PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Manuel La Bor (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jacek Krakowiak (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). La Bor comes to the cage accompanied by Centuries. Krakowiak is bobbing his head along to his entrance song: O.S.T.R & Kasta - Dzis ide walczyc mamo. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

La Bor
vs
Krakowiak

179 cm
24
154 lbs
13 - 2 - 2

171 cm
23
143 lbs
10 - 1 - 0

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Cardio machine

Good wrestler
Lethal high kicks
Heavy handed

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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 13 - 2 - 2, fighting out of New York, Manuel La Bor!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 10 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Jacek Krakowiak!
The judges for this bout are John Roberts, Jorge Garcia and Russell Pearce.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
La Bor swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Krakowiak swings away with a counter right hand but no contact made.
La Bor throws the left hand but Krakowiak avoids the punch easily.
Krakowiak has been spending a lot of time sparring his boxing in the run up to the fight, trying to sharpen up those hands and look for a knockout.
La Bor swings and misses with a hook to the body.
La Bor swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Krakowiak throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.
Krakowiak explodes with a nice body kick and back out of range. Nice work.
La Bor throws an ugly left hook that misses
and Krakowiak counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.
The fighters circling - Krakowiak throws out the jab but it was never going to land.
Krakowiak blocks a low kick nicely.
La Bor keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Krakowiak.
La Bor looks to have improved his striking defense since last time we saw him fight.
Krakowiak blocks a low kick nicely.
La Bor throws out a token jab with nothing on it.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
La Bor uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Krakowiak.
Krakowiak just manages to avoid a counter high kick fromLa Bor.
Krakowiak chopping away at his opponent's legs.
La Bor with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
Nice shot lands for Krakowiak.
A jab lands there for Krakowiak.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Krakowiak scoring well with a low kick there.

That's one minute gone in the round.
La Bor misses with a looping left.
Krakowiak looks to score with a jab to the body but La Bor is just out of range.
Krakowiak lands with a cross to side of his opponent's head.
La Bor ducks under a wild hook from Krakowiak.
Krakowiak throws a body shot but no joy.

Krakowiak closes the distance and pushes La Bor back into the cage.

Krakowiak breaks from the clinch.
La Bor takes a shot right to the liver - Bas would have been proud of that punch.
Krakowiak wants to land a leg kick but La Bor is out of range.
La Bor is looking to chop away at Krakowiak's legs.
La Bor blocks the body kick.
La Bor misses with a looping left.
Krakowiak misses with a straight right.
A little feinted left hand from La Bor on the counter but he doesn't commit to it.
Krakowiak drops his hands momentarily and La Bor takes advantage with a crisp shot to the head.
La Bor misses with a lunging right hand
and Krakowiak counters with a good right hand that lands right on the jaw.
La Bor misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
La Bor swings for the body but Krakowiak moves out of range.
Krakowiak throws out a counter right but La Bor avoids it with no problem.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
La Bor throws the kick towards the body but Krakowiak avoids it.
La Bor misses with a looping right.
Krakowiak appears to be waiting to throw a counter punch to the body.
La Bor takes a jab on the nose there. A little bit of blood seems to be coming out. Hopefully that won't affect his breathing.
Krakowiak takes one on the chin but keeps coming.
La Bor takes a step back and watches a body kick go sailing past his mid section.
La Bor on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
Krakowiak motions for La Bor to come forward. Krakowiak throws a leg kick but it misses it's target.
La Bor lands a nice looking body shot.
The fighters circling - La Bor throws out the jab but it was never going to land.
Krakowiak lands with a nice combination. La Bor backs away looking to recover.
La Bor moves into range and connects with a jab.
Krakowiak lands a nice looking body kick.
Krakowiak throws a decent looking leg kick but it doesn't land clean.
Krakowiak takes a shot to the nose. Hopefully that hasn't broken it.
Krakowiak ducks under a wild hook from La Bor.
La Bor loads up on a big right hand but Krakowiak slips the punch.
Krakowiak gets his head snapped back by a nice shot there.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
La Bor tries to score with an inside leg kick but telegraphs it and Krakowiak is able to avoid easily.
Krakowiak moves out of range of the leg kick from La Bor.
Krakowiak keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from La Bor.
La Bor drops his hands and takes a jab to the jaw for his troubles.
La Bor closes the distance and takes a jab right on the nose as he does so.
Krakowiak connects with a leg kick. La Bor looked like he was expecting something else and didn't defend it.
La Bor on the wrong end of an overhand right that came out of nowhere.
La Bor shapes like he's going to throw a leg kick but settles back down.
Krakowiak checks a low kick from La Bor.
La Bor throws an uppercut from half a mile away. Krakowiak sees it coming and avoids it easily.
Krakowiak moves into range and throws a combination. A nice jab followed by a hook to the body.
Krakowiak on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
La Bor looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Krakowiak throws a hook but La Bor blocks it.
It looked like La Bor wanted to counter with a hook but didn't fully commit.
Krakowiak looks to land a left hand but La Bor moved out of range nicely.
It looked like La Bor wanted to counter with a hook but didn't fully commit.
La Bor takes one on the button.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
La Bor throws out a token jab with nothing on it.
Krakowiak is clearly trying to counter these attacks from La Bor with a body shot.
A slow jab from La Bor misses its intended target.
Krakowiak is landing a lot of head punches in this opening round! La Bor had better start moving his head a bit unless he wants his face to turn into pâté.
Krakowiak uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from La Bor.
Krakowiak throws out a powerful jab.
Nice straight punches there by Krakowiak. You know Roy Jones Jr respects the hands of Krakowiak.
Nice jab there from La Bor.
Krakowiak tries to score with a leg kick but it misses it's target.
A slow jab from Krakowiak misses its intended target.
La Bor tries to score with a leg kick but it misses it's target.
Krakowiak throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
La Bor avoids the body shot from Krakowiak.
Krakowiak uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from La Bor.
Krakowiak fails in his attempt to clinch.
The crowd applaud the fighters' efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Nice body kick from Krakowiak.
Krakowiak connects with a hook to the side of his opponent's head.
Krakowiak throws a nice inside leg kick.
Krakowiak keeping at a good range here, avoiding a leg kick.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Jacek Krakowiak dominated that round.
The fighters get back to their feet, the hooter sounds and we're back to the action!

Ouch! a nice leg kick from Krakowiak, right into the meat.
La Bor takes a step towards his opponent and connects with a left hand, before circling away.
La Bor changes levels and scores with a jab to the body.
Krakowiak lands a leg kick and bounces back out of range.
Krakowiak ducks right into an uppercut from La Bor.
La Bor throws a looping overhand right but Krakowiak ducks down to avoid it.
Krakowiak takes a swing at La Bor's ribcage but misses.
La Bor throws a leg kick
and Krakowiak counters with a low kick, right behind La Bor 's knee.
Krakowiak lands with a hook. La Bor tried to avoid it but it clipped the top of his head.
Krakowiak darts in and out, connecting with a jab.
Krakowiak scores with a leg kick.
Krakowiak connects with a single shot there.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
La Bor misses with a looping right.
A chopping leg kick lands by Krakowiak.
Nice straight punches there by La Bor. You know Roy Jones Jr respects the hands of La Bor.
La Bor swats away the attempt to clinch by Krakowiak.

That's one minute gone in the round.
La Bor misses with a low kick.
And an attempted straight right on the counter from Krakowiak! But no joy.
Krakowiak moves out of range of the body kick from La Bor.
Krakowiak feints a straight left to the body, then turns around with a flashy move and hits La Bors jaw with a dramatic spinning back fist!
La Bor has his hands up protecting his head but a hook from Krakowiak finds it's way round the side to connect with La Bor's head.
La Bor fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Decent striking displayed by Krakowiak there.
Krakowiak has been the more effective fighter overall so far.
Krakowiak finds nothing but air with that leg kick attempt.
Krakowiak jabbing away but nothing is landing.
La Bor misses with a looping left.

Krakowiak closes the distance and pushes La Bor back into the cage.
A body shot lands from La Bor.
La Bor is looking to break free of the clinch but Krakowiak has double underhooks.
La Bor scores with a shot to the side of Krakowiak's head.
Krakowiak misses with a punch on the inside.
La Bor lands with a light punch inside.
A right hook to the body lands for Krakowiak.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
La Bor digs a right hand into Krakowiak's ribs. Those have got to be taking their toll on Krakowiak's gas tank.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Krakowiak misses with the head strike.
Krakowiak goes for a body shot but it's blocked.

La Bor breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
La Bor tries to score with a leg kick but it misses it's target.
A bone on bone clash there as La Bor blocks the leg kick.
Nice uppercut lands for La Bor. That snapped Krakowiak's head back.
La Bor slips under a jab from Krakowiak.
Krakowiak is looking to slow La Bor down with leg kicks.
La Bor avoids the body shot from Krakowiak.
La Bor thinks about countering with a body kick.
Krakowiak misses with an uppercut.
Krakowiak throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.
Krakowiak throws a hook but La Bor avoids it easily.
La Bor was looking to counter that move with a punch but didn't quite pull the trigger.
La Bor pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
Krakowiak goes for a spinning back kick but it misses.
La Bor is looking for a counter combo.
Krakowiak throws a nice hook to the body that draws an oooh from the crowd.
Krakowiak throws a quick head kick that skims the top of La Bor's head.
Krakowiak tries to clinch but La Bor moves out of range.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
La Bor scores with a jab.
Krakowiak avoids the body shot from La Bor.
La Bor looks like he's developed a pretty tasty lump over his left eye. He'll need to avoid taking much more damage to that.
La Bor avoids the head kick by Krakowiak.
The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily.

La Bor lands a left and a right that send Krakowiak crashing to the mat, dazed. La Bor thinks about following him to the mat but decides to wave him back up to his feet!

Krakowiak is rocked!
Krakowiak moves away from the strike by La Bor.
Krakowiak is still on wobbly legs! Can La Bor finish him?
Krakowiak throws a body shot but no joy.
Thud! ouch! good body kick from Krakowiak - that will leave a mark!
La Bor with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
La Bor rushes in with a sloppy looking punch
and Krakowiak counters with a leg kick that reverborates around the arena.
Krakowiak seems to have recovered his senses.
La Bor takes one to the side of the head.
Krakowiak tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
A chopping leg kick lands by La Bor.
Crunch! Krakowiak slams his shin into La Bor's torso.
Krakowiak connects with a body shot.
La Bor misses with a body kick.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
La Bor tests Krakowiak's chin there with a solid looking shot.
La Bor swings and misses with a hook to the body.
A clash of legs there as Krakowiak blocks the low kick.
La Bor misses with a leg kick
and Krakowiak counters with a nice leg kick.
La Bor looking to throw a kick but he's pulled out of it.
It seemed like Krakowiak was going to counter with the hook but didn't fully commit to it.
Krakowiak motions for La Bor to come forward. Krakowiak throws a leg kick but it misses it's target.
La Bor swung with a counter right hand that didn't connect.
La Bor thows a leg kick but Krakowiak checks it
enabling Krakowiak to counter with a crisp jab.
A jab from Krakowiak misses.
Krakowiak scores with a kick to the midsection.
La Bor pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
La Bor takes a swing at Krakowiak's ribcage but misses.
La Bor tries to score with a leg kick but it misses it's target.
The crowd applaud the fighters' efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Krakowiak loads up on a big right hand but La Bor slips the punch.
A little feinted left hand from La Bor on the counter but he doesn't commit to it.
Krakowiak misses with a body kick.
La Bor walks forward, straight into a front kick from Krakowiak.
La Bor gets cracked with a nice right hand there by Krakowiak.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

A close second round but Jacek Krakowiak will probably get the nod - 10:9.
The fighters get back to their feet, the hooter sounds and we're back to the action! The crowd applaud as we get ready to start the final round!

La Bor misses with a hook.
La Bor misses with a low kick.
Krakowiak lands a jab to La Bor's midsection.
Krakowiak uses good footwork to get in and out, landing a nice hook.
La Bor will be looking to protect his midsection after taking some solid kicks to the body.
Krakowiak lands a kick to the ribs of his opponent. Nice work there - in and out in a flash.
La Bor swings and misses with a hook to the body.
La Bor pivots, looking for a leg kick but Krakowiak is out of range and La Bor settles back down.
Krakowiak wants to counter the offense by La Bor and move into the clinch position.
A big left from La Bor misses.
Nice uppercut there from Krakowiak.
La Bor fakes low and throws an overhand right that catches Krakowiak on the side of the head.
Krakowiak throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Krakowiak tests La Bor's chin there with a solid looking shot.
La Bor throws out a loose jab but Krakowiak uses good head movement to avoid it.
La Bor misses with a few strikes there.
Some bone on bone action there as Krakowiak checks a low kick. Luckily it wasn't a particularly hard one.
Krakowiak appeared to try and counter that last move with a leg kick.
La Bor walks into a stiff left hand from Krakowiak.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Krakowiak ducks under a wild hook from La Bor.
Krakowiak misses with a wild body shot.
Krakowiak pulls out of a head kick attempt.
It looked like La Bor wanted to counter with a hook but didn't fully commit.
Krakowiak swings widly with a right hand
and Krakowiak takes a counter punch right on the button for his troubles.
Krakowiak misses the shot to the body.
La Bor throws a head kick that connects with a bit of head and a bit of hand.
Jacek Krakowiak seems to be getting the better of the standup.
La Bor takes a shot to the eye socket. That's gotta hurt.
La Bor slips under a jab from Krakowiak.
La Bor walks into a left hand.
Krakowiak throws a leg kick which misses La Bor's front leg but catches the back leg as La Bor tries to avoid it.
La Bor steps to his left, right into the path of a big body kick from Krakowiak. That one must have hurt.
La Bor throws a shot from downtown. Krakowiak moves away and avoids it.
Jab, jab by Krakowiak - just one landing.
La Bor takes a hook to the side of the head. I wonder if that's got his ears ringing.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Krakowiak ducks under an overhand right and circles away with a smile on his face.
Krakowiak looked like he wanted to counter with a punch but didn't throw it.
La Bor takes a hook to the side of the head. I wonder if that's got his ears ringing.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
A head kick misses from Krakowiak.
Well, he's not going to score with shots like that. A lazy body kick attempt from La Bor.
La Bor ducks under an overhand right and circles away with a smile on his face.
Krakowiak avoids the body shot from La Bor.
Krakowiak throws a big counter head kick but La Bor avoids it with no problem.
A nice leg kick lands there from Krakowiak.
La Bor steps to the side to avoid the strikes from Krakowiak.
La Bor is looking to counter with a shot to the body.
La Bor takes a jab right on the kisser.
La Bor cracks Krakowiak with an open hand slap.
Krakowiak moves out of range of the strikes.
La Bor misses with an uppercut. Krakowiak saw that one coming.
Krakowiak throws a lazy head kick
and La Bor counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.
Krakowiak checks a leg kick.
La Bor takes a jab right on the kisser.
La Bor misses with a looping left.
La Bor misses with a kick to the body.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Krakowiak on the wrong end of a decent looking cross there.
Krakowiak tries to clinch but La Bor is having none of it.
Krakowiak tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but La Bor was well out of range. Poor timing from Krakowiak.
La Bor stumbles momentarily as he takes a strong leg kick from Krakowiak.
La Bor throws a big shot that misses.
Krakowiak looks to land a right hand but La Bor moved out of range.
La Bor throwing a counter right hand but Krakowiak manages to avoid it.
Krakowiak defending well as La Bor loads up on a big left hand.
La Bor misses with a two punch combination.
Krakowiak takes one to the chin there.
The fighters circling - La Bor throws out the jab but it was never going to land.
Krakowiak lands a leg kick that knocks La Bor off balance momentarily.
La Bor misses with a low kick.
La Bor throws a right hand that Krakowiak ducks under and follows up with a left that Krakowiak also avoids with ease.
Krakowiak throws a right and a left that La Bor avoids nicely.
La Bor misses with a double jab
and Krakowiak counters with a leg kick.
Manuel La Bor has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!

That's four minutes gone in the round.
La Bor gets his head snapped back by a nice shot there.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
La Bor swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
The sound of bone on bone echoes around the arena as Krakowiak checks a leg kick.
Jacek Krakowiak is fighting for a decision - hopefully he's judged it right and he's actually winning the fight.
Ouch! a nice leg kick from Krakowiak, right into the meat.
Krakowiak throws a leg kick which misses La Bor's front leg but catches the back leg as La Bor tries to avoid it.
Krakowiak lands with a nice low kick. That'll leave a bruise.
La Bor throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.
La Bor throws a hook to the side of Krakowiak's head but Krakowiak sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
Krakowiak throws a nice inside leg kick.
Krakowiak moves out of range of the body kick.
Krakowiak moves into range and lands a nice leg kick.
Krakowiak will need to close the distance a bit before he attacks - that leg kick was thrown from too far away.
La Bor pivots as if he's going to throw a leg kick but stops half way.
Krakowiak with a nice cross.

And that's the end of the fight!
Jacek Krakowiak comfortably won the final round on my scorecard.
Well Krakowiak has outworked and out performed his opponent in all aspects of the game today. He was simply too good and the decision should be no more than a formality. Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge John Roberts scores the fight 27:30
Judge Jorge Garcia scores the fight 27:30
Judge Russell Pearce scores the fight 27:30

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Jacek Krakowiak!
After winning the bout, Jacek Krakowiak thanked all his fans and promised he'd do even better in his next fight. The crowd seemed to love his humility.
The defeated Manuel La Bor had this to say: 'This IS frustrating, but the training that I have received in preparation for you, will be followed with more. Nice win and I salute you.'.