wasn't in range.
Shark feints a jab promting Hathoffsson to slip. Shark then demonstrates his capabilities by jabbing again. Hathoffsson slips again and ducks right into an uppercut.
Shark tries to move into range but Hathoffsson moves to the side and lands with a nice right hand.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Shark misses with a left hand
and Hathoffsson makes him pay by landing a thudding low kick.
Shark's jab looks to have found its range, popping Hathoffsson under the eye.
Shark lands with a precision combination! Left, right, uppercut and Hathoffsson falls flat on his face, eyes wide open but he's out!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:57 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punches). David Shark!
David Shark spent the whole post fight interview bigging himself up. It didn't go down that well with the fans after a while as they thought it was a bit arrogant.