PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Scott Adkins (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and No Urashitani (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). We have two fighters making their debuts here, so let's see who comes out of this one with their first professional victory.

Adkins
vs
Urashitani

190 cm
18
215 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

200 cm
25
220 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Prefers standup

Good wrestler
Good kicks
Solid chin

[WOT] Inner Beast Nutrition And Laundry

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Scott Adkins!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, No Urashitani!
The judges for this bout are Don Winkell, Frank Antenori and Timothy Bukovac.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Urashitani shoots in for a takedown and gets it. Let's see what he's got on the mat.
The referee wants the fighters to be more active or he's going to reset them on the feet.

Urashitani avoids a guillotine attempt easily.
Urashitani showing good wrestling skills to control the position.
Urashitani must be cautious of submissions here, given that his opponent has the superior Jiu Jitsu.
Adkins keeping full guard, as Urashitani tries to pass.
Urashitani sitting in guard, not really doing much.

The ref stands the fighters back up. No Urashitani was stalling too much, according to the referee.

Urashitani gets a takedown into half guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
The referee calls for the fighters to work.
Adkins is trying to get back to full guard.
Urashitani perhaps working for something from half guard, or maybe not. It looks like he's just sitting there.
Let's hope that Urashitani has the urge to step up the pace any second now because for the last 15 or 20 seconds he's just been holding on tight.

OK we're going to have a standup here. No Urashitani hasn't been effective enough on the ground and the referee wants a restart.
Urashitani tries to clinch there but Adkins circles away.
Adkins misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.

Urashitani has Adkins up against the cage in a clinch.
A bit of stalling here from Urashitani.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Urashitani.
Urashitani lands with a short punch from the clinch.
Adkins working hard to break the clinch.
A short left from Urashitani.
Urashitani softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Urashitani on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Come on Urashitani - let's have some action - none of this stalling nonsense.
Urashitani lands a right hand that snaps the head of Adkins backwards.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Urashitani softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Urashitani lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
Urashitani is working Adkins over against the cage.
Urashitani swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Urashitani working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Adkins throws a knee to the head but misses.
A short uppercut from Urashitani.

Adkins is rocked!
Urashitani misses with a short punch on the inside.
Oh Adkins is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Urashitani throws a head punch that misses.
Urashitani doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Urashitani misses with some punches.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Urashitani swings wildly with an uppercut but Adkins uses good head movement to avoid it.
Urashitani misses with a punch on the inside.
Urashitani throws a punch but it's blocked by Adkins.

Urashitani escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Urashitani measures up his opponent and throws a superman punch that connects to the jaw! Down goes Adkins! The ref steps in, and that's the ball game folks!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:12 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Superman Punch). No Urashitani!