PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Aaron Knight (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Mikael Eklund (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Mikael Eklund has the power to score a knockout today if he connects clean with Aaron Knight's chin.

Knight
vs
Eklund

185 cm
26
195 lbs
4 - 2 - 0

185 cm
26
200 lbs
3 - 1 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent boxer
Big heart

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Powerful

KO Clothing

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 4 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Aaron Knight!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Mikael Eklund!
The judges for this bout are Ron Honeybunn, Bruno Hogan and Skip Squint.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Knight gets tackled into the cage by Eklund. Eklund maintains the clinch.
Eklund creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Knight's defenses.
Eklund lands an elbow that stopped Knight in his tracks for a moment.
Eklund tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Knight avoids it.
Eklund scores a nice knee to the body.
Knight avoiding damage as Eklund throws knees to the body.
Eklund misses with a knee strike.
Knight blocks the elbow strike.
Eklund has Knight pressed against the cage, preventing Knight from circling away and getting back to striking at range.
A short right from Eklund.
Eklund tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Knight avoids it.
Eklund lands a nice elbow.
Eklund lands a knee to the head.
Eklund tries a body shot but Knight blocks it.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Knight wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Eklund has him pressed against the cage.
Eklund unloads a knee to the mid-section. Knight lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Knight wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Eklund looking to throw knees to the head but Knight is blocking nicely.
Eklund keeps control of Knight as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Knight avoids a wild elbow strike from Eklund.
Knight tries to break the clinch but Eklund is controlling the position.
Eklund lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Eklund misses with a knee strike.
Eklund creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Knight's defenses.
Knight takes a knee to the side of the body.
Knight blocking some punches.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Eklund lands an elbow inside.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Eklund using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Knight is breathing heavily.
Eklund crunches a lovely knee into Knight's ribcage.
Eklund landing knees to the head.
Eklund unloads a knee to the mid-section. Knight lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Eklund stalls.
Eklund tries to land knees in the clinch but Knight avoids the damage to the body.
Eklund creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Knight's defenses.
Eklund landing knees to the head.
A short left from Eklund.
Eklund lands a nice elbow.

It looks like Aaron Knight has been cut.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Eklund lands a damaging elbow.

Knight is rocked!
Eklund lands an elbow inside that Knight shrugs off.
Oh Knight is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Knees in the clinch landing for Eklund.
Eklund misses with a knee strike.
Knight seems to have got his legs back now.
Eklund creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Knight's defenses.
Eklund comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Eklund doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Eklund landing some nice looking knees to the body.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Eklund lands an elbow inside that Knight shrugs off.
Knees to the body from Eklund.
Eklund misses with a body punch.
Eklund scores a nice knee to the body.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Eklund lands a nice elbow.
Eklund lands a nice elbow.
Eklund lands an elbow that stopped Knight in his tracks for a moment.
Eklund unloads a knee to the mid-section. Knight lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Knight is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Eklund lands an elbow inside.
Eklund lands an elbow inside.

Eklund drops Knight with a big knee straight up the middle! Knight is covering up against the cage but manages to escape and gets back to his feet!
Knight walks right into a perfectly timed right hook and goes down hard! He's out cold! The ref cradles Knight limp body while Eklund jumps on to the cage and waves to the roaring crowd. Wow that was just a brutal knockout!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:50 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Mikael Eklund!
A very excited looking Mikael Eklund 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.