PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Keke Sonni (ranked 685 p4p, 104 weight class) and GP Life (ranked 1238 p4p, 187 weight class). Both fighter's entrance songs getting the crowd jumping here.

Sonni
vs
Life

199 cm
24
210 lbs
4 - 0 - 0

188 cm
26
215 lbs
3 - 0 - 0

Good wrestling
Solid boxing
Cardio machine

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent MT
Powerful

The Glue Factory

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 4 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Keke Sonni!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, GP Life!
The judges for this bout are Daniel Franklin, Sandra Marshall and Winston Alpacca.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Life steps to the side to avoid the strikes from Sonni.
Sonni seems to be moving with more speed, compared to his last bout. He must have been working on that in the gym.
Sonni throws a body punch but Life moves out of range.
A slow jab from Sonni misses its intended target.
Sonni scores with a big left there. The judges will like that one.
Sonni lands with an overhand left.
Keke Sonni seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Life waving his hands out in front of him, looking to distract Sonni.
The fighters circling - Life throws out the jab but it was never going to land.
Sonni swings for the body but Life moves out of range.
A left lands for Sonni.
A jab from Sonni misses.
Sonni throws a good cross that connects.
Sonni scores with a decent looking hook.
Life displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Sonni throws out the jab.
Life throws a shot from downtown. Sonni moves away and avoids it.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Sonni misses with a hook.
Life looks more muscular than last time we saw him. He must have been on the weights.
Sonni connects nicely with a jab. Noted by the judges no doubt.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Life takes a shot right to the liver - Bas would have been proud of that punch.
Life swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Sonni is looking to counter with a shot to the body.
Decent striking displayed by Sonni there.
Sonni throws a jab but it's blocked by Life.
Sonni throws an uppercut from half a mile away. Life sees it coming and avoids it easily.
Sonni lands with a right hand.
Life loads up on a big right hand but Sonni slips the punch.
A telegraphed right hand from Sonni misses the target.
Life swings away with a counter right hand but no contact made.
Sonni throws a jab when Life was well out of range.
Life avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Sonni connects with a lovely right hand, straight down the pipe.
Sonni is really peppering his opponent's head with punches.
Sonni misses with a hook.
Sonni scores with a reasonable looking shot to the body. Life doesn't seem bothered though.
Sonni connects with a right hand. Life shakes it off.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Sonni waving his hands out in front of him, looking to distract Life.
Sonni is really head hunting here, hardly looking to strike to the body at all.
Life misses with a looping right.
A looping hook to the body misses from Sonni. Life does a little dance to reset his feet.
Life walks into a straight right hand from Sonni.
Life waving his hands out in front of him, looking to distract Sonni.
Sonni with a nice cross.
Sonni lands a beauty of a right hand that gets the crowd cheering.
Sonni throws out a loose jab but Life uses good head movement to avoid it.
Life rushes in with a sloppy looking punch
letting Sonni counter with a right hand.
Sonni throws a shot from downtown. Life moves away and avoids it.
Life is really struggling to land any decent head shots against his taller opponent.
Life takes a shot to the nose. Hopefully that hasn't broken it.
The crowd applaud the fighters' efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Life ducks under a wild hook from Sonni.
And an attempted straight right on the counter from Life! But no joy.
Life misses with a hook. Sonni ducked under it nicely.
Life slips a straight right by Sonni.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Keke Sonni dominated that round.
That's time! Back to the action!

Life takes a shot to the nose. Hopefully that hasn't broken it.
A jab from Sonni misses.
Sonni fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
It seemed like Life was going to counter with the hook but didn't fully commit to it.
Sonni throws a big shot that misses.
Sonni cracks Life with an open hand slap.
Sonni on the wrong end of a nice jab.
Life uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Sonni.
Sonni thows a left - swing and a miss!
Sonni punishes Life's body with a nice straight punch.
Life missing with a left hand there. Sonni was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
Sonni is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that Life can do to turn this around?
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Sonni throws the left hand but Life avoids the punch easily.
Sonni waving his hands out in front of him, looking to distract Life.
Life throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Life slips a jab from Sonni.
Life swings away with a counter right hand but no contact made.
Life scores with a punch to the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Life throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Life uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Sonni.
Sonni is using his reach advantage well here, landing the more effective single shots from range.
Life ducks under a wild hook from Sonni.
Sonni scores with a straight right hand, right through his opponent's guard.
A jab from Life misses.
As Life tries to get set, Sonni tries to push him back and clinch up but Life manages to avoid the attempt.
Sonni throws a jab but it's blocked by Life.
A big left from Sonni misses.
And an attempted straight right on the counter from Life! But no joy.
Sonni thows a left - swing and a miss!
Sonni throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
And an attempted straight right on the counter from Life! But no joy.
Sonni connects with a lovely right hand, straight down the pipe.
Sonni connects with a right hand. Life shakes it off.
Life has his head slapped from side to side by a 3 punch combination. That must have hurt him.
Life avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Life looks to land a right hand but Sonni moved out of range.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Nice cross by Sonni.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Sonni misses with a straight right.
Life with poor footwork there. He got himself in a bit of a tangle, enabling Sonni to score with a decent uppercut.
Sonni works Life's body with a nice hook.
Life scores with a decent looking hook.
Sonni missing with a left hand there. Life was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
A big left from Sonni misses.
Life has a pretty nasty looking mouse under his right eye.
Life takes a swing at Sonni's ribcage but misses.
Life uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Sonni.
A little jabbing left from Life on the counter but it doesn't find it's target.
Sonni throws a hook but Life avoids it easily.
Sonni throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Sonni punishes Life's body with a nice straight punch.
Life misses with a hook. Sonni ducked under it nicely.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Keke Sonni dominated that second round.
That's time! Sonni's corner gives him a slap on the ass as he gets ready to fight.

Jab by Sonni.
Sonni wings a very wild body shot but it does the job and lands to the midsection.
Sonni throws a jab when Life was well out of range.
Sonni misses the jab.
Nice uppercut lands for Life. That snapped Sonni's head back.
Life moves away from the strike by Sonni.
Life looks like he wants to counter punch here.
Sonni moves into range and throws a lovely three punch combination.
Life misses with a straight left.
Life ducks under a wild hook from Sonni.
No joy there for Sonni, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
Nice defenses there by Life.
Life ducks under an overhand right and circles away with a smile on his face.
Sonni looks to throw the jab but Life is out of range.
Sonni misses with a two punch combination.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Sonni scores with a sloppy right hand. Life should have avoided that one.
Sonni misses the shot to the body.
Sonni misses with a left hand
and Sonni takes a counter punch right on the button for his troubles.
Sonni uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Life.
Life on the wrong end of a nice hook.
Sonni throws out a token jab with nothing on it.
A punch lands to the side of Sonni 's head but he takes it in his stride.
A shot to the liver by Sonni. Beautiful body shot.
Sonni waving his hands out in front of him, looking to distract Life.
Sonni ducks under an overhand right and circles away with a smile on his face.
Sonni lands with an overhand left.
Life slips under a jab.
Life looks like he wants to counter punch here.
The fighters circling - Sonni throws out the jab but it was never going to land.
Sonni uses good head movement to avoid the hook from Life.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Life swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Life throws a hook but Sonni avoids it easily.
Both these guys seem content to just stand up and trade with eachother but Life might want to think about changing up his gameplan a bit because over the course of the fight, Sonni has got the better of the exchanges.
Good exchange - Sonni coming out on top.
Keke Sonni is winning the standup battle so far.
A big right from Life misses.
Life takes a shot right to the bread basket.
Life staying out of range there.
Sonni misses with a hook.
Sonni ducks under an overhand right and circles away with a smile on his face.
Life smiles there as he lands a nice right hand right on the button.
Life throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Sonni keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Life.
Life uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Sonni.
Sonni looks shocked there as he takes a right hand to the temple.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Keke Sonni clearly takes that round.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action!

Life throws a body shot but no joy.
Sonni was looking to counter that move with a punch but didn't quite pull the trigger.
Sonni misses with a looping right.
Sonni throws a right and a left that Life avoids nicely.
Sonni bobs and weaves and unloads with a good uppercut.
A telegraphed right hand from Sonni misses the target.
Life is clearly trying to counter these attacks from Sonni with a body shot.
Sonni misses with a body shot
and Sonni takes a counter punch right on the button for his troubles.
Sonni throws out a token jab with nothing on it.
Sonni connects with a hook to the side of his opponent's head.
Life throws a poor cross that misses
and Sonni counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.
Life scores with a reasonable looking shot to the body. Sonni doesn't seem bothered though.
Life moves out of range of the strikes.
Life cracks Sonni with a good jab.
Sonni throws an overhand right that lands on Life's shoulder, as Life tries to avoid the shot.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Sonni displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Life throws out the jab.

That's one minute gone in the round.
The fighters circling - Life throws out the jab but it was never going to land.
Life uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Sonni.
It seemed like Life was going to counter with the hook but didn't fully commit to it.
Sonni looks to throw the jab but Life is out of range.
Sonni takes a shot to the nose. Hopefully that hasn't broken it.
Life throws an overhand right that lands on Sonni's shoulder, as Sonni tries to avoid the shot.
Life throws a hook but Sonni avoids it easily.
Life staying out of range there.
Life throws out a loose jab but Sonni uses good head movement to avoid it.
Life jabbing away but nothing is landing.
Sonni throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Sonni swings widly with a right hand
and Life counters with a shot to the ribs. That looked like it hurt.
Sonni ducks under a wild hook from Life.
Sonni takes an uppercut right on the jaw but it doesn't phase him.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Life uses good footwork to get in and out, landing a nice hook.
Some wild striking there from Sonni.
Sonni throws a series of punches but Life moves out of range.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Sonni misses with an uppercut. Life saw that one coming.
Life looks like he wants to counter punch here.
Sonni lands a jab to the nose.
A slow jab from Life misses its intended target.
Life loads up on a big right hand but Sonni slips the punch.
Life misses with an uppercut. Sonni saw that one coming.
A big right from Sonni misses.
Sonni fakes and then throws a beautiful body shot. Life looks a bit winded and takes a step backwards to take a breath.
Sonni works the jab nicely.
Life gets cracked with a nice right hand there by Sonni.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

That was a close fourth round but I would say that Keke Sonni will probably get the nod.
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. This is the final round!

Sonni looks to score with a jab to the body but Life is just out of range.
Life slips under a jab.
And an attempted straight right on the counter from Life! But no joy.
Good shot there by Life.
Sonni misses with a hook.
Life avoids the body shot from Sonni.
Life takes one on the chin but keeps coming.

Sonni pushes Life up against the cage in a clinch.
Life working aggressively here.
Still in the clinch, Sonni scores with a nice short uppercut.

Life escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Life moves out of range of the strikes.
Sonni throws the left hand but Life avoids the punch easily.
Life swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Life uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Sonni.
Sonni misses with a hook
and Life connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
GP Life has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Sonni swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Sonni throws an off balance right hand
and Life counters with a good right hand that lands right on the jaw.
Sonni listening to his corner there, landing a nice uppercut.

Life sends Sonni crashing to the mat with a devastating uppercut! Life is motioning to the referee to let Sonni up. He wants to try and finish this one on the feet!

Sonni is rocked!
Nice defenses there by Sonni.
Oh Sonni is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Sonni throws an overhand right that lands on Life's shoulder, as Life tries to avoid the shot.
Sonni seems to have got his legs back now.
Sonni fakes a head shot and lands one to the body.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Sonni smiles there as he lands a nice right hand right on the button.
Sonni lands a beauty of a right hand that gets the crowd cheering.
Sonni connects with a hook to the side of his opponent's head.
Life throws a hook to the side of Sonni's head but Sonni sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
It looked like Sonni was trying to counter with a body shot coming off that last attack from Life.
Life takes a swing at Sonni's ribcage but misses.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Sonni keeps his opponent at a distance with a nice jab.
Donk. Sonni catches Life right on the button with a cross.
Sonni throws a lazy uppercut
and Sonni takes a counter punch right on the button for his troubles.
Sonni cracks Life with a right hand to the side of the head.
Life misses with a left hand
and Sonni counters with a stiff right hand.
Sonni misses with a right hand
and Life counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.
Sonni comes forward and lands a shot to the body, then darts back out of range.
Life slips under a jab.
Life doesn't fully commit to the body shot counter.
Life throws a lazy uppercut
and Sonni counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.
Life walks into a stiff left hand from Sonni.
The crowd applaud the fighters' efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Sonni moves out of range of the strikes.
Sonni misses with a hook.
Life throws out a counter right but Sonni avoids it with no problem.
Sonni moves into range and connects with a jab.

And that's the end of the fight!
Keke Sonni showed his dominance in that final round.
Well Sonni has outscored his opponent in every aspect of the fight today. Only a scarily incompetent judge or two will keep him from a well deserved win... Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 5 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Daniel Franklin scores the fight for Keke Sonni!
Judge Sandra Marshall scores the fight for Keke Sonni!
Judge Winston Alpacca scores the fight for Keke Sonni!

Keke Sonni wins by unanimous decision!
Keke Sonni retains his light heavyweight title!
During a confident post fight interview, Keke Sonni thanked all his fans. He seemed very genuine when describing how motivated his fans keep him.