PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight kickboxing rules bout between Hans Schwartzmuller (ranked 8064 p4p, 542 weight class) and Salah Ad Din (ranked 21985 p4p, 577 weight class). Salah Ad Din has the power to score a knockout today if he connects clean with Hans Schwartzmuller's chin.

Schwartzmuller
vs
Ad Din

175 cm
23
180 lbs
2 - 8 - 0

177 cm
21
169 lbs
1 - 3 - 0

Good knees
Experienced

Excellent boxer
Good gas tank

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 2 - 8 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Hans Schwartzmuller!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 3 - 0, fighting out of New York, Salah Ad Din!
The judges for this bout are Bruno Lombardi, Columbo Gatti and Jorge Garcia.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Schwartzmuller fakes with an overhand right and moves in to clinch with Ad Din, pushing him back against the ropes.
Schwartzmuller misses with a body punch.

Schwartzmuller breaks the clinch.
Ad Din uses good footwork to get in and out and land a nice right hand before Schwartzmuller has time to react.

Ad Din scores with a jab and follows up with an uppercut that drops Schwartzmuller to his knees! He bounces straight back to his feet but is forced to take the mandatory standing 8 count before he's allowed to continue. We're back under way and the fighters meet in the middle of the canvas to re-engage.

It looks like Hans Schwartzmuller has been cut.
Schwartzmuller tries to clinch up but Ad Din circles away and keeps his distance.
Ad Din has been spending a lot of time sparring his boxing in the run up to the fight, trying to sharpen up those hands and look for a knockout.
Schwartzmuller takes a shot to the eye socket. That's gotta hurt.

Schwartzmuller is rocked!
Salah Ad Din seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Ad Din cracks a nice hook into Schwartzmuller's ribs.

Ad Din catches his opponent with a big hook that sends him to the canvas! Schwartzmuller stumbles back to his feet but will the referee allow it to continue? Schwartzmuller walks forwards and this one will be allowed to continue! Come on!
Oh Schwartzmuller is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Ad Din comes forward and lands a shot to the body, then darts back out of range.
Schwartzmuller seems to have got his legs back now.
Ad Din scores with a nice looking left hook and follows it up with an uppercut!

Schwartzmuller gets a clinch.

Schwartzmuller breaks the clinch.

Schwartzmuller gets in close and instigates a clinch.

Ad Din manages to break the clinch.
Ad Din lands with a nice body punch.
A shot to the liver by Ad Din. Beautiful body shot.
Nice body punch from Ad Din.
Ad Din takes a step towards his opponent and connects with a left hand, before circling away.
Ad Din lands the left hand.
Wow, both these guys are really going for it!
Ad Din circles away from the clinch attempt.
Ad Din scores with the left hand. Schwartzmuller knows he should have avoided that one.
Ad Din wings a very wild body shot but it does the job and lands to the midsection.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Ad Din lands with a right, followed by a left to the temple and Schwartzmuller goes down! The ref sends Ad Din to a neutral corner so he can begin the count. 3,4,5,6 and Schwartzmuller is back to his feet. He seems a little groggy but the referee thinks he's OK to continue, so we're back to the action!

Hans Schwartzmuller's cut is getting worse.
Ad Din catches Schwartzmuller with a right, a left, a right. It's raining punches and Schwartzmuller forgot an umbrella! Another punch and he's down. This one is over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:11 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punches). Salah Ad Din!
A very excited looking Salah Ad Din rambled incoherently for about 5 minutes post fight about how awesome he is. It was kinda funny for a while but then everyone got annoyed.