PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a super heavyweight kickboxing rules bout between Artem Irhin (ranked 4136 p4p, 84 weight class) and Big J Smiles (ranked 4859 p4p, 99 weight class). Smiles has chosen Smile Like You Mean It as his entrance music. There are an array of beautiful celebrities at ringside tonight! I wonder if any of them paid for their tickets.

Irhin
vs
J Smiles

180 cm
35
198 lbs
16 - 17 - 0

198 cm
37
197 lbs
19 - 29 - 0

World class boxer
Cardio machine

World class MT
Heavy handed

Pit Bull Development
Sin City Allstars

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the super heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 16 - 17 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Artem Irhin!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 19 - 29 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Big J Smiles!
The judges for this bout are Saam Ante, Nard Betker and Paul Aken.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Smiles rushes Irhin and presses him up against the ropes.
Irhin fails to land with a short punch on the inside.

Irhin breaks the clinch.
Smiles avoids a punch combination nicely.

Smiles moves into the clinch successfully.
Irhin looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Smiles throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Irhin blocks it with crossed arms.
Smiles keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Irhin's efforts to push away.
A short right from Irhin on the inside.
Irhin managing to block the knees to the body from Smiles.
Smiles tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Irhin struggles to land a body shot inside as Smiles controls his hands.
Irhin scores with a shoulder strike.
Smiles is trying to maintain a safe position but Irhin gets an underhook and turns Smiles into the ropes.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Irhin.
Smiles keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Irhin's efforts to push away.
Smiles looks more muscular than last time we saw him. He must have been on the weights.
Irhin avoiding damage as Smiles throws knees to the body.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Irhin misses with a short punch on the inside.
Irhin avoiding damage as Smiles throws knees to the body.
Nice body punch from Irhin - that landed with a thud.
Irhin swings wildly with an uppercut but Smiles uses good head movement to avoid it.

Irhin breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Smiles wants to clinch.
Smiles tries to clinch but Irhin is having none of it.
Irhin swung with a counter right hand that didn't connect.
Smiles is looking to clinch but Irhin is avoiding it.
Irhin swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.

Smiles instigates a clinch.

Irhin's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Nice defenses there by Smiles.
Smiles moves in looking to clinch but Irhin pushes him off.

Irhin gets tackled into the ropes by Smiles. Smiles maintains the clinch.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Irhin swings wildly with an uppercut but Smiles uses good head movement to avoid it.
Smiles landing some nice looking knees to the body.
Smiles misses with a knee to the head.
A nice left hand lands by Irhin.
Irhin wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Smiles lands a hook that snaps the head of Irhin backwards.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Irhin working aggressively here.

Irhin pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Irhin gets cracked with a nice right hand there by Smiles.
A slow jab from Irhin misses its intended target.
Smiles closes the distance looking to clinch
and Irhin connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
Smiles doesn't manage to clinch there - Irhin circles away.
Smiles fails in his attempt to clinch.
Smiles tries to clinch but Irhin moves away
and Irhin counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Artem Irhin dominated that round.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action.

Smiles tries to clinch up
and Irhin counters with a straight punch to the midsection.

Irhin gets tackled into the ropes by Smiles. Smiles maintains the clinch.
Smiles keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Irhin's efforts to push away.
Smiles tries to land a knee to the head but Irhin blocks with his arms.
Smiles blocks an uppercut.
Smiles lands a knee to the head.
Irhin tries to work over Smiles's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Irhin lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
Still in the clinch, Smiles scores with a nice short uppercut.
Irhin is looking to break free of the clinch but Smiles has double underhooks.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Irhin tries to break free but Smiles pushes him back against the ropes.
Irhin lands on the inside with an uppercut.

Irhin breaks from the clinch.
Irhin cracks Smiles with a perfect right hand that drops him to the mat! Smiles is sitting up but I can't see if he's OK from my position. The referee's count has reached 5,6,7 and Smiles is still not up. Can he make it? 8,9,10! He's out! Smiles could not beat the count!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:57 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punch). Artem Irhin!
Artem Irhin bigged himself up after the win. The crowd seemed to love it.