PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Bas Dekkers (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jacob Koch (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Dekkers comes to the cage accompanied by Shells - Get your roll on. These two fighters really are very evenly matched on the feet - it will be fascinating to see who can assert themselves in that aspect of the fight.

Dekkers
vs
Koch

167 cm
27
155 lbs
9 - 5 - 0

170 cm
30
149 lbs
22 - 15 - 0

Good wrestling
World class MT
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
World class MT
Granite chin

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 1 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 9 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Bas Dekkers!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 22 - 15 - 0, fighting out of London, Jacob Koch!
The judges for this bout are Frank Antenori, Jack Bonds and .

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Koch lands a nice looking body shot.
Dekkers misses with a wild body shot.
Dekkers ducks under an overhand right and circles away with a smile on his face.
Dekkers swung with a counter right hand that didn't connect.
Koch swings for the body but Dekkers moves out of range.
Koch throws a hook but Dekkers blocks it.
Nice defenses there by Dekkers.
Dekkers is looking to counter with a body kick.
Koch thows a left - swing and a miss!
Dekkers swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Koch on the wrong end of a nice jab.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Nice uppercut there from Koch.
Koch lands a powerful looking uppercut that connected with his opponent's jaw.
Good leg kick by Koch there. It's the ones that make that thud noise that hurt and that was an almighty thud.
Koch scores with a crisp jab that stopped Dekkers in his tracks.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Koch throws a low kick, looking for Dekkers's leg but Dekkers calmly moves out of range.
Koch is looking to chop away at Dekkers's legs.
Dekkers feinted there with a counter leg kick.
Koch keeps his opponent at a distance with a nice jab.
Dekkers jabs at Koch's body.
Koch 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.
Donk. Koch catches Dekkers right on the button with a cross.
Koch lands a body shot.
Dekkers tries to check a leg kick but that clearly hurt him.
Dekkers slips a jab from Koch.
Dekkers appears to be looking for a big counter.
Koch moves out of range as Dekkers throws a body kick.
Dekkers keeping at a good range here, avoiding a leg kick.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

Dekkers closes the distance and pushes Koch back into the cage.
Koch blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.

Koch breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Dekkers shakes his hands off, looking to compose himself, but takes a jab to the jaw whilst he does it.
Koch lands with a hook. Dekkers tried to avoid it but it clipped the top of his head.
Koch throws an uppercut from half a mile away. Dekkers sees it coming and avoids it easily.
Dekkers tries to clinch there but Koch circles away.
Koch misses with a hook. Dekkers ducked under it nicely.
Koch fakes with the hands and throws a leg kick but Dekkers is out of range.
Koch misses with an uppercut. Dekkers saw that one coming.
Dekkers on the wrong end of a vicious looking body shot.
Koch tests Dekkers's chin there with a solid looking shot.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Koch tries to score with a leg kick but it misses it's target.
Koch buckles his opponent's knee momentarily with a nice leg kick.
Koch loads up on a big right hand but Dekkers slips the punch.
Dekkers walks into a jab.
Dekkers keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Koch throws the left hand but Dekkers avoids the punch easily.

Dekkers closes the distance and presses his opponent up against the cage.
Koch misses with some punches.
Koch misses with a hook to the ribs.
Some stalling of biblical proportions here from Dekkers.
Koch lands on the inside with an uppercut.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Dekkers.
Dekkers lands a good knee to the midsection. Koch won't want to take too many of those.
Dekkers putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has Koch in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Koch has had enough of the clinch but Dekkers keeps him there for the moment.
Koch takes an elbow to the forehead.
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!
A head punch on the inside from Koch fails to land.
Koch avoiding damage as Dekkers throws knees to the body.
Dekkers trying to land knees to the body.
A nice left hand lands by Koch.
Koch scores with a shot to the side of Dekkers's head.
Koch working aggressively here.
A left hand lands to the body for Koch.
Koch scores with a shoulder strike.
Koch swings wildly with an uppercut but Dekkers uses good head movement to avoid it.
Koch swings wildly with an uppercut but Dekkers uses good head movement to avoid it.
Dekkers prevents a body shot from Koch.
Koch makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Koch misses with a punch on the inside.
Koch is trying to break free.

That's five minutes gone in the round.
Dekkers tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Dekkers tries to land a knee to the head but Koch blocks with his arms.
Koch lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Dekkers tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Koch avoids it.
A nice right hand lands inside from Dekkers.
Dekkers blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Koch struggles to land a body shot inside as Dekkers controls his hands.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Koch.
Dekkers swings wildly with an uppercut but Koch uses good head movement to avoid it.
Koch tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Dekkers's elbow.
Koch misses with the head strike.
Koch blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.

Koch breaks the clinch.
Koch throws a body shot but no joy.
Dekkers slips under a jab.
Dekkers tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.

That's six minutes gone in the round.
A decent looking cross lands there for Koch.
Dekkers is looking to clinch.
Koch throws a lazy uppercut
and Dekkers counters with a nice leg kick.
Koch cracks Dekkers with a nice right hand that draws applause from the crowd.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Koch throws a jab when Dekkers was well out of range.
Koch paws at his opponent with the jab and then lunges in with a straight, right on the button.
Koch digs a good hook to Dekkers's body.
Jacob Koch seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Koch lands a jab to the nose.
Dekkers wants to clinch up but Koch keeps it at a distance.
A shot to the body from Koch misses
and Dekkers counters with a leg kick that reverborates around the arena.
Koch lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Dekkers circles away quickly and effectively.

That's seven minutes gone in the round.
Dekkers is looking to clinch but Koch is avoiding it.
Koch looks like he wants to counter punch here.
Koch circles away from the clinch attempt
and Koch counters with a shot to the ribs. That looked like it hurt.
Koch throws a poor cross that misses
and Dekkers counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.
Koch swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Dekkers is looking to clinch but Koch is avoiding it.
Dekkers tries to clinch there but Koch circles away.
Koch keeps the fight on the outside.
Koch lands three nice shots there - that looked like it hurt!

That's eight minutes gone in the round.
Koch lands with an overhand left.
Koch jabs Dekkers right on the nose. Dekkers blinks but takes it well.
Koch wants to slow Dekkers down by chopping away at his legs.
Koch chopping away at his opponent's legs.
Koch lands a pitter patter jab to the forehead of his opponent.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Koch throws a body shot but no joy.
Dekkers is looking to clinch.
Dekkers is looking to clinch.

Dekkers clinches with his opponent.
Koch avoids the elbow strike from Dekkers, against the cage.
Koch avoiding damage as Dekkers throws knees to the body.
Koch is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.

That's nine minutes gone in the round.
Dekkers lands a body shot in the clinch.
A short body shot lands from Koch as the two fighters clinch.
Dekkers tries to stall but Koch uses the opportunity to gain a better position.
Koch misses with a body punch.
Dekkers dictating the pace here, as the fighters clinch against the cage.
Koch softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Dekkers with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Dekkers manages to get underhooks and slows down the pace for a moment.
Good body shot from Koch.

The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily.
Koch escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Koch throws a right high kick that is partially blocked by Dekkers.
Koch scores with a nice head shot.
Koch misses with a low kick as Dekkers jumps back.

And that's the end of the fight!
Jacob Koch comfortably won the final round on my scorecard.
I think Koch has won this one but let's see whether the judges agree with me. Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1 round of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Frank Antenori scores the fight 9:10
Judge Jack Bonds scores the fight 9:10
Judge Percy O'Donnell scores the fight 9:10

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Jacob Koch!
Jacob Koch spent the whole post fight interview bigging himself up. It didn't go down that well with the fans after a while as they thought it was a bit arrogant.