PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a super heavyweight kickboxing rules bout between Chong Starbowski (ranked 7148 p4p, 58 weight class) and Eros Ramasotti (ranked 3022 p4p, 25 weight class). Starbowski's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, Traditional Thai Music . Ramasotti has chosen Pray for me ft the weekend as his entrance music. Both these guys have solid standup skills and neither is particularly fantastic on the ground, so let's hope for a nice standup war!

Starbowski
vs
Ramasotti

175 cm
29
183 lbs
12 - 16 - 0

185 cm
32
260 lbs
24 - 12 - 1

World class boxer
Insanely flexible

World class MT
Good gas tank

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the super heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 12 - 16 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Chong Starbowski!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 24 - 12 - 1, fighting out of Las Vegas, Eros Ramasotti!
The judges for this bout are Paul Aken, Daniel Blasius and Aafke Stam.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Ramasotti blocks a head kick by Starbowski.
Ramasotti ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Starbowski moves away.
Starbowski is looking to counter with a shot to the body.
Ramasotti misses with a straight right.
Ramasotti throws a body shot but no joy.
Starbowski swung with a counter right hand that didn't connect.
Ramasotti misses with a leg kick.
Starbowski lands a jab to Ramasotti's midsection.
Ramasotti throws a leg kick but he was too far away and it doesn't land.
A swing and a miss from Starbowski.
Starbowski showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Ramasotti.
Ramasotti swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Ramasotti misses with a head kick.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.

Starbowski gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
Ramasotti misses with an elbow strike.
Starbowski blocks an uppercut.
A head punch on the inside from Ramasotti fails to land.
Ramasotti misses with the head strike.
Ramasotti swings wildly with an uppercut but Starbowski uses good head movement to avoid it.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Starbowski lands with a left to the head.
Ramasotti lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Ramasotti lands a body punch in the clinch.
Ramasotti throws a punch but it's blocked by Starbowski.
Starbowski scores with an uppercut up the middle.
Ramasotti misses with a punch on the inside.
Starbowski blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Starbowski blocks the elbow strike.
Ramasotti misses with some punches.
Ramasotti misses with a punch on the inside.
Ramasotti misses with a punch to the body.
Starbowski blocks an elbow strike from Ramasotti.
Starbowski misses with some punches.
Ramasotti swings wildly with an uppercut but Starbowski uses good head movement to avoid it.
Ramasotti has a couple of punches blocked by Starbowski.
Ramasotti fails to land with a short punch on the inside.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Ramasotti keeps control of Starbowski as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Ramasotti misses with a knee to the head.
Ramasotti pushes Starbowski back against the ropes and lands a hook to the side of the head.
With the two fighters working up against the ropes, Ramasotti just misses with a elbow thrown towards Starbowski's brow.
This has been an exciting period of action!

Starbowski's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
A bone on bone clash there as Starbowski blocks the leg kick.
Starbowski throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.
Ramasotti lands a jab to the nose.
Starbowski ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Ramasotti moves away.
Starbowski throws a lazy head kick
and as Starbowski looks to reset his feet, Ramasotti counters with a string of precision punches, right on the button, sending Starbowski crashing to the canvas! Starbowski is in big trouble here! The referee has started the count but Starbowski is so wobbly that the ref has given up the count at 6 - he's called the bout off! Ramasotti is your winner!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:38 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punches). Eros Ramasotti!
Eros Ramasotti spent the whole post fight interview bigging himself up. It didn't go down that well with the fans after a while as they thought it was a bit arrogant.
The defeated Chong Starbowski had this to say: 'Merci'.