PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Leonidas Sheynauvah (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Brock Johnson (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). These two fighters really are very evenly matched on the feet - it will be fascinating to see who can assert themselves in that aspect of the fight.

Sheynauvah
vs
Johnson

190 cm
23
220 lbs
9 - 5 - 0

175 cm
29
215 lbs
9 - 3 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
World class MT
Cardio machine

Good wrestler
Decent boxing
Granite chin

Black Belt Nutrition #=========||=========#

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 9 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Leonidas Sheynauvah!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 9 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Brock Johnson!
The judges for this bout are Nard Betker, Paulsen Ambrosius and Patrick Alders.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Sheynauvah comes forward and lands a shot to the body, then darts back out of range.
Sheynauvah rushes in with a sloppy looking punch

and Johnson counters with a shoot takedown. Sheynauvah fights it but they end up in guard.
Johnson working some strikes from top position.
Sheynauvah is trying to stand up but he's not managed so far.
Sheynauvah working a defensive guard here.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Johnson prevents Sheynauvah from getting back to his feet.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Sheynauvah not looking particularly offensive just at the moment.
Johnson prevents Sheynauvah from getting back to his feet.
Johnson stands up and looks to throw the legs aside to pass to side control. Sheynauvah swivels though and keeps the full guard.
Johnson with a flurry of punches that miss.
Sheynauvah wants to sweep here but Johnson controlling him for the moment.
Sheynauvah utilising some decent striking defenses from the guard, preventing the ground and pound.
Johnson controlling from the top position.

Neither fighter is doing enough for the referee's liking and he's decided to stand them back up.
Sheynauvah throws a right hand that Johnson ducks under and follows up with a left that Johnson also avoids with ease.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Sheynauvah gets caught napping as Johnson dives in and scores a takedown. Sheynauvah manages to retain guard.
Both fighters really going for it on the ground here!
Sheynauvah seems keen to control rather than go for a submission, at least for now.
Johnson trying to control but Sheynauvah is working from the bottom.
Sheynauvah preventing the ground and pound from doing any damage.
Sheynauvah wants to sweep here but Johnson controlling him for the moment.
Johnson trying to control the position from guard on top but Sheynauvah is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
We may be looking at a referee standup if the pace doesn't pick up soon.

The ref stands the fighters back up. Brock Johnson was stalling too much, according to the referee.
No luck for Johnson with that takedown attempt.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Sheynauvah throws a low kick but it's checked well by Johnson.
Johnson takes a head kick and keeps coming.

It looks like Brock Johnson 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!
Sheynauvah moves in looking to clinch but Johnson pushes him off.
Sheynauvah slaps away a takedown attempt from Johnson, before circling back to the center of the mat.
A telegraphed right hand from Johnson misses the target.
Leonidas Sheynauvah is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Sheynauvah lands a leg kick. The shin dug right into the meat of the thigh.
Johnson slips a jab and a cross from Sheynauvah.
Sheynauvah is looking to clinch but Johnson is avoiding it.
Sheynauvah misses with a hook.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Good leg kick by Sheynauvah there. It's the ones that make that thud noise that hurt and that was an almighty thud.
Sheynauvah throws a right and a left that both miss.
Sheynauvah is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Sheynauvah shuffles to his left behind two crisp jabs. Johnson eats them both and turns towards Sheynauvah to reposition himself and eats a stinging right hand-left hook combo.
Sheynauvah throws an ugly left hook that misses
and Johnson counters with a lovely shot to the body.
Johnson 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.
Johnson keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Sheynauvah misses with a low kick.
Sheynauvah throws out a token jab with nothing on it.
Johnson displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Sheynauvah throws out the jab.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Sheynauvah looks to land a left hand but Johnson moved out of range nicely.
Johnson will have to do better than that with his takedown attempts.
Leonidas Sheynauvah has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Brock Johnson.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Sheynauvah fakes with a right hand and throws a good leg kick, right into the thigh. That had to hurt Johnson.
Sheynauvah scores with a jab.
Johnson slips a jab from Sheynauvah.
Sheynauvah lands with a cross.
Sheynauvah misses with a body punch
and Johnson counters with a one-two to the body.
Johnson bobs and weaves and throws out a fast jab that snaps Sheynauvah's head backwards.

Johnson closes the distance, clinches up and gets a nice trip takedown into side control. Very smooth.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Sheynauvah struggling a bit here.
Johnson happy to just control the position for now.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Leonidas Sheynauvah dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Brock Johnson's cut.
OK. That's time! The bell goes and we're back to the action.

Sheynauvah keeps his opponent at a distance with a nice jab.
Sheynauvah throws the kick towards the body but Johnson avoids it.

Johnson drives through with a takedown into guard.
Johnson postures up.
Johnson throwing strikes from guard but Sheynauvah blocks nicely.
Johnson missing there with some ground and pound from the guard.
Sheynauvah trying to strike off his back.
Johnson trying to land body shots but he keeps hitting the mat.
Sheynauvah looking to sweep here. No luck so far.
Johnson landing some decent shots from guard.
Sheynauvah manages to sweep nicely, so he's now on top. Johnson manages to get himself to full guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Johnson is trying to keep Sheynauvah in close.

Sheynauvah stands up from Johnson's guard - Sheynauvah perhaps looking for a knockout.
Johnson shoots for a takedown but Sheynauvah saw that one coming a mile off and avoided it easily.
Johnson gets cracked there but stands up to it.
Nice sprawl there from Sheynauvah as Johnson shoots in.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Sheynauvah misses with a looping right.
Sheynauvah tries to close the distance and clinch but Johnson swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Sheynauvah misses with a body shot.
Leonidas Sheynauvah is winning the standup battle so far.
Sheynauvah lands a nice looking body shot.
Sheynauvah misses with a low kick.
Sheynauvah throws a series of strikes that have Johnson backpedaling.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Sheynauvah tries to clinch up.
A chopping leg kick lands by Sheynauvah.
Sheynauvah lands a big head kick that sends Johnson to the canvas! Sheynauvah follows up with strikes from the mount that forces the ref to step in and stop the fight!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:51 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Leonidas Sheynauvah!