PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Marvin Seeger (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Timur Rafkatovich (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Chooooooooon! I think Seeger might be my favorite fighter, now he's come out to Sexy Boy. On his way into the cage it seems that Marvin Seeger has been attacked by a crazed fan! It looks like it might have been the just bleed guy! Luckily Marvin Seeger seems to be OK! I thought that lunatic was in prison!?

Seeger
vs
Rafkatovich

190 cm
19
208 lbs
4 - 3 - 0

182 cm
24
210 lbs
2 - 9 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter striker
Experienced

BJJ Blue Belt
Dangerous knees
Solid chin

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 4 - 3 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Marvin Seeger!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 9 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Timur Rafkatovich!
The judges for this bout are Aleksei Zolotukhin, Dmitry Maklakov and Fedor Mirinova.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Rafkatovich is looking to clinch but Seeger is avoiding it.
Rafkatovich looks really tired already! That doesn't bode well for a good, competitive fight!
Horrible takedown by Rafkatovich or perhaps it was just good defense by Seeger which made him look bad.

Seeger closes the distance and pushes Rafkatovich back into the cage.
Rafkatovich has a body lock and is looking for a takedown. Seeger is bouncing around trying to prevent the takedown and somehow he has indeed managed to stay on his feet.

Seeger breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Rafkatovich dodges the punch combination from Seeger.
Rafkatovich tries to clinch up.
Rafkatovich fails with the takedown.
Marvin Seeger has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Timur Rafkatovich.

Seeger drops Rafkatovich with a beautiful combination! Rafkatovich stares up at his opponent, who ushers him back to his feet - Seeger is looking for the KO!
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.

Seeger gets a clinch.

Seeger wants the takedown. Rafkatovich is fighting it off but Seeger persists and manages to bring the fight to the ground, ending up in Rafkatovich's guard against the cage.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Seeger trying to pass the guard but can't manage it just yet.
Seeger has to be careful here, sitting in the guard of a superior BJJ player.
Seeger throwing strikes from guard but Rafkatovich blocks nicely.
Seeger passes easily into side control. Nice work.
Seeger knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Rafkatovich on the ground.
Seeger scores with a couple of short elbows.
Seeger in side control, trying to ground and pound but not landing this time.
Seeger working the ground and pound but he's contacting the mat, not the fighter.

Seeger looking for an arm triangle but it's way too loose to do anything.
Seeger throwing shots but missing, from side control.
Seeger throws a knee to the body but it doesn't do much damage.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Seeger creates a bit of distance and throws down some hard shots.
Seeger tries to score with some ground and pound. Rafkatovich controls his posture well this time though and the shots don't do any damage.
Sloppy strikes there by Seeger.
Seeger taking a breather here.

Seeger is looking for a kimura. He might have it! No, Rafkatovich has escaped the position, nice work there.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Seeger controls the position.
Seeger throwing shots but missing, from side control.
Rafkatovich should think about turning a few of those tyres round his middle into muscle if he wants people to take him seriously as an athlete.
The ground and pound from Seeger seems to be hitting the mat more than his opponent.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Rafkatovich is trying to improve his position.
Seeger throws an elbow but Rafkatovich slips to the side and avoids it well.
Seeger looking to punish the body of his opponent here but Rafkatovich is avoiding damage well.

Seeger looking for an arm triangle but it's way too loose to do anything.
Seeger throws an elbow but Rafkatovich slips to the side and avoids it well.
Seeger passes to full mount! That's big trouble for Rafkatovich!
Seeger fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!

That has opened up Timur Rafkatovich's cut even more.
Seeger lands a big shot there that rocks Rafkatovich but he's holding on and managing to survive for now.

Timur Rafkatovich's cut is absolute horrible now. This looks like something out of a horror film with blood covering both fighters.

The referee calls the doctor in to look at Timur Rafkatovich's cut. Oh no, the doctor has called an end to the bout!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:18 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Cut). Marvin Seeger!
Marvin Seeger seemed lost for words in his post fight interview but he remembered to thank his fans and directed everyone to his website.