PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Zeta Knox (ranked 47 p4p, 685 weight class) and Leonid Martinyuk (ranked 9 p4p, 91 weight class). Knox comes to the cage accompanied by Five Finger Death Punch | Bad Company . This should be a great matchup!

Knox
vs
Martinyuk

205 cm
34
289
27 - 17 - 0

200 cm
33
233
23 - 14 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Olympic wrestler
World class MT
Granite chin

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Savage Fightwear

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 27 - 17 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Zeta Knox!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 23 - 14 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Leonid Martinyuk!
The judges for this bout are Yasuomi Hirokawa, Yukihiro Yamamoto and Ren Mimura.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Knox throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Knox misses with a left hand
and Martinyuk counters with a right hand to the body.
Martinyuk lands a beauty of a right hand that gets the crowd cheering.
Martinyuk thuds his shin into the meat of Knox's side.
Knox uses good footwork to get in and out and land a nice right hand before Martinyuk has time to react.
Martinyuk clobbers Knox with an overhand right that has the crowd gasping. That made a horrendous noise.
Knox is pinned up against the cage taking some big shots here. The referee is looking closely deciding whether he should stop the fight.
Martinyuk throws a looping overhand right but Knox ducks down to avoid it.
Martinyuk ducks down and throws a hook to the body.
Martinyuk misses with an uppercut
and Knox counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.
Knox thows a left - swing and a miss!
This has been an exciting period of action!
Jab from Knox.
Martinyuk scores with a shot to the body.
Martinyuk scores with a nice strike.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Martinyuk throws out a powerful jab.
A swing and a miss from Knox.
Knox throws out a loose jab but Martinyuk uses good head movement to avoid it.
Martinyuk misses with a series of wild punches.
Martinyuk fakes a head shot and lands one to the body.
Martinyuk uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Knox.
Knox throws an overhand right that lands on Martinyuk's shoulder, as Martinyuk tries to avoid the shot.
Knox throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.
Nice jab there from Martinyuk.
Martinyuk misses with a wild body shot.
Knox misses with a right hand
and Martinyuk counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Martinyuk takes a solid shot to the body. That one hurt him but he's trying not to show it.
Knox misses with a hook
and Martinyuk counters with a lovely straight right hand!
Martinyuk ducks under a wild hook from Knox.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Knox displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Martinyuk throws out the jab.
Martinyuk is landing a lot of head punches in this opening round! Knox had better start moving his head a bit unless he wants his face to turn into mush.
Martinyuk throws a lazy uppercut
and Knox counters with a right hand to the body.
Knox lands a straight punch to the body, keeping Martinyuk at a distance.
Martinyuk looks winded!
Knox misses with a straight left.
Martinyuk let fly with a counter punch to the body but it didn't land.
Knox lands a straight punch to the body, keeping Martinyuk at a distance.
Martinyuk displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Knox throws out the jab.
Knox throws a hook to the side of Martinyuk's head but Martinyuk sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
Knox looks to score with a jab to the body but Martinyuk is just out of range.
Martinyuk's hands are dropping dangerously low here and Knox connects clean with a right hook that sends him down to one knee! Martinyuk scrambles back to his feet.
Knox moves forwards but Martinyuk connects with a nice, crisp jab.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Knox fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Knox scores with a jab to the body.
Knox circles and sees the opportunity to plant his feet and throw a really nice straight left hand that drops Martinyuk to the canvas! Martinyuk doesn't know where he is but he's trying to survive - Knox keeps piling on the pressure and forces the referee to step in! This one is aaaaaall over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:19 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Zeta Knox!
Zeta Knox retains his heavyweight title!
Zeta Knox really struggled to get his t-shirt on before his hand was raised. Making sure that Altitude Clothing logo gets some air time is pretty tricky when you're all sweaty.