PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Kaio Henrique De Paulas (ranked 3277 p4p, 3300 weight class) and Raimo Kivi (ranked 445 p4p, 447 weight class). Kaio Henrique De Paulas had real problems making weight for this fight. After initially coming in at 206.7lbs, he had two hours to make the official fight weight. He made it but it will have taken a lot out of him to cut those extra few pounds. These two fighters really are very evenly matched on the feet - it will be fascinating to see who can assert themselves in that aspect of the fight.

Henrique De Paulas
vs
Kivi

191 cm
25
220
2 - 0 - 0

170 cm
19
209
3 - 1 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Self confident

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Kaio Henrique De Paulas!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 1 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Raimo Kivi!
The judges for this bout are Winston Alpacca, Daniel Franklin and Peter Branson.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Henrique De Paulas throws a big shot that misses.
Henrique De Paulas throws a jab when Kivi was well out of range.
Kivi connects with a solid leg kick.
Henrique De Paulas throws a head kick that connects with a bit of head and a bit of hand.
Kivi with a nice calf kick.
Henrique De Paulas takes a thudding leg kick, right into the meat of the thigh.
Henrique De Paulas takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Henrique De Paulas shapes like he's going to throw a leg kick but settles back down.
Henrique De Paulas swings for the body but Kivi moves out of range.
Henrique De Paulas seems to be moving with more speed, compared to his last bout. He must have been working on that in the gym.
Kivi goes for a high kick. It partially lands.
Henrique De Paulas just misses with a punch to the body.
Henrique De Paulas drops his hands momentarily and Kivi takes advantage with a crisp shot to the head.
Henrique De Paulas connects with a lovely jab that went straight through the gap between Kivi's hands.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Kivi throws a jab but it's blocked by Henrique De Paulas.
Henrique De Paulas takes a body kick right on the floating rib. Ouchie.
Henrique De Paulas fails with an attempt to clinch.
Henrique De Paulas scores with a jab to the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Kivi walks into a left hand.
Henrique De Paulas misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Henrique De Paulas on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
Kivi connects with a nice looking jab.
A nice leg kick from Kivi, right into the meat of the thigh.
Kivi lands with a thumping leg kick.
Henrique De Paulas walks straight into an uppercut. Luckily it didn't land flush.
Henrique De Paulas lands a body shot.
Kivi keeps Henrique De Paulas at a distance using the push kick.
Kivi throws a monster overhand right that drops Henrique De Paulas! Kivi follows up with more strikes from mount and the fight is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:44 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Raimo Kivi!
A relieved looking Raimo Kivi thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.