PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Abdul Ahmadzai (ranked 3364 p4p, 357 weight class) and Gasan Yakolev (ranked 7024 p4p, 563 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Ahmadzai
vs
Yakolev

175 cm
26
155 lbs
8 - 4 - 0

183 cm
19
168 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

Good wrestling
Brawler
KO power

BJJ Purple Belt
Basic striking
Good gas tank

BuriedAlive// Fight Gear

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 2 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 8 - 4 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Abdul Ahmadzai!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Gasan Yakolev!
The judges for this bout are Shigeki Fujiwara, Yasuomi Hirokawa and Tatsuya Matsuyama.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Yakolev closes the distance and pushes Ahmadzai back into the ropes.
Yakolev lands a left hand that snaps the head of Ahmadzai backwards.
Ahmadzai wants to break the clinch but can't.
Yakolev scores with an uppercut up the middle.
Yakolev lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Ahmadzai jumps guard but Yakolev turns him against the ropes and keeps the fight standing.
Ahmadzai takes a shot to the head.
Yakolev scores with an uppercut up the middle.
Yakolev lands a right hand that snaps the head of Ahmadzai backwards.
Yakolev lands with a short punch from the clinch.
A left hand lands to the body for Yakolev.
Nice body punch from Yakolev.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Yakolev lands with a light punch inside.

Yakolev's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Nice straight punches there by Yakolev. You know Roy Jones Jr respects the hands of Yakolev.

Yakolev darts in and clinches Ahmadzai up against the ropes.
Yakolev lands a nice looking hook to the body, against the ropes.
Ahmadzai is breathing heavily.
A short right from Yakolev.

Yakolev manages to break the clinch.
Yakolev fakes a head punch and goes low to the body. Nicely done.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Yakolev steps in with a hook that catches Ahmadzai right on the chin and knocks him to the floor! Yakolev follows him down with more strikes and that's all she wrote! Ahmadzai looks absolutely devastated.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:09 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Gasan Yakolev!
Gasan Yakolev decided to hype himself up post fight. It was going well but he went on about it a bit too long and the crowd turned on him a little.