PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Renato Sanches (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Vangelis Kokkalis (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Sanches's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, Breaking Benjamin - Ordinary Man . Kokkalis has chosen Promises - Nero ft. Skrillex as his entrance music. Renato Sanches is staring across the cage at his opponent, tweaking his nipples... Tweaking his own nipples that is.

Sanches
vs
Kokkalis

192 cm
31
291 lbs
26 - 11 - 0

190 cm
28
245 lbs
17 - 4 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Cardio machine

Olympic wrestler
World class MT
Good gas tank

Project Mayhem

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 26 - 11 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Renato Sanches!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 17 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Vangelis Kokkalis!
The judges for this bout are Yasuomi Hirokawa, Kenichi Hosakawa and Yuuki Gou.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Sanches with a body punch. A glancing blow.
Kokkalis catches Sanches with a nice straight right. He seems pissed - ooooh, it's on now! On like donkey kong!
Kokkalis just misses with a punch to the body.
Kokkalis throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Sanches throws a sloppy head kick
letting Kokkalis counter with a right hand.
That's a knee to de groin and it's over and out! Sanches crumples to the ground after an illegal strike from Kokkalis - the referee stops the clock and Sanches gets 5 minutes to recover from that one. "I'm sorry" says Kokkalis. Sanches manages to get back to his feet and the fight resumes.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Kokkalis ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Sanches moves away.
Kokkalis throws the kick towards the body but Sanches avoids it.
A clash of legs there as Sanches blocks the low kick.
That kick from Kokkalis tenderised Sanches's leg. Sanches is trying to keep his angry face on.
Kokkalis avoids the head kick by Sanches.
Sanches ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Kokkalis moves away.
Kokkalis throws a head kick that misses.
Sanches scores with a sloppy punch to the body. Not much technique there but it did the business.
Sanches scores with a sloppy right hand. Kokkalis should have avoided that one.
Sanches misses with a looping right.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Kokkalis bobs and weaves and then throws a good body kick.
Kokkalis uses good footwork to get in and out and land a nice right hand before Sanches has time to react.
Kokkalis swings for the body but Sanches moves out of range.
Sanches misses the shot to the body.
Oooooooooooh, not good. A low kick from Sanches lands where it shouldn't have, right in the... well, you know what he did? He kicked him in the penis. He's injured, injured bad. The referee sends both fighters to their corners and Kokkalis has 5 minutes to recover. He's OK now though... a thumbs up from Kokkalis and we're back underway with a touch of gloves.
Kokkalis keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Sanches scores with a big left there. The judges will like that one.
Sanches is looking to wear down Kokkalis with body shots, infact he's throwing more body shots than head shots at the moment.
Sanches misses with a jab, cross combination.

Kokkalis fakes an overhand right and shoots for a takedown. Sanches sprawls well initially but Kokkalis persists and gets the takedown into half guard.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Kokkalis looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Sanches with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
Kokkalis thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed Sanches's head.
Kokkalis wants to lay and pray for a moment but Sanches keeps working.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Sanches trying to control from the bottom.
Kokkalis throws a strike but Sanches avoids it easily and moves to full guard.
Kokkalis is working Sanches over from the guard. He should look to pass the guard and do a little more damage with these strikes.
Kokkalis slows down the pace of the fight for a moment. He'll need to remain active if he doesn't want to see the fight stood back up.
Sanches is trying to hold Kokkalis in close to prevent damage but Kokkalis has managed to pass into half guard.
Kokkalis takes advantage of the dominant position to land a couple of big hammer fists.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Sanches is trying to get back to full guard.
Sanches keeping his head moving to avoid the ground and pound.
Kokkalis not landing any meaningful shots this time.
Kokkalis throwing punches and elbows but they're not doing any damage.
Kokkalis is looking to take a break and control but Sanches is keeping him honest, looking to work from the bottom.
Kokkalis stalling away here and it's allowed Sanches to slip out his trapped foot and regain full guard.
Sanches trying to keep a closed guard but Kokkalis is proving a slippery customer.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily.
Kokkalis trying to land body shots but he keeps hitting the mat.
Sanches has Kokkalis pulled in close to control his posture.
Kokkalis wants to control from the top but Sanches keeps moving.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Vangelis Kokkalis dominated that round.
The corners get their ten second warning. Both fighters stand from their stools and stare eachother down, ready to get back to the action.

Sanches lands with a nice body punch.
Sanches misses with a wild body shot.
Kokkalis throws a nice inside leg kick.
Sanches scores with a sloppy right hand. Kokkalis should have avoided that one.
Kokkalis throws a leg kick but Sanches moved away.
Sanches missing with a left hand there. Kokkalis was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
Kokkalis misses with a low kick.
Kokkalis throws a good cross that connects.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
That kick from Kokkalis tenderised Sanches's leg. Sanches is trying to keep his angry face on.
Kokkalis fails to land with a series of punches.
Sanches walks into a left hand.
Kokkalis thuds a left hand into Sanches's body.
Kokkalis lands three nice shots there - that looked like it hurt!
Kokkalis takes a thudding leg kick, right into the meat of the thigh.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Kokkalis feints a straight left to the body, then turns around with a flashy move and hits Sanchess jaw with a dramatic spinning back fist!

Sanches is rocked!
The step up in weight doesn't seem to be a problem for Kokkalis. He's performing admirably here against the bigger man.
Kokkalis measures up his opponent and throws a superman punch that connects to the jaw! Down goes Sanches! The ref steps in, and that's the ball game folks!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:13 of round 2, we have a winner by way of KO (Superman Punch). Vangelis Kokkalis!
Vangelis Kokkalis is the new heavyweight champion!
A very excited looking Vangelis Kokkalis made sure he remembered to thank all the fans both in the arena and on the internet. He said all the coolest people spend all day on MMA websites, which got a big reaction.