PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Sebastian Benhard (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Moses Regular (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Benhard comes to the cage accompanied by Battle Without Honour or Humanity . This should be a great matchup!

Benhard
vs
Regular

194 cm
21
215 lbs
3 - 0 - 0

185 cm
19
210 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Granite chin

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Powerful

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the light heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Sebastian Benhard!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Moses Regular!
The judges for this bout are Matti Vanhoillinen, Tarja Halkonen and Anni Minnemäki.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Benhard misses the jab.
Regular slips under a jab.
Regular slips a jab from Benhard.

The fight moves into the clinch position.
Regular landing knees to the head.

It looks like Sebastian Benhard has been cut.
Regular lands a nice knee to the body.
Regular scores a nice knee to the body.
Regular is pushing Benhard up against the cage, for a bit of lean and pray action. Action being used the in the loosest possible sense of the word.
Regular tries a knee to the head but Benhard blocks it.
Regular lands an elbow inside that Benhard shrugs off.
Regular scores a nice knee to the body.
Benhard is breathing heavily.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Benhard takes a knee right on the jaw!
Regular with a knee to the head.
Regular with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
Benhard blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Regular gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Regular lands an elbow inside that Benhard shrugs off.
Regular doesn't land with the attempted body shot.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Regular connects with a nasty looking knee right to Benhard's face.
Regular with a knee to the head.
Regular with a knee to the head.
Benhard takes a knee right on the jaw!
Regular lands a good knee to the midsection. Benhard won't want to take too many of those.

Regular breaks from the clinch.
Regular wants to clinch.

Regular gets in close and instigates a clinch.
Regular has Benhard pushed against the cage.
Benhard takes a knee to the side of the body.
Regular misses with the head strike.
Regular lands a knee to the head.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Regular lands a knee to the head.
A knee to the head by Regular.
Knees in the clinch landing for Regular.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Regular lands a nice knee to the body.
Regular using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.

Regular pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Benhard swats away the attempt to clinch by Regular.
Benhard avoids the clinch attempt nicely.

Regular closes the distance and clinches.
Benhard is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Regular is trying to wear down his opponent with knees to the body.
Benhard takes a knee right on the jaw!
Regular is clearly stalling here... Pick up the pace son.
Regular with a knee to the head.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Regular connects with a nasty looking knee right to Benhard's face.
Regular landing knees to the head.
Regular tries a knee to the head but Benhard blocks it.
Regular lands a nice knee to the body.
Regular scores a nice knee to the body.
Regular connects with a nasty looking knee right to Benhard's face.
Regular is trying to wear down his opponent with knees to the body.
Regular tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Regular lands an elbow that stopped Benhard in his tracks for a moment.
Benhard is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Regular avoiding damage.
Regular connects with a nasty looking knee right to Benhard's face.

Regular's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Benhard lands with an uppercut that bounces Regular off the cage and back into rage.
Regular tries to clinch up but Benhard circles away and keeps his distance.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Regular wants to clinch.
Regular throws a head kick that connects with a bit of head and a bit of hand.
Benhard scores with a decent looking hook.
Regular fails in his attempt to clinch.
The fight stays on the outside here - Regular looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Benhard bobs and weaves and unloads with a good uppercut.
Regular tries to clinch but Benhard is having none of it.
Regular wants to clinch up but Benhard keeps it at a distance.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Benhard keeps the fight on the outside.
The fight stays on the outside here - Regular looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Moses Regular seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Benhard looks to land a right hand but Regular moved out of range.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Moses Regular dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Sebastian Benhard's cut.
That's the end of the round. The referee orders the cornermen out of the cage so we can get back down to business.

Regular doesn't manage to clinch there - Benhard circles away.
Regular connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there.
An inside leg kick lands from Regular.
Regular is looking to clinch.
Benhard misses with a looping right.
Benhard swats away the attempt to clinch by Regular.
Regular is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Benhard circles away from the clinch attempt.
Regular is looking to clinch.
Regular scores with a sloppy punch to the body. Not much technique there but it did the business.
Regular moves in looking to clinch but Benhard pushes him off.
Regular is looking to clinch but Benhard is avoiding it.
Regular keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Benhard.
Regular throws a quick inside leg kick.
Benhard jabbing away but nothing is landing.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Regular doesn't manage to clinch there - Benhard circles away.
Benhard lands with a good body shot.
Benhard lands with a two punch combination before moving back out of range.
Sebastian Benhard is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Benhard swats away the attempt to clinch by Regular.
Benhard swats away the attempt to clinch by Regular.
Regular tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Regular bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
Benhard ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Regular moves away.
An inside leg kick lands from Regular.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Regular tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Benhard paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Regular fails with an attempt to clinch.
Benhard looks to land a right hand but Regular moved out of range.
Regular tries to clinch there but Benhard circles away.
Regular is looking to clinch but Benhard is avoiding it.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Benhard misses the jab.
Regular throws a quick head kick that skims the top of Benhard's head.
Benhard circles away from the clinch attempt.
Regular fails in his attempt to clinch.
Regular throws a body kick that digs right into the meat.
Regular lands a nice leg kick that just misses Benhard's sensitive parts.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Regular tries to clinch there but Benhard circles away.
Benhard circles away from the clinch attempt.
Regular fails with an attempt to clinch.
Regular fails with an attempt to clinch.
Regular tries to close the distance and clinch up but Benhard swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Benhard walks straight into a jab right on the nose. That one stung - he's blinking and trying to clear his head.
Benhard keeps the fight on the outside.
Regular staying out of range there.
Regular tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Benhard paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Regular tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Regular is looking to clinch but Benhard is avoiding it.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Benhard looks to land a left hand but Regular moved out of range nicely.
Benhard throws a nice looking combination but Regular bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Regular tries to clinch up but Benhard circles away and keeps his distance.
A combination from Benhard does no damage.
Regular tries to clinch but Benhard moves out of range.
Regular wants to clinch up but Benhard keeps it at a distance.
Benhard misses with a body shot.
Benhard works the jab nicely.

The fight moves into the clinch position.
Regular has been the more effective fighter overall so far.
Regular lands an elbow that stopped Benhard in his tracks for a moment.
Regular connects with a nasty looking knee right to Benhard's face.
Regular lands an elbow inside that Benhard shrugs off.
Benhard is looking to break free of the clinch but Regular has double underhooks.
Regular connects with a nasty looking knee right to Benhard's face.
Regular using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Nice elbow from Regular.
Regular lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Moses Regular seems to be working more effectively in the clinch in the fight so far.

Regular breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Regular fails in his attempt to clinch.

Regular closes the distance and clinches.
Regular lands a nice knee to the body.
Regular utilising his Muay Thai to score with a knee to the body.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Regular connects with a knee to the head.
Regular scores with a knee to the head.
Regular scores with a knee to the head.
Regular slows down the pace here.
Regular tries to land a knee to the head but Benhard blocks with his arms.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. Regular obliges.
Benhard takes a knee to the side of the body.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Moses Regular showed his class in that round. I'd imagine he'll take it on all the scorecards.
The cut man is working on Sebastian Benhard's cut.
The corners get their ten second warning. Both fighters stand from their stools and stare eachother down, ready to get back to the action.

Benhard swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Benhard is really head hunting here, hardly looking to strike to the body at all.
Benhard avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Regular tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Regular gets cracked there but stands up to it.
Benhard circles away from the clinch attempt.
Benhard scores with a punch to the gut of his opponent.
Regular is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Benhard scores with a nice one two combo and darts back out of range to avoid anything coming in the opposite direction.
Regular tries to close the distance and clinch but Benhard swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Regular tries to clinch but Benhard is having none of it.
Moses Regular seems to be getting the better of the standup.
Benhard sizes up Regular with a pawing jab and scores with a straight right down the middle.
Regular showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Benhard.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.
Regular tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
The fight stays on the outside here - Regular looks like he's thinking about clinching though.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Benhard throws a series of punches but Regular avoids them all with ease.

Regular fakes with an overhand right and moves in to clinch with Benhard, pushing him back against the cage.
Benhard looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. Regular obliges.
Regular working some nice short punches in the clinch.
Regular landing knees to the head.
Regular landing knees to the body.
A knee to the head by Regular.
Regular with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
Regular lands a knee to the body.
Regular lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Benhard takes a knee to the side of the body.
Benhard prevents a body shot from Regular.
Benhard takes a knee right on the jaw!
Regular looking to throw knees to the head but Benhard is blocking nicely.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Regular landing knees to the body.
Benhard wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Regular with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Benhard wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Regular has him pressed against the cage.
Regular lands a good knee to the midsection. Benhard won't want to take too many of those.
Benhard managing to block the knees to the body from Regular.
Regular tries to land a knee to the head but Benhard blocks with his arms.
Regular is trying to force a seperation but Benhard has the dominant position.
Regular prevents Benhard from breaking the clinch.
Benhard wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Knees to the body from Regular.
Benhard wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Regular lands an elbow inside.
Regular connects with a nasty looking knee right to Benhard's face.
Regular prevents Benhard from breaking the clinch.
Regular missing with knees to the body.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Regular is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Benhard is defending well for now.
Regular keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Benhard's efforts to push away.
Benhard has had enough of the clinch but Regular keeps him there for the moment.
Benhard is trying to break free.
Regular utilising his Muay Thai to score with a knee to the body.
Regular scores with a knee to the head.
Regular lands a damaging elbow.
Regular misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Benhard.

Regular breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Benhard fakes and then throws a beautiful body shot. Regular looks a bit winded and takes a step backwards to take a breath.
Regular drops his hands and takes a jab to the jaw for his troubles.
Regular throws a body kick but he was well out of range there.
Regular tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Benhard keeps his opponent at a distance with a nice jab.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Regular tries to clinch but Benhard is having none of it.
Benhard comes forward and lands a shot to the body, then darts back out of range.
Regular doesn't manage to clinch there - Benhard circles away.
A lazy left from Benhard finds it's target.
Regular tries to clinch up but Benhard circles away and keeps his distance.
Regular takes a shot to the body in his stride.
Regular tries to close the distance and clinch up but Benhard swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Benhard getting the better of the striking in that exchange.
A looping hook to the body misses from Benhard. Regular does a little dance to reset his feet.
Benhard lands a really nice looking cross but Regular seems unphased.
Left hook, right uppercut from Benhard.
Regular takes a shot right to the bread basket.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Benhard throws a good cross that connects.
Benhard misses with a two punch combination.
Benhard thows a left - swing and a miss!
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

A close third round but Moses Regular just about did enough to take it.
The cut man is working on Sebastian Benhard's cut.
OK. That's time! The bell goes and we're back to the action.

Regular is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Regular tries to close the distance and clinch up but Benhard swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Regular tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Regular tries to close the distance and clinch but Benhard swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Regular tries to close the distance and clinch up but Benhard swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Benhard jabs away that one connects to the head of his opponent.
Regular tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Benhard uses good footwork to get in and out, landing a nice hook.
Benhard lands a jab-cross combination.
Regular wants to clinch.
Regular is absolutely dripping with sweat - he looks exhausted.
Regular tries to clinch up but Benhard circles away and keeps his distance.

Regular takes the fight into the clinch.
Regular tries a knee to the head but he's missed.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Regular connects with a nasty looking knee right to Benhard's face.
Regular connects with a knee to the head.

Regular escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Benhard keeps the fight on the outside.
Regular is looking to clinch but Benhard is avoiding it.
Regular tries to close the distance and clinch but Benhard swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Benhard dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
Benhard looks to land a combination. Regular sees it coming but can only parry a couple of the shots.
Regular fakes a jab and throws a low kick but Benhard checks it well.
Regular takes an uppercut right on the button but keeps his composure.
Regular takes a shot right to the bread basket.
Benhard scores with a jab. Regular acknowledges it with a nod of the head.
Regular tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Benhard will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Benhard lands a jab. Then a cross. Then finally a nice hook to the body. Good work there by Benhard.
Regular tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Benhard throws a looping overhand right but Regular ducks down to avoid it.
Nice shot lands for Benhard.
Benhard throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Benhard throws a series of punches but Regular moves out of range.
Regular is looking to clinch but Benhard is avoiding it.
Benhard circles away from the clinch attempt.
Regular fails in his attempt to clinch.
Benhard misses with a few strikes there.
Regular wants to clinch.
Regular lands with a kick to the temple. Benhard shrugs as if to say "is that all you've got?"

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Regular walks straight into an uppercut. Luckily it didn't land flush.
The fight stays on the outside here - Regular looks like he's thinking about clinching though.

Regular gets in close and instigates a clinch.
Benhard wants to break free but Regular has control.
Benhard is using his height advantage well here, landing a good percentage of his punches.
Regular misses with a knee strike.
Regular with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Regular with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Benhard blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Benhard avoiding damage as Regular throws knees to the body.
Regular trying to land knees to the body.
Regular has Benhard pressed against the cage, preventing Benhard from circling away and getting back to striking at range.
Benhard working hard to break the clinch.
Regular trying to land knees to the body.
Regular has Benhard pressed against the cage, preventing Benhard from circling away and getting back to striking at range.
Both fighters working to control the clinch.
Benhard blocks the elbow strike.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Neither fighter has done anything of merit for a good minute or two here and the crowd are not happy about it.
Regular has Benhard pressed against the cage, preventing Benhard from circling away and getting back to striking at range.
Benhard wants to break the clinch but can't.
Benhard wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Regular has him pressed against the cage.
Regular connects with a knee to the head.
Regular tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Benhard avoids it.
Benhard is trying to break the clinch but Regular is controlling him.
Regular landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
Regular throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Benhard blocks it with crossed arms.
Benhard tries to break free but Regular pushes him back against the cage.
Regular has a pretty nasty looking mouse under his right eye.
Benhard wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Regular prevents Benhard from breaking the clinch.

Regular breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Regular moves in looking to clinch but Benhard pushes him off.
Regular tries to clinch but Benhard moves out of range.
Regular tries to clinch up.
Benhard keeps his opponent at a distance with a nice jab.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Sebastian Benhard had his way with Moses Regular in that round.
The cut man is working on Sebastian Benhard's cut.
Well, the break between rounds is over. Let's get back to the scrappin! This is the final round!

Benhard circles away from the clinch attempt.

Regular moves into the clinch successfully.
Regular looks to throw an elbow but misses.

Regular breaks the clinch.
Regular tries to close the distance and clinch but Benhard swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Regular moves in looking to clinch but Benhard pushes him off.
Regular tries to clinch but Benhard is having none of it.
Regular moves forwards but Benhard connects with a nice, crisp jab.
Regular fails in his attempt to clinch.
Benhard on the receiving end of a decent leg kick there by Regular. Regular obviously looking to wear him down.
Benhard's corner calls for a 1,2 combination and Benhard duly obliges.
Regular uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Benhard.
Benhard scores with a nice strike.
Nice shot lands for Benhard.
Regular is wobbling all over the place through exhaustion. Will he make it to the final bell?
Regular slips under a jab.
Benhard swinging wildly here.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Regular fails with an attempt to clinch.
Benhard scores with a one two! Regular had his feet all tangled up there and couldn't avoid the strikes.
Regular tries to close the distance and clinch up but Benhard swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Regular tries to close the distance and clinch up but Benhard swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Benhard lands three nice shots there - that looked like it hurt!
Regular is looking to clinch but Benhard is avoiding it.
Benhard swings for the body but Regular moves out of range.

Regular drives through and clinches with Benhard against the cage.
Regular unloads a knee to the mid-section.
Nice elbow from Regular.
Regular throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Benhard blocks it with crossed arms.
Regular misses with a knee strike.
Regular scores with a hook to the body.
Regular lands an elbow just above Benhard 's eye.
Regular with a knee to the head.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

Regular escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Benhard's corner calls for a 1,2 combination and Benhard duly obliges.
Regular wants to clinch up but Benhard keeps it at a distance.
Regular moves in looking to clinch but Benhard pushes him off.
Regular misses with a body shot
and Benhard counters with a nice jab to the body that keeps Regular thinking.
Benhard ducks down and throws a hook to the body.
Benhard lands an overhand left. A wild punch that just about connected.
Regular walks into a left hand.
Regular tries to clinch
and Benhard counters with a nice uppercut.
Benhard tests Regular's chin there with a solid looking shot.
Regular darts in trying to clinch
enabling Benhard to counter with a crisp jab.
Benhard dips to his left and cracks Regular with an uppercut!
Regular tries to clinch
letting Benhard counter with a right hand.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

The fight moves into the clinch position.
Benhard dodges an elbow strike from Regular.

Regular pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Regular closes the distance but Benhard moves to the side
and Benhard counters with a nice body shot.
Regular clinches but Benhard breaks the clinch
and Benhard connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
Benhard misses with a series of wild punches.
Regular on the wrong end of a nice jab.
Benhard throws a wild combination but nothing lands.
Regular clinches but Benhard breaks the clinch
and Benhard counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.
Regular darts in trying to clinch
enabling Benhard to counter with a crisp jab.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Regular closes the distance but Benhard moves to the side
and Benhard counters with a nice uppercut.
Regular tries to clinch
and Benhard counters with a nice jab to the body that keeps Regular thinking.
Regular scores with a jab to the body.
Benhard lunges in with an uppercut that skims his opponent's chin.
Moses Regular is fighting for a decision here - he's started to take the cautious approach.
Regular on the wrong end of a nice jab.
Benhard thows a body shot but no joy.
Regular looks to clinch
and Benhard counters with a stiff right hand.
Regular looks to clinch
and Benhard counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Regular is looking to clinch but Benhard is avoiding it.
Benhard throws a wild combination but nothing lands.
Sebastian Benhard has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!

Regular has taken the fight to the clinch.
Benhard tries a body shot but Regular blocks it.

And that's the end of the fight!
Sebastian Benhard showed his dominance in that final round.
I think Regular has won this one but let's see whether the judges agree with me. Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 5 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Matti Vanhoillinen scores the fight 45:48
Judge Tarja Halkonen scores the fight 47:48
Judge Anni Minnemäki scores the fight 48:48

In favor of your winner, by majority decision... Moses Regular!
Moses Regular is the new light heavyweight champion!