PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Maximus Aeurelious (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Shim Changmin (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). These two fighters really are very evenly matched on the feet - it will be fascinating to see who can assert themselves in that aspect of the fight.

Aeurelious
vs
Changmin

186 cm
24
198 lbs
4 - 4 - 0

189 cm
24
190 lbs
4 - 2 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
KO power

BJJ White Belt
Decent boxing
Powerful

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 4 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Maximus Aeurelious!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Shim Changmin!
The judges for this bout are Yukihiro Shimada, Yuuki Gou and Yasuomi Hirokawa.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Aeurelious just misses with a punch to the body.
Changmin swings for the body but Aeurelious moves out of range.

Aeurelious gets caught on his heels momentarily as he allows Changmin to score an easy takedown into full guard.
Changmin stands up and looks to throw the legs aside to pass to side control. Aeurelious swivels though and keeps the full guard.
Aeurelious controls Changmin momentarily but Changmin frees himself.
Aeurelious wants to sweep but no luck.

Changmin gets to his feet - Aeurelious follows without any prompting.
Changmin throws a hook but Aeurelious blocks it.
No joy there for Changmin, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
Changmin cracks Aeurelious with a good shot that sees him stumbling back into the cage.

That's one minute gone in the round.
No luck for Changmin with that takedown attempt.
No joy there for Changmin, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
Changmin throws a nice looking combination but Aeurelious bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Maximus Aeurelious is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Changmin swings for the body but Aeurelious moves out of range.
Aeurelious keeps the fight standing with a nice sprawl.
Changmin slips under a jab.
Changmin fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
A slow jab from Changmin misses its intended target.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Aeurelious swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Aeurelious misses with a looping right.
Aeurelious throws a lazy uppercut
and Changmin counters with a lovely straight right hand!
Changmin lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Aeurelious circles away quickly and effectively.
Changmin's corner calls for a 1-2. Changmin obliges with the 1 part as he scores the single shot and moves back out of range.
Aeurelious swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Aeurelious showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Changmin.
Shim Changmin seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.

Changmin has managed to clinch.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Aeurelious can't find room to land a body shot as Changmin controls the action.
Aeurelious prevents Changmin from breaking the clinch.

Changmin's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Aeurelious ducks right into an uppercut from Changmin.
Changmin lands three nice shots there - that looked like it hurt!
A really sloppy takedown attempt there from Changmin.
Maximus Aeurelious has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Shim Changmin.
Aeurelious misses with an uppercut. Changmin saw that one coming.
Changmin looks frustrated there after his takedown attempt is stuffed easily.

Changmin clinches up against the cage.
Changmin tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Aeurelious wants to get back to striking at distance but Changmin won't allow it.

Aeurelious breaks from the clinch.
Changmin misses with a two punch combination.
Changmin throws a right and a left that Aeurelious avoids nicely.
Aeurelious takes a jab on the nose. He smiles like he loves it and keeps coming.
Changmin fails to land with a series of punches.
Changmin misses with an uppercut. Aeurelious saw that one coming.
Changmin throws a combination that misses
and Aeurelious counters with a straight punch to the midsection.
Changmin throws a jab but it's blocked by Aeurelious.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Aeurelious displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Changmin throws out the jab.
Changmin misses with a series of wild punches.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Shim Changmin dominated that round.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action!

Changmin swings for the body but Aeurelious moves out of range.
Changmin misses with a wild combination.
Changmin misses with a double jab
and Changmin takes a counter punch right on the button for his troubles.
Some wild striking there from Changmin.
Changmin throws a series of punches but Aeurelious avoids them all with ease.
Changmin misses with a few strikes there.
Changmin misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Aeurelious misses with a jab, cross combination.
Changmin tries to clinch but Aeurelious moves out of range.
Aeurelious scores with a jab to the jaw of his opponent.
Aeurelious bobbing and weaving, closes the distance and lands a hook to the side of Changmin's head.
Aeurelious throws a looping overhand right but Changmin ducks down to avoid it.
The fighters circling - Aeurelious throws out the jab but it was never going to land.
Aeurelious digs a good body shot into Changmin's ribs.
Changmin fails with a takedown attempt.
Changmin falls off balance throwing a combination
and Aeurelious counters with a three punch combo that has Changmin backing up. Changmin nods at Aeurelious to acknowledge the strikes.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Sloppy strikes from Changmin. Those never looked like landing.
Changmin throws a combination that misses
and Aeurelious cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.
Changmin moves out of range of the strikes.
Changmin misses with a few strikes there.
Changmin takes one on the button.
Shim Changmin is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Nice defenses there by Changmin.
Changmin lands with a straight right. Aeurelious didn't see that one coming.
Changmin swings wildly with a couple of big hooks
and Aeurelious counters with a left to the body.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Aeurelious ducks right into an uppercut from Changmin.
Shim Changmin seems to be getting the better of the standup.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Changmin rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Aeurelious moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Changmin slips a straight right by Aeurelious.
Changmin throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Aeurelious.
Changmin throws a nice looking combination but Aeurelious bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Aeurelious misses with a hook. Changmin ducked under it nicely.
Changmin misses with a combination
and Aeurelious connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
Changmin misses with a series of wild punches.
Changmin throws a nice looking combination but Aeurelious bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Aeurelious defending well as Changmin loads up on a big left hand.
Changmin throws a series of punches but Aeurelious avoids them all with ease.
Aeurelious misses with a low kick.
Aeurelious swings for the body but Changmin moves out of range.
Changmin throws a nice looking combination but Aeurelious bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Aeurelious just misses with a punch to the body.
Changmin cracks Aeurelious with a right hand to the side of the head.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Changmin throws a right and a left that Aeurelious avoids nicely.
Aeurelious misses with a leg kick.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

That was a close second round but I would say that Maximus Aeurelious will probably get the nod.
That's the end of the round. The referee orders the cornermen out of the cage so we can get back down to business. This is the final round!

Changmin rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Aeurelious moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Aeurelious thows a body shot but no joy.
Aeurelious throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.
Aeurelious moves out of range of the strikes.
Changmin catches Aeurelious with a nice straight right. He seems pissed - ooooh, it's on now! On like donkey kong!
Changmin might want to mix his strikes up a bit more. He's just going for head shots at the moment and that can become a bit predictable.
Changmin misses with a double jab
and Aeurelious counters with a lovely shot to the body.
Changmin moves in looking to clinch but Aeurelious pushes him off.
Aeurelious leaves Changmin with his face pressed against the mat as he sprawls beautifully, defending against a solid takedown attempt.
Aeurelious walks into a straight right hand from Changmin.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Changmin misses with a two punch combination.
Changmin misses with the combination.
Aeurelious swats away the attempt to clinch by Changmin.
Changmin swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Aeurelious throws a right hand that misses
letting Changmin counter with a right hand.
Changmin misses with a few strikes there.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Changmin misses with a combination
and Aeurelious counters with a lovely straight right hand!
A swing and a miss from Changmin.
Changmin displaying good standup as he scores with a three punch combination.
Changmin misses with a double jab
and Aeurelious counters with a shot to the ribs. That looked like it hurt.
Changmin slips a straight right by Aeurelious.
Changmin throws a right hand that Aeurelious ducks under and follows up with a left that Aeurelious also avoids with ease.
A jab from Aeurelious does it's job there.
Changmin takes a body punch that cleary hurt but he's trying not to show any weakness.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Aeurelious throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
No joy there for Changmin, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
Changmin tries to clinch
and Aeurelious counters with a left to the body.
Changmin misses with a double jab.
Changmin looks to land a combination but Aeurelious avoids it well.
Aeurelious misses with an uppercut
and Changmin counters with a three punch combination, finished off with a leg kick. Nice work.
Aeurelious waving his hands out in front of him, looking to distract Changmin.
Changmin misses with a two punch combination.
Changmin scores to the head and body with a nice combination!

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Changmin swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Changmin throws a left and a right that both miss
and Aeurelious counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.
Aeurelious jabs at Changmin's body.
Changmin takes a big intake of breath there - he's definitely tired.
Changmin misses with a wild combination.
Changmin uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Aeurelious.
Changmin connects with a looping left hand that seems like it dazed Aeurelious momentarily.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Changmin swinging wildly here.
Changmin looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.

And that's the end of the fight!
Shim Changmin comfortably won the final round on my scorecard.
Well Changmin has outworked and out performed his opponent in all aspects of the game today. He was simply too good and the decision should be no more than a formality. 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 Yukihiro Shimada scores the fight 27:30
Judge Yuuki Gou scores the fight 27:30
Judge Yasuomi Hirokawa scores the fight 28:30

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Shim Changmin!