PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Justin Jangla (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Mike Young (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). This should be a great matchup!

Jangla
vs
Young

180 cm
20
185 lbs
3 - 4 - 0

194 cm
18
194 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

Good wrestling
Counter striker
Cardio machine

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Prefers standup

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 3 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Justin Jangla!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Mike Young!
The judges for this bout are Sosuke Kotani, Yuuki Gou and Shigeki Fujiwara.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Young will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Young throws a combination. Jangla tries to block but a couple of punches get through.
Young throws a series of punches but Jangla moves out of range.
Young looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.
Young throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Jangla.
Sloppy strikes from Young. Those never looked like landing.
Young misses with a series of wild punches.
Young misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Young misses with a series of wild punches.
Young fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Young throws a series of punches but Jangla avoids them all with ease.

Young gets caught on his heels momentarily as he allows Jangla to score an easy takedown into full guard.
The referee is pacing around the two fighters - he looks like he's thinking about a standup.

Jangla is trying to work a guillotine from the top, or something like that? Don't know how he thinks he's going to get a finish from there.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Young preventing the ground and pound from doing any damage.
Jangla is sitting in guard, working some ground and pound.
Jangla is sitting in guard, working some ground and pound.
Jangla postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.
We get told so often about how wrestlers don't like to be on their backs. Let's see if Young can do anything to dispel that myth.
Young being controlled here, momentarily.
Jangla slips nicely into half guard.
Jangla has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
Jangla slips a nice elbow through Young's hands, connecting with Young's forehead.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Jangla is controlling the pace.
Jangla is looking to pass the guard... He's managed it - he's now in full mount!
Jangla with shots to the head and body - Young looks very uncomfortable down there.
Jangla controlling from the full mount.
Jangla postures up and lands a whopping elbow - oh that's hurt Young bigstyle! Two more strikes land for Jangla and the fight is over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:55 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Justin Jangla!