PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Haikiro Nikosowa (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Joey Cartona (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Haikiro Nikosowa has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Nikosowa
vs
Cartona

189 cm
22
203 lbs
2 - 1 - 0

184 cm
24
202 lbs
5 - 4 - 0

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Decent elbows
Cardio machine

BJJ Purple Belt
World class boxer
Good gas tank

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 2 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Haikiro Nikosowa!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 4 - 0, fighting out of New York, Joey Cartona!
The judges for this bout are Phil Schofield, William Gold and James Ackerman.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Nikosowa moves into the clinch.
Cartona lands with a right to the head.
Cartona pushes Nikosowa back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
I was talking to Nikosowa's coach per-fight and he was telling me that they'd been working on the clinch in the runup to this fight.
Cartona misses with some punches.
Cartona misses with a hook to the ribs.
Nikosowa misses with the head strike.
Nikosowa lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Cartona lands a nice uppercut.
Nikosowa creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Cartona's defenses.
Nikosowa swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Nikosowa scores with an uppercut up the middle.
Nikosowa lands a nice uppercut.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Cartona lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Cartona throws a punch but it's blocked by Nikosowa.
Cartona swings wildly with an uppercut but Nikosowa uses good head movement to avoid it.
Nikosowa effectively controlling the action here.
Nikosowa misses with a hook from the clinch.

Cartona breaks from the clinch.
Nikosowa darts in trying to clinch
and Cartona counters with a nice body shot.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Nikosowa looks to clinch
and Cartona counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.

It looks like Haikiro Nikosowa has been cut.

Cartona sends Nikosowa crashing to the mat with a devastating uppercut! Cartona is motioning to the referee to let Nikosowa up. He wants to try and finish this one on the feet!

Nikosowa is rocked!
Nikosowa tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Cartona paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Oh Nikosowa is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
We've been informed that Cartona has been sparring a lot of Muay Thai in the buildup to this fight so let's see if that has an impact on the result.
Nikosowa throws a left and a right that both miss
and Cartona counters with a big right hand! Oh Nikosowa is in trouble here! Cartona follows up with more strikes and that's it! The ref has stopped it!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:17 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Joey Cartona!