PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Kurokawa Kenji (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Daniel Bryan (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Bryan comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Flight of the Valkyries kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Rumors backstage are that the fighters have been paid to keep it standing but we know that would never happen in MMA!

Kenji
vs
Bryan

175 cm
36
203 lbs
40 - 20 - 0

179 cm
27
203 lbs
12 - 11 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Granite chin

Excellent grappler
World class boxer
Good gas tank

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the middleweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 40 - 20 - 0, fighting out of London, Kurokawa Kenji!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 12 - 11 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Daniel Bryan!
The judges for this bout are Matti Vanhoillinen, Marco Blurström and Tarja Halkonen.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Kenji ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Bryan moves away.
Bryan ducks under a wild hook from Kenji.

Bryan shoots in and scores a nice double leg takedown into half guard.
If this pace continues, the referee will definitely step in and force a standup.
Kenji is trying to get back to full guard.
Kenji keeping control of the leg, stopping his opponent passing to mount.
Kenji is looking to control Bryan's leg but it's slowly edging free. Can Kenji avoid being mounted?

That's one minute gone in the round.

The ref stands the fighters back up. Kurokawa Kenji wasn't doing enough on the ground.
Bryan throws a head kick that misses.
Bryan on the wrong end of a vicious looking body shot.
Kenji takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Bryan smiles there as he lands a nice right hand right on the button.

It looks like Kurokawa Kenji has been cut.
Daniel Bryan seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Kenji throws a nice head kick!

It looks like Daniel Bryan has been cut.
Bryan lands a vicious shot with the stealth of a sniper and the strength of a viper. Are vipers that strong? I can think of lots of things that are stronger than a viper - not many rhyme with sniper though.
Bryan misses with a body shot
and Kenji counters with a nice uppercut.
Kenji scores with a jab to the body.
Bryan lands with an overhand left.

Kurokawa Kenji's cut is getting worse.
Bryan avoids the head kick by Kenji.
Bryan fakes the body blow, causing Kenji to drop his hands! Left hook to the temple! Kenji goes stiff, and falls face first into the mat. Goodnight!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:58 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Daniel Bryan!
Daniel Bryan is the new middleweight champion!
Daniel Bryan looked relieved post fight as he said the following; 'YES! YES! YES!'.