PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight kickboxing rules bout between Genaro Munoz (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Karen Darabedyan (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Darabedyan has chosen KDB Highlights as his entrance music. Both these guys have solid standup skills and neither is particularly fantastic on the ground, so let's hope for a nice standup war!

Munoz
vs
Darabedyan

178 cm
34
154 lbs
16 - 10 - 0

170 cm
32
159 lbs
10 - 14 - 0

World class MT
Good chin

Excellent boxer
Solid chin

TFP Graphics - Pit Inc

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 16 - 10 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Genaro Munoz!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 10 - 14 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Karen Darabedyan!
The judges for this bout are Shirou Masuda, Ren Mimura and Yukihiro Yamamoto.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Munoz misses with a body shot.
Darabedyan scores with a decent looking hook.
Munoz digs a good hook to Darabedyan's body.
Darabedyan tries to clinch up.
Some wild striking there from Darabedyan.
Munoz lands with a right hand.
Darabedyan misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Munoz lands a jab.
Munoz lands a leg kick and bounces back out of range.
Munoz throws a sloppy head kick and Darabedyan moves out of range easily.
Darabedyan throws a nice looking combination but Munoz bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Munoz connects with a lovely jab that went straight through the gap between Darabedyan's hands.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Darabedyan misses with a series of wild punches.
Darabedyan takes a big uppercut there. He seems a bit wobbly but no, he's OK.

Darabedyan moves into range and clinches up with Munoz.
Munoz tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Darabedyan wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Munoz has him pressed against the ropes.
Munoz lands an elbow that stopped Darabedyan in his tracks for a moment.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Munoz lands an elbow inside.
Munoz landing knees to the head.
Munoz lands a shoulder strike.
Munoz lands a nice knee to the body.
Darabedyan tries to break the clinch but Munoz is controlling the position.
A battle for position here, against the ropes.
Darabedyan is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the ropes.
Munoz lands an elbow inside.
Munoz keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Darabedyan's efforts to push away.

Darabedyan escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Munoz swinging wildly here.
Munoz showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Darabedyan.
Munoz lands with a thumping leg kick.
Munoz shuffles to his left behind two crisp jabs. Darabedyan eats them both and turns towards Munoz to reposition himself and eats a stinging right hand-left hook combo.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Like a baseball bat into the meat of his leg there - nice leg kick by Munoz.
Darabedyan looking to land some kicks to the body here.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Munoz connects with an inside leg kick.
Munoz swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Darabedyan tries to bum rush Munoz with a series of wild strikes but Munoz uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Munoz showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Darabedyan.
Munoz fakes a head shot and lands one to the body.
Darabedyan steps to his left, right into the path of a big body kick from Munoz. That one must have hurt.
Darabedyan looks gassed!
Darabedyan chopped to the floor by a nice leg kick but he springs right back up before Munoz can pounce on him.
Munoz works his jab well there, keeping his opponent at a distance.
Darabedyan takes a kick to the side of the head.
Wow, both these guys are really going for it!
Darabedyan misses with a combination
and Munoz counters with a slapping leg kick.
The crowd cheers as Darabedyan lands an impressive looking overhand right. Munoz doesn't seem phased though.
Darabedyan circles away from the clinch attempt.
Darabedyan throws a right and a left that Munoz avoids nicely.
Munoz is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Munoz throws a head kick that misses.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Darabedyan misses with a few strikes there.
Munoz throws a wild combination but nothing lands.
Darabedyan buckles his opponent's knee momentarily with a nice leg kick.
Munoz wants to clinch.
Darabedyan looks to score with a jab to the body but Munoz is just out of range.
A nice inside leg kick there by Munoz. That's going to slow Darabedyan down.
Munoz scores with a decent looking hook.
Munoz connects with a right hand. Darabedyan shakes it off.
Munoz is looking to slow Darabedyan down with leg kicks.
Darabedyan fails to land with a series of punches.
Munoz with a jab.
Darabedyan looks for the body kick but Munoz saw that one coming.
Darabedyan on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
Munoz misses with a wild body shot.
Munoz showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Darabedyan.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
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!
Darabedyan stumbles momentarily as he takes a strong leg kick from Munoz.
Darabedyan misses with a series of wild punches.
Munoz misses the shot to the body.
Darabedyan misses with a jab, cross combination.
Munoz with a nice cross.
Munoz pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Darabedyan throws a right hand that Munoz ducks under and follows up with a left that Munoz also avoids with ease.
Darabedyan throws a right and a left that Munoz avoids nicely.
Munoz throws a quick inside leg kick.
Munoz is really peppering his opponent's head with punches.
That kick from Munoz tenderised Darabedyan's leg. Darabedyan is trying to keep his angry face on.
Munoz fakes a jab and then connects with a hook.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Munoz throws a nice inside leg kick.
Munoz swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Darabedyan swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.
Munoz explodes with a nice body kick and back out of range. Nice work.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Genaro Munoz dominated that round.
That's time! Back to the action!

Darabedyan moves his head to the side to avoid a jab but walks straight into a cross.
A jab from Munoz finds it's way through Darabedyan's defenses.
Munoz throws a one two combo.

Darabedyan is rocked!
Darabedyan walks straight into devastating uppercut and drops to the floor, clearly wobbled! Can he beat the count? 4,5,6,7... he's up! And he's down again! The ref steps in and calls an end to the fight! What a punch that was!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:16 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punch). Genaro Munoz!