PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Justin Hall (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jurmas Uusisto (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Jurmas Uusisto has the eye of the tiger tonight.

Hall
vs
Uusisto

183 cm
30
181 lbs
13 - 8 - 0

177 cm
38
178 lbs
39 - 21 - 1

Abu Dhabi Champ
Lethal high kicks
Insanely flexible

Excellent grappler
World class boxer
Good gas tank

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 1 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 13 - 8 - 0, fighting out of New York, Justin Hall!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 39 - 21 - 1, fighting out of Helsinki, Jurmas Uusisto!
The judges for this bout are Russell Pearce, Dean Styles and Anthony Taglia.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Hall scores with a nice head shot.
Uusisto with a poor takedown
and Hall counters with a leg kick.
Hall fakes a jab and scores with a low kick.
Uusisto moves out of range as Hall throws a body kick.
Hall comes forward and lands a shot to the body, then darts back out of range.
Hall misses with a body shot.
Hall thumps Uusisto with a low kick.
Uusisto misses the jab.
A head kick misses from Hall.
Uusisto has been spending a lot of time sparring his boxing in the run up to the fight, trying to sharpen up those hands and look for a knockout.
Nice body punch from Hall.
Hall lands a slapping body shot.
Hall feints and then cracks Uusisto's leading leg with a nice low kick. He's obviously looking to slow Uusisto down.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Uusisto takes one on the chin but keeps coming.
Hall stuns Uusisto with a nice body shot, before stepping back out of range.
Justin Hall seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Uusisto misses the shot to the body.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Hall connects with an inside leg kick.

Uusisto gets a double leg takedown into Hall's guard.
Uusisto trying to control but Hall is working from the bottom.
Uusisto trying to pass the guard but can't manage it just yet.
Uusisto lands a couple of elbows.
Uusisto trying to pass the guard but can't manage it just yet.
Uusisto throws a big elbow that misses.
Uusisto is working the ground and pound from guard. He might want to try advancing position though to get more of an impact.
Uusisto trying to control but Hall is working from the bottom.
Hall wants to control but instead he gets his guard passed and Uusisto is now in half guard.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

Uusisto is working for a kimura but Hall is defending it quite comfortably.
Uusisto lands strikes from half guard.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Uusisto wants to control but Hall is keeping him busy.

Uusisto is working for a submission of some sort.
Uusisto trying to control from Hall's half guard. Hall has other ideas though and has regained full guard.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Uusisto throwing shots from guard but he's hitting more mat than opponent.
Uusisto working from the guard for now, landing some ground and pound.
Uusisto is looking to work some ground and pound but Hall has wrist control.
Uusisto trying to control but Hall is working from the bottom.
Hall preventing the ground and pound from doing any damage.
Uusisto wants to control from the top but Hall keeps moving.
Hall has control of Uusisto's left arm, preventing Uusisto from doing any damage.
We must be close to a standup if these guys don't pick up the pace.
Uusisto trying to control the position from guard on top but Hall is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.

The referee decides to stand the fighters back up.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
A few boos can be heard. I'm sure they will multiply if the fighters don't pick up the pace.
Uusisto moves his head to the side to avoid a jab but walks straight into a cross.

It looks like Jurmas Uusisto has been cut.
Hall takes a big uppercut there. He seems a bit wobbly but no, he's OK.
Uusisto rushes in with a sloppy looking punch
enabling Hall to counter with a crisp jab.
Hall looks to land a left hand but Uusisto moved out of range nicely.
Uusisto lands a pitter patter jab to the forehead of his opponent.
Hall on the wrong end of a vicious looking body shot.
Hall gets cracked there but stands up to it.
Hall misses with a straight right.
Uusisto lunges in with an uppercut that skims his opponent's chin.
Uusisto lands with a kick to the ribs.
A low kick from Hall misses
letting Uusisto counter with a right hand.

That's five minutes gone in the round.
Uusisto lands with a nice combination. Hall backs away looking to recover.
Hall lands a lovely overhand right.
Hall throws a looping overhand right but Uusisto ducks down to avoid it.
Uusisto misses with an uppercut. Hall saw that one coming.
Hall lands a nice looking kick to the body. Uusisto takes a step back to recover.
Uusisto moves out of range of the strikes.
And an attempted straight right on the counter from Uusisto! But no joy.
Hall scores with a nice right hand.
Hall looking to land some kicks to the body here.
Uusisto blocks a head kick by Hall.
Uusisto throws out a loose jab but Hall uses good head movement to avoid it.
Hall throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.
Hall lands a jab to Uusisto's midsection.
Uusisto throws a body shot but no joy.

That's six minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Uusisto moves out of range as Hall throws a body kick.
Uusisto misses with a right hand
and Hall counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.
Uusisto misses with an uppercut
and Hall counters with a nice uppercut.

Uusisto drives through with a takedown into Hall's guard. Let's see what he can do from the top position.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Uusisto looking to sit in guard and control but Hall gets the butterfly guard and sweeps. He's now in the guard on the top.

Uusisto tries to land a sweep but no joy.
Uusisto trying to control the position.
Uusisto is trying to hold Hall in close to prevent damage but Hall has managed to pass into half guard.
Uusisto wants to get back to full guard.

That's seven minutes gone in the round.
Hall is thwarting Uusisto's attempts to control the position.
Uusisto tries to get to full guard but Hall has control of the leg.
Jurmas Uusisto has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!
Uusisto is working for an escape here. He's hooked one of Hall's legs and he's managed to sneak out and take Hall's back!
Hall rolls, trying to escape but Uusisto keeps control of the position.

Hall showing good submission defense here.
Uusisto misses with an elbow to the head.

That's eight minutes gone in the round.
Hall wants to escape the position.

Uusisto looking to break Hall's wrist control so he can sink in the choke. Hall remaining controlled and patient though - he really has to keep calm otherwise Uusisto will wrap this one up with the rear naked choke!
Hall covering up well under a series of strikes from Uusisto.
Hall tries to escape the position - he's now mounted. Is that better or worse? Hard to tell!
Uusisto trying to control but he's not successful this time.
Hall wriggling around on the bottom manages to avoid the strikes thrown by Uusisto.
Uusisto lands a couple of nice shots there from mount.

That's nine minutes gone in the round.
Uusisto working away from the top, dropping strikes.
Uusisto misses with a head shot.
Hall taking shots to the head.
Hall really trying hard to get back to half guard here.
Uusisto has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Uusisto lands a big elbow.
Hall holds on to Uusisto as tight as he can, avoiding damage.
Uusisto in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.
Justin Hall has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!

Hall is rocked!
Uusisto wants to control the pace but Hall is squirming around nicely.
Uusisto dominating with strikes here.

And that's the end of the fight!
I would just about give that final round to Jurmas Uusisto.
I think Uusisto has won this one but let's see whether the judges agree with me. Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1 round of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.

Judge Russell Pearce scores the fight for Jurmas Uusisto!
Judge Dean Styles scores the fight for Jurmas Uusisto!
Judge Anthony Taglia scores the fight for Jurmas Uusisto!

Jurmas Uusisto wins by unanimous decision!