PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Katashi Sakaguchi (ranked 5134 p4p, 5137 weight class) and Temirbek Yuldashev (ranked 583 p4p, 584 weight class). Yuldashev has chosen Лезгинка - Мой нанак as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Sakaguchi
vs
Yuldashev

190 cm
18
205
1 - 0 - 0

187 cm
19
206
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Brawler
Very strong

Decent wrestler
Decent boxing
Good gas tank

Voodoo Nutrition

MKFC

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 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Katashi Sakaguchi!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Temirbek Yuldashev!
The judges for this bout are Alan Glass, Chris Downing and George Francis.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Nice uppercut lands for Yuldashev. That snapped Sakaguchi's head back.
Sakaguchi misses with a takedown
and Yuldashev counters with a lovely straight right hand!
Horrible takedown attempt by Sakaguchi or perhaps it was just good defense by Yuldashev, which made it look bad.
Sakaguchi shoots in for a takedown. "Ole!" shouts Yuldashev as he jumps to the side.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Katashi Sakaguchi. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Yuldashev keeps the fight standing with a nice sprawl.
And an attempted straight right on the counter from Yuldashev! But no joy.
Yuldashev leaves Sakaguchi with his face pressed against the mat as he sprawls beautifully, defending against a solid takedown attempt.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Sakaguchi misses with a series of wild punches.
Sakaguchi falls off balance throwing a combination

and Yuldashev counters with a crisp one two that drops Sakaguchi! Yuldashev thinks about following him to the mat for a moment but instead steps back and waves Sakaguchi to his feet! Sakaguchi is in big trouble!

Sakaguchi is rocked!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Yuldashev shoots in for a takedown - he's clinched up with Sakaguchi but Sakaguchi pushes him off and we're back to square one.
Sakaguchi with a poor takedown
and Yuldashev counters with a big left hand that crumples Sakaguchi! He was out before he hit the floor! Brutal knockout!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:25 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Temirbek Yuldashev!
A relieved looking Temirbek Yuldashev thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.