PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Gentle Giant (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Kristow Zedski (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Giant comes into the arena with Lollipop - Lil' Wayne blaring out of the sound system. Kristow Zedski is staring across the cage at his opponent, tweaking his nipples.

Giant
vs
Zedski

205 cm
27
265 lbs
6 - 5 - 0

190 cm
26
284 lbs
8 - 5 - 0

Dangerous GnP
Excellent boxer
Very strong

Good wrestler
World class boxer
Heavy handed

Murder Inc.

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 6 - 5 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Gentle Giant!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 8 - 5 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Kristow Zedski!
The judges for this bout are Valeri Chadov, Dmitry Maklakov and Igor Prikhodko.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Giant swings for the body but Zedski moves out of range.
Zedski looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.
Zedski connects with a lovely right hand, straight down the pipe.
Zedski scores with a shot to the body.
Giant takes a shot right to the bread basket.
Zedski lands a body shot.
Giant is breathing heavily.
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!
Nice cross by Zedski.
Giant with a poor takedown
letting Zedski counter with a right hand.
Zedski goes to the watering hole and comes back with a big thumbs up from the judges as he scores a three punch combo.
Giant walks into a stiff left hand from Zedski.
Zedski clobbers Giant with an overhand right that has the crowd gasping. That made a horrendous noise.

Zedski catches Giant napping and connects with a big right hand that sends Giant to the canvas!
Zedski throwing strikes but missing.

Zedski gets to his feet - Giant follows without any prompting.

Zedski feints and as Giant raises his hands in defense, Zedski changes levels and drives through with a takedown into guard.
Zedski stands up and looks to throw the legs aside to pass to side control. Giant swivels though and keeps the full guard.
Giant will need to keep those long limbs tucked in whilst he's on the ground, to prevent any submissions.

Zedski gets to his feet and steps away from his opponent.
Giant on the wrong end of an overhand right that came out of nowhere.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Zedski digs a good body shot into Giant's ribs.
Giant checks a leg kick.
Giant with poor footwork there. He got himself in a bit of a tangle, enabling Zedski to score with a decent uppercut.
Giant takes one to the chin there.
Giant on the wrong end of an overhand right that came out of nowhere.
Zedski is moving around nicely and scores here with a single head shot.
Zedski is landing a lot of head punches in this opening round! Giant had better start moving his head a bit unless he wants his face to turn into pâté.
This has been an exciting period of action!

Zedski gets a takedown into half guard.
Zedski throwing shots but Giant is blocking nicely.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Zedski seems to be taking a bit of a break to think of his next move. He lands a short punch in the meantime.
Zedski looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Giant with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
Ground and pound from Zedski.

Zedski escapes and gets back to his feet.
Zedski listening to his corner there, landing a nice uppercut.
Zedski scores with a jab.
Zedski scores with a three punch combo!

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Zedski clobbers Giant with an overhand right that has the crowd gasping. That made a horrendous noise.

Zedski lands a jab followed by a vicious hook that sends Giant sprawling to the canvas. Zedski follows him down, looking for the kill. Can Giant hang on?

It looks like Gentle Giant has been cut.
Zedski scoring with strikes to the body and head.
Zedski has freed up his trapped foot and advances to mount.
Zedski pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.

Giant defends a decent attempt at a guillotine from Zedski.
Zedski is landing with some decent strikes but Giant is trying to advance his position so the referee is letting the fight continue.
Zedski lands with some strikes.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
The referee warns Giant that he has to improve his position here as he takes two more clean shots to the head.
Giant is squirming around, avoiding Zedski's attempts to control the action.
Giant is in a horrible position here. Zedski smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.
Giant is bucking up trying to escape but Zedski cracks him with another couple of good strikes.
Zedski lands a nice shot to the head.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Zedski landing punches.

Giant is rocked!
Giant is in a horrible position here. Zedski smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.
Oh Giant is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Zedski controlling from mount.
Giant seems to have got his legs back now.
Zedski fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Zedski cracks Giant with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
Zedski with shots to the head and body - Giant looks very uncomfortable down there.
BOOM! Zedski connects with a massive shot to the dome!
Zedski tries to control but Giant wriggling away.
Giant tries to lock up and control but Zedski gives him a forearm to the face and pushes him away.

Zedski working to secure an arm triangle but it's not happening for him just yet.
Zedski pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Zedski in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.
Zedski lands with some vicious ground and pound - can Giant hang on?
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Kristow Zedski dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Gentle Giant's cut.
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.

Zedski lands a nice hook to Giant's body. Giant takes it in his stride and looks to land his own strikes.
Giant takes a jab on the nose there. A little bit of blood seems to be coming out. Hopefully that won't affect his breathing.
Giant takes one on the chin but keeps coming.
Zedski dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
Giant drops his hands momentarily and Zedski takes advantage with a crisp shot to the head.
Giant moves his head to the side to avoid a jab but walks straight into a cross.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Zedski darts in and out, connecting with a jab.

Zedski throws the overhand right but ducks down into a quick takedown attempt. Giant was covering up waiting for the punch and Zedski finishes the takedown easily into guard.

Zedski stands up from guard. Let's bang!
Zedski displaying good standup as he scores with a three punch combination.
Zedski connects with a hook to the side of his opponent's head.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Zedski lunges in with an uppercut that skims his opponent's chin.
Zedski fakes a head shot and lands one to the body.
Nice uppercut lands for Zedski. That snapped Giant's head back.
Zedski lands a jab to the head.

Zedski lands a left and a right that sends Giant crashing to the canvas! Zedski dives into mount looking to finish!
Zedski has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Oooooh, big shot lands for Zedski! Giant is hurt baaadly! Zedski is firing away with more strikes - Giant is covering up... the ref is warning him to do something. He's just covering up though still and the ref has to step in to end the fight! This one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:19 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Kristow Zedski!