PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Abaka Khan (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Calvin McCork (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Both fighter's entrance songs getting the crowd jumping here.

Khan
vs
McCork

172 cm
26
182 lbs
15 - 10 - 1

172 cm
35
183 lbs
11 - 16 - 1

BJJ Purple Belt
Great elbows
Cardio machine

Powerful takedowns
Excellent boxer
Powerful

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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 15 - 10 - 1, fighting out of Montreal, Abaka Khan!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 11 - 16 - 1, fighting out of New York, Calvin McCork!
The judges for this bout are Anthony Taglia, Dean Styles and Chad Campbell.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Khan tries to close the distance and clinch up but McCork swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Khan tries to clinch but McCork is having none of it.

Khan closes the distance and clinches.
Khan connects with a knee to the head.
Khan lands an elbow inside.
Khan creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through McCork's defenses.
Khan lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Khan crunches a lovely knee into McCork's ribcage.
Khan missing with knees to the body.
Khan lands an elbow just above McCork 's eye.
McCork has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.

McCork breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.

Khan rushes McCork and pushes him back against the cage in a clinch.
Khan blocks an uppercut.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
McCork misses with a punch to the body.
Khan scores a nice knee to the body.
Khan putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has McCork in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body.
McCork looks winded!
McCork wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Khan lands a knee to the body.
Khan utilising his Muay Thai to score with a knee to the body.
McCork takes an elbow to the forehead.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Khan landing knees to the body.
Khan lands a damaging elbow.
McCork takes a knee to the side of the body.
Khan lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. Khan obliges.
Khan scores with a knee to the head.
Khan lands a nice elbow.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Khan lands an elbow inside that McCork shrugs off.
McCork takes a knee right on the jaw!
Khan unloads a knee to the mid-section.
Khan creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through McCork's defenses.
Khan lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
The referee is keeping an eye on Khan - much more stalling and he will separate the fighters.
McCork takes a knee right on the jaw!
Some stalling of biblical proportions here from Khan.
McCork tries to work over Khan's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Nice elbow from Khan.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
A bit of stalling here from Khan.
McCork wants to stall.
Khan connects with a knee to the head.
Khan lands a nice knee to the body.
McCork looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Khan just leaning against McCork, taking a breather.
Khan lands a knee to the body.
Khan lands an elbow just above McCork 's eye.
Khan crunches a lovely knee into McCork's ribcage.
Khan scores with a shot to the side of McCork's head.
Khan is working McCork over against the cage.
Khan lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Khan controlling the action here for a moment.
Khan is trying to wear down his opponent with knees to the body.
Khan lands a knee to the body.
Khan lands a knee to the head.

It looks like Calvin McCork has been cut.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
The two fighters are working to gain dominance in the clinch.
The crowd are getting pretty annoyed with Khan for his constant stalling in the clinch and are voicing their displeasure.
Khan lands a nice elbow.
McCork is working for a takedown up against the cage. He can't get it on this occasion though.
Khan landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
Khan lands an elbow that stopped McCork in his tracks for a moment.
Khan lands a knee to the head.
Khan lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Knees to the body from Khan.
Khan scores with a knee to the head.
McCork takes an elbow to the forehead.
McCork takes a knee right on the jaw!
This has been an exciting period of action!
Khan lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
McCork takes an elbow to the forehead.
Khan unloads a knee to the mid-section.
A knee to the head by Khan.

McCork is rocked!
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for McCork.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
McCork misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Khan lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of McCork backwards.
Khan lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
McCork is still on wobbly legs! Can Khan finish him?
Khan landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
Khan unloads a knee to the mid-section. McCork lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Khan using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
McCork seems to have recovered his senses.
Khan lands a body shot in the clinch.
Khan landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
Khan lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
McCork takes a knee to the side of the body.
Knees in the clinch landing for Khan.
Khan scores with a knee to the head.
Khan lands an uppercut.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Khan putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has McCork in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body.
Khan unloads a knee to the mid-section.
McCork swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Khan with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Abaka Khan dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Calvin McCork's cut.
OK. That's time! The bell goes and we're back to the action.

McCork circles away from the clinch attempt.
McCork has been working on his striking defense in training and it's paying off as Khan is landing a low percentage of strikes.
McCork throws a body punch but Khan moves out of range.
McCork throws a looping left and ducks down for a takedown. He's got his arms around Khan's waist but Khan gets an underhook and avoids the takedown by throwing McCork off to one side.
Nice body kick there by Khan.

Khan pushes McCork up against the cage in a clinch.
The referee calls for Khan to work.
Khan creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through McCork's defenses.
Khan is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that McCork can do to turn this around?
Khan comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Khan lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Khan unloads a knee to the mid-section. McCork lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Nice elbow from Khan.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Khan landing knees to the body.
Khan lands a nice knee to the body.
Khan landing knees to the head.
Khan lands an elbow inside.
McCork is breathing heavily.
Khan unloads a knee to the mid-section.
McCork takes an elbow to the temple.
Abaka Khan has scored more points in the clinch so far.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Khan unloads a knee to the mid-section.
Knees in the clinch landing for Khan.
A knee to the head by Khan.
Khan creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through McCork's defenses.
Khan lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Khan has McCork pressed up against the cage in a tight Thai clinch. McCork is arching his back, trying to avoid the knees but a big one sneaks through from Khan - that's hurt McCork badly! Oh, another knee lands and McCork is covering up! The referee steps in to save him - possibly a bit early but McCork doesn't seem to be complaining.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:27 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Knees). Abaka Khan!
Abaka Khan decided to thank the fans in attendance for making a great atmosphere. It seemed to go down pretty well.