PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight kickboxing rules bout between John Kyle Romo (ranked 7396 p4p, 612 weight class) and Charles Cooper (ranked 7834 p4p, 605 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Cooper's choice of entrance music: s.mouse - slap my elbow. Charles Cooper has the power to score a knockout today if he connects clean with John Kyle Romo's chin.

Kyle Romo
vs
Cooper

190 cm
52
187 lbs
57 - 42 - 1

178 cm
50
190 lbs
40 - 49 - 1

World class boxer
Big right hand

Great elbows
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 57 - 42 - 1, fighting out of Tokyo, John Kyle Romo!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 40 - 49 - 1, fighting out of Las Vegas, Charles Cooper!
The judges for this bout are Phil Schofield, James Atkins and Paul Tew.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
A head kick misses from Romo.
Cooper is trying to avoid his opponent's strikes and get into the clinch.

Cooper closes the distance and clinches.
Romo working some nice short punches in the clinch.
Romo lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Romo avoids the elbow strike from Cooper, against the ropes.
Cooper looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Romo landing knees to the head.

It looks like Charles Cooper has been cut.
Cooper pushes off an throws an elbow but Romo leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the ropes.
Romo misses with a knee to the head.
Cooper looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Romo blocks an elbow strike from Cooper.
Cooper throws an elbow but it's blocked.
Cooper misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Cooper misses with an elbow strike.
Romo landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
Cooper looks winded!
Knees in the clinch landing for Romo.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Romo lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of Cooper backwards.
Romo unloads a knee to the mid-section.
Cooper looks more muscular than last time we saw him. He must have been on the weights.
Nice body punch from Romo - that landed with a thud.
Romo lands a knee to the head.
Romo connects with a nasty looking knee right to Cooper's face.
Romo scores with a nice hook to the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Romo works on Cooper's body with a couple of short punches.
Romo creates a bit of space and fires a knee right up the middle, almost lifting Cooper off his feet and sending him crashing to the canvas! Cooper is trying to get back to his feet but his equilibrium is completely gone! The referee has called it off! This fight is over! Romo is jumping up and down like a mad man, celebrating with his cornermen.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:13 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Knee). John Kyle Romo!
John Kyle Romo decided to thank the fans in attendance for making a great atmosphere. It seemed to go down pretty well.