PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Satoru Yoshioka (ranked 704 p4p, 84 weight class) and Jason Behar (ranked 1350 p4p, 150 weight class). Both these fighters are unbeaten, so somebody's 0 has got to go!Rumors backstage are that the fighters have been paid to keep it standing but we know that would never happen in MMA!

Yoshioka
vs
Behar

175 cm
26
155 lbs
6 - 0 - 0

166 cm
26
140 lbs
6 - 0 - 0

Powerful takedowns
Counter fighter
Cardio machine

Good wrestler
Decent boxing
Powerful

The Glue Factory
Woodhouse's

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the featherweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 6 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Satoru Yoshioka!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 6 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Jason Behar!
The judges for this bout are Daniel Franklin, Sandra Marshall and Santiago Holmes.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Yoshioka misses with a takedown attempt - Behar sprawls well and throws a nice strike on the way out which just misses.
Yoshioka misses with a takedown attempt. He shot from a bit too far out.
Yoshioka bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
A shot to the body from Behar misses

and Yoshioka counters with a nice double leg into guard.
Behar is looking to stand back up... there's a bit of a scramble and Yoshioka dives into side control.

Yoshioka wants to control but Behar is keeping him busy.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.

Behar tries to escape back to his feet but Yoshioka has kept hold of him... Oh, now he's got Behar's back and is looking for the choke... Is it? Is it sunk in? YES! Behar is tapping! Yoshioka saw the opportunity and took it - ruthless!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:57 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (RNC). Satoru Yoshioka!
Satoru Yoshioka retains his featherweight title!
After the fight, Satoru Yoshioka was humble in paying tribute to his opponent but made it clear he wants to go on to bigger and better things. It seemed to go down well with the crowd who cheered him loudly.