PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight kickboxing rules bout between Jon Lewis St Clair (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jason Eckstein (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). St Clair comes to the ring accompanied by Ready to Die. Well, I have no idea who's going to take this one!

Lewis St Clair
vs
Eckstein

193 cm
26
216 lbs
11 - 4 - 0

196 cm
25
212 lbs
12 - 5 - 0

World class boxer
Insanely flexible

World class MT
Granite chin

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 11 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Jon Lewis St Clair!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 12 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Jason Eckstein!
The judges for this bout are Shigeki Sano, Kenichi Hosakawa and Shirou Masuda.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
St Clair fails to land with a series of punches.
St Clair misses with a combination
and Eckstein counters with a leg kick that reverborates around the arena.
St Clair tries a head kick but it misses.
Eckstein fakes a jab and scores with a low kick.
Eckstein has been working on his striking defense in training and it's paying off as St Clair is landing a low percentage of strikes.
Eckstein lands with a thumping leg kick.
Good leg kick by Eckstein there. It's the ones that make that thud noise that hurt and that was an almighty thud.
St Clair has been working on his boxing with his coaches at ♛ Team Fight Club™ in the buildup to the fight.
Eckstein throws a leg kick which misses St Clair's front leg but catches the back leg as St Clair tries to avoid it.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
St Clair fails to land with a series of punches.
Eckstein misses with a two punch combination.
St Clair goes for a spinning back kick but it misses.
Eckstein with a jab.
St Clair lands the left hand.
St Clair has his hands up protecting his head but a hook from Eckstein finds it's way round the side to connect with St Clair's head.

It looks like Jon Lewis St Clair has been cut.
Eckstein fakes a jab and throws a low kick but St Clair checks it well.
Eckstein throws a series of punches but St Clair avoids them all with ease.

That's one minute gone in the round.
St Clair gets cracked with a nice right hand there by Eckstein.
Eckstein lands a beauty of a right hand that gets the crowd cheering.
Eckstein throws a front kick aimed at St Clair's knee but St Clair avoids it well.
Eckstein throws a jab, cross combination which is slipped
and St Clair counters with a solid body kick.
St Clair sizes up Eckstein with a pawing jab and scores with a straight right down the middle.
St Clair scores with a nice right hand.
Ouch! a nice leg kick from Eckstein, right into the meat.
This has been an exciting period of action!
St Clair tries to land a front kick but Eckstein steps back. That was a bit too telegraphed.
No joy there for Eckstein, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
St Clair connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there.
Eckstein misses with a body shot.
St Clair takes a body kick right on the floating rib. Ouchie.
St Clair moves out of range as Eckstein throws a body kick.
St Clair listening to his corner there, landing a nice uppercut.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
St Clair misses the shot to the body.
St Clair slips in close and lands a nice hook before moving back out of range.
Eckstein throws a head kick that misses.
St Clair misses with a body kick.
St Clair pivots as if he's going to throw a leg kick but stops half way.
A slapping leg kick lands for St Clair.
Eckstein throws a head kick that misses.
Eckstein misses with a hook
and St Clair counters with a nice body kick.
Eckstein on the wrong end of a nice jab.
Eckstein is the aggressor but that punch slipped nicely by St Clair.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
A head kick misses from Eckstein.
Eckstein shuffles to his left behind two crisp jabs. St Clair eats them both and turns towards Eckstein to reposition himself and eats a stinging right hand-left hook combo.
Eckstein throws a lazy uppercut
and he gets countered with a snapping leg kick.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

That was a close round but I would say that Jon Lewis St Clair will probably get the nod.
The cut man is working on Jon Lewis St Clair's cut.
Well, the break between rounds is over. Let's get back to the scrappin!

Eckstein with poor footwork there. He got himself in a bit of a tangle, enabling St Clair to score with a decent uppercut.
St Clair throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Eckstein scores with a shot to the body.
Eckstein throws a head kick but St Clair moves out of range.
St Clair misses with a body shot.
A punch combination from St Clair misses.
Eckstein lands a leg kick that knocks St Clair off balance momentarily.
St Clair avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Eckstein throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.
Eckstein waving his hands out in front of him, looking to distract St Clair.
St Clair uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from Eckstein.
St Clair walks straight into an uppercut. Luckily it didn't land flush.
St Clair goes for a spinning back kick but it misses.
Nice defenses there by St Clair.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Eckstein feints and then cracks St Clair's leading leg with a nice low kick. He's obviously looking to slow St Clair down.
Eckstein fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
St Clair is hobbling a little on that front leg after taking quite a few leg kicks so far in this fight.
Eckstein thows a body shot but no joy.
St Clair lands a nice leg kick that just misses Eckstein's sensitive parts.
Eckstein misses with a body kick.
Eckstein throws a front kick that sends St Clair stumbling back into the ropes.
Eckstein pushes forward with a 1-2 combination that forces St Clair back to the ropes. Eckstein follows up with a solid lead hook to the liver.
Jason Eckstein seems to be getting the better of the standup.
Eckstein throws a wild combination but nothing lands.
Eckstein takes a really solid shot there but just smiles back and shrugs his shoulders.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Eckstein throws the kick towards the body but St Clair avoids it.
St Clair goes for a spinning back kick but it misses.
St Clair throws a leg kick but Eckstein moved away.
Eckstein throws a good cross that connects.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
St Clair throws a series of strikes that have Eckstein backpedaling.
Eckstein gets off balance looking for a body kick
and St Clair counters with a nice jab to the body that keeps Eckstein thinking.
A telegraphed right hand from Eckstein misses the target.
St Clair throws a half hearted mid kick.
Eckstein misses with a lunging right hand
and St Clair counters with a big right hook, that lands right on the temple! Eckstein goes down! St Clair rushes to a neutral corner to get the count going quickly. This one's going to be close! 3,4,5,6,7... Eckstein is up to one knee.... 8,9....10! He didn't make it! This fight is over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:25 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punch). Jon Lewis St Clair!
Jon Lewis St Clair thanked the fans post fight for their support.