PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight kickboxing rules bout between The Under Dog (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Cvbn Yhb (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Well, the cameraman is lingering on a pretty young lady for a bit too long there. Keep your eyes on the fighters buddy or you'll miss the fighter intros!

Under Dog
vs
Yhb

175 cm
18
165 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

187 cm
22
205 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

Great elbows
Big right hand

Solid Muay Thai
Tends to cut

Hell's Balls Recovery

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, The Under Dog!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Cvbn Yhb!
The judges for this bout are James Glass, Andrew Berry and James Ackerman.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Yhb closes the distance and pushes Under Dog back into the cage.
Under Dog taking a breather.
Yhb lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Under Dog is trying to stall.

Yhb breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Under Dog doesn't manage to clinch there - Yhb circles away.

Yhb instigates a clinch.

Yhb breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Yhb lands a jab to the head.
Under Dog avoids a punch combination nicely.
Cvbn Yhb seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.

Yhb closes the distance and pushes Under Dog back into the cage.
Under Dog misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Yhb.
Under Dog misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Yhb.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Yhb escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Under Dog tries to clinch up but Yhb circles away and keeps his distance.
Under Dog is looking to clinch.
Under Dog tries to clinch there but Yhb circles away.

Yhb lands with a right, followed by a left to the temple and Under Dog goes down! The ref sends Yhb to a neutral corner so he can begin the count. 3,4,5,6 and Under Dog is back to his feet. He seems a little groggy but the referee thinks he's OK to continue, so we're back to the action!

It looks like The Under Dog has been cut.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Under Dog wants to clinch

and Yhb counters into the clinch. Nicely done.
Under Dog is trying to maintain a safe position but Yhb gets an underhook and turns Under Dog into the cage.
A bit of stalling here from Yhb.

Yhb escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.

Yhb closes the distance and clinches.
Under Dog throws a head punch that misses.
Yhb blocks an uppercut.
Under Dog fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Yhb slowing the pace effectively.
Under Dog is trying to maintain a safe position but Yhb gets an underhook and turns Under Dog into the cage.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Under Dog can't seem to implement his control oriented gameplan at the moment. That's no bad thing of course, for those of us who want to see a good fight.

Yhb pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.

Yhb pushes Under Dog up against the cage in a clinch.
Yhb slows down the pace here.
Under Dog looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Under Dog takes an elbow to the forehead.
Under Dog swings away with an uppercut that misses.

Yhb breaks from the clinch.
Under Dog moves in looking to clinch but Yhb pushes him off.

Yhb takes the fight into the clinch.
Under Dog looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Yhb lands a damaging elbow.

Yhb breaks the clinch.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
The fight stays on the outside here - Under Dog looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Under Dog looks to clinch
and Yhb counters with a shot to the ribs. That looked like it hurt.
Yhb throws a switch kick that catches Under Dog on the top of the head and drops him to the canvas! Under Dog looks hurt - I'm not sure he's going to get back up! The referee starts the count but calls it off at seven as Under Dog flops around on the canvas, clearly in no position to continue! This fight is over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:14 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Head Kick). Cvbn Yhb!