PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Dennis Padua (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Anton Hong (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Anton Hong has the power to score a knockout today if he connects clean with Dennis Padua's chin.

Padua
vs
Hong

200 cm
25
240 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

198 cm
26
265 lbs
3 - 3 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Solid boxing
Self confident

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Determined

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 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Dennis Padua!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Anton Hong!
The judges for this bout are Hirohito Nitta, Ren Mimura and Yuuki Gou.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
A punch combination from Padua misses.
Hong slips a jab and a cross from Padua.
Hong showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Padua.
Hong lands a leg kick. The shin dug right into the meat of the thigh.
Hong takes a jab on the nose there. A little bit of blood seems to be coming out. Hopefully that won't affect his breathing.
Hong slips a jab and a cross from Padua.
Padua misses with a double jab.
Padua scores with a nice looking left hook and follows it up with an uppercut!
Hong keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Padua misses with a series of wild punches.
Padua misses with a looping left.
Padua misses with a double jab.
Padua throws a combination but comes up with nothing but fresh air.
An inside leg kick lands from Hong.
Padua is breathing heavily.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Hong dances in quickly and lands a nice inside leg kick on Padua. That did some damage!
Hong feints and then cracks Padua's leading leg with a nice low kick. He's obviously looking to slow Padua down.

Hong takes the fight into the clinch.
Hong lands a nice knee to the body.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Hong connects with a knee to the head.
Hong throws a knee to the head but misses.
Hong doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Hong scores with a knee to the head.
Hong landing some nice looking knees to the body.
Hong tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Hong tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Hong unloads a knee to the mid-section.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Hong misses with a knee strike.
Padua blocks a body shot from Hong.
Hong stalls.
Hong keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Padua's efforts to push away.
Padua looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Hong lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Hong misses with a punch to the body.
Hong scores with a knee to the head.
Hong leaning against his opponent.
Hong goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Hong misses with a hook to the ribs.
Hong unloads a knee to the mid-section.
A body shot lands from Hong.

Hong breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Look low, kick high! Hong uses the oldest trick in the book to send Padua tumbling to the canvas, in a truly brutal knockout! Hong is absolutely delighted - when Padua wakes up, I doubt he'll be quite so happy!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:34 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Head Kick). Anton Hong!