PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Aleksey Zulughanov (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Vinny Tamaso (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Zulughanov comes into the arena with Kid Cudi - Zone blaring out of the sound system. Tamaso has chosen Comin to your city as his entrance music. The atmosphere really building for this one as we go over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Zulughanov
vs
Tamaso

193 cm
19
251 lbs
3 - 0 - 0

194 cm
19
248 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

Decent wrestler
Excellent boxer
Granite chin

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Powerful

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Aleksey Zulughanov!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Vinny Tamaso!
The judges for this bout are Yuuki Gou, Yukihiro Yamamoto and Taro Takaoka.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Zulughanov wants to clinch up but Tamaso keeps it at a distance.
A swing and a miss from Tamaso.

Zulughanov closes the distance and clinches.
Zulughanov misses with a punch on the inside.
Zulughanov softening up his opponent with strikes, against the ropes.
Zulughanov misses with some punches.
Tamaso takes a shot to the head.
Zulughanov trying to stall but Tamaso improves his position.
Zulughanov scores with an uppercut up the middle.
Zulughanov swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Tamaso goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Zulughanov can't find room to land a body shot as Tamaso controls the action.
Zulughanov lands a nice shot to the body.
Zulughanov blocks an uppercut.
Tamaso can't break the clinch.
Zulughanov gets through Tamaso's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Tamaso fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Tamaso's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
Zulughanov cracks Tamaso with a nice body shot.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Tamaso blocking some punches.
A nice right hand lands inside from Zulughanov.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Tamaso lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
Tamaso wants to break free but Zulughanov has control.
Tamaso is working hard here but doesn't seem to be able to control effectively, up against the ropes.
Zulughanov is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Tamaso is defending well for now.
Tamaso's coach down at Tōshi was telling us pre-fight that they have been working on Tamaso's balance. Obviously they view that as a key factor in the outcome of this fight.
A right hand to the body from Tamaso.
Tamaso is leaning against Zulughanov and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.
Tamaso lands a right hand.
Zulughanov is pushing Tamaso up against the ropes, for a bit of lean and pray action. Action being used the in the loosest possible sense of the word.
Zulughanov lands a body shot in the clinch.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Zulughanov just leaning against Tamaso, taking a breather.
Tamaso lands a left hand.
Zulughanov lands an elbow inside that Tamaso shrugs off.
Zulughanov throws an elbow but it's blocked.
A bit of stalling here from Zulughanov.
A nice left hand lands by Tamaso.
Zulughanov takes a shot to the head.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Zulughanov lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Tamaso backwards.
Zulughanov prevents a body shot from Tamaso.
Tamaso is trying to slow down the pace of the fight but Zulughanov is keeping busy.
Zulughanov lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Tamaso.
Tamaso is trying to maintain a safe position but Zulughanov gets an underhook and turns Tamaso into the ropes.
Tamaso fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Tamaso scores with a nice hook to the head.
Zulughanov is trying to slow down the pace of the fight but Tamaso is keeping busy.
Zulughanov lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Tamaso backwards.
Still in the clinch, Zulughanov scores with a nice short uppercut.
Zulughanov keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Tamaso's efforts to push away.
Zulughanov lands with a short head shot on the inside.
Tamaso doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Zulughanov lands a left hand that snaps the head of Tamaso backwards.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Zulughanov scores with an uppercut up the middle.
Zulughanov misses with some punches.
Tamaso goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Zulughanov scores with an uppercut up the middle.
Tamaso swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Tamaso throws a head punch that misses.
Zulughanov takes a shot to the head.
Zulughanov taking a breather.
Zulughanov lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of Tamaso backwards.
Zulughanov lands with a light punch inside.
Zulughanov stalls.
Zulughanov throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Tamasos head.
Zulughanov tries to land knees in the clinch but Tamaso avoids the damage to the body.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Tamaso can't find room to land a body shot as Zulughanov controls the action.
Tamaso taking a breather.
Tamaso lands with a light punch inside.
Zulughanov prevents a body shot from Tamaso.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Zulughanov lands with a short punch from the clinch.
Tamaso's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
Tamaso has a couple of punches blocked by Zulughanov.
Tamaso landing some nice looking knees to the body.
Zulughanov digs a right hand underneath Tamaso's ribcage. Tamaso let out a lung full of air as it connected.
Zulughanov scores with a shoulder strike.
Zulughanov blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Tamaso wants to break the clinch but can't.
Tamaso working aggressively here.
Tamaso trying to stall but Zulughanov improves his position.
Zulughanov has Tamaso pressed against the ropes, preventing Tamaso from circling away and getting back to striking at range.
Zulughanov throws a punch but it's blocked by Tamaso.
Tamaso goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Tamaso trying to control the position but instead, Zulughanov has worked for underhooks and has pushed Tamaso into the ropes.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Zulughanov pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the ropes.
Zulughanov lands a right hand that snaps the head of Tamaso backwards.
Tamaso misses with some punches.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Aleksey Zulughanov dominated that round.
Well, the break between rounds is over. Let's get back to the scrappin!

Zulughanov tries to clinch but Tamaso is having none of it.
Tamaso misses with a straight right.
A big right from Zulughanov misses.
A nice leg kick lands there from Zulughanov.
Zulughanov swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Tamaso walks straight into a jab right on the nose. That one stung - he's blinking and trying to clear his head.
Tamaso feints and then cracks Zulughanov's leading leg with a nice low kick. He's obviously looking to slow Zulughanov down.
Zulughanov is pinned up against the ropes taking some big shots here. The referee is looking closely deciding whether he should stop the fight.
Tamaso takes a shot right to the liver - Bas would have been proud of that punch.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
A swing and a miss from Zulughanov.
Tamaso cracks Zulughanov with an open hand slap.
Zulughanov lands a jab. Then a cross. Then finally a nice hook to the body. Good work there by Zulughanov.

It looks like Vinny Tamaso has been cut.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Tamaso lands a beauty of a right hand that gets the crowd cheering.
Tamaso looks to score with a jab to the body but Zulughanov is just out of range.
Zulughanov swings wildly with a hook that is half blocked by Tamaso.
Zulughanov throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Zulughanov dances in quickly and lands a nice inside leg kick on Tamaso. That did some damage!
Zulughanov takes a shot right to the bread basket.
Zulughanov wants to land a leg kick but Tamaso is out of range.
Tamaso lands a jab. Then a cross. Then finally a nice hook to the body. Good work there by Tamaso.
Zulughanov takes a body punch but keeps moving.
Zulughanov has not gone for a single takedown so far in this fight, which seems like a very strange tactic when you consider that he has the superior wrestling and BJJ.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Tamaso on the wrong end of a vicious looking body shot.
Tamaso staying out of range there.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Nice uppercut there from Zulughanov.
Zulughanov fails to land with a series of punches.
Zulughanov throws a wild combination but nothing lands.

Zulughanov darts in and clinches Tamaso up against the ropes.
Tamaso works for underhooks and lands a body shot in the process.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Zulughanov.
Zulughanov tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Zulughanov.
A short uppercut from Zulughanov.
Tamaso misses with some punches.
Tamaso is trying to stall.
A short right from Zulughanov.
Tamaso is trying to push Zulughanov away but Zulughanov has him pressed against the ropes, so he's going nowhere.
Zulughanov lands a left hand.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Zulughanov lands a body punch.
The pace slowing considerably in the clinch, as Zulughanov takes a break from that fighting nonsense to think about the finer things in life.
A hook to the body from Zulughanov.
Aleksey Zulughanov has scored more points in the clinch so far.
Tamaso is breathing heavily.
Tamaso lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
Zulughanov is trying to maintain a safe position but Tamaso gets an underhook and turns Zulughanov into the ropes.
Come on Zulughanov - let's have some action - none of this stalling nonsense.
Tamaso blocks an uppercut.
Zulughanov fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Zulughanov pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the ropes.
With the two fighters working up against the ropes, Zulughanov just misses with a elbow thrown towards Tamaso's brow.
A short uppercut from Zulughanov.
Tamaso's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Zulughanov pressing his opponent against the ropes.
Tamaso is trying to force a seperation but Zulughanov has the dominant position.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Zulughanov lands a hook to the side of the head.
Zulughanov avoiding damage as Tamaso throws knees to the body.
A short right hand to the side of the head by Tamaso.
Zulughanov lands with a short head shot on the inside.
Zulughanov lands an uppercut.
Tamaso lands with a short head shot on the inside.
Tamaso tries to throw a body punch but Zulughanov avoids it by throwing Tamaso back against the ropes.
Zulughanov has a couple of punches blocked by Tamaso.
Zulughanov lands a hook to the body. It's hard to tell if that hurt Tamaso or not.
Zulughanov lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.

Tamaso is rocked!
Zulughanov pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the ropes.
Tamaso is still on wobbly legs! Can Zulughanov finish him?
Zulughanov throws a big uppercut that drops Tamaso! More strikes from Zulughanov and the referee jumps in to stop the fight! Tamaso lies dazed against the ropes as Zulughanov celebrates with his cornermen!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:45 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Aleksey Zulughanov!
Aleksey Zulughanov bigged himself up after the win. The crowd seemed to love it.