PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Edson Bidon Barbosa (ranked 60 p4p, 71 weight class) and Finnish Tax Payer (ranked 11 p4p, 13 weight class). Tax Payer comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Konala Cartelli - Mäkikotka kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Barbosa
vs
Tax Payer

178 cm
36
155
37 - 20 - 0

176 cm
31
148
22 - 8 - 0

Great wrestler
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
World class MT
Good gas tank

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 37 - 20 - 0, fighting out of New York, Edson Bidon Barbosa!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 22 - 8 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Finnish Tax Payer!
The judges for this bout are Yukihiro Shimada, Taro Takaoka and Kenichi Hosakawa.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Barbosa tests Tax Payer's chin there with a solid looking shot.
Barbosa misses with an uppercut. Tax Payer saw that one coming.
Tax Payer is trying to counter with his kicks.
Tax Payer scores with a punch to the head.
Barbosa misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Tax Payer tries to clinch but Barbosa is having none of it.
Barbosa throws out a loose jab but Tax Payer uses good head movement to avoid it.

Tax Payer moves into range and clinches up with Barbosa.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Barbosa creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
A left hand lands to the body for Tax Payer.
A head punch on the inside from Barbosa fails to land.

Tax Payer breaks from the clinch.
Tax Payer keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Barbosa.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Barbosa throws out a loose jab but Tax Payer uses good head movement to avoid it.
Tax Payer now looks to counter with a shot at the body.
Barbosa feints a straight left to the body, then turns around with a flashy move and hits Tax Payers jaw with a dramatic spinning back fist!
Tax Payer gets cracked there but stands up to it.
Jab from Tax Payer.
Tax Payer throws a lazy uppercut
and Barbosa counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.
Barbosa scores with a sloppy punch to the body. Not much technique there but it did the business.
Tax Payer ducks under a wild hook from Barbosa.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Barbosa misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Barbosa lands with a right hand.
Tax Payer is looking to slow Barbosa down with leg kicks.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Tax Payer ducks low and lands a nice hook to the body of his opponent.
Barbosa takes a really solid shot there but just smiles back and shrugs his shoulders.
Tax Payer throws an uppercut from half a mile away. Barbosa sees it coming and avoids it easily.
Barbosa is looking to counter punch.
Barbosa takes a big uppercut there. He seems a bit wobbly but no, he's OK.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Tax Payer moves into the clinch successfully.

Tax Payer manages to break the clinch.
A head kick by Barbosa misses
and Tax Payer counters with an outside leg kick.
Tax Payer lands a leg kick and bounces back out of range.
Tax Payer shapes like he's going to throw a leg kick but settles back down.
A counter left hand to the body from Barbosa misses its target.
Barbosa ducks under a wild hook from Tax Payer.
Barbosa throws an ugly left hook that misses
and Tax Payer counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.

Tax Payer gets a clinch.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Tax Payer lands a body punch.
Tax Payer throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Barbosas head.
Tax Payer lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
Tax Payer lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Barbosa avoiding damage.
Tax Payer working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Tax Payer struggles to land a body shot inside as Barbosa controls his hands.
Barbosa prevents a body shot from Tax Payer.
Barbosa stalling in the clinch.
Barbosa misses with a punch on the inside.
Barbosa tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.

Barbosa manages to break the clinch.
Tax Payer slips under a jab.
Barbosa just misses with a punch to the body.
Tax Payer fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
A counter left hand to the body from Barbosa misses its target.
And that is the end of the round. The fighters go back to their corners.

Finnish Tax Payer dominated that round.
That's time! Back to the action!

Barbosa gets cracked there but stands up to it.
Tax Payer throws a jab when Barbosa was well out of range.
Barbosa throws a quick counter head kick but Tax Payer was just out of range.
Tax Payer cracks a nice hook into Barbosa's ribs.
Barbosa throws a right and a left that both miss.
Finnish Tax Payer seems to be getting the better of the standup.
Tax Payer displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Barbosa throws out the jab.
A little jabbing left from Tax Payer on the counter but it doesn't find it's target.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Left hook, right uppercut from Tax Payer.
Barbosa scores with a sloppy right hand. Tax Payer should have avoided that one.
Tax Payer defending well as Barbosa loads up on a big left hand.
Tax Payer throws out a counter right but Barbosa avoids it with no problem.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Tax Payer feints and then cracks Barbosa's leading leg with a nice low kick. He's obviously looking to slow Barbosa down.
Good shot there by Barbosa.
Tax Payer jabbing away but nothing is landing.
Barbosa throws a right hand that misses
and Tax Payer counters with a nice uppercut.
Tax Payer scores with a straight right hand, right through his opponent's guard.
Tax Payer misses the shot to the body.
A little feinted left hand from Barbosa on the counter but he doesn't commit to it.
Tax Payer misses the jab.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Tax Payer moves out of range as Barbosa strikes.
Barbosa blocks a jab.
Barbosa swings for the body but Tax Payer moves out of range.
Tax Payer's hands are dropping dangerously low here and Barbosa connects clean with a right hook that sends him down to one knee! Tax Payer scrambles back to his feet.
Barbosa on the wrong end of an overhand right that came out of nowhere.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Tax Payer throws a right and a left that Barbosa avoids nicely.
Tax Payer has been the more effective fighter overall so far.
Tax Payer misses with a jab, cross combination.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Nice shot by Tax Payer.
Barbosa waving his hands out in front of him, looking to distract Tax Payer.
Tax Payer let fly with a counter punch to the body but it didn't land.
Tax Payer slips under a jab.
A little jabbing left from Tax Payer on the counter but it doesn't find it's target.

Tax Payer clinches up with Barbosa and pushes him back against the cage.
Tax Payer tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Tax Payer blocks an uppercut.
A nice right hand lands inside from Tax Payer.
A nice right hand lands inside from Barbosa.
Barbosa blocking some punches.
Tax Payer is working Barbosa over against the cage.

Barbosa manages to break the clinch.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Tax Payer lets the fists fly and connects with a left straight followed by a right hook.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Tax Payer shakes his hands off, looking to compose himself, but takes a jab to the jaw whilst he does it.
Barbosa blocks a leg kick.
Tax Payer lands a head shot.

Tax Payer fakes with an overhand right and moves in to clinch with Barbosa, pushing him back against the cage.

Barbosa breaks from the clinch.
Tax Payer fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Barbosa manages to avoid it.
Barbosa misses with a hook
and Tax Payer counters with a good low kick that Barbosa was not able to check.
And that is the end of the round. The fighters go back to their corners.

Finnish Tax Payer showed his class in that round. I'd imagine he'll take it on all the scorecards.
The corners get their ten second warning. Both fighters stand from their stools and stare each other down, ready to get back to the action.

Barbosa wings a very wild body shot but it does the job and lands to the midsection.
Barbosa misses with an uppercut
and Tax Payer counters with a left to the body.
A big right from Barbosa misses.
Tax Payer was about to counter that last move with a leg kick but changes his mind.
Barbosa is really head hunting here, hardly looking to strike to the body at all.
Barbosa throws a hook to the side of Tax Payer's head but Tax Payer sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
Barbosa is pinned up against the cage taking some big shots here. The referee is looking closely deciding whether he should stop the fight.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.

Tax Payer moves into the clinch successfully.
Barbosa misses with a hook to the ribs.
Tax Payer scores with a shot to the side of Barbosa's head.
Tax Payer keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Barbosa's efforts to push away.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Barbosa scores with an uppercut up the middle.
Barbosa can't find room to land a body shot as Tax Payer controls the action.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Tax Payer.
Barbosa scores with a nice hook to the head.
Tax Payer gets through Barbosa's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Barbosa is pushing Tax Payer up against the cage, for a bit of lean and pray action. Action being used the in the loosest possible sense of the word.
Finnish Tax Payer seems to be working more effectively in the clinch in the fight so far.

Tax Payer's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
The fighters circling - Barbosa throws out the jab but it was never going to land.
Tax Payer throws out a counter right but Barbosa avoids it with no problem.
Barbosa takes a punch right to his stomach. That took the wind out of him momentarily.
Barbosa fakes a head punch and goes low to the body. Nicely done.
Barbosa tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Tax Payer was well out of range. Poor timing from Barbosa.
We've been told by Barbosa's head coaches at Ice Cream Parlour that he's been working on his takedown defense in preparation for this fight.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Barbosa throws a right hand that misses
and Tax Payer counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.
Barbosa looks to land a right hand but Tax Payer moved out of range.
Barbosa misses with a body shot.
A little jabbing left from Tax Payer on the counter but it doesn't find it's target.
Well, he's not going to score with shots like that. A lazy body kick attempt from Tax Payer.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Barbosa lands a leg kick that knocks Tax Payer off balance momentarily.
Barbosa cracks Tax Payer with a nice right hand that draws applause from the crowd.

Tax Payer gets in close and instigates a clinch.
Tax Payer has been looking to improve his clinch game in recent weeks. Barbosa seems to have the measure of him in the clinch so far, so let's see if Tax Payer can turn it around.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Tax Payer lands a left hand.
Tax Payer lands a right hand.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Barbosa.
Tax Payer misses with a punch on the inside.
Barbosa lands a nice uppercut.
Barbosa has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.
A hook to the body from Tax Payer.

Tax Payer breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.

Tax Payer lands a big head kick that sends Barbosa tumbling to the mat! Tax Payer takes a step backwards and waves Barbosa back to his feet - he wants the finish!

Barbosa is rocked!
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Tax Payer weaves into range and cracks Barbosa right on the temple with a beautiful overhand right! Barbosa goes down! He's out cold! Wow, what a beautiful knockout! Tax Payer is strutting round the canvas like a movie star as the camera bulbs flash frantically.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:44 of round 3, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Finnish Tax Payer!
After winning the bout, Finnish Tax Payer thanked all his fans and promised he'd do even better in his next fight. The crowd seemed to love his humility.