PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight kickboxing rules bout between Dirk Raeder (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Karen Darabedyan (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Darabedyan has chosen KDB Highlights as his entrance music. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Raeder
vs
Darabedyan

180 cm
26
147 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

170 cm
31
158 lbs
9 - 12 - 0

Great elbows
Cardio machine

Decent boxing
Powerful

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Dirk Raeder!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 9 - 12 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Karen Darabedyan!
The judges for this bout are Yuuki Gou, Shirou Masuda and Yasuomi Hirokawa.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Darabedyan gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
Raeder misses with a body punch.
Raeder tries a knee to the head but Darabedyan blocks it.
Darabedyan pushes Raeder back against the ropes and lands a hook to the side of the head.

Darabedyan breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Darabedyan lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Raeder circles away quickly and effectively.
Darabedyan misses with a few strikes there.
Raeder tries to clinch but Darabedyan moves away
and Darabedyan counters with a stiff right hand.
Raeder wants to clinch.
Raeder tries to clinch up against the ropes, rushing in the close the distance. Darabedyan manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat.
Raeder closes the distance looking to clinch

and Darabedyan counters with a big 3 punch combo that drops Raeder on his ass! Raeder wobbles back to his feet half way through the count and though looking a bit dazed, the referee is going to allow the fight to continue!

Raeder is rocked!
Wow, both these guys are really going for it!
This has been an exciting period of action!
Raeder looks to clinch
and Darabedyan counters with a huge overhand right that connects right on the temple, sending him crumpling, face first to the floor! This one is all over! What a knockout!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:46 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Karen Darabedyan!
A loyal slave to those sponsorship dollars, Karen Darabedyan made sure he mentioned Das Labor, along with how happy he was to win his fight.