PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between fjodor king (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Alexander Kuriliv (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

king
vs
Kuriliv

185 cm
22
215 lbs
4 - 2 - 0

188 cm
22
245 lbs
2 - 1 - 1

BJJ Brown Belt
Counter striker
Granite chin

Poweful takedowns
Brawler
Powerful

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 2 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 4 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, fjodor king!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 1 - 1, fighting out of Tokyo, Alexander Kuriliv!
The judges for this bout are Shigeki Sano, Kenichi Hosakawa and Sosuke Kotani.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Nice takedown defense from king. No joy for Kuriliv on that attempt.

Kuriliv changes levels and drives through with a really nice takedown into side control. king looks really pissed at himself for not defending that better.
The strikes coming from Kuriliv are missing the target in this wave of attacks.
king gets one leg under and gets the fight to half guard.
king is looking for a sweep. Kuriliv is wise to his cunning plan and keeps the top position.
Kuriliv missing with the ground and pound from half guard.
king gets back to full guard.
The fighters are trapped in the ropes so we're going to have a reposition here. The ref calls for a break and repositions the fighters in the center of the ring.
Kuriliv is sitting in guard, working some ground and pound.

king has a loose triangle. He'll be looking to tighten that up but Kuriliv can see exactly what he's planning and manages to posture up and free himself.
The fighters are tangled up in the ropes here. We might need a restart if the fighters can't break free themselves.

king has thrown up a leg looking for a triangle. Kuriliv doesn't defend quickly enough and king has managed to lock this one up! Can Kuriliv escape?! NO! He's tapping out! Damn, that was a quick submission - congrats to king on a fantastic submission victory.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:48 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Triangle). fjodor king!