PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Raiymbek Batyr (ranked 3292 p4p, 165 weight class) and Pozar Pozar (ranked 3592 p4p, 181 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Pozar's choice of entrance music: z Buta Wjeżdzam. Man, I cannot wait for this one!

Batyr
vs
Pozar

173 cm
32
134 lbs
19 - 19 - 0

180 cm
38
142 lbs
26 - 37 - 0

Good wrestling
Great elbows
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
Excellent boxer
Fast

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RAGS of a RONIN

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the bantamweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 19 - 19 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Raiymbek Batyr!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 26 - 37 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Pozar Pozar!
The judges for this bout are Columbo Gatti, Jonathan Paton and Russell Pearce.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Batyr misses the shot to the body.
Batyr feints a jab promting Pozar to slip. Batyr then demonstrates his capabilities by jabbing again. Pozar slips again and ducks right into an uppercut.

It looks like Pozar Pozar has been cut.
A punch combination from Pozar misses.

Pozar closes the distance and presses his opponent up against the cage.
Batyr throws a head punch that misses.
Batyr is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Pozar is defending well for now.
Batyr gets through Pozar's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Batyr makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.

Batyr has clasped his hands together around Pozar's back... aaand, he's got a takedown into side control. Nicely done.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Batyr fails to land a wild elbow strike.
Batyr throwing strikes but missing, from side control.
Pozar parries the strikes from Batyr easily there. Batyr is wary of posturing up too much because it might enable Pozar to escape.
Batyr creates some space and throws a big elbow, but Pozar sees it coming and moves his head just enough to avoid the strike.
Pozar is a painfully thin specimen of a man. You do wonder whether a good body kick would snap him clean in two.
Batyr scores with a couple of nice shots to the head there. The referee takes a look at Pozar to see if he's OK.
Pozar is positioning himself to get back to half guard.

Batyr is trying to land an Americana. He has the arm isolated but Pozar is keeping cool and he's avoided the danger for now.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Batyr decides to stand up, so the ref orders Pozar to his feet.

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

Pozar is rocked!
Batyr grits his teeth and throws a big right-left combo! Pozar takes both shots clean on the chin and is out cold! Batyr cracks him once more on his way down, as the crowd goes wild! They enjoyed that one!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:28 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punches). Raiymbek Batyr!
Raiymbek Batyr decided to go for the less than humble approach in his post fight interview, telling everyone how he is going to conquer the world. The crowd seemed to like it when really that sort of approach could have gone either way.
Pozar Pozar was interviewed post fight and said 'Thanks my sponsors and all my fans!!!'.