PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Heihachi Hayashida (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Marvin De Leon (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Hayashida
vs
De Leon

177 cm
26
164 lbs
13 - 8 - 0

182 cm
22
165 lbs
9 - 7 - 0

Good wrestling
Solid boxing
Very quick

Good wrestler
World class boxer
Good gas tank

[CBK] The Smashwear Corporation

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 13 - 8 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Heihachi Hayashida!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 9 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Marvin De Leon!
The judges for this bout are Yasuomi Hirokawa, Yukihiro Shimada and Hirohito Nitta.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Hayashida on the wrong end of a nice hook.
De Leon throws a nice looking combination but Hayashida bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Hayashida misses with a kick to the body
and De Leon counters with a lovely straight right hand!
Hayashida tries to score with a low kick but De Leon moves his leg out of the way.
Hayashida walks straight into an uppercut. Luckily it didn't land flush.
Hayashida moves forwards but De Leon connects with a nice, crisp jab.
De Leon darts in and out, connecting with a jab.
De Leon lands with a good body shot.
De Leon scores with a punch to the gut of his opponent.
Hayashida tries to clinch but De Leon is having none of it.
Hayashida moves away from the strike by De Leon.
De Leon lands a glancing blow to the side of Hayashida's head.
A shot to the liver by De Leon. Beautiful body shot.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Hayashida throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
De Leon tries to close the distance and clinch up but Hayashida swats him away and circles back towards the center.
A looping hook to the body misses from De Leon. Hayashida does a little dance to reset his feet.
De Leon tries to clinch up.
Hayashida throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
De Leon throws a hook to the side of Hayashida's head but Hayashida sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
De Leon thuds a left hand into Hayashida's body.
De Leon avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Hayashida throws a low kick but De Leon moves out of range easily.
Marvin De Leon seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
De Leon tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Hayashida was well out of range. Poor timing from De Leon.
Hayashida scores with a spinning back kick!
De Leon misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Hayashida.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Hayashida misses the jab.
Hayashida throws the kick towards the body but De Leon avoids it.
Hayashida swings for the body but De Leon moves out of range.
Hayashida throws a right hand that De Leon ducks under and follows up with a left that De Leon also avoids with ease.
De Leon tries to clinch up but Hayashida circles away and keeps his distance.

De Leon clinches up against the cage.
De Leon working aggressively here.
Come on Hayashida - let's have some action - none of this stalling nonsense.
Nice body punch from Hayashida - that landed with a thud.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
De Leon tries to throw a body punch but Hayashida avoids it by throwing De Leon back against the cage.
De Leon lands a hook that snaps the head of Hayashida backwards.
De Leon lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Hayashida backwards.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Nice body punch from De Leon.
De Leon misses with a hook from the clinch.
De Leon struggles to land a body shot inside as Hayashida controls his hands.
De Leon misses with some punches.
Hayashida misses with a shot to the kidneys.
De Leon has a couple of punches blocked by Hayashida.
De Leon prevents a body shot from Hayashida.
De Leon doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
De Leon takes a knee to the side of the body.
Hayashida misses with an elbow over the top.
A short right hand to the side of the head by De Leon.
De Leon working some nice short punches in the clinch.
Hayashida is trying to pull guard but De Leon has him pressed against the cage.
De Leon blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Hayashida jumps guard but his hands slip and he falls flat on his back. Well, he's made himself look a right mug there, as De Leon walks away with a smile on his face. Hayashida gets slowly back to his feet and shakes his head.
Hayashida takes a kick to the body and keeps moving.

De Leon clinches up against the cage.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
De Leon lands a left hand.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Hayashida working aggressively here.
Hayashida is trying to pull guard but being pressed up against the cage enables De Leon to keep the fight standing.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Heihachi Hayashida. That's going to take a lot out of him.
De Leon scores with a shoulder strike.
De Leon scores with a nice hook to the head.
Hayashida tries to stall but De Leon uses the opportunity to gain a better position.
Hayashida fails to pull guard.
Hayashida is trying to slow down the pace of the fight but De Leon is keeping busy.
De Leon lands a nice uppercut.
A right handed body shot lands from De Leon.
De Leon works on Hayashida's body with a couple of short punches.
De Leon softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.

Hayashida pulls guard effortlessly.
De Leon trying to control but Hayashida is working from the bottom.
De Leon throwing strikes from guard but Hayashida blocks nicely.

That's five minutes gone in the round.
Hayashida working a defensive guard here.
De Leon wants to control from the top but Hayashida keeps moving.
Hayashida bucks up whilst keeping hold of a body lock, managing to reverse the position. Now he's in top in De Leon's guard.
The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily.
De Leon is trying to control the position from the bottom.

De Leon had isolated an arm as going for a kimura. Hayashida defends it easily.
De Leon pulls Hayashida in close to prevent any damage.

That's six minutes gone in the round.
Hayashida trying to land body shots but he keeps hitting the mat.
De Leon has a closed guard, preventing anything of note from happening. Perhaps he's looking to stall.
De Leon working a defensive guard here.
Hayashida working from the guard for now, landing some ground and pound.
Hayashida throwing shots from guard but he's hitting more mat than opponent.
Hayashida with a flurry of punches that miss.
De Leon is working from a closed guard but he's struggling to control his opponent.

That's seven minutes gone in the round.
De Leon tries to land a sweep but no joy.
Hayashida missing there with some ground and pound from the guard.
De Leon lands a beautiful switch and he's in full mount! That could spell trouble for Hayashida!
Hayashida tries to hold on but De Leon pushes him away.
Hayashida has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
De Leon trying to control but Hayashida is having none of it.
Hayashida wants to hold on but De Leon pushes him away.

That's eight minutes gone in the round.
De Leon lands a big elbow.
De Leon controlling from the full mount.
De Leon avoids the attempt from Hayashida to control.
Hayashida is bucking up trying to escape but De Leon cracks him with another couple of good strikes.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
De Leon trying to control but Hayashida is having none of it.
De Leon in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.

De Leon moves into side control, trying to work for a kimura. That looks painful! Will he finish!!?? No, Hayashida has worked his arm free - good work by Hayashida!
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Hayashida tries to improve position but can't.

That's nine minutes gone in the round.
Hayashida is not content to let De Leon control the position.
De Leon scoring with punches and elbows.
Hayashida struggling a bit here.
The referee asks De Leon politely if he wouldn't mind getting on with it and actually doing something. De Leon prefers to stall for the moment though.
Hayashida taking a bit of punishment here - De Leon scoring with strikes.
De Leon landing with strikes to the head and body from side control.

Hayashida is rocked!
De Leon working the head and body with strikes.
Oh Hayashida is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
De Leon moves into full mount!
De Leon landing strikes from the mount.
De Leon tucks in and makes sure he doesn't lose the dominant position.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
De Leon loads up on a couple of big shots to the head that have Hayashida scrambling to escape. He can't get free though and several more unanswered shots from De Leon land to the head. The referee has no choice but to stop the fight. De Leon stands and salutes the crowd.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 9:58 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Marvin De Leon!
Marvin De Leon took to the microphone after his victory and thanked his sponsors, [CBK] The Smashwear Corporation for their support in the buildup to the fight.