PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between David Kyle (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Meguru Takayanagi (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Chooooooooon! I think Kyle might be my favorite fighter, now he's come out to Big Booty Woman. Takayanagi has chosen All Rounder Meguru as his entrance music. Meguru Takayanagi struggled to make weight for this fight. He only made it down to 146.6lbs at the first attempt and had to take the additional two hours to make the official bout weight. Let's see how much it's taken out of him. There are an array of beautiful celebrities at ringside tonight! I wonder if any of them paid for their tickets.

Kyle
vs
Takayanagi

179 cm
38
155 lbs
29 - 18 - 0

171 cm
30
160 lbs
9 - 7 - 0

Good wrestling
Lethal high kicks
Insanely flexible

Excellent grappler
Excellent MT
Fast

REAR NAKED CHOKE NUTRITION

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 29 - 18 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, David Kyle!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 9 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Meguru Takayanagi!
The judges for this bout are Kenichi Hosakawa, Yukihiro Yamamoto and Shigeki Fujiwara.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Takayanagi throws a head kick that looked like it stung.
Kyle avoids the body shot from Takayanagi.
Takayanagi lands a head kick. Kyle smiles back at him and beckons him forward.

Kyle closes the distance and clinches.
A short right from Kyle.
Kyle swings wildly with an uppercut but Takayanagi uses good head movement to avoid it.

Kyle breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Kyle lands a nice looking body shot.
Takayanagi fakes a couple of low kicks, before throwing one on the third attempt. It connects and Kyle has to reset his feet before getting ready to engage.
Kyle swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Takayanagi lets it all go there with a big combo counter but none of the punches connected.
Takayanagi tries to work over Kyle's front leg with a kick but Kyle checks it.
Kyle tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Takayanagi was well out of range. Poor timing from Kyle.
Kyle backing away here, and Takayanagi unleashes a leg kick that just misses.
Kyle connects with a jab.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.

Takayanagi manages to get an easy takedown there - catching Kyle on his heels. He'll look to pass Kyle's guard now, I'm sure.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Kyle trying to control the position here.

Takayanagi is holding a leg here, probably looking for an ankle lock - he drops back and goes for it! Kyle is in trouble! Is it all over??? No! Kyle has escaped and now he's on top!

Kyle has been talking about how he's improved his wrestling in the run up to the fight so let's see if that's enough to sway the balance.

Takayanagi had isolated an arm as going for a kimura. Kyle defends it easily.
Kyle lands a nice shot whilst sitting in his opponent's guard.

Takayanagi has a loose triangle. He'll be looking to tighten that up but Kyle can see exactly what he's planning and manages to posture up and free himself.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Takayanagi keeping moving, preventing Kyle from controlling successfully.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Kyle missing there with some ground and pound from the guard.
Kyle distracts Takayanagi with his right hand and drops a big elbow with his other arm.
Takayanagi tries to land a sweep but no joy.
Kyle passes Takayanagi's left leg - he's now in half guard.
Kyle is keen to just control but Takayanagi is a slippery customer.
Kyle lands strikes from half guard.

Takayanagi looking for submissions from an awkward position here.
Nice strikes from Kyle there.
Kyle lands a big shot. The thud that echoes around the arena is like music to the fans' ears.
The referee walks around the fighters to get a better view of the action. Kyle lands a nice short elbow.
The fighters are going at a pretty good pace and they're both starting to sweat now.
Kyle takes advantage of the dominant position to land a couple of big hammer fists.

Kyle is looking for an arm triangle, whilst trying to pass to side control. Takayanagi doesn't seem that keen to cooperate though. No luck this time Kyle.

Kyle is working for submissions here but there's nothing on.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Kyle lands a big shot. The thud that echoes around the arena is like music to the fans' ears.

Takayanagi looking for submissions from an awkward position here.
Takayanagi has hold of Kyle's hands but Kyle slips his arm to the side and lands an elbow.
Kyle working some ground and pound from close in. He's looking to maintain this position and strike for a while by the looks of things... although he'll probably advance to full mount in a minute now I've said that.
Takayanagi manages to get to full guard.
Takayanagi looking to control.
Kyle lands a couple of elbows.
Kyle stands up over Takayanagi, holding his feet. He dives back in and lands a decent shot to the head.
Takayanagi keeping moving, preventing Kyle from controlling successfully.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Kyle is pushing down on Takayanagi's leg trying to pass to half guard. Takayanagi is fighting to maintain full guard but Kyle has managed to sneak the leg through.
Kyle not throwing his punches with enough precision this time.
Takayanagi on the receiving end of some nice ground and pound.
Kyle is keen to just control but Takayanagi is a slippery customer.
Takayanagi has hold of Kyle's hands but Kyle slips his arm to the side and lands an elbow.

Takayanagi is rocked!

Kyle is working for submissions here but there's nothing on.
Takayanagi is still in real trouble! Can Kyle finish him?
Kyle lands a big elbow - Takayanagi is out of it! He's waving his arms around but his eyes are closed and he's not intelligently defending himself - the ref has no choice but to jump in and stop the fight! This one is in the books! A TKO win for Kyle!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:51 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). David Kyle!
David Kyle took to the microphone after his victory and thanked his sponsors, REAR NAKED CHOKE NUTRITION for their support in the buildup to the fight.