PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Trip Kenzie (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Bob Banks (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Trip Kenzie looks tired to me. Hopefully he has got enough gas left in the tank to put in a good performance.

Kenzie
vs
Banks

154 cm
31
213 lbs
20 - 17 - 0

180 cm
23
205 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Excellent boxer
Very strong

Good wrestler
Excellent boxer
Granite chin

Ultimate Fighting Gear

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 20 - 17 - 0, fighting out of London, Trip Kenzie!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Bob Banks!
The judges for this bout are James Ackerman, Phil Schofield and James Glass.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Kenzie looks for a takedown but Banks sprawls well.
Banks fails to land the takedown.

Kenzie drops down and drives through with a powerful takedown into guard.
Kenzie is fighting to break Banks's control of his arms but Banks is doing a good job of controlling the position at the moment.
Banks wants to sweep but no luck.
Kenzie throwing shots from guard but he's hitting more mat than opponent.
Kenzie trying to land body shots but he keeps hitting the mat.
A real slowdown in the pace of the fight for a moment, as Banks holds on and takes a little breather.

The ref stands the fighters back up. Bob Banks was stalling too much, according to the referee.
Banks lands a leg kick and bounces back out of range.
Banks shoots in but Kenzie avoids the takedown attempt easily.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Banks misses with a low kick.
Kenzie takes a body punch that cleary hurt but he's trying not to show any weakness.
Kenzie is breathing heavily.
Nice body punch from Banks.
Banks misses with a jab, cross combination.
Banks is trying hard to land a takedown here. Kenzie sprawls well and keeps this one on the feet.
Trip Kenzie has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Bob Banks.
Banks works his jab well there, keeping his opponent at a distance.
Kenzie changes levels and looks for a double leg takedown. Banks tries to avoid it but Kenzie manages to keep hold of a leg and drag Banks to the ground. Banks escapes though and pops straight back up to his feet.
Banks explodes with a nice body kick and back out of range. Nice work.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!

Banks shoots in for a takedown! He's got it and he's managed to land in full mount! That's better than Banks was expecting from the takedown attempt, I'm sure!
Banks pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.
Banks content just to control the position here.
Banks lands a nice shot to the head.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Banks tucks in and makes sure he doesn't lose the dominant position.
Banks landing shots from mount.
Banks punishing his opponent with strikes.
Banks scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish Kenzie?
Banks sitting in mount, just looking to control for the moment.
Kenzie wants to hold on but Banks pushes him away.
Kenzie flailing away with punches but nothing is landing.
Banks with good strikes from the mount here!
The fighters are tangled up in the ropes here. We might need a restart if the fighters can't break free themselves.
Banks looking to finish Kenzie with some ground and pound. This is bad for Kenzie!

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Banks trying to control but he's not successful this time.
Kenzie wants to hold on but Banks pushes him away.
A nice elbow there by Banks.
Banks landing punches.
Kenzie might be looking to lock onto one of his opponent's long limbs for a submission, whilst we're on the ground.
Kenzie is working to get back to half guard.
Banks looking to ground and pound his opponent to a finish here.
Banks controlling the pace for now.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Banks looking to ground and pound his opponent to a finish here.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Banks scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish Kenzie?

Kenzie is rocked!
Banks controlling from mount.
Banks postures up and lands a whopping elbow - oh that's hurt Kenzie bigstyle! Two more strikes land for Banks and the fight is over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:33 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Bob Banks!
Jumping up and down and very excited, Bob Banks waved his t-shirt featuring [GTI] Divine Clothing 's logo in front of the cameras.