PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Diego Kramer (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Kadian Aitkens (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Kramer comes to the cage accompanied by I'm Shipping Up To Boston. Both these guys have solid standup skills and neither is particularly fantastic on the ground, so let's hope for a nice standup war!

Kramer
vs
Aitkens

176 cm
22
184 lbs
4 - 0 - 0

180 cm
22
175 lbs
5 - 3 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Dangerous knees
KO power

Decent wrestler
Good low kicks
Powerful

Hardcore Nutrition

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 4 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Diego Kramer!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Kadian Aitkens!
The judges for this bout are Emerson Jorge, Luis Engracia and Daniel Cesar.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Aitkens throws a series of punches but Kramer avoids them all with ease.
Aitkens throws a hook to the side of Kramer's head but Kramer sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
Aitkens lands a beauty of a right hand that gets the crowd cheering.
Aitkens just misses with a punch to the body.

Kramer lands a left and a right that send Aitkens crashing to the mat, dazed. Kramer thinks about following him to the mat but decides to wave him back up to his feet!

Aitkens is rocked!

It looks like Kadian Aitkens 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!
Aitkens keeps his opponent at a distance with a nice jab.
Aitkens is still on wobbly legs! Can Kramer finish him?
Aitkens wings a very wild body shot but it does the job and lands to the midsection.
Aitkens stumbles momentarily as he takes a strong leg kick from Kramer.
Aitkens tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Kramer was well out of range. Poor timing from Aitkens.
Aitkens seems to have recovered his senses.
Aitkens slips under a jab.
Kramer tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Aitkens thuds his right hand into Kramer's forehead from close range. That could be painful for both fighters.

Kramer gets a clinch.
Aitkens misses with a short punch on the inside.
Kramer misses with a hook to the ribs.
Aitkens tries to work over Kramer's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Aitkens has a couple of punches blocked by Kramer.
Aitkens throws a punch but it's blocked by Kramer.
Aitkens tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Kramer's elbow.
Kramer misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Aitkens tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Nice body punch from Kramer.
Kramer leaning against his opponent.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Kramer.
Kramer misses with a body punch.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Kramer.
Kramer tries to work over Aitkens's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Kramer lands with a left to the head.
Aitkens lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Kramer lands a hook to the body. It's hard to tell if that hurt Aitkens or not.
Aitkens pushes Kramer back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
This has been an exciting period of action!

Kramer's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Kramer throws a front kick aimed at Aitkens's knee but Aitkens avoids it well.
Aitkens takes a thudding leg kick, right into the meat of the thigh.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Aitkens 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.
Aitkens cracks Kramer with a nice right hand that draws applause from the crowd.
Kramer slips under a jab.
A nice inside leg kick there by Kramer. That's going to slow Aitkens down.
Aitkens swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Aitkens sizes up Kramer with a pawing jab and scores with a straight right down the middle.
Kramer fails in his attempt to clinch.
Boom, another hit is landed. "You're gunna get knocked out" taunts Kramer, as that shot connected.
Kramer dips to his left and cracks Aitkens with an uppercut!
Kramer uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Aitkens.
Kramer uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Aitkens.
Aitkens misses with a telegraphed body shot

and Kramer counters with a nice right hand that sends Aitkens toppling to the canvas! Aitkens scrambles and gets back to his feet - can Kramer finish him?!

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Aitkens misses with a hook. Kramer ducked under it nicely.
Kramer keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Aitkens.
Kramer pounces like a tiger and cracks Aitkens with a vicious hook! Aitkens is down but not out! Kramer follows up with more strikes forcing the ref to jump in and stop it!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:19 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punches). Diego Kramer!
Our winner, Diego Kramer, 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.