PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight kickboxing rules bout between Rodrigo Duterte (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Abel Jacques (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Duterte comes to the cage accompanied by Tayo ay Dabawenyo. Well, the cameraman is lingering on a pretty young lady for a bit too long there. Keep your eyes on the prize buddy or you'll miss the fighter intros!

Duterte
vs
Jacques

179 cm
22
180 lbs
3 - 3 - 0

180 cm
24
170 lbs
0 - 3 - 0

Great elbows
Cardio machine

Great elbows
Determined

Maximum Vitality

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 3 - 0, fighting out of London, Rodrigo Duterte!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 3 - 0, fighting out of London, Abel Jacques!
The judges for this bout are Phil Schofield, Steven Brown and Sam Margolis.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Duterte takes the fight into the clinch.
Nice body punch from Duterte - that landed with a thud.
Jacques takes an elbow to the temple.
Duterte lands a body shot.
Duterte lands with a light punch inside.
A nice right hand lands inside from Duterte.
Jacques is trying to break free.
A right hand to the body from Duterte.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Duterte.
Duterte scores with an uppercut up the middle.
Jacques wants to break the clinch but can't.
Jacques misses with a short punch on the inside.
Duterte digs a right hand into Jacques's ribs. Those have got to be taking their toll on Jacques's gas tank.
Jacques looks winded!
Duterte lands a left hand.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
A head punch on the inside from Jacques fails to land.
Duterte lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
A right hand to the body from Duterte.
Duterte lands on the inside with an uppercut.
Jacques goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Duterte lands with a short head shot on the inside.
Duterte lands a knee to the body.
Jacques lands an elbow that stopped Duterte in his tracks for a moment.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Duterte lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Duterte digs a right hand into Jacques's ribs. Those have got to be taking their toll on Jacques's gas tank.
Duterte throws a hook to the body. More of an arm punch but it's all scoring with the judges.
Duterte lands a right hand that snaps the head of Jacques backwards.
Knees in the clinch landing for Duterte.
Duterte lands an elbow just above Jacques 's eye.
Duterte is working Jacques over against the cage.
I was talking to Duterte's coach per-fight and he was telling me that they'd been working on the clinch in the runup to this fight.
Duterte lands a body shot in the clinch.
Duterte landing knees to the head.

Jacques is rocked!
Duterte lands a knee to the body.
Jacques is still on wobbly legs! Can Duterte finish him?
Duterte cracks Jacques with a nice body shot.
Duterte unloads a knee to the mid-section. Jacques lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Duterte throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Jacquess head.
Duterte has his opponent in a tight Thai clinch and unloads with a massive knee that drops Jacques to the canvas! Can Jacques beat the count? 3,4,5,6 and he's up... is he? Yes, he's up! The referee is taking a long look at him and he's waved off the fight! He didn't think Jacques was in a fit state to continue so this fight is over! Duterte is your winner!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:48 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Knee). Rodrigo Duterte!