PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Miyamoto Musashi (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Kaiser Vakarian (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Both these guys have really solid chins. Will we see a standup war or will they both decide that a knockout is unlikely and try to win the fight elsewhere?

Musashi
vs
Vakarian

171 cm
25
194 lbs
3 - 1 - 0

193 cm
26
250 lbs
5 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Granite chin

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Granite chin

Valhalla Q160 Nutrition

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 1 rounds, in the super heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Miyamoto Musashi!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Kaiser Vakarian!
The judges for this bout are Yukihiro Shimada, Hirohito Nitta and Yukihiro Yamamoto.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
The fighters circling - Vakarian throws out the jab but it was never going to land.
Musashi avoids the clinch attempt nicely.

Musashi moves into the clinch.
Vakarian wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.

Musashi manages to break the clinch.
Vakarian throws an overhand right that lands on Musashi's shoulder, as Musashi tries to avoid the shot.
Vakarian tries to close the distance and clinch up but Musashi swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Musashi misses with a jab, cross combination.
Musashi thows a body shot but no joy.
Musashi tries to clinch up against the cage, rushing in the close the distance. Vakarian manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat.
Vakarian swats away the attempt to clinch by Musashi.
Musashi looks to land a combination but Vakarian avoids it well.
Vakarian tries to clinch up against the cage, rushing in the close the distance. Musashi manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat.
Musashi cracks a nice hook into Vakarian's ribs.
Vakarian throws a combination that misses
and Musashi makes him pay by landing a nice hook to the body before moving out of range.
Musashi circles away from the clinch attempt.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Musashi fails with an attempt to clinch.

Musashi clinches up against the cage.
Vakarian lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
Vakarian misses with the head strike.
Vakarian misses with a short punch on the inside.
Vakarian lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of Musashi backwards.
Vakarian pushes Musashi back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
Vakarian lands a hook to the side of the head.
Musashi pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
Musashi blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Vakarian has had enough of the clinch but Musashi keeps him there for the moment.
Vakarian fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Vakarian tries to break free but Musashi pushes him back against the cage.
Musashi lands a hook to the body. It's hard to tell if that hurt Vakarian or not.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Vakarian swings wildly with an uppercut but Musashi uses good head movement to avoid it.
Vakarian on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.

Musashi breaks from the clinch.
Vakarian jabbing away but nothing is landing.
Vakarian misses with a wild body shot.
Vakarian misses with an uppercut. Musashi saw that one coming.
Musashi blocks a jab.
Musashi tries to score with an inside leg kick but telegraphs it and Vakarian is able to avoid easily.
Vakarian tries to clinch there but Musashi circles away.
Musashi ducks down and throws a hook to the body.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Vakarian tries to clinch there but Musashi circles away.
Vakarian moves in looking to clinch but Musashi pushes him off.
Musashi lands a jab to the head.
Vakarian keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Musashi.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Musashi tries to clinch up against the cage, rushing in the close the distance. Vakarian manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat.
Musashi looks to score with a jab to the body but Vakarian is just out of range.
The crowd cheers as Vakarian lands an impressive looking overhand right. Musashi doesn't seem phased though.
Vakarian throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
A big right from Vakarian misses.
Vakarian tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Musashi was well out of range. Poor timing from Vakarian.
Musashi misses with a body kick.
Vakarian throws a hook but Musashi blocks it.
Musashi is looking to chop away at Vakarian's legs.
Musashi fakes a jab and scores with a low kick.
Vakarian takes a step back and watches a body kick go sailing past his mid section.
Musashi slips under a jab from Vakarian.
Vakarian slips under a jab.
Musashi moves in looking to clinch but Vakarian pushes him off.
Musashi scores with a big left there. The judges will like that one.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Musashi throws a shot to the body.
Musashi tries to clinch
and Vakarian counters with a nice uppercut.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Vakarian checks a low kick from Musashi.
Vakarian is looking to clinch.
Vakarian keeps the fight on the outside.
Vakarian throws the left hand but Musashi avoids the punch easily.
Musashi misses with a hook
and Vakarian counters with a left to the body.
A swing and a miss from Vakarian.
Musashi doesn't manage to clinch there - Vakarian circles away.
Musashi tries to score with an inside leg kick but telegraphs it and Vakarian is able to avoid easily.
Musashi misses with a low kick.
Musashi throws a quick inside leg kick.
Vakarian jabbing away but nothing is landing.
Vakarian moves to clinch but Musashi breaks away
and Musashi counters with a good low kick that Vakarian was not able to check.

That's five minutes gone in the round.
Vakarian thows a body shot but no joy.
Vakarian lands a head shot.
Both fighters circling a little - Musashi finishes the exchange with a kick to the body.
Vakarian takes a swing at Musashi's ribcage but misses.
Musashi misses with a wild body shot.
Vakarian swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Nice body punch from Musashi.
Musashi gets cracked there but stands up to it.
Musashi buckles his opponent's knee momentarily with a nice leg kick.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Vakarian tries to close the distance and clinch up but Musashi swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Vakarian uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Musashi.
Musashi tries to bum rush Vakarian with a series of wild strikes but Vakarian uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Vakarian avoids the clinch attempt nicely.

That's six minutes gone in the round.
Musashi tries to clinch but Vakarian moves out of range.
Vakarian is looking to clinch but Musashi is avoiding it.
Musashi throws a decent looking leg kick but it doesn't land clean.
Musashi fakes a couple of low kicks, before throwing one on the third attempt. It connects and Vakarian has to reset his feet before getting ready to engage.
Vakarian throws a couple of head shots and lands with the final one - a decent hook, which struck Musashi on the side of the head.

Musashi forces Vakarian back against the cage and clinches.

Musashi breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.

Vakarian has closed the distance and engaged Musashi in a clinch.
Musashi scores with a nice hook to the head.
Vakarian tries a body shot but Musashi blocks it.

Musashi pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Kaiser Vakarian seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.

Musashi instigates a clinch.
Musashi trying to land knees to the body.

That's seven minutes gone in the round.
Vakarian misses with a punch to the body.
Vakarian swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Vakarian working aggressively here.
Vakarian is leaning against Musashi and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.
Vakarian misses with a hook to the ribs.
A short right hand to the side of the head by Vakarian.
Vakarian takes an elbow to the temple.

Musashi breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Musashi fails with an attempt to clinch.

Vakarian gets in close and instigates a clinch.

Musashi breaks from the clinch.
Vakarian lands the left hand.
Vakarian scores with a punch to the head.

That's eight minutes gone in the round.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!

The fight moves into the clinch position.
Vakarian misses with a punch on the inside.
Vakarian lands a right hand.
Vakarian has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.
Vakarian wants to stall.
Vakarian lands a nice uppercut.
Some stalling of biblical proportions here from Musashi.
Vakarian on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Vakarian is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.

Musashi breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Vakarian scores with a nice head shot.

That's nine minutes gone in the round.
Vakarian tests Musashi's chin there with a solid looking shot.
Vakarian misses with a hook. Musashi ducked under it nicely.
Vakarian tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Musashi paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Musashi throws a jab but it's blocked by Vakarian.
Vakarian connects nicely with a jab. Noted by the judges no doubt.
Vakarian misses with a double jab.
Musashi fails with an attempt to clinch.
Musashi swats away the attempt to clinch by Vakarian.
Musashi misses with a hook. Vakarian ducked under it nicely.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Musashi uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from Vakarian.
Musashi throws a low kick, looking for Vakarian's leg but Vakarian calmly moves out of range.
The fight stays on the outside here - Vakarian looks like he's thinking about clinching though.

And that's the end of the fight!
I would just about give that final round to Kaiser Vakarian.
Well Vakarian has outworked and out performed his opponent in all aspects of the game today. He was simply too good and the decision should be no more than a formality. Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.

Judge Yukihiro Shimada scores the fight for Kaiser Vakarian!
Judge Hirohito Nitta scores the fight for Kaiser Vakarian!
Judge Yukihiro Yamamoto scores the fight for Kaiser Vakarian!

Kaiser Vakarian wins by unanimous decision!