PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Schlunckr Diesel (ranked 536 p4p, 609 weight class) and Amaru Kawiwasulu (ranked 77 p4p, 84 weight class). The atmosphere really building for this one as we go over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Diesel
vs
Kawiwasulu

202 cm
26
265
9 - 3 - 0

185 cm
26
272
5 - 2 - 0

Decent wrestler
Excellent MT
Very quick

Decent wrestler
Solid Muay Thai
Heavy handed

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 9 - 3 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Schlunckr Diesel!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 2 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Amaru Kawiwasulu!
The judges for this bout are David Hoff, Peter Branson and Winston Alpacca.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Diesel fakes a jab and then connects with a hook.
Diesel jabs. That one connects to the head of his opponent.
Kawiwasulu misses with a looping right.
Diesel smiles there as he lands a nice right hand right on the button.
Kawiwasulu misses with a hook.

Kawiwasulu drops Diesel with a hook right on the temple. He thinks about going to the ground but Diesel looks back up at him and smiles so Kawiwasulu waves him back to his feet - he obviously thinks he can knock him out after that shot landed.

It looks like Schlunckr Diesel has been cut.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Kawiwasulu takes a shot to the nose. Hopefully that hasn't broken it.
Diesel wings a very wild body shot but it does the job and lands to the midsection.
Kawiwasulu's hands are dropping dangerously low here and Diesel connects clean with a right hook that sends him down to one knee! Kawiwasulu scrambles back to his feet.
Diesel ducks under a wild hook from Kawiwasulu.
Diesel scores with a nice right hand.
Diesel lands with a hook. Kawiwasulu tried to avoid it but it clipped the top of his head.
Kawiwasulu ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Diesel moves away.
Diesel uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from Kawiwasulu.
Kawiwasulu lands a nice hook to Diesel's body. Diesel takes it in his stride and looks to land his own strikes.
Kawiwasulu needs to keep his hands up - Diesel had a free shot at his head there.
Kawiwasulu displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Diesel throws out the jab.
Diesel slips in close and lands a nice hook before moving back out of range.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Diesel clinches with his opponent.
Diesel is using his height advantage well here, landing a good percentage of his punches.
Diesel wants to break the clinch but can't.
Diesel has a couple of punches blocked by Kawiwasulu.
Kawiwasulu scores with a shoulder strike.
Diesel has a couple of punches blocked by Kawiwasulu.
Diesel pushes Kawiwasulu back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
Still in the clinch, Diesel scores with a nice short uppercut.
Kawiwasulu goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Kawiwasulu tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Kawiwasulu lands a knee to the head.
Kawiwasulu can't find room to land a body shot as Diesel controls the action.
Diesel avoiding damage as Kawiwasulu throws knees to the body.
Kawiwasulu tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Kawiwasulu swings wildly with an uppercut but Diesel uses good head movement to avoid it.
Kawiwasulu pushes Diesel back against the cage and unloads with a body punch.
Diesel tries to throw a body punch but Kawiwasulu avoids it by throwing Diesel back against the cage.
Kawiwasulu with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Kawiwasulu misses with a body punch.

Diesel breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Kawiwasulu waving his hands out in front of him, looking to distract Diesel.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Kawiwasulu fails with an attempt to clinch.
Diesel seemed to be looking to counter by closing the distance.
A jab from Diesel misses.
Diesel is really head hunting here, hardly looking to strike to the body at all.
Diesel bobs and weaves and unloads with a good uppercut.
Diesel staying out of range there.
Diesel connects with a good right hand that stumbles Kawiwasulu. Kawiwasulu circles away out of range and recomposes himself.
Diesel is looking light on his feet compared to last time was saw him fight.
Diesel is really peppering his opponent's head with punches.
Diesel throws an off balance right hand
and Kawiwasulu scores with a counter punch that sends Diesel to the canvas! Kawiwasulu smells blood - he's punishing Diesel with more strikes and the ref has stopped it! Diesel has no idea where he is - he's tackled the ref... oh dear, poor guy, the crowd is in hysterics!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:27 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Amaru Kawiwasulu!