PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight kickboxing rules bout between Ben Townsley (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Yuta Yamashita (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the ring.

Townsley
vs
Yamashita

183 cm
33
205 lbs
5 - 17 - 0

183 cm
26
205 lbs
8 - 12 - 0

Excellent boxer
Granite chin

Good kicks
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 5 - 17 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Ben Townsley!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 8 - 12 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Yuta Yamashita!
The judges for this bout are Gwen Towbar, George Francis and Robert Twigg.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Townsley pushes Yamashita up against the ropes in a clinch.
Yamashita tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Townsley blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Yamashita has a couple of punches blocked by Townsley.
Townsley blocking some punches.

Yamashita manages to break the clinch.
Yamashita keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Townsley avoids the body shot from Yamashita.
Townsley throws a big counter combination but Yamashita scrambles out of danger and avoids any damage.
Yuta Yamashita seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Yamashita digs a good hook to Townsley's body.
Yamashita misses with a body punch
and Townsley counters with a two punch combo.
A swing and a miss from Yamashita.
A swing and a miss from Yamashita.

Townsley darts in and clinches Yamashita up against the ropes.
Townsley blocking some punches.
Townsley has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.
A hook to the body from Townsley.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Townsley wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Townsley holding his opponent close, against the ropes.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Yamashita tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Yamashita misses with the head strike.
Yamashita makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
A frustrated look appears on Townsley's face as he tries to break the clinch.
Yamashita blocks a body shot from Townsley.
Yamashita tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Yamashita keeps control of Townsley as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Townsley wants to break the clinch but can't.
Townsley working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Yamashita fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
A left hand lands to the body for Townsley.
Townsley taking a break, stalling in the clinch.
Yamashita swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Townsley leaning his opponent against the ropes.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Yamashita swings wildly with an uppercut but Townsley uses good head movement to avoid it.

Townsley escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Yamashita misses with a hook. Townsley ducked under it nicely.
Yamashita throws a jab, cross combination which is slipped

and Townsley holds on and brings the fighters into a clinch.

Townsley breaks from the clinch.
Townsley throws a shot to the body.
Townsley moves away from the strike by Yamashita.
Yamashita showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Townsley.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Yamashita swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Townsley scores with a jab to the body.

Townsley moves into range and clinches up with Yamashita.
Townsley wants to get back to striking at distance but Yamashita won't allow it.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Townsley breaks from the clinch.
Townsley lands an overhand left. A wild punch that just about connected.
Yamashita throws an ugly left hook that misses
and Townsley counters with a stiff right hand.
Townsley misses with a jab, cross combination.
Yamashita scores with a punch to the gut of his opponent.
Yamashita pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
Yamashita throws a jab to the body, straight down the pipe. Boom. That sent Townsley stumbling backwards but he manages to regain his composure quickly.
Yamashita misses with a series of wild punches.
Left hook, right uppercut from Townsley.
Townsley slips under a jab.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Yamashita scores with a one two! Townsley had his feet all tangled up there and couldn't avoid the strikes.
Yamashita drops his hands and takes a jab to the jaw for his troubles.
Yamashita misses with a wild body shot.
As Yamashita tries to get set, Townsley tries to push him back and clinch up but Yamashita manages to avoid the attempt.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

Townsley rushes Yamashita and pushes him back against the ropes in a clinch.
Townsley pushes Yamashita back against the ropes and unloads with a body punch.

Townsley breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Townsley connects with a nice looking jab.
This fight brought to you by 5M nutrition - it's mmmmm tasty. Nice jab by Yamashita.
Townsley uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from Yamashita.
Yamashita misses with a straight right.
Townsley went nuts there looking for a big combo counter but none of the flurry connected.
Townsley misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Townsley uses good footwork to get in and out, landing a nice hook.

Townsley clinches up with Yamashita and pushes him back against the ropes.
Townsley controlling the action here for a moment.
Yamashita misses with a body punch.

That's five minutes gone in the round.
Townsley lands a shoulder strike.
Townsley stalling here - the referee won't stand for too much of that.
Townsley dictating the pace here, as the fighters clinch against the ropes.
Yamashita has a couple of punches blocked by Townsley.
Townsley goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Yamashita can't find room to land a body shot as Townsley controls the action.
Yamashita misses with a shot to the kidneys.

Townsley breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Townsley misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Yamashita.
Yamashita throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Yamashita takes a hook to the side of the head. I wonder if that's got his ears ringing.
This fight brought to you by 5M nutrition - it's mmmmm tasty. Nice jab by Yamashita.

Townsley instigates a clinch.

That's six minutes gone in the round.
Townsley wants to break free but Yamashita has control.
Townsley working some nice short punches in the clinch.
Yamashita misses with some punches.
Yamashita fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Yamashita.
The pace slowing considerably in the clinch, as Townsley takes a break from that fighting nonsense to think about the finer things in life.
Townsley can't break the clinch.
Townsley is stalling here.
Townsley blocking some punches.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Townsley doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Yamashita misses with the head strike.

Yamashita's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Townsley keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.

That's seven minutes gone in the round.
Townsley lands a two punch combo.
Yamashita lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Townsley circles away quickly and effectively.
Townsley dodges the punch combination from Yamashita.
Townsley seemed to be looking to counter by closing the distance.
Yamashita throws a couple of head shots and lands with the final one - a decent hook, which struck Townsley on the side of the head.
Yamashita just misses with a punch to the body.
Townsley scores to the head and body with a nice combination!
Townsley's corner calls for a 1-2. Townsley obliges with the 1 part as he scores the single shot and moves back out of range.
Yamashita throws a poor cross that misses
and Townsley counters with a nice uppercut.

Yamashita is rocked!
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Townsley uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Yamashita.
Townsley throws a big counter combination but Yamashita scrambles out of danger and avoids any damage.
Yamashita is still on wobbly legs! Can Townsley finish him?
Yamashita avoids a punch combination nicely.
Yamashita walks straight into devastating uppercut and drops to the floor, clearly wobbled! Can he beat the count? 4,5,6,7... he's up! And he's down again! The ref steps in and calls an end to the fight! What a punch that was!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 7:55 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punch). Ben Townsley!