PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Zarek Reschke (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jose Koster (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Zarek Reschke could well score a knockout today. He has the power to get to Jose Koster's chin.

Reschke
vs
Koster

164 cm
21
150 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

189 cm
25
153 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

Decent wrestler
World class MT
Good chin

BJJ Purple Belt
Good kicks
Intelligent

Chainsaw Shack - dress for less

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Zarek Reschke!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Jose Koster!
The judges for this bout are Matheus Silva, Felipe Paraventi and Edson Gomes.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Reschke looks to land a left hand but Koster moved out of range nicely.
Koster takes a big uppercut there. He seems a bit wobbly but no, he's OK.
Koster is a painfully thin specimen of a man. You do wonder whether a good body kick would snap him clean in two.
Koster tries a head kick but it misses.
Reschke throws a body kick that misses.
Reschke throws a right hand that Koster ducks under and follows up with a left that Koster also avoids with ease.
Reschke throws a sloppy head kick
and Koster counters with a head kick.
Reschke lands a nice leg kick that just misses Koster's sensitive parts.
Koster tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Reschke lands with a nice body punch.
Koster looks gassed!
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!

Reschke drives through and clinches with Koster against the cage.
Reschke tries to land a knee to the head but Koster blocks with his arms.
Reschke putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has Koster in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body.
Reschke gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Koster pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
Reschke with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Reschke throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Koster blocks it with crossed arms.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Knees to the body from Reschke.
Reschke tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Reschke unloads a knee to the mid-section.
Reschke using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Reschke stalling.
Reschke lands a knee to the body.
Reschke landing knees to the head.
Reschke lands a damaging elbow.
The pace really dropping off here, momentarily.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Reschke.
Reschke scores with a knee to the head.
Reschke misses with a knee to the head.
Reschke missing with knees to the body.
Reschke throws a knee to the head but misses.
Koster takes a knee right on the jaw!
Koster takes an elbow to the temple.
Reschke with an attempt at a knee that misses.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
A knee to the head by Reschke.
Reschke throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Koster blocks it with crossed arms.
Reschke stalling.
Reschke unloads a knee to the mid-section. Koster lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Koster takes a knee right on the jaw!
Reschke misses with a knee to the head.
Reschke utilising his Muay Thai to score with a knee to the body.
Reschke with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Reschke throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Koster blocks it with crossed arms.
Koster wants to break free but Reschke has control.
Knees to the body from Reschke.
Reschke landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
Reschke comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
A knee to the head by Reschke.
Reschke lands an elbow inside.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Reschke misses with a knee strike.
Reschke connects with a knee to the head.
Reschke gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Reschke.
Reschke dodges an elbow strike from Koster.
Reschke with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Reschke with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Reschke with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Reschke throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Koster blocks it with crossed arms.
Reschke throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Koster blocks it with crossed arms.
Koster misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Reschke.
Koster tries to circle away but Reschke has him pinned against the cage.
Koster is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Nice elbow from Reschke.
Reschke connects with a nasty looking knee right to Koster's face.
Reschke with a knee to the head.
Reschke with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.

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.
Reschke putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has Koster in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body.
Reschke scores a nice knee to the body.
Reschke lands a damaging elbow.
Koster is looking to break free of the clinch but Reschke has double underhooks.
A knee to the head by Reschke.
Reschke tries a knee to the head but Koster blocks it.
Reschke landing knees to the head.
Reschke missing with knees to the body.
Reschke lands a knee to the head.
Reschke avoiding damage.
Koster looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Reschke tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Reschke landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
Reschke lands a good knee to the midsection. Koster won't want to take too many of those.
Reschke misses with a knee strike.
Reschke using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Zarek Reschke dominated that round.
That's time! Back to the action!

An inside leg kick from Reschke misses.
Reschke swings away with a leg kick that misses.
A clash of legs there as Koster blocks the low kick.
Reschke looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
A big right from Reschke misses.
Reschke throws a head kick but Koster moves out of range.
Koster throws a sloppy head kick

and Reschke moves into the clinch.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Reschke tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Reschke tries to land a knee to the head but Koster blocks with his arms.
Reschke throws a knee to the head but misses.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. Reschke obliges.
Koster takes a knee to the side of the body.
Reschke working Koster over with knees to the body.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Knees in the clinch landing for Reschke.
Knees to the body from Reschke.
Reschke lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Reschke putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has Koster in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body.
Koster wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Reschke unloads a knee to the mid-section.
Reschke with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
Reschke scores a nice knee to the body.
Reschke connects with a knee to the head.
A knee to the head by Reschke.
Reschke using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Koster has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Koster misses with an elbow over the top.
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. Reschke obliges.
Reschke looking to throw knees to the head but Koster is blocking nicely.
Reschke tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Koster tries to break free but Reschke pushes him back against the cage.
Reschke crunches a lovely knee into Koster's ribcage.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Reschke using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Koster has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Reschke scores with a knee to the head.
Reschke trying to land knees to the body.
Reschke misses with a knee strike.
Koster wants to break free but Reschke has control.
Reschke landing knees to the head.
Reschke avoids a wild elbow strike from Koster.
Reschke lands an elbow just above Koster 's eye.
Koster wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Reschke lands a knee to the head.
Koster jumps guard but his hands slip and he falls flat on his back. Well, he's made himself look a right mug there, as Reschke walks away with a smile on his face. Koster gets slowly back to his feet and shakes his head.
Reschke throws out a token jab with nothing on it.
Nice straight punches there by Reschke. You know Roy Jones Jr respects the hands of Reschke.
Koster avoids the head kick by Reschke.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Reschke works the jab nicely.
A good leg kick by Reschke.
A head kick misses from Reschke.
Koster throws a lazy head kick
and Reschke counters with a leg kick.
Koster keeps the fight on the outside.
Koster takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
A head kick misses from Reschke.
A slapping leg kick lands for Reschke.
Koster takes a thudding leg kick, right into the meat of the thigh.
Reschke tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Koster avoids the clinch attempt nicely.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
A chopping leg kick lands by Reschke.
Well, he's not going to score with shots like that. A lazy body kick attempt from Reschke.
Good leg kick by Reschke there. It's the ones that make that thud noise that hurt and that was an almighty thud.
A nice leg kick lands there from Reschke.
Reschke feints and then cracks Koster's leading leg with a nice low kick. He's obviously looking to slow Koster down.
Reschke scoring well with a low kick there.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Koster takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Reschke tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Koster paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Reschke thows a left - swing and a miss!
Zarek Reschke seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Koster avoids the body shot from Reschke.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Zarek Reschke dominated that second round.
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. This is the final round!

Ooooh, nice body kick lands from Reschke. Koster shrugs it off though.
Koster ducks under a wild hook from Reschke.
Reschke moves in looking to clinch but Koster pushes him off.
Zarek Reschke is winning the standup battle so far.
Reschke lands with a nice body kick.
Reschke misses with a head kick.
Reschke is looking to slow Koster down with leg kicks.
Reschke throws a leg kick which misses Koster's front leg but catches the back leg as Koster tries to avoid it.
Reschke lands with a thumping leg kick.
Nice straight punches there by Reschke. You know Roy Jones Jr respects the hands of Reschke.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Koster throws a lazy head kick
and Reschke counters with a leg kick that reverborates around the arena.
Koster on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
Koster takes a big intake of breath there - he's definitely tired.

That's one minute gone in the round.
A jab from Reschke does it's job there.
Reschke doesn't manage to clinch there - Koster circles away.
A lazy left from Reschke finds it's target.

Koster is rocked!
Reschke thumps Koster with a low kick.
Koster blocks a head kick by Reschke.
Reschke goes for a high kick. It partially lands.
Koster is still on wobbly legs! Can Reschke finish him?
Reschke fails in his attempt to clinch.
Reschke throws a sloppy head kick and Koster moves out of range easily.
Koster seems to have recovered his senses.
Reschke misses the jab.
Reschke tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Koster paws at him with a jab and circles away.
A big right from Reschke misses.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Reschke throws a feint and then finishes with a kick to the body.
An inside leg kick lands from Reschke.
Reschke swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Reschke scores with a decent looking hook.
Donk. Reschke catches Koster right on the button with a cross.
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!
Koster stumbles momentarily as he takes a strong leg kick from Reschke.
An inside leg kick lands from Reschke.
Reschke with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
Reschke tries to close the distance and clinch up but Koster swats him away and circles back towards the center.
A solid leg kick lands there for Reschke.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Reschke lands a nice leg kick that just misses Koster's sensitive parts.
Koster's leg has a nasty welt from taking a succession of leg kicks. That must be slowing him down.
Reschke lands with a thumping leg kick.
Koster takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Reschke throws a sloppy head kick and Koster moves out of range easily.
Koster blocks the body kick.
Koster takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Nice jab there from Reschke.
A big left from Reschke misses.
Reschke swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Reschke swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Jose Koster has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Reschke tries to close the distance and clinch up but Koster swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Reschke bobbing and weaving, closes the distance and lands a hook to the side of Koster's head.
Reschke fakes a couple of low kicks, before throwing one on the third attempt. It connects and Koster has to reset his feet before getting ready to engage.
Reschke tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Koster on the wrong end of a kick to the body.
Ouch! a nice leg kick from Reschke, right into the meat.
Jab from Reschke.
Koster blocks a head kick by Reschke.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Reschke throws a head kick that looked like it stung.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Reschke is looking to clinch.

And that's the end of the fight!
Zarek Reschke showed his dominance in that final round.
Well Reschke 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 30:25
Judge Felipe Paraventi scores the fight 30:25
Judge Edson Gomes scores the fight 30:25

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Zarek Reschke!