PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Bovo Taskerson (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Filip Decapovic (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Decapovic has chosen You Want Blood (You Got It) - AC/DC as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. Filip Decapovic has the eye of the tiger tonight.

Taskerson
vs
Decapovic

177 cm
22
212 lbs
7 - 6 - 0

195 cm
24
215 lbs
10 - 6 - 0

Decent wrestler
Great elbows
Very strong

Good wrestler
Excellent boxer
Powerful

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 7 - 6 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Bovo Taskerson!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 10 - 6 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Filip Decapovic!
The judges for this bout are Tiny Johnson, Daniel Franklin and Stewart Dunkirk.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Taskerson tries to close the distance and clinch up but Decapovic swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Decapovic looks to land a combination but Taskerson avoids it well.
Taskerson avoids a punch combination nicely.
Decapovic swats away the attempt to clinch by Taskerson.
Taskerson tries to clinch there but Decapovic circles away.
Decapovic swats away the attempt to clinch by Taskerson.
Taskerson tries to clinch up but Decapovic circles away and keeps his distance.
Decapovic misses with a double jab.
Taskerson tries to close the distance and clinch but Decapovic swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.

The fight moves into the clinch position.
Taskerson lands a damaging elbow.

It looks like Filip Decapovic has been cut.
Taskerson connects with a knee to the head.

That has opened up Filip Decapovic's cut even more.
Taskerson using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Decapovic has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Taskerson looking to stall.
Taskerson is stalling here.
Decapovic on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Taskerson crunches a lovely knee into Decapovic's ribcage.
Decapovic tries to circle away but Taskerson has him pinned against the cage.

Decapovic's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Decapovic lands with a nice body punch.

Taskerson moves into the clinch successfully.
Decapovic managing to block the knees to the body from Taskerson.
Taskerson misses with a knee to the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Taskerson scores with a knee to the head.
Taskerson keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Decapovic's efforts to push away.
Decapovic tries to break the clinch but Taskerson is controlling the position.
Decapovic avoiding damage as Taskerson throws knees to the body.
Taskerson tries a knee to the head but Decapovic blocks it.
Taskerson throws a knee to the head but misses.
Decapovic wants to get back to striking at distance but Taskerson won't allow it.
Decapovic blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Taskerson tries to land knees in the clinch but Decapovic avoids the damage to the body.
Taskerson is breathing heavily.

Decapovic pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Decapovic looks to land a combination but Taskerson avoids it well.
Wow, both these guys are really going for it!
Taskerson fails in his attempt to clinch.
Taskerson tries to clinch up.
Decapovic avoids the clinch attempt nicely.

Taskerson pushes Decapovic up against the cage in a clinch.
Decapovic wants to break the clinch but can't.
Decapovic is trying to break the clinch but Taskerson is controlling him.
Taskerson has Decapovic pressed against the cage, preventing Decapovic from circling away and getting back to striking at range.
Decapovic looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Taskerson throws a knee to the head but misses.
Taskerson utilising his Muay Thai to score with a knee to the body.

Decapovic's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Decapovic rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Taskerson moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Taskerson slips a jab and a cross from Decapovic.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Taskerson doesn't manage to clinch there - Decapovic circles away.
Taskerson tries to clinch up but Decapovic circles away and keeps his distance.
Taskerson is looking to clinch but Decapovic is avoiding it.
Taskerson tries to clinch there but Decapovic circles away.
Taskerson tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Taskerson tries to clinch but Decapovic moves out of range.
Taskerson tries to close the distance and clinch up but Decapovic swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Decapovic lands a nice hook to Taskerson's body. Taskerson takes it in his stride and looks to land his own strikes.

Decapovic drops Taskerson with a beautiful combination! Taskerson stares up at his opponent, who ushers him back to his feet - Decapovic is looking for the KO!

It looks like Bovo Taskerson has been cut.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Taskerson tries to clinch up but Decapovic circles away and keeps his distance.
Decapovic throws a wild combination but nothing lands.
Taskerson tries to close the distance and clinch up but Decapovic swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Decapovic is looking to slow Taskerson down with leg kicks.
A shot to the liver by Decapovic. Beautiful body shot.
Decapovic throws a leg kick but Taskerson sees it coming and checks it nicely.
Taskerson tries to clinch but Decapovic is having none of it.
Decapovic keeps the fight on the outside.

Decapovic lands a left and a right that send Taskerson crashing to the mat, dazed. Decapovic thinks about following him to the mat but decides to wave him back up to his feet!

Taskerson is rocked!
A punch combination from Decapovic misses.
Oh Taskerson is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Nice body punch from Decapovic.
No joy there for Decapovic, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
Taskerson seems to have got his legs back now.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Decapovic misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Decapovic looks to land a combination but Taskerson avoids it well.

Taskerson clinches up against the cage.
Decapovic wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.

Decapovic breaks the clinch.
Taskerson tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Decapovic paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Taskerson tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Decapovic paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Taskerson tries to clinch but Decapovic moves out of range.
Decapovic scores to the head and body with a nice combination!
Taskerson is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Nice shot by Decapovic.
Taskerson tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Decapovic scores with a straight right hand, right through his opponent's guard.
Decapovic throws a shot to the body.
Danga de danga de dang - Decapovic scores with a four punch combination!
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Decapovic throws a right hand that Taskerson ducks under and follows up with a left that Taskerson also avoids with ease.
Taskerson showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Decapovic.
Decapovic is looking to chop away at Taskerson's legs.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Decapovic misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Taskerson wants to clinch.
Decapovic misses with a double jab.
Decapovic avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Jab, cross, leg kick. Nice combination by Decapovic!
Decapovic throws a right and a left that both miss.
Taskerson is looking to clinch but Decapovic is avoiding it.
Taskerson is looking to clinch.
Taskerson is looking to clinch.
Taskerson tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Decapovic paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Decapovic throws a nice looking combination but Taskerson bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Taskerson tries to clinch but Decapovic moves out of range.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Taskerson slips a jab and a cross from Decapovic.
Decapovic thows a left - swing and a miss!

Taskerson moves into range and clinches up with Decapovic.
Taskerson comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Knees in the clinch landing for Taskerson.
Taskerson lands a nice elbow.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Filip Decapovic dominated that round.
Both fighters have cut men working on them during the interval.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action.

Taskerson fails with an attempt to clinch.
Taskerson tries to clinch there but Decapovic circles away.
Taskerson tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.

Taskerson gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
Taskerson lands a knee to the head.
Taskerson trying to control the position but instead, Decapovic has worked for underhooks and has pushed Taskerson into the cage.
Taskerson tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Decapovic avoids it.
Decapovic wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Taskerson has him pressed against the cage.
Decapovic takes a knee to the side of the body.
Decapovic takes an elbow to the temple.
Taskerson using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Some stalling of biblical proportions here from Taskerson.
Taskerson misses with a knee strike.
Decapovic takes a knee to the side of the body.
Decapovic avoiding damage as Taskerson throws knees to the body.
Taskerson lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Decapovic is trying to break the clinch but Taskerson is controlling him.
Decapovic working hard to break the clinch.
Taskerson using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily.
Taskerson tries to land knees in the clinch but Decapovic avoids the damage to the body.
Decapovic is trying to break the clinch but Taskerson is controlling him.
Taskerson lands a knee to the body.

Decapovic breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Decapovic misses with a series of wild punches.
Taskerson tries to close the distance and clinch but Decapovic swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Taskerson tries to move into range but Decapovic moves to the side and lands with a nice right hand.
Decapovic circles away from the clinch attempt.
Decapovic fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Taskerson tries to close the distance and clinch up but Decapovic swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Decapovic swats away the attempt to clinch by Taskerson.
Filip Decapovic seems to be getting the better of the standup.
Taskerson doesn't manage to clinch there - Decapovic circles away.
Decapovic is using his reach advantage to land shots from outside his opponent's range.
Decapovic misses with a few strikes there.
Decapovic circles away from the clinch attempt.
Decapovic waving his hands out in front of him, looking to distract Taskerson.
Decapovic keeps the fight on the outside.
Taskerson tries to clinch up but Decapovic circles away and keeps his distance.
Decapovic wants to slow Taskerson down by chopping away at his legs.
A head kick misses from Decapovic.
Taskerson tries to clinch but Decapovic moves out of range.
Decapovic misses with a few strikes there.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
My god... these two guys really need to pick up the pace or everyone will leave to go get a beer.
Taskerson is looking to clinch.
Decapovic throws a series of punches but Taskerson moves out of range.
Taskerson tries to clinch but Decapovic moves out of range.
Taskerson is looking to clinch.
Decapovic lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Taskerson circles away quickly and effectively.
Taskerson is looking to clinch but Decapovic is avoiding it.
Taskerson tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Decapovic paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Taskerson tries to clinch but Decapovic moves out of range.
Taskerson moves in looking to clinch but Decapovic pushes him off.
Taskerson tries to clinch up.
Decapovic misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Taskerson.
Decapovic looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.
Decapovic looks to land a combination but Taskerson avoids it well.
Taskerson tries to close the distance and clinch but Decapovic swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Decapovic throws a right and a left that Taskerson avoids nicely.
Taskerson tries to clinch there but Decapovic circles away.
Taskerson is looking to clinch but Decapovic is avoiding it.
Taskerson tries to clinch up but Decapovic circles away and keeps his distance.
Taskerson fails in his attempt to clinch.
Decapovic is throwing a lot of body shots here, looking to wear down Taskerson rather than just go for the knockout.
Taskerson uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Decapovic.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Taskerson doesn't manage to clinch there - Decapovic circles away.
Decapovic throws a series of punches but Taskerson avoids them all with ease.

Taskerson darts in and clinches Decapovic up against the cage.
Decapovic has had enough of the clinch but Taskerson keeps him there for the moment.
Taskerson tries a knee to the head but Decapovic blocks it.
Taskerson connects with a knee to the head.
Decapovic blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Taskerson tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Decapovic wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.

Decapovic breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Taskerson is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Taskerson walks into a stiff left hand from Decapovic.
Taskerson has his head slapped from side to side by a 3 punch combination. That must have hurt him.
Filip Decapovic is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Decapovic throws a sloppy head kick and Taskerson moves out of range easily.
Taskerson tries to clinch there but Decapovic circles away.
Taskerson gets his head snapped back by a nice shot there.
Taskerson moves in looking to clinch but Decapovic pushes him off.
Taskerson doesn't manage to clinch there - Decapovic circles away.
Taskerson tries to clinch but Decapovic is having none of it.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Taskerson tries to clinch but Decapovic moves out of range.
Decapovic dips to his left and cracks Taskerson with an uppercut!

Taskerson instigates a clinch.
Decapovic is trying to break the clinch but Taskerson has him pressed against the cage.
Decapovic wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Decapovic is trying to break the clinch but Taskerson is controlling him.
Taskerson lands an elbow just above Decapovic 's eye.

The cut above Filip Decapovic's eye is starting to cause him problems now.
Taskerson lands a good knee to the midsection. Decapovic won't want to take too many of those.
Decapovic being controlled against the cage.
Decapovic is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Taskerson lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Taskerson is trying to wear down his opponent with knees to the body.

Decapovic breaks the clinch.
Taskerson wants to clinch.
Taskerson avoids a punch combination nicely.
Taskerson tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Decapovic paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Decapovic throws a sloppy head kick and Taskerson moves out of range easily.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Bovo Taskerson dominated that second round.
Both fighters have cut men working on them during the interval.
The referee calls time. The cornermen exit stage left and we're back to business. And we move into the final round!

Decapovic throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Taskerson.
Taskerson tries to clinch but Decapovic is having none of it.
Decapovic lands with a nice combination. Taskerson backs away looking to recover.
Taskerson fails with an attempt to clinch.
Taskerson tries to clinch there but Decapovic circles away.
Decapovic fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Taskerson blocks a low kick nicely.
Decapovic keeps the fight on the outside.
Decapovic keeps the fight on the outside.
Taskerson tries to clinch but Decapovic moves out of range.
Taskerson tries to clinch up.
Decapovic circles away from the clinch attempt.
Taskerson tries to close the distance and clinch but Decapovic swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Decapovic looks to land a combination but Taskerson avoids it well.
Decapovic misses with a few strikes there.
A punch combination from Decapovic misses.
Taskerson is looking to clinch but Decapovic is avoiding it.

Taskerson closes the distance and clinches.
Taskerson connects with a nasty looking knee right to Decapovic's face.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.
Decapovic working hard to break the clinch.
Taskerson with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Decapovic takes a knee to the side of the body.
Decapovic is trying to break the clinch but Taskerson is controlling him.
Decapovic has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.
Taskerson creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Decapovic's defenses.
Decapovic is trying to break free.
Decapovic is trying to force a seperation but Taskerson has the dominant position.

Decapovic's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Taskerson wants to clinch up but Decapovic keeps it at a distance.
Taskerson wants to clinch up but Decapovic keeps it at a distance.
Taskerson moves in looking to clinch but Decapovic pushes him off.
Taskerson tries to clinch there but Decapovic circles away.
Taskerson fails in his attempt to clinch.
Decapovic swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.
Taskerson fails with an attempt to clinch.
Decapovic misses with a kick to the body.
Taskerson tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Decapovic paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Taskerson is looking to clinch but Decapovic is avoiding it.
Decapovic lands with a two punch combination before moving back out of range.
Taskerson is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Decapovic throws a combination but comes up with nothing but fresh air.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Well. There's a bit of a lull in the action here and the crowd are starting to get restless.
Decapovic throws a sloppy head kick and Taskerson moves out of range easily.
Taskerson tries to clinch up but Decapovic circles away and keeps his distance.
Taskerson tries to clinch up.
Decapovic avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Taskerson tries to clinch there but Decapovic circles away.
Taskerson tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Decapovic paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Taskerson tries to clinch but Decapovic is having none of it.
Decapovic finds nothing but air with that leg kick attempt.
Taskerson fails in his attempt to clinch.
Decapovic has used his reach advantage pretty well so far tonight.
Jab by Decapovic.
Taskerson walks forward, straight into a front kick from Decapovic.
Decapovic throws a push kick but Taskerson slaps the foot to one side.
Decapovic throws a right hand that Taskerson ducks under and follows up with a left that Taskerson also avoids with ease.
Taskerson tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Decapovic paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Taskerson tries to clinch there but Decapovic circles away.
Taskerson tries to clinch there but Decapovic circles away.
Decapovic ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Taskerson moves away.
Decapovic throws a series of punches but Taskerson moves out of range.
Decapovic avoids the clinch attempt nicely.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Taskerson tries to close the distance and clinch but Decapovic swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Taskerson is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Taskerson fails with an attempt to clinch.
Taskerson moves in looking to clinch but Decapovic pushes him off.
Taskerson takes an uppercut right on the jaw but it doesn't phase him.
Decapovic scores with a jab to the head.
Taskerson is looking to clinch.
Decapovic throws a wild combination but nothing lands.
Good standup being displayed there by Decapovic as he connects with a hook.
Taskerson moves in looking to clinch but Decapovic pushes him off.
Decapovic lands a powerful looking uppercut that connected with his opponent's jaw.
Taskerson tries to clinch up.

Taskerson clinches.
Taskerson lands an elbow inside.
Nice elbow from Taskerson.

Decapovic breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Taskerson tries to clinch but Decapovic moves out of range.
Taskerson doesn't manage to clinch there - Decapovic circles away.
Decapovic misses with a two punch combination.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Decapovic swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.
Taskerson tries to close the distance and clinch up but Decapovic swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Taskerson fails with an attempt to clinch.
Taskerson tries to clinch but Decapovic moves out of range.
Decapovic misses with a two punch combination.
This fight brought to you by 5M nutrition - it's mmmmm tasty. Nice jab by Decapovic.
A punch combination from Decapovic misses.
Decapovic keeps the fight on the outside.
The fight stays on the outside here - Taskerson looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Decapovic misses with a series of wild punches.

Taskerson takes the fight into the clinch.
Taskerson using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Decapovic has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Bovo Taskerson has scored more points in the clinch so far.
Taskerson lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Taskerson tries to land a knee to the head but Decapovic blocks with his arms.
Decapovic avoiding damage as Taskerson throws knees to the body.

Decapovic breaks from the clinch.
Decapovic avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Decapovic throws a sloppy head kick and Taskerson moves out of range easily.

And that's the end of the fight!
Filip Decapovic comfortably won the final round on my scorecard.
I think Decapovic 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 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Tiny Johnson scores the fight 28:29
Judge Daniel Franklin scores the fight 28:29
Judge Stewart Dunkirk scores the fight 28:29

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Filip Decapovic!