PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Lukas Daiva (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Hilel Swonto (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Chooooooooon! I think Daiva might be my favorite fighter, now he's come out to The Rasmus - The Fight. Swonto has a niggling injury. He would have liked to come in 100% fit but that's not always possible. These two fighters really are very evenly matched on the feet - it will be fascinating to see who can assert themselves in that aspect of the fight.

Daiva
vs
Swonto

183 cm
23
189 lbs
2 - 7 - 0

185 cm
19
185 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Good knees
KO power

BJJ White Belt
Basic striking
Very confident

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 2 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Lukas Daiva!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Hilel Swonto!
The judges for this bout are Hirohito Nitta, Yuuki Gou and Shigeki Sano.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Swonto darts in and clinches Daiva up against the cage.
Daiva avoiding damage as Swonto throws knees to the body.
Daiva avoids the elbow strike from Swonto, against the cage.
Swonto lands a nice knee to the body.

Swonto escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Daiva closes the distance but Swonto moves to the side

and Swonto moves into the clinch.
Swonto looks gassed!
Swonto gets through Daiva's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Daiva trying to land knees to the body.
Daiva missing with knees to the body.
Swonto with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Daiva landing knees to the body.
Daiva missing with knees to the body.
Daiva managing to block the knees to the body from Swonto.
Swonto managing to block the knees to the body from Daiva.
Swonto avoiding damage as Daiva throws knees to the body.
Swonto tries to work over Daiva's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Swonto lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Daiva connects with a nasty looking knee right to Swonto's face.

It looks like Hilel Swonto has been cut.
Swonto tries a knee to the head but Daiva blocks it.
Swonto avoiding damage as Daiva throws knees to the body.

Daiva manages to break the clinch.
Daiva looks to clinch

and Swonto moves into the clinch.
Swonto looking to throw knees to the head but Daiva is blocking nicely.
Daiva pushes Swonto back against the cage and unloads with a body punch.
Daiva landing knees to the body.
Swonto takes a knee right on the jaw!

Swonto is rocked!
Daiva using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Swonto is still on wobbly legs! Can Daiva finish him?
Daiva unloads a knee to the mid-section. Swonto lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Knees to the body from Daiva.
Daiva lands a knee to the body.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Daiva creates some distance for himselfand unleashes a massive uppercut that sends Swonto's eyes rolling into the back of his head! Swonto drops to his knees and Daiva pours it on with more strikes until the referee steps in to end the bout!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:12 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Lukas Daiva!