PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Ajax Athanas (ranked 368 p4p, 8 weight class) and Jared Williams (ranked 1908 p4p, 58 weight class). Athanas comes to the cage accompanied by Avatar-Torn Apart. Both these guys have solid standup skills and neither is particularly fantastic on the ground, so let's hope for a nice standup war!

Athanas
vs
Williams

210 cm
23
300 lbs
11 - 1 - 0

198 cm
29
297 lbs
5 - 3 - 0

Decent wrestler
Excellent boxer
Cardio machine

Decent wrestler
Decent boxing
Granite chin

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the super heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 11 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Ajax Athanas!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 3 - 0, fighting out of London, Jared Williams!
The judges for this bout are Arvi Lind, Tarja Halkonen and Anni Minnemäki.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Athanas ducks down and throws a hook to the body.
Williams has been working on his striking defense in training and it's paying off as Athanas is landing a low percentage of strikes.
Jared Williams seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Williams on the wrong end of a nice jab.
Left hook, right uppercut from Williams.
Athanas throws a nice inside leg kick.
Williams moves out of range as Athanas strikes.
Athanas has been talking about how he's improved his wrestling in the run up to the fight so let's see if that's enough to sway the balance.
Williams takes an uppercut right on the jaw but it doesn't phase him.
Athanas throws a couple of head shots and lands with the final one - a decent hook, which struck Williams on the side of the head.
A head kick misses from Williams.
Williams walks into a jab.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Williams fails to land with a series of punches.
Williams takes a jab on the nose. He smiles like he loves it and keeps coming.
Williams keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Athanas is using his height advantage well here, landing a good percentage of his punches.
Williams walks into a stiff left hand from Athanas.
Athanas looks to land a combination but Williams avoids it well.
Athanas feints with a shoulder and throws a nice leg kick to Williams's calf.
Athanas avoids a kick to the body.
Williams displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Athanas throws out the jab.
Williams misses with a jab, cross combination.
Williams lands a jab-cross combination.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Athanas throws a right and a left that both miss.
Athanas lands with a nice body punch.
Athanas stooping low to avoid any incoming strikes and then lunges in with an uppercut come cross that lands flush.
Athanas fakes a jab and scores with a low kick.
Athanas jabs. That one connects to the head of his opponent.
Williams throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Athanas.
It looked like Athanas was trying to counter with a body shot coming off that last attack from Williams.
Athanas feints with a shoulder and throws a nice leg kick to Williams's calf.
Williams misses with a jab, cross combination.
Williams takes a shot to the eye socket. That's gotta hurt.
Athanas is the aggressor but that punch slipped nicely by Williams.
Athanas throws out a loose jab but Williams uses good head movement to avoid it.
Danga de danga de dang - Williams scores with a four punch combination!
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Athanas fakes with the hands and throws a leg kick but Williams is out of range.
Athanas is really peppering his opponent's head with punches.
Athanas throws a wild combination but nothing lands.
Some wild striking there from Williams.
An attempted straight right counter from Athanas misses the target.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
An inside leg kick lands from Athanas.
Williams looking to land some kicks to the body here.
Athanas misses the shot to the body.
Williams will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Williams throws a series of punches but Athanas avoids them all with ease.
Athanas tried to counter with a leg kick but Williams avoided it.
Nice defenses there by Williams.
Williams is looking for the big counter here.
Athanas changes levels and scores with a jab to the body.
Williams looks winded!
A kick lands to the mid section there for Athanas.
Athanas throws a series of punches but Williams moves out of range.
Williams is looking for the big counter here.
A nice inside leg kick there by Athanas. That's going to slow Williams down.
That kick from Athanas tenderised Williams's leg. Williams is trying to keep his angry face on.
Williams swinging wildly here.
A big left from Athanas misses.
Athanas stooping low to avoid any incoming strikes and then lunges in with an uppercut come cross that lands flush.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Athanas dodges the punch combination from Williams.
Athanas feints a straight left to the body, then turns around with a flashy move and hits Williamss jaw with a dramatic spinning back fist!
Athanas dips to his left and cracks Williams with an uppercut!

It looks like Jared Williams has been cut.

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

Williams is rocked!
Athanas lands a leg kick and bounces back out of range.
Williams gets clipped by a big right hand and goes down spinning to the canvas! Athanas gets the back mount and begins to drop bombs on his rocked foe! Williams is too out of it to defend against the strikes and the referee jumps in to save him from the beatdown!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:34 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Ajax Athanas!
Ajax Athanas retains his super heavyweight title!
After winning the bout, Ajax Athanas thanked all his fans and promised he'd do even better in his next fight. The crowd seemed to love his humility.