PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Dave Semenko (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ricardo Kaka (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Kaka comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Pjanoo by Eric Prydaz kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Ricardo Kaka has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Semenko
vs
Kaka

183 cm
24
213 lbs
11 - 3 - 0

190 cm
22
203 lbs
10 - 3 - 0

Decent wrestler
Excellent boxer
KO power

BJJ Brown Belt
Dangerous knees
Granite 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 11 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Dave Semenko!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 10 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Ricardo Kaka!
The judges for this bout are Matheus Silva, Luis Engracia and Mauricio Rocha.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Kaka throws a head kick but Semenko moves out of range.
Semenko misses with a low kick as Kaka jumps back.
Kaka throws a head kick that misses
and Semenko connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
Kaka throws a lazy head kick

and Semenko holds on and brings the fighters into a clinch.
Kaka using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Semenko has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Semenko looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Kaka using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Semenko blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Kaka throws a knee to the head but misses.
Kaka using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Semenko has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Kaka tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Kaka unloads a knee to the mid-section. Semenko lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Kaka tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Kaka avoids a wild elbow strike from Semenko.
Semenko lands an elbow inside that Kaka shrugs off.
Kaka with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Semenko tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Kaka avoids it.
Semenko lands a damaging elbow.

It looks like Ricardo Kaka has been cut.
Semenko throws an elbow but it's blocked.
Semenko throws an elbow but it's blocked.
Kaka using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Semenko has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Kaka misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Semenko.
Semenko lands a nice knee to the body.
Kaka looks gassed!
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Semenko misses with an elbow over the top.
Kaka using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Semenko has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Kaka blocks the elbow strike.
Kaka misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Semenko.
Kaka throws a knee to the head but misses.
Kaka tries a knee to the head but Semenko blocks it.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Kaka unloads a knee to the mid-section. Semenko lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Semenko avoiding damage as Kaka throws knees to the body.
Kaka tries a knee to the head but Semenko blocks it.
Semenko throws an elbow that misses.
Kaka misses with a knee strike.
Semenko lands an elbow inside that Kaka shrugs off.
Kaka avoids a wild elbow strike from Semenko.
Kaka using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Semenko has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Semenko lands a good knee to the midsection. Kaka won't want to take too many of those.
Semenko throws an elbow that misses.
Semenko pushes off an throws an elbow but Kaka leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Semenko with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Kaka blocks an elbow strike.
Kaka tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Semenko avoids it.
Semenko trying to land knees to the body.
Semenko comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Semenko comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Semenko lands an elbow just above Kaka 's eye.
Semenko tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Kaka takes a knee to the side of the body.
Semenko lands a knee to the head.
Semenko misses with a knee strike.
Semenko tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Kaka avoids it.
Semenko pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
Kaka misses with a knee to the head.
Semenko lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Semenko creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Kaka's defenses.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Semenko missing with knees to the body.
Kaka trying to land knees to the body.
Kaka tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Semenko pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
Semenko pushes off an throws an elbow but Kaka leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Kaka throws a knee to the head but misses.
Semenko lands a damaging elbow.
Semenko throws a knee to the head but misses.
Kaka blocks the elbow strike.
Semenko managing to block the knees to the body from Kaka.
Semenko with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Kaka takes an elbow to the forehead.
Semenko pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
Semenko trying to land knees to the body.
Kaka on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Semenko tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Semenko throws an elbow but it's blocked.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Semenko just misses with a elbow thrown towards Kaka's brow.
Kaka avoids a wild elbow strike from Semenko.
Kaka misses with a knee strike.
Kaka tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Semenko scores a nice knee to the body.
Kaka blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Kaka landing knees to the head.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Kaka avoids a wild elbow strike from Semenko.
Semenko with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Kaka using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Semenko has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Kaka with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Semenko scores a nice knee to the body.
Semenko lands an elbow inside.
Semenko scores with a knee to the head.
Kaka takes an elbow to the temple.
Semenko misses with a knee strike.
Kaka blocks an elbow strike.
Semenko crunches a lovely knee into Kaka's ribcage.
Semenko avoiding damage as Kaka throws knees to the body.
A knee to the head by Kaka.
Semenko pushes off an throws an elbow but Kaka leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Semenko misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Kaka.
Semenko tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Kaka blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Kaka with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Kaka misses with a knee to the head.
Semenko connects with a knee to the head.
Kaka takes an elbow to the forehead.
Knees in the clinch landing for Kaka.
Semenko connects with a nasty looking knee right to Kaka's face.
Semenko lands an elbow inside that Kaka shrugs off.
Kaka landing knees to the head.
Semenko tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Kaka is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Semenko is defending well for now.
Kaka blocks an elbow strike.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Kaka tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Semenko throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Kaka blocks it with crossed arms.
A head punch on the inside from Kaka fails to land.
Semenko lands a damaging elbow.
Semenko throws an elbow that misses.
Semenko blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Semenko lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Semenko lands an elbow inside.
Kaka misses with a knee to the head.
Kaka looking to throw knees to the head but Semenko is blocking nicely.
Kaka takes an elbow to the temple.
Semenko pushes off an throws an elbow but Kaka leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Semenko comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Kaka takes a knee to the side of the body.
Semenko looking to throw knees to the head but Kaka is blocking nicely.
Semenko tries to land knees in the clinch but Kaka avoids the damage to the body.
Semenko pushes off an throws an elbow but Kaka leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Kaka tries to land a knee to the head but Semenko blocks with his arms.
Semenko scores a nice knee to the body.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Semenko landing knees to the head.
Kaka throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Semenko blocks it with crossed arms.
Semenko throws an elbow but it misses.
Semenko lands an elbow inside that Kaka shrugs off.
Kaka misses with a knee strike.
Kaka tries a knee to the head but Semenko blocks it.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Dave Semenko dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Ricardo Kaka's cut.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action!

Semenko turns his hip over beautifully as he lands a nice leg kick.
A head kick from Kaka lands but Semenko takes it in his stride.
A head kick misses from Kaka.
Kaka swings away with a leg kick that misses.
Kaka tries a head kick but it misses.
Semenko wants to land a leg kick but Kaka is out of range.
Kaka throws a head kick that misses.
Semenko bobs and weaves and then throws a good body kick.
Semenko tries to clinch there but Kaka circles away.
A good leg kick by Semenko.
Semenko feints and then cracks Kaka's leading leg with a nice low kick. He's obviously looking to slow Kaka down.
Semenko throws a nice outside leg kick.
Semenko looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
Kaka is breathing heavily.
Kaka moves out of range as Semenko throws a body kick.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Semenko thumps Kaka with a low kick.
Kaka on the wrong end of an overhand right that came out of nowhere.
Kaka shapes like he's going to throw a leg kick but settles back down.
Kaka has his front leg slapped to the side - a nice low kick landing there from Semenko.
Semenko takes a step towards his opponent and connects with a left hand, before circling away.
Semenko is the aggressor but that punch slipped nicely by Kaka.
Kaka gets off balance looking for a body kick
and Semenko counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.
Good leg kick by Semenko there. It's the ones that make that thud noise that hurt and that was an almighty thud.
Kaka closes the distance and takes a jab right on the nose as he does so.

Semenko instigates a clinch.
Semenko pushes off an throws an elbow but Kaka leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Semenko tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Semenko throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Semenko misses with an elbow over the top.
Semenko pushes off an throws an elbow but Kaka leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Kaka takes a knee right on the jaw!
Kaka misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Semenko.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Kaka tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Semenko digs a right hand into Kaka's ribs. Those have got to be taking their toll on Kaka's gas tank.
Kaka's leg has a nasty welt from taking a succession of leg kicks. That must be slowing him down.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Semenko throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Kaka misses with a knee strike.
Kaka managing to block the knees to the body from Semenko.
Semenko throws an elbow but it's blocked.
Kaka takes a knee to the side of the body.
Kaka throws a knee to the head but misses.
Semenko tries a knee to the head but Kaka blocks it.
Semenko lands an elbow that stopped Kaka in his tracks for a moment.
Kaka with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Kaka tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Semenko avoids it.
Semenko tries to land knees in the clinch but Kaka avoids the damage to the body.
Semenko lands an elbow that stopped Kaka in his tracks for a moment.
Semenko lands a damaging elbow.
Kaka tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Semenko's elbow.
Kaka misses with a knee strike.
Semenko lands a nice knee to the body.
Kaka avoids the elbow strike from Semenko, against the cage.
Kaka blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
A short uppercut from Semenko.
Semenko takes a knee to the side of the body.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Semenko.
Semenko with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Semenko misses with an elbow strike.
Semenko throws an elbow but it's blocked.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
With the fighters up against the cage, Semenko throws an elbow but misses.
Kaka misses with a knee to the head.
Semenko misses with a knee to the head.
Semenko is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Kaka is defending well for now.
Semenko misses with a knee to the head.
Kaka missing with knees to the body.
Nice elbow from Semenko.
Kaka connects with a knee to the head.
Semenko throws an elbow that misses.
Kaka blocks an elbow strike.
With the fighters up against the cage, Semenko throws an elbow but misses.
Semenko with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Semenko blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Semenko tries a knee to the head but Kaka blocks it.
Semenko blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Kaka is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Semenko is defending well for now.
Semenko pushes off an throws an elbow but Kaka leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Kaka misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Semenko.
Semenko tries to land a knee to the head but Kaka blocks with his arms.
Semenko on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Semenko landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
Kaka with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Semenko missing with knees to the body.
Semenko misses with a knee strike.
A short body shot lands from Kaka as the two fighters clinch.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are hurling abuse towards the fighters... You can hardly blame them though because there isn't a lot going on in the fight.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Semenko just misses with a elbow thrown towards Kaka's brow.
Kaka looking to throw knees to the head but Semenko is blocking nicely.
Semenko is trying to wear down his opponent with knees to the body.
Kaka looking to throw knees to the head but Semenko is blocking nicely.
Kaka missing with knees to the body.
Kaka using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Semenko has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Semenko creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Kaka's defenses.
Semenko throws an elbow but it's blocked.
Kaka avoids the elbow strike from Semenko, against the cage.
Semenko tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Semenko tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Kaka avoids it.
Kaka trying to land knees to the body.
Kaka lands a nice knee to the body.
Semenko on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Semenko lands an elbow inside.
Semenko misses with an elbow strike.
Kaka is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Semenko is defending well for now.
Semenko with an attempt at a knee that misses.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Semenko managing to block the knees to the body from Kaka.
Semenko misses with an elbow over the top.
Kaka blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Dave Semenko has scored more points in the clinch so far.
Kaka throws a knee to the head but misses.
Semenko lands a good knee to the midsection. Kaka won't want to take too many of those.
Semenko managing to block the knees to the body from Kaka.
Semenko lands a damaging elbow.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Dave Semenko dominated that second round.
The cut man is working on Ricardo Kaka's cut.
The referee calls time. The cornermen exit stage left and we're back to business. And we move into the final round!

Semenko fails in his attempt to clinch.
Kaka tries to land a body kick
and Semenko counters with an inside leg kick.
Kaka pivots, looking for a leg kick but Semenko is out of range and Kaka settles back down.
Semenko moves in looking to clinch but Kaka pushes him off.
Semenko lands a right hook to the body.
A solid leg kick lands there for Semenko.
Semenko dances in quickly and lands a nice inside leg kick on Kaka. That did some damage!
Semenko tries to clinch there but Kaka circles away.
A head kick misses from Kaka.
Kaka thows a leg kick but Semenko checks it
and Kaka takes a counter punch right on the button for his troubles.
Dave Semenko is winning the standup battle so far.
Semenko looking to land some kicks to the body here.
Semenko tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Kaka was well out of range. Poor timing from Semenko.
A nice inside leg kick there by Semenko. That's going to slow Kaka down.
Kaka misses with a low kick.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Kaka throws a head kick that misses.
Semenko is looking to clinch.
Kaka throws a solid leg kick but Semenko takes the impact on his shin and smiles at Kaka.
Kaka wants to slow Semenko down by chopping away at his legs.
Kaka misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
A leg kick checked by Semenko.
Kaka tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Semenko digs a good body shot into Kaka's ribs.
Kaka throws a decent looking leg kick but it doesn't land clean.
Kaka misses with a body kick.
Kaka tries a head kick but it misses.
Kaka takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
The sound of bone on bone echoes around the arena as Kaka checks a leg kick.
Semenko lands a nice leg kick that just misses Kaka's sensitive parts.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Semenko throws out a loose jab but Kaka uses good head movement to avoid it.
Kaka avoids the head kick by Semenko.
Kaka throws a head kick that misses.
Kaka throws a head kick that misses
and Semenko counters with a slapping leg kick.
Semenko misses with an uppercut.
Semenko misses with a body kick.
Kaka walks forward and throws out a flicking leg kick. Semenko checks it nicely though, as he moves to the side.
Semenko lands with a nice body punch.
Semenko takes a swing at Kaka's ribcage but misses.
Kaka misses with a leg kick

and Semenko counters by moving into the clinch.
Semenko lands a damaging elbow.
Kaka blocks an elbow strike.
Semenko throws an elbow but it misses.
Semenko misses with a knee to the head.
Kaka throws a knee to the head but misses.
Kaka dodges an elbow strike from Semenko.
Semenko looking to throw knees to the head but Kaka is blocking nicely.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Semenko avoiding damage as Kaka throws knees to the body.
Semenko using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Kaka has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Kaka connects with a nasty looking knee right to Semenko's face.
Knees in the clinch landing for Semenko.
Semenko looking to throw knees to the head but Kaka is blocking nicely.
Kaka avoids a wild elbow strike from Semenko.
Semenko pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
Kaka with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Semenko lands a damaging elbow.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Semenko just misses with a elbow thrown towards Kaka's brow.
Semenko lands a nice knee to the body.
Semenko throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Kaka blocks it with crossed arms.
Dave Semenko is fighting for a decision here - he's started to take the cautious approach.
Kaka throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Semenko blocks it with crossed arms.
Kaka takes an elbow to the forehead.
Semenko misses with a knee to the head.
Kaka tries to land knees in the clinch but Semenko avoids the damage to the body.
Semenko with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Kaka takes an elbow to the forehead.
Kaka with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Semenko connects with a nasty looking knee right to Kaka's face.
Kaka takes an elbow to the temple.
Semenko tries to land knees in the clinch but Kaka avoids the damage to the body.
Semenko misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Kaka.
Semenko blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Kaka blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Kaka with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Semenko throws a knee to the head but misses.
Semenko with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Kaka blocks the elbow strike.
Kaka scores with a knee to the head.
Kaka blocks an elbow strike from Semenko.
Kaka throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Semenko blocks it with crossed arms.
Semenko misses with an elbow over the top.
Nice elbow from Semenko.
Kaka crunches a lovely knee into Semenko's ribcage.
Semenko looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Kaka throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Semenko blocks it with crossed arms.
Kaka takes an elbow to the temple.
Semenko lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Kaka blocks the elbow strike.
Kaka throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Semenko blocks it with crossed arms.
Ricardo Kaka has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!
Kaka throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Semenko blocks it with crossed arms.
Kaka misses with a knee strike.
Semenko gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Kaka blocks an elbow strike.
Kaka looking to throw knees to the head but Semenko is blocking nicely.
Semenko lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of Kaka backwards.

And that's the end of the fight!
Dave Semenko showed his dominance in that final round.
Well Semenko has outscored his opponent in every aspect of the fight today. Only a scarily incompetent judge or two will keep him from a well deserved win... 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 Matheus Silva scores the fight 30:27
Judge Luis Engracia scores the fight 30:27
Judge Mauricio Rocha scores the fight 30:27

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Dave Semenko!