PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between John Conteh (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Viacheslav Datsik (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Conteh
vs
Datsik

183 cm
35
208 lbs
27 - 10 - 1

188 cm
40
212 lbs
38 - 21 - 0

Great wrestler
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
World class MT
Good gas tank

Spartan Nutrition

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, for the light heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 27 - 10 - 1, fighting out of St Petersburg, John Conteh!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 38 - 21 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Viacheslav Datsik!
The judges for this bout are Ryoma Takatsuka, Colin Fray and Josh West.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Datsik throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.
Datsik misses with an uppercut
and Conteh counters with a good right hand that lands right on the jaw.

Datsik clinches.
Conteh stalling against the cage.
Conteh lands with a short punch from the clinch.
Datsik swings wildly with an uppercut but Conteh uses good head movement to avoid it.
Datsik blocking some punches.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Datsik.
Datsik is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Conteh is defending well for now.
Datsik misses with an elbow over the top.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Conteh blocking some punches.
Conteh has Datsik pressed against the cage.
Datsik tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Conteh avoids it.
Datsik softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Datsik throws an elbow that misses.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Conteh misses with a hook from the clinch.
Conteh blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Datsik lands a left hand.
Conteh is trying to slow down the pace in the clinch, to catch his breath.
Conteh tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Conteh scores with a shot to the side of Datsik's head.
Conteh blocks an uppercut.
Conteh misses with the head strike.
Conteh blocking some punches.
Datsik blocks a body shot from Conteh.
I was talking to Conteh's coach per-fight and he was telling me that they'd been working on the clinch in the runup to this fight.
Datsik misses with a short punch on the inside.
Datsik throws an elbow but it's blocked.
Conteh swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Datsik blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Datsik pushes off an throws an elbow but Conteh leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Conteh softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Datsik gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Conteh wants to stall.
Datsik can't find room to land a body shot as Conteh controls the action.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Conteh lands a body punch in the clinch.
Conteh digs a right hand into Datsik's ribs. Those have got to be taking their toll on Datsik's gas tank.
Datsik throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Datsik misses with the head strike.
Conteh avoids a wild elbow strike from Datsik.
Conteh tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Datsik tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Conteh lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
Datsik misses with an elbow strike.
Datsik takes a shot to the head.
Conteh working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Conteh stalling in the clinch.
Conteh lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of Datsik backwards.
Datsik tries to work over Conteh's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Conteh has a couple of punches blocked by Datsik.
Conteh is stalling here. The referee will be looking to step in if he doesn't pick up the pace.
Conteh tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Datsik's elbow.
Conteh avoiding damage.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Conteh.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Datsik misses with a short punch on the inside.
Datsik throws a punch but it's blocked by Conteh.
Conteh tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Conteh misses with a hook from the clinch.
Conteh misses with a short punch on the inside.
Conteh blocks an uppercut.
Datsik can't find room to land a body shot as Conteh controls the action.
Conteh lands a hook to the side of the head.
Datsik lands a damaging elbow.
Conteh throws a punch but it's blocked by Datsik.
Datsik has a couple of punches blocked by Conteh.
Conteh lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
Conteh lands with a left to the head.

Datsik is rocked!
Conteh creates a bit of space for himself and rocks Datsik with a big uppercut! Datsik tries to clinch up but Conteh pushes him back against the cage and lands another monster strike that crumples Datsik to the mat! Datsik covers up and Conteh unloads with more strikes until the referee steps in to end the bout!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:51 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punches). John Conteh!
John Conteh retains his light heavyweight title!
After the fight, John Conteh was humble in paying tribute to his opponent but made it clear he wants to go on to bigger and better things. It seemed to go down well with the crowd who cheered him loudly.