PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight kickboxing rules bout between Third Round Romero (ranked 3350 p4p, 451 weight class) and Krzysztof Szczęsny (ranked 16513 p4p, 843 weight class). Szczęsny has chosen Immortal Technique-Obnoxious as his entrance music. Krzysztof Szczęsny has the power to score a knockout today if he connects clean with Third Round Romero's chin.

Round Romero
vs
Szczęsny

190 cm
36
214 lbs
27 - 10 - 1

201 cm
34
223 lbs
32 - 10 - 0

World class boxer
Insanely flexible

World class MT
Heavy handed

HELLBENT

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the light heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 27 - 10 - 1, fighting out of Montreal, Third Round Romero!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 32 - 10 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Krzysztof Szczęsny!
The judges for this bout are Sam Margolis, Daniel Bishop and Richard Clark.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Szczęsny uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from Romero.
Romero throws a shot from downtown. Szczęsny moves away and avoids it.
Romero walks into a stiff left hand from Szczęsny.

It looks like Third Round Romero has been cut.
Szczęsny looking to land some kicks to the body here.
Szczęsny connects with a looping right hand.
Romero jabs Szczęsny to the body, keeping him at a distance.
Romero lands a lovely overhand right.
Szczęsny loads up on a big right hand but Romero slips the punch.
Szczęsny is looking to chop away at Romero's legs.
Szczęsny goes for a spinning back kick but it misses.
Romero misses with a jab, cross combination.
Nice defenses there by Szczęsny.
Szczęsny throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Szczęsny looks to land a left hand but Romero moved out of range nicely.
Romero scoring well with a low kick there.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Romero tries to land a leg kick but Szczęsny saw it coming and moves away.
Szczęsny throws an overhand right that lands on Romero's shoulder, as Romero tries to avoid the shot.
Romero fakes and then throws a beautiful body shot. Szczęsny looks a bit winded and takes a step backwards to take a breath.

Romero clinches up with Szczęsny and pushes him back against the ropes.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Romero unloads a knee to the mid-section. Szczęsny lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Szczęsny looks winded!
Romero lands a hook to the side of the head.
Szczęsny scores with a nice hook to the head.

Szczęsny breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Romero connects with a looping right hand.
Szczęsny takes a body punch that cleary hurt but he's trying not to show any weakness.
Romero thows a left - swing and a miss!
Romero dips to his left and cracks Szczęsny with an uppercut!
Romero slips a jab from Szczęsny.
Romero missing with a left hand there. Szczęsny was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
Romero slips under a jab from Szczęsny.
Nice jab there from Szczęsny.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.

Szczęsny tries to keep at a distance but Romero has taken the fight into the clinch.
Szczęsny swings away with an uppercut that misses.

Szczęsny breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Romero lands with an overhand left.

It looks like Krzysztof Szczęsny has been cut.
Romero has been working on his boxing with his coaches at Fit-Out in the buildup to the fight.

The fight moves into the clinch position.
Romero lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Romero tries a body shot but Szczęsny blocks it.
With the fighters clinched against the ropes, Romero creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Romero throws a head punch that misses.
Romero misses with a punch to the body.
Szczęsny blocks a body shot from Romero.

Szczęsny breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.

Romero forces Szczęsny back against the ropes and clinches.
Szczęsny blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Romero struggles to land a body shot inside as Szczęsny controls his hands.
Romero has Szczęsny pressed against the ropes, preventing Szczęsny from circling away and getting back to striking at range.

Szczęsny's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Szczęsny takes one on the chin but seems OK.

Szczęsny is rocked!
Romero throws a head kick that misses.
Szczęsny appeared to try and counter that last move with a leg kick.
Jab, jab by Szczęsny - just one landing.
The crowd applaud the fighters' efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Romero throws out a loose jab but Szczęsny uses good head movement to avoid it.
Szczęsny keeps the fight on the outside.
Szczęsny doesn't fully commit to the body shot counter.
A jab from Romero does it's job there.
Szczęsny is still on wobbly legs! Can Romero finish him?
Szczęsny has done a lot of speed work in the buildup to this fight.
Romero scores with a hook to the body. Szczęsny takes a step back and tries to catch his breath.
The sound of bone on bone echoes around the arena as Romero checks a leg kick.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Third Round Romero dominated that round.
Both fighters have cut men working on them during the interval.
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.

Romero clinches with his opponent.
Szczęsny seems to have recovered his senses.
Szczęsny is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the ropes.
Szczęsny throws a head punch that misses.
Romero lands a left hand that snaps the head of Szczęsny backwards.
Szczęsny throws a punch but it's blocked by Romero.
Szczęsny tries to work over Romero's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Romero misses with a short punch on the inside.
Romero lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Szczęsny misses with a body punch.
Romero struggles to land a body shot inside as Szczęsny controls his hands.
Romero throws a punch but it's blocked by Szczęsny.
Romero lands a nice looking hook to the body, against the ropes.
Szczęsny blocks an uppercut.
Szczęsny takes a knee to the side of the body.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Romero working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Szczęsny tries to throw a body punch but Romero avoids it by throwing Szczęsny back against the ropes.
Romero lands a shoulder strike.
Szczęsny misses with some punches.
Third Round Romero has scored more points in the clinch so far.
Romero lands with a light punch inside.
Szczęsny is breathing heavily.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Szczęsny can't break the clinch.
Szczęsny tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Szczęsny blocking some punches.
Romero misses with a punch on the inside.
Szczęsny lands a body shot.
Szczęsny lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of Romero backwards.
Szczęsny blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
A short uppercut from Romero.
Romero throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Szczęsnys head.
Szczęsny tries a body shot but Romero blocks it.
Szczęsny tries to circle away but Romero has him pinned against the ropes.
A shot in the inside from Szczęsny.
Romero lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
Romero cracks Szczęsny with a big uppercut, right up the middle and Szczęsny goes down! Oh, he's hurt! He's bigtime hurt! The referee is giving him a chance to get back to his feet - 4,5,6,7, no, he's called it off! Szczęsny wasn't going to make it and the fight is over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:42 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punch). Third Round Romero!
Third Round Romero retains his light heavyweight title!
A relieved looking Third Round Romero thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.
In defeat, Krzysztof Szczęsny stepped up to the mic, saying 'Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to getting pussy so mothafucka!! i fucking demand a rematch or else get me some pussy to fuck hard.'.