PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Ramazan Emlek (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Shock Zhou (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Emlek
vs
Zhou

167 cm
19
167 lbs
2 - 1 - 0

177 cm
20
178 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Basic striking
Good chin

BJJ White Belt
Decent boxing
Inexperienced

Nuclear Fight Gear

Mango 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 2 - 1 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Ramazan Emlek!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Shock Zhou!
The judges for this bout are Fedor Mirinova, Aleksei Zolotukhin and Valeri Chadov.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Zhou works the jab nicely.
Emlek shoots in for a takedown. "I don't think so" says Zhou as he avoids it easily.
Emlek fails to land with a series of punches.
Zhou pivots, looking for a leg kick but Emlek is out of range and Zhou settles back down.
Emlek tries to clinch up.
Zhou lands a beauty of a right hand that gets the crowd cheering.
Emlek wants to clinch.
The sound of bone on bone echoes around the arena as Emlek checks a leg kick.
Zhou with a nice cross.
Zhou connects with a jab.

Emlek shoots in and scores a nice double leg takedown into half guard.
Emlek throwing shots but Zhou is blocking nicely.
Zhou is looking to control Emlek's leg but it's slowly edging free. Can Zhou avoid being mounted?
Emlek thows a huge punch but Zhou dodges it nicely.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Zhou wants to improve his position but Emlek is controlling well.
Emlek missing with some ground and pound from the half guard.
Zhou is trying to get back to full guard.
Emlek could do with losing a few pounds - he looks very soft around the mid section, to put it politely.
Emlek throwing punches and elbows but they're not doing any damage.
Zhou keeping his head moving to avoid the ground and pound.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Zhou is looking to regain full guard. Not this time though.
Emlek thows a huge punch but Zhou dodges it nicely.
Zhou has no desire to be mounted, so is trying to control. Emlek is working away from the top position though.
Emlek thows a wild elbow that connects with the canvas.
Zhou blocking the ground and pound attempt from Emlek.
Emlek throwing shots but Zhou is blocking nicely.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Zhou pushes Emlek off looking to stand but Emlek dives back in and keeps control.
Emlek lands with a punch from half guard.
Emlek has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
Emlek thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed Zhou's head.
Emlek missing with some ground and pound from the half guard.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Emlek not landing any meaningful shots this time.
Zhou is looking to control Emlek's leg but it's slowly edging free. Can Zhou avoid being mounted?
Zhou looks like he's trying to stand up.
Zhou blocking the ground and pound attempt from Emlek.
Emlek throwing shots but they're hitting the canvas more than the man.
Emlek thows a huge punch but Zhou dodges it nicely.
Emlek is working hard to pass the guard. He's done it - he's now in full mount! Trouble for Zhou!
Emlek unloads with some shots from mount but Zhou bucks and avoids them well.
Emlek loads up on a couple of big shots to the head that have Zhou scrambling to escape. He can't get free though and several more unanswered shots from Emlek land to the head. The referee has no choice but to stop the fight. Emlek stands and salutes the crowd.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:18 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Ramazan Emlek!
A loyal slave to those sponsorship dollars, Ramazan Emlek made sure he mentioned Nuclear Fight Gear, along with how happy he was to win his fight.