PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a super heavyweight kickboxing rules bout between Sagoya Nobonaga (ranked 4558 p4p, 103 weight class) and Wayde West (ranked 4769 p4p, 109 weight class). Nobonaga's entrance music is Kickboxer. A fine choice. West comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Sober kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! These two fighters really are very evenly matched on the feet - it will be fascinating to see who can assert themselves in that aspect of the fight.

Nobonaga
vs
West

188 cm
34
182 lbs
25 - 23 - 1

187 cm
37
168 lbs
27 - 24 - 0

World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Excellent MT
Good gas tank

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 25 - 23 - 1, fighting out of Los Angeles, Sagoya Nobonaga!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 27 - 24 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Wayde West!
The judges for this bout are Saam Ante, Nard Betker and Albert Achterberg.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
West misses with a double jab.
Nobonaga throws a head kick but West moves out of range.

Nobonaga gets a clinch.
West blocking some punches.
Nobonaga crunches a lovely knee into West's ribcage.
West is looking to control Nobonaga's arms but Nobonaga gets an underhook and turns him. Now West has his back to the ropes.
A short right hand to the side of the head by Nobonaga.
Nobonaga has a couple of punches blocked by West.
Knees in the clinch landing for Nobonaga.
West has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.
Nobonaga pushes off an throws an elbow but West leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the ropes.
Nobonaga avoiding damage as West throws knees to the body.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
The two fighters are working to gain dominance in the clinch.
Still in the clinch, Nobonaga scores with a nice short uppercut.
Nobonaga tries a knee to the head but West blocks it.
Nobonaga tries to stall but West uses the opportunity to gain a better position.
Both guys are working to get underhooks.
West blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Nobonaga lands a hook to the side of the head.
Nobonaga is stalling here.
Nobonaga throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Nobonaga lands an elbow just above West 's eye.

It looks like Wayde West has been cut.
Nobonaga can't find room to land a body shot as West controls the action.
Nobonaga misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Nobonaga tries to land a knee to the head but West blocks with his arms.
West takes a knee to the side of the body.
West is trying to push Nobonaga away but Nobonaga has him pressed against the ropes, so he's going nowhere.
West blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Nobonaga lands an elbow inside that West shrugs off.
Nobonaga just leaning against West, taking a breather.
Both guys are working to get underhooks.
I was talking to Nobonaga's coach per-fight and he was telling me that they'd been working on the clinch in the runup to this fight.
Nobonaga tries to land a knee to the head but West blocks with his arms.
The referee is keeping an eye on Nobonaga - much more stalling and he will separate the fighters.
Nobonaga lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of West backwards.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Nobonaga works on West's body with a couple of short punches.

West breaks from the clinch.
Nobonaga throws out a leg kick but West moves out of range and Nobonaga only half commits.
West misses with an attempted mid kick.
Nobonaga avoids the head kick by West.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
West throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.

Nobonaga moves into range and clinches up with West.
Nobonaga blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Both guys are working to get underhooks.
Both fighters working to control the clinch.
A battle for position here, against the ropes.
The pace really dropping off here, momentarily.
Nobonaga pushes West back against the ropes and lands a hook to the side of the head.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Sagoya Nobonaga dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Wayde West's cut.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action!

Nobonaga misses with a lunging right hand
and West counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.

West clinches up against the ropes.
Nobonaga misses with a hook to the ribs.
West tries to stall but Nobonaga uses the opportunity to gain a better position.
Nobonaga content to slow the pace in the clinch.
Nobonaga stalling.
West is trying to break free.
Nice body punch from Nobonaga.
Both fighters working to control the clinch.
Knees to the body from Nobonaga.
West avoiding damage as Nobonaga throws knees to the body.
Nobonaga scores with a knee to the head.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Nobonaga missing with knees to the body.
West tries to stall but Nobonaga uses the opportunity to gain a better position.
West is trying to break the clinch but Nobonaga has him pressed against the ropes.
A short body shot lands from Nobonaga as the two fighters clinch.
Nobonaga tries to land knees in the clinch but West avoids the damage to the body.
Nobonaga is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that West can do to turn this around?

That's one minute gone in the round.
Nobonaga misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from West.
Nobonaga goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Nobonaga has a couple of punches blocked by West.
Nobonaga tries to work over West's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Nobonaga pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the ropes.
West wants to stall.
Nobonaga taking a breather.
Nobonaga pushes West back against the ropes and lands a hook to the side of the head.
Both fighters working to control the clinch.
With the two fighters working up against the ropes, Nobonaga just misses with a elbow thrown towards West's brow.
West is trying to push Nobonaga away but Nobonaga has him pressed against the ropes, so he's going nowhere.
Nobonaga missing with knees to the body.
Nobonaga trying to control the position but instead, West has worked for underhooks and has pushed Nobonaga into the ropes.
Nobonaga lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of West backwards.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Nobonaga misses with a short punch on the inside.
Nobonaga looking to stall.
Nobonaga misses with a short punch on the inside.
West managing to block the knees to the body from Nobonaga.
West missing with knees to the body.
Nobonaga misses with an elbow over the top.
Sagoya Nobonaga has scored more points in the clinch so far.
Nobonaga stalling in the clinch but West improves position.
Nobonaga tried to land a shot to the body but connects with West's elbow.
Nobonaga misses with a hook to the ribs.
West is trying to maintain a safe position but Nobonaga gets an underhook and turns West into the ropes.
Nobonaga keeps control of West as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
The crowd thankful this round is nearly over.
A nice right hand lands inside from Nobonaga.
Nobonaga misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from West.
West tries to circle away but Nobonaga has him pinned against the ropes.
Nobonaga lands an elbow inside.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Sagoya Nobonaga dominated that second round.
The cut man is working on Wayde West's cut.
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. Let's hear some noise people - this is the final round!

Nobonaga gets a clinch.
West wants to stall.
Nobonaga is trying to slow down the pace of the fight but West is keeping busy.
Nobonaga is working West over against the ropes.
Nobonaga is struggling to control the position.
Nobonaga is looking to control West's arms but West gets an underhook and turns him. Now Nobonaga has his back to the ropes.
Nobonaga tries to stall but West uses the opportunity to gain a better position.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Nobonaga.
West has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
A battle for position here, against the ropes.
Nobonaga connects with a nasty looking knee right to West's face.
West takes a shot to the head.
Nobonaga lands a hook to the side of the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
A short left from Nobonaga.

West is rocked!
West tries to circle away but Nobonaga has him pinned against the ropes.
Nobonaga with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Nobonaga comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
West is the more experienced fighter here and he's going to need to draw on some of that experience if he's going to pull this one out the bag.
Nobonaga tries a body shot but West blocks it.

West breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Wayde West has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!
West throws a leg kick but he was too far away and it doesn't land.
Nobonaga digs a good hook to West's body.
Sagoya Nobonaga is fighting for a decision here - he's started to take the cautious approach.

Nobonaga clinches up against the ropes.
Both fighters working to control the clinch.
Both fighters working to control the clinch.
West tries a knee to the head but Nobonaga blocks it.
West doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Nobonaga dodges an elbow strike from West.
West lands with a short head shot on the inside.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
West is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the ropes.
West throws an elbow that misses.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Nobonaga.
West lands a right hand that snaps the head of Nobonaga backwards.
Nobonaga keeps the fight in the clinch, despite West's efforts to push away.
Nobonaga prevents a body shot from West.
West tries to work over Nobonaga's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Nobonaga on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
A right hook to the body lands for West.
Nobonaga avoids the elbow strike from West, against the ropes.
West has a couple of punches blocked by Nobonaga.
West throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Nobonaga blocks it with crossed arms.

And that's the end of the fight!
Sagoya Nobonaga showed his dominance in that final round.
Well I reckon that's a shut out for Nobonaga, winning every round. Will the judges agree? They are the ones who matter, even if they are often depressingly incompetent. Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Saam Ante scores the fight for Sagoya Nobonaga!
Judge Nard Betker scores the fight for Sagoya Nobonaga!
Judge Albert Achterberg scores the fight for Sagoya Nobonaga!

Sagoya Nobonaga wins by unanimous decision!
Sagoya Nobonaga made sure to mention his sponsor, Sully's Bar & Grill in his post fight interview.