PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Tyr Uzi (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Lex Wight (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Lex Wight has the power to score a knockout today if he connects clean with Tyr Uzi's chin.

Uzi
vs
Wight

180 cm
26
194 lbs
12 - 8 - 0

205 cm
27
200 lbs
10 - 8 - 0

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
KO power

Good wrestler
Dangerous knees
Granite chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 12 - 8 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Tyr Uzi!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 10 - 8 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Lex Wight!
The judges for this bout are Johanna Lukiainen, Matti Vanhoillinen and Arvi Lind.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Uzi misses with a two punch combination.
Wight tries to clinch up against the cage, rushing in the close the distance. Uzi manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat.

Uzi instigates a clinch.
A real battle for position is taking place between these two warriors.
Uzi scores with a shoulder strike.
Wight lands with a short shot to the head.
Wight putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has Uzi in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body.
Uzi takes an elbow to the forehead.
Uzi on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Wight lands on the inside with an uppercut.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Uzi takes a knee right on the jaw!
A real battle for position is taking place between these two warriors.
Uzi blocks the elbow strike.
Uzi lands with a short punch from the clinch.
Wight is a painfully thin specimen of a man. You do wonder whether a good body kick would snap him clean in two.
Wight lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Wight is trying to stall.
Nice body punch from Uzi - that landed with a thud.
A short right from Uzi on the inside.
Wight misses with some punches.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Uzi struggles to land a body shot inside as Wight controls his hands.
Wight makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
The two fighters are working to gain dominance in the clinch.
Wight missing with knees to the body.
Wight stalling the fight.
Wight misses with a knee to the head.
Wight trying to control the position but instead, Uzi has worked for underhooks and has pushed Wight into the cage.
Wight misses with a knee strike.
Uzi being controlled against the cage.
Wight misses with a punch to the body.
Wight misses with an elbow over the top.
Wight tries to stall but Uzi uses the opportunity to gain a better position.
Uzi takes an elbow to the forehead.
Wight prevents a body shot from Uzi.
A head punch on the inside from Uzi fails to land.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Uzi lands a nice shot to the body.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Wight.
Uzi struggles to land a body shot inside as Wight controls his hands.
Wight with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Uzi tries to stall but Wight uses the opportunity to gain a better position.
Uzi scores with a shoulder strike.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.

Uzi manages to break the clinch.
Uzi throws a hard body shot but it just misses.

Wight closes the distance and clinches.
Wight misses with an elbow over the top.
Wight lands a nice knee to the body.
Uzi prevents a body shot from Wight.
Uzi throws a head punch that misses.
A head punch on the inside from Uzi fails to land.
Uzi can't find room to land a body shot as Wight controls the action.
Wight goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Uzi misses with a punch to the body.
Wight misses with a knee to the head.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Wight.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Wight tries to land knees in the clinch but Uzi avoids the damage to the body.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Uzi creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
A bit of stalling here from Wight.
Wight throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Uzis head.
Wight has Uzi pressed against the cage, preventing Uzi from circling away and getting back to striking at range.
Uzi tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Wight pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
Wight misses with a hook from the clinch.
Uzi is trying to break the clinch but Wight has him pressed against the cage.
Uzi tries a body shot but Wight blocks it.
Wight wants to stall.
Uzi managing to block the knees to the body from Wight.
Wight taking a breather.
Uzi is trying to slow down the pace of the fight but Wight is keeping busy.
Wight stalls.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Uzi looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.

Uzi breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Wight showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Uzi.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.

Wight rushes Uzi and pushes him back against the cage in a clinch.
Uzi lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Uzi lands a nice uppercut.
Wight holding his opponent close, against the cage.
Wight works for underhooks and lands a body shot in the process.
Uzi misses with a hook from the clinch.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
The two fighters are working to gain dominance in the clinch.
Uzi pressing his opponent against the cage.
Knees in the clinch landing for Wight.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

A close round but Lex Wight will probably get the nod.
OK. That's time! The bell goes and we're back to the action.

Uzi avoids the clinch attempt nicely.

Uzi darts in and clinches Wight up against the cage.
The fighters are going at a pretty good pace and they're both starting to sweat now.
Wight misses with an elbow over the top.
The pace really dropping off here, momentarily.
Uzi lands a shoulder strike.
Wight looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Uzi avoids a wild elbow strike from Wight.
Uzi misses with a body punch.

Uzi manages to break the clinch.

Wight gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
Wight lands with a short punch from the clinch.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Uzi wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Wight takes a shot to the head.
Wight tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Wight comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Wight takes a shot to the head.
Uzi lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.

That's one minute gone in the round.
A head punch on the inside from Uzi fails to land.

Uzi manages to break the clinch.
Uzi avoids the clinch attempt nicely.

Uzi has Wight up against the cage in a clinch.
Wight lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Uzi looking to slow down the pace here.
Uzi lands a left hand that snaps the head of Wight backwards.
Uzi lands with a short shot to the head.
Uzi scores with a hook to the body.
Uzi wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Wight has him pressed against the cage.
Uzi misses with a hook to the ribs.
Wight just leaning against Uzi, taking a breather.
Wight being controlled against the cage.
Wight tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Uzi's elbow.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Wight misses with a hook from the clinch.
Wight lands a body shot.
Wight blocking some punches.
Good body shot from Wight.
Uzi lands a right hand.
Still in the clinch, Wight scores with a nice short uppercut.
Uzi wants to stall.
Wight trying to stall but Uzi improves his position.
Wight dictating the pace here, as the fighters clinch against the cage.
Uzi is trying to force a seperation but Wight has the dominant position.
Wight creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Uzi's defenses.
Uzi is working Wight over against the cage.
Uzi is trying to slow down the pace in the clinch, to catch his breath.
Wight misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Uzi.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Uzi works on Wight's body with a couple of short punches.
Uzi digs a right hand into Wight's ribs. Those have got to be taking their toll on Wight's gas tank.
Wight is breathing heavily.
Wight tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Uzi taking a break, stalling in the clinch.
Wight throws an elbow but it misses.
Uzi scores with a shoulder strike.
Uzi misses with a hook to the ribs.
Uzi blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Wight.
Wight prevents Uzi from breaking the clinch.
Uzi managing to block the knees to the body from Wight.
Wight tries to throw a body punch but Uzi avoids it by throwing Wight back against the cage.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Uzi.
Wight tries to land knees in the clinch but Uzi avoids the damage to the body.
Uzi softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Uzi lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.

Uzi breaks from the clinch.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Wight fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Tyr Uzi is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.

Uzi clinches up against the cage.
Uzi blocks a body shot from Wight.
Uzi wants to break free but Wight has control.
Wight fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Wight throws an elbow that misses.
Wight is trying to slow down the pace in the clinch, to catch his breath.
Wight tries to throw a body punch but Uzi avoids it by throwing Wight back against the cage.
Wight tries to throw a body punch but Uzi avoids it by throwing Wight back against the cage.
Uzi can't find room to land a body shot as Wight controls the action.
Wight is looking to control Uzi's arms but Uzi gets an underhook and turns him. Now Wight has his back to the cage.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Wight is trying to slow the pace down but that's a couple of times in a row that he's tried to get underhooks and Uzi has denied him.

Uzi's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.

Uzi moves into range and clinches up with Wight.
Nice elbow from Wight.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Tyr Uzi dominated that second round.
That's the end of the round. The referee orders the cornermen out of the cage so we can get back down to business. This is the final round!

Uzi shoots in and bounces Wight off the cage to secure the takedown into guard.
Uzi throws a strike but Wight rolls with it and manages to sweep. Now he's in guard on top.
Uzi working a defensive guard but Wight manages to pass into side control anyway.
Uzi regains half guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Wight trying to control the pace.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Wight prevents Uzi from improving his position.
Uzi has his hands clasped together around Wight's back. He's all about the action.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Uzi trying to control from the bottom.

The referee decides to stand the fighters back up, due to lack of activity on the part of Tyr Uzi.
Wight throws a sloppy head kick and Uzi moves out of range easily.

Wight gets taken down but at least he's managed to land in guard.

Wight wriggles free and stands up.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Uzi throws a looping overhand right but Wight ducks down to avoid it.
Tyr Uzi seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Wight tries to clinch up against the cage, rushing in the close the distance. Uzi manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat.

Uzi takes the fight into the clinch.
Uzi lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of Wight backwards.
Uzi cracks Wight with a nice body shot.
Wight takes a big intake of breath there - he's definitely tired.
A real battle for position is taking place between these two warriors.
Uzi scores with a shot to the side of Wight's head.
Uzi makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Uzi swings wildly with an uppercut but Wight uses good head movement to avoid it.
The referee is keeping an eye on Uzi - much more stalling and he will separate the fighters.
Uzi blocks an elbow strike.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Wight blocking some punches.
Wight tries to land knees in the clinch but Uzi avoids the damage to the body.
Wight looking to slow down the pace here.
Uzi struggles to land a body shot inside as Wight controls his hands.
A short body shot lands from Uzi as the two fighters clinch.
Wight has Uzi pushed against the cage.
Wight trying to land knees to the body.
Uzi trying to land knees to the body.
Wight pressing his opponent against the cage.
Uzi misses with a punch to the body.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Wight throws a head punch that misses.
Uzi trying to stall but Wight improves his position.
Uzi avoiding damage as Wight throws knees to the body.

And that's the end of the fight!
Tyr Uzi showed his dominance in that final round.
Well Uzi has outscored his opponent in every aspect of the fight today. Only a scarily incompetent judge or two will keep him from a well deserved win... Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Johanna Lukiainen scores the fight 29:28
Judge Matti Vanhoillinen scores the fight 29:28
Judge Arvi Lind scores the fight 29:28

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Tyr Uzi!
Our winner, Tyr Uzi, made sure he spent some time buttering up the crowd during his post fight interview, which will no doubt bring him a few more fans.