PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Raoul Duke (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Julio Salcedo (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Duke comes to the cage accompanied by Pillz. Salcedo has chosen Muse - Muscle Museum as his entrance music. 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.

Duke
vs
Salcedo

215 cm
27
277 lbs
16 - 6 - 0

183 cm
27
280 lbs
12 - 5 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Granite chin

Dangerous GnP
World class boxer
Good gas tank

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 16 - 6 - 0, fighting out of London, Raoul Duke!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 12 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Julio Salcedo!
The judges for this bout are Shigeki Sano, Yasuomi Hirokawa and Yukihiro Shimada.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Duke bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
Duke chopping away at his opponent's legs.
Salcedo misses with a left hand

and Duke counters by moving into the clinch. Good anticipation by Duke.
Duke lands with a short head shot on the inside.
Still in the clinch, Duke scores with a nice short uppercut.
Salcedo misses with a hook to the ribs.
Duke landing knees to the body.
Salcedo tries a body shot but Duke blocks it.
A short right from Salcedo on the inside.
Duke is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Salcedo is defending well for now.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Salcedo throws a punch but it's blocked by Duke.
Duke scores with a knee to the head.
Duke throws a knee to the head but misses.
A short uppercut from Duke.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Duke.
Duke tries to land knees in the clinch but Salcedo avoids the damage to the body.
Salcedo lands with a right to the head.
Duke comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.

It looks like Julio Salcedo has been cut.
Salcedo blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Duke looks to throw an elbow but misses.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Duke throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Salcedo blocks it with crossed arms.
Duke tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Salcedo avoids it.
Duke looking to throw knees to the head but Salcedo is blocking nicely.
A right hook to the body lands for Salcedo.
Salcedo misses with a short punch on the inside.
Salcedo scores with a shoulder strike.
Still in the clinch, Salcedo scores with a nice short uppercut.
Duke goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Duke misses with an elbow over the top.
Salcedo misses with a hook to the ribs.
A head punch on the inside from Salcedo fails to land.
Duke swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Salcedo tries to throw a body punch but Duke avoids it by throwing Salcedo back against the cage.
Salcedo digs a right hand underneath Duke's ribcage. Duke let out a lung full of air as it connected.
Duke is breathing heavily.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Salcedo digs a right hand underneath Duke's ribcage. Duke let out a lung full of air as it connected.
Salcedo lands a shoulder strike.
Salcedo fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Salcedo.
Salcedo gets through Duke's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Duke's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
Duke working aggressively here.
Duke lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of Salcedo backwards.
Salcedo lands an uppercut.
Nice body punch from Salcedo - that landed with a thud.
Salcedo lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Duke backwards.
Salcedo presses Duke against the cage and delivers a mid-strength body shot.
Salcedo lands a body shot in the clinch.
Salcedo gets through Duke's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Salcedo tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Salcedo blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Duke.
Salcedo throws a hook to the body. More of an arm punch but it's all scoring with the judges.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Salcedo.
Knees to the body from Duke.
Salcedo softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.

Duke is rocked!
A head punch blocked on the inside by Duke.
Oh Duke is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Duke blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Salcedo throws a head punch that misses.
Salcedo fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Duke blocks an uppercut.
Duke blocking some punches.
Salcedo has a couple of punches blocked by Duke.
Salcedo throws a punch but it's blocked by Duke.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Salcedo working aggressively here.
Salcedo lands a body punch - he's looking to wear down Duke.
Salcedo has a couple of punches blocked by Duke.
Salcedo doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Salcedo throws a punch but it's blocked by Duke.
Duke blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Salcedo swings wildly with an uppercut but Duke uses good head movement to avoid it.
Duke blocking some punches.
Salcedo lands a shot to the body.
Duke seems to have got his legs back now.
Salcedo misses with a short punch on the inside.
Duke blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Salcedo is working Duke over against the cage.
Salcedo digs a right hand into Duke's ribs. Those have got to be taking their toll on Duke's gas tank.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Duke is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Salcedo is defending well for now.
A body shot lands from Salcedo.
Salcedo swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Salcedo tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
A head punch on the inside from Salcedo fails to land.
Salcedo throws a big uppercut that drops Duke! More strikes from Salcedo and the referee jumps in to stop the fight! Duke lies dazed against the cage as Salcedo celebrates with his cornermen!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:50 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Julio Salcedo!
Julio Salcedo managed to slip a mention for his sponsors, Hellraiser Fightgear ($10 and above), into his post fight interview.