PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Terry Bogard (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Grisha Kamenov (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Kamenov is bobbing his head along to his entrance song: Linkin Park - Bleed it out. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Bogard
vs
Kamenov

182 cm
19
183 lbs
5 - 4 - 0

180 cm
25
205 lbs
4 - 1 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Solid Muay Thai
KO power

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Tends to cut

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the light heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 5 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Terry Bogard!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Grisha Kamenov!
The judges for this bout are John Mangel, Winston Howard and Donatello Bradman.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Kamenov avoids the head kick by Bogard.
Kamenov tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Kamenov showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Bogard.

Kamenov scores a trip takedown into side control. Nice.
Kamenov misses with an attempted head punch from side control.
Bogard is working hard to escape and get back to his feet. After a battle for position, Kamenov asserts his dominance and retains side control.
Bogard takes a big shot right to the temple there but he's taken it well.
Kamenov is working Bogard over with some ground and pound from side control.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Kamenov sitting in side control, looking to soften his opponent up with elbows and hammerfists but Bogard is avoiding damage well and looking to escape the position.
Kamenov in side control, throwing shots but Bogard defends.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Kamenov in side control, throwing shots but Bogard defends.
Kamenov working away.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Kamenov looks up at the clock and then as Bogard takes his cue and looks up at the clock too, Kamenov smacks him right in the chops with a big elbow! How rude!
Kamenov cracks Bogard with an elbow. That is naaassty.
Bogard tries to escape but Kamenov is in control.
Kamenov creates some space and throws a big elbow, but Bogard sees it coming and moves his head just enough to avoid the strike.
Check out the look on Kamenov's face as he threw that strike - that's one determined fighter!
Kamenov landing strikes.
Kamenov fails to land a wild elbow strike.
Bogard parries the strikes from Kamenov easily there. Kamenov is wary of posturing up too much because it might enable Bogard to escape.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Bogard dodges the ground and pound from Kamenov.
Kamenov throwing strikes but missing, from side control.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Kamenov misses with a strike but at least he's keeping busy, looking to cause some damage - that will still help him when it comes to the judges scorecards.
Kamenov looks gassed!
Kamenov misses with a strike but at least he's keeping busy, looking to cause some damage - that will still help him when it comes to the judges scorecards.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Kamenov misses with a strike but at least he's keeping busy, looking to cause some damage - that will still help him when it comes to the judges scorecards.
Bogard takes a big shot right to the temple there but he's taken it well.
Kamenov misses with the ground and pound.
Kamenov with the ground and pound but Bogard regains half guard under the barage of strikes.
Kamenov lands with a punch from half guard.
Kamenov thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed Bogard's head.
Bogard is trying to stand up here but Kamenov is controlling him well.
Bogard is trying to get back to full guard.
Bogard on his back here. We all know that wrestlers don't like being on their back so let's see if Bogard tries to get out of the position.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
The fighters are starting to get a bit slippery now, which will make submissions a bit more difficult.
Kamenov not throwing his punches with enough precision this time.
Kamenov scores with a couple of good hammerfists.
Bogard is looking to escape.
Bogard avoiding damage under a succession of punches from Kamenov.
Kamenov thows a big elbow that misses, also allowing Bogard to regain full guard.
Kamenov slips effortlessly into side control - very nice.
Kamenov has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Kamenov tries to land with some ground and pound but misses.
Bogard managing to avoid any damage from the strikes thrown by Kamenov.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Kamenov creates some space and throws a big elbow, but Bogard sees it coming and moves his head just enough to avoid the strike.
Kamenov working the strikes but Bogard uses the opportunity to regain half guard.
Bogard is trying to maintain the position but Kamenov is very close to passing his half guard.
Kamenov missing with some ground and pound from the half guard.
Kamenov thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed Bogard's head.
Kamenov throwing shots but Bogard is blocking nicely.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Bogard avoiding damage under a succession of punches from Kamenov.
Kamenov not landing any meaningful shots this time.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Kamenov thows a wild elbow that connects with the canvas.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Grisha Kamenov dominated that round.
The referee calls time. The cornermen exit stage left and we're back to business.

Bogard thuds a mid kick into his opponent's body. That will wear on Kamenov if he has to take too many more of those.
Terry Bogard is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
A head kick from Bogard lands but Kamenov takes it in his stride.

It looks like Grisha Kamenov has been cut.
Bogard swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.
Bogard lands with a kick to the temple. Kamenov shrugs as if to say "is that all you've got?"
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!
Bogard catches Kamenov with a nice straight right. He seems pissed - ooooh, it's on now! On like donkey kong!
Bogard with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
Bogard ducks down and throws a hook to the body.
A solid body kick from Bogard.
A right-left combo lands from Bogard.

Kamenov is rocked!
Kamenov gets hit by the mother of all head kicks and drops to the canvas in a crumpled heap! Woooow, the Internet is going to be talking about this one for weeks!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:38 of round 2, we have a winner by way of KO (Head Kick). Terry Bogard!
Terry Bogard retains his light heavyweight title!
After winning the bout, Terry Bogard thanked all his fans and promised he'd do even better in his next fight. The crowd seemed to love his humility.