PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Zack Porter (ranked 25439 p4p, 0 weight class) and Yushin Sakuraba (ranked 6289 p4p, 0 weight class). Well, I have no idea who's going to take this one!

Porter
vs
Sakuraba

171 cm
24
215 lbs
0 - 4 - 0

185 cm
25
223 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter fighter
Cuts easily

Good wrestler
Brawler
Very confident

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Zack Porter!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Yushin Sakuraba!
The judges for this bout are Ben Watson, Darius Henderson and Winston Howard.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Sakuraba instigates a clinch.
Porter tries to pull guard but Sakuraba holds him up against the cage and eventually Porter drops back down to his feet.
Sakuraba lands a nice shot to the body.
Sakuraba lands a left hand that snaps the head of Porter backwards.

It looks like Zack Porter has been cut.
Porter jumps guard but his hands slip and he falls flat on his back. Well, he's made himself look a right mug there, as Sakuraba walks away with a smile on his face. Porter gets slowly back to his feet and shakes his head.

The fight moves into the clinch position.
Sakuraba lands a body shot.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Sakuraba.
A short right from Sakuraba.
Porter fails to pull guard.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Zack Porter. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Still in the clinch, Sakuraba scores with a nice short uppercut.
Sakuraba working some nice short punches in the clinch.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Good body shot from Sakuraba.
Porter is breathing heavily.
A right hand to the body from Sakuraba.
Sakuraba lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.

Porter is rocked!
Porter really is a fat lump.
Porter is trying to pull guard but Sakuraba turns him against the cage and we stay in the clinch.
Oh Porter is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Sakuraba has a couple of punches blocked by Porter.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Sakuraba.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Sakuraba swings wildly with an uppercut but Porter uses good head movement to avoid it.
Sakuraba misses with the head strike.
Sakuraba fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Sakuraba lands a hook to the body. It's hard to tell if that hurt Porter or not.
Sakuraba has a couple of punches blocked by Porter.
Sakuraba working aggressively here.
Porter blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Porter.
Sakuraba misses with a punch on the inside.
Sakuraba misses with the head strike.
Porter blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Sakuraba lands a nice shot to the body.
Sakuraba fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Porter.
Porter seems to have got his legs back now.
Sakuraba lands an uppercut in the clinch that drops Porter to his knees! Sakuraba keeps firing more shots against his stricken opponent and the referee jumps in to save him!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:27 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Yushin Sakuraba!