PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Skye Breeze (ranked 3711 p4p, 2452 weight class) and Vino Kourov (ranked 251 p4p, 183 weight class). Kourov is bobbing his head along to his entrance song: COME ON. Vino Kourov will no doubt be trying to keep this one on the feet, where he has a distinct advantage.

Breeze
vs
Kourov

152 cm
20
144
2 - 3 - 0

171 cm
21
136
4 - 4 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Solid Muay Thai
KO power

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent boxer
Good gas tank

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the bantamweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 2 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Skye Breeze!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 4 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Vino Kourov!
The judges for this bout are Dmitry Maklakov, Valeri Chadov and Igor Prikhodko.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Kourov will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Breeze misses with a looping left.
Kourov let fly with a counter punch to the body but it didn't land.
Nice uppercut lands for Kourov. That snapped Breeze's head back.

Kourov pushes Breeze up against the cage in a clinch.
Kourov lands a hook to the body. It's hard to tell if that hurt Breeze or not.
Kourov softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Kourov creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Kourov pushes Breeze back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
Kourov tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Breeze's elbow.
Kourov doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Kourov creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Kourov lands a shoulder strike.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.

Kourov breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Breeze throws a hook to the side of Kourov's head but Kourov sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
Breeze walks straight into a right hand from Kourov - that's dropped him! Kourov jumps into mount and starts pounding away - can he finish?! More strikes go undefended and the referee has to dive in to save Breeze from any more punishment! Breeze complains about the stoppage but falls over as he tries to stand back up, so it was clearly a good stoppage.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:59 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punches). Vino Kourov!
Vino Kourov bigged himself up after the win. The crowd seemed to love it.