PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Thelogos Place (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Lyon Okiro (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Place kept the crowd waiting but all that was forgotten when his ring entrance music started. The incomparable musical genius that is The Lucky Bullets "Folsom Prison Blues" . Lyon Okiro will no doubt be looking to use his reach advantage to good effect.

Place
vs
Okiro

185 cm
22
210 lbs
9 - 8 - 0

200 cm
21
219 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Solid boxing
KO power

BJJ Purple Belt
World class boxer
Heavy handed

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 9 - 8 - 0, fighting out of London, Thelogos Place!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Lyon Okiro!
The judges for this bout are Donald Grub, Paul Tew and Chris Edwards.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Place uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from Okiro.
Place throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Okiro.
Okiro swings for the body but Place moves out of range.
Thelogos Place seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Okiro slips a jab and a cross from Place.
Place throws a series of punches but Okiro avoids them all with ease.
A combination from Place does no damage.

The fight moves into the clinch position.
Okiro doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Okiro lands a shot to the body.
Place doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Place blocking some punches.
Okiro works on Place's body with a couple of short punches.
Okiro lands a nice uppercut.
An uppercut to the body lands inside from Okiro.
Place is breathing heavily.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Still in the clinch, Okiro scores with a nice short uppercut.

It looks like Thelogos Place has been cut.
Okiro throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Places head.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Okiro.
Okiro lands with a short head shot on the inside.

Place is rocked!
Place blocking some punches.
Oh Place is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Okiro misses with a punch on the inside.
Okiro has a couple of punches blocked by Place.
A head punch on the inside from Okiro fails to land.
A short body shot lands from Okiro as the two fighters clinch.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Place blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Okiro misses with a hook from the clinch.
Place blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Okiro misses with the head strike.
Okiro misses with a short punch on the inside.
Okiro tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Place blocking some punches.
Okiro fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Okiro tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Place seems to have got his legs back now.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Place.
Okiro lands an uppercut in the clinch that drops Place to his knees! Okiro keeps firing more shots against his stricken opponent and the referee jumps in to save him!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:36 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Lyon Okiro!