PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight kickboxing rules bout between Doctor Doolittle (ranked 2242 p4p, 270 weight class) and Publius Sestius (ranked 2421 p4p, 298 weight class). Doctor Doolittle is staring across the ring at his opponent, tweaking his nipples... Tweaking his own nipples that is.

Doolittle
vs
Sestius

194 cm
45
222 lbs
47 - 35 - 0

185 cm
29
206 lbs
13 - 11 - 0

World class boxer
Very strong

World class MT
Granite chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 47 - 35 - 0, fighting out of London, Doctor Doolittle!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 13 - 11 - 0, fighting out of New York, Publius Sestius!
The judges for this bout are Emerson Jorge, Alexandre Firmino and Thiago Cunha.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Doolittle looks to land a right hand but Sestius moved out of range.
Doolittle has been talking about how he's improved his wrestling in the run up to the fight so let's see if that's enough to sway the balance.
Sestius wants to clinch up but Doolittle keeps it at a distance.
Sestius checks a leg kick nicely.
Doolittle throws a sloppy head kick and Sestius moves out of range easily.

Sestius closes the distance and presses his opponent up against the ropes.
Doolittle lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.
Sestius lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Doolittle backwards.
Sestius tries to land knees in the clinch but Doolittle avoids the damage to the body.
Doolittle lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Doolittle gets through Sestius's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Sestius works for underhooks and lands a body shot in the process.
Doolittle misses with a short punch on the inside.
Doolittle tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Sestius swings wildly with an uppercut but Doolittle uses good head movement to avoid it.
Doolittle misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Doolittle misses with some punches.
Sestius can't find room to land a body shot as Doolittle controls the action.
Doolittle misses with a hook from the clinch.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Doolittle tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Doolittle blocking some punches.
Sestius scores with a nice hook to the head.
Sestius on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Sestius using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Sestius lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Doolittle backwards.
Sestius works for underhooks and lands a body shot in the process.
Sestius lands a shoulder strike.
Doolittle throws a punch but it's blocked by Sestius.
Sestius using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Doolittle has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Doolittle misses with a knee strike.
Doolittle misses with the head strike.
Sestius works on Doolittle's body with a couple of short punches.
Sestius lands an elbow inside.
Doolittle looking to throw knees to the head but Sestius is blocking nicely.
Sestius throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Doolittles head.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Sestius lands a nice elbow from the clinch.

It looks like Doctor Doolittle has been cut.
Still in the clinch, Sestius scores with a nice short uppercut.
Sestius lands a body shot.
Sestius gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Sestius pushes Doolittle back against the ropes and unloads with a body punch.
Doolittle is breathing heavily.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Sestius landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
Sestius connects with a nasty looking knee right to Doolittle's face.
Sestius is controlling Doolittle's neck. Sestius unleashes a big knee up the middle! And another! Doolittle goes down! Can he beat the count? 3,4,5,6... he's not going to make it! 9,10. It's all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:18 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Knees). Publius Sestius!
A determined Publius Sestius didn't want to dwell on this fight in his post fight interview. Instead he was more keen to state he wants a title shot. Let's see if he gets it!