PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight kickboxing rules bout between Randy Kt King (ranked 23330 p4p, 825 weight class) and Saúl Tacoronte (ranked 646 p4p, 122 weight class). Tacoronte has a pretty significant injury - he really shouldn't be fighting right now but he's a warrior and he's here none the less! Randy Kt King is staring across the ring at his opponent, tweaking his nipples... Tweaking his own nipples that is.

Kt King
vs
Tacoronte

192 cm
23
205
5 - 6 - 0

190 cm
34
208
18 - 12 - 2

Great elbows
Cardio machine

World class MT
Granite chin

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 5 - 6 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Randy Kt King!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 18 - 12 - 2, fighting out of Las Vegas, Saúl Tacoronte!
The judges for this bout are Anthony Taglia, Steve Montenegro and David Schapiro.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Kt King throws a nice outside leg kick.
Tacoronte looks winded!
Kt King cracks a nice hook into Tacoronte's ribs.
Kt King has been working on his boxing with his coaches at PSE in the buildup to the fight.
Tacoronte gets his head snapped back by a nice shot there.
Tacoronte ducks under a wild hook from Kt King.

Kt King takes the fight into the clinch.
Kt King looking to stall.
Kt King pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the ropes.

Kt King pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Kt King throws an uppercut from half a mile away. Tacoronte sees it coming and avoids it easily.
A telegraphed right hand from Kt King misses the target.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Kt King throws a couple of head shots and lands with the final one - a decent hook, which struck Tacoronte on the side of the head.
Kt King throws a low kick but his opponent is out of range.
Tacoronte has been spending a lot of time sparring his boxing in the run up to the fight, trying to sharpen up those hands and look for a knockout.
Saúl Tacoronte seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Tacoronte takes a body punch that cleary hurt but he's trying not to show any weakness.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Kt King connects with a leg kick.
Kt King fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Tacoronte manages to avoid it.
Kt King misses the shot to the body.

Tacoronte ducks into a a hook from Kt King and goes down! He looks in a bit of a mess; will he beat the count?! 4,5,6,7,8 - he's up and looking to carry on! The referee looks into his eyes and sees that he's OK to continue!
Kt King throws a looping overhand right but Tacoronte ducks down to avoid it.
Kt King avoids the head kick by Tacoronte.
Kt King throws a big counter combination but Tacoronte scrambles out of danger and avoids any damage.

Kt King has taken the fight to the clinch.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Kt King lands with a short shot to the head.
Nice elbow from Kt King.
Kt King slows down the pace here.
Kt King lands a body shot in the clinch.
Tacoronte misses with a hook from the clinch.
Kt King lands a nice elbow from the clinch.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Kt King misses with a hook to the ribs.
A right handed body shot lands from Kt King.

Kt King manages to break the clinch.
An inside leg kick from Kt King misses.
Kt King throws an uppercut from half a mile away. Tacoronte sees it coming and avoids it easily.
Kt King sets himself, and Tacoronte steps forward looking for the clinch! Kt King avoids it this time.

Tacoronte is rocked!
Tacoronte tries to get into range but Kt King steps to the side and lands a beautiful hook that drops Tacoronte! He's faceplanted into the mat, ass in the air... he's out cold! That's an image he won't want to show his grandkids when he gets older! Kt King scores the big KO victory!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:30 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Randy Kt King!