PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight kickboxing rules bout between Rafael De La Rosa (ranked 5648 p4p, 257 weight class) and Van Damme (ranked 4797 p4p, 233 weight class). De La Rosa comes to the ring accompanied by Capoeira Fight Song. There are an array of beautiful celebrities at ringside tonight! I wonder if any of them paid for their tickets.

De La Rosa
vs
Damme

175 cm
19
139 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

185 cm
22
142 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

Dangerous knees
Granite chin

Good kicks
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the bantamweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Rafael De La Rosa!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Van Damme!
The judges for this bout are Albert Achterberg, Patrick Alders and Nard Betker.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Jab, cross, leg kick. Nice combination by De La Rosa!

It looks like Van Damme has been cut.
De La Rosa definitely looks more muscular than last time we saw him fight.
De La Rosa throws a head kick but Damme moves out of range.
Nice body kick there by De La Rosa.
Damme throws a head kick that misses.
Van Damme seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Damme throws a sloppy head kick and De La Rosa moves out of range easily.
Damme walks straight into a perfectly timed right hook, crumpling him to the floor! Damme is in all kinds of trouble here - can he beat the count? 3,4,5,6,7,8,9....10 - he's out and it's by a long way too - he didn't ever look like beating that count!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:18 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punch). Rafael De La Rosa!
A victorious Rafael De La Rosa thanked his army of followers in his post fight interview, telling people to make sure they follow him on Twitter.