PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight kickboxing rules bout between Marious La De Hoya (ranked 22251 p4p, 23339 weight class) and En Route (ranked 470 p4p, 453 weight class). These two fighters really are very evenly matched on the feet - it will be fascinating to see who can assert themselves in that aspect of the fight.

La De Hoya
vs
Route

169 cm
43
140
38 - 17 - 1

170 cm
24
155
13 - 6 - 1

World class MT
KO power

World class MT
Granite chin

Warrior's Way

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 38 - 17 - 1, fighting out of Amsterdam, Marious La De Hoya!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 13 - 6 - 1, fighting out of Amsterdam, En Route!
The judges for this bout are Yukihiro Yamamoto, Ren Mimura and Shirou Masuda.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
La De Hoya avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Route thuds a left hand into La De Hoya's body.
Route takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Route throws a body kick but he wasn't in range.
La De Hoya misses with an uppercut. Route saw that one coming.
La De Hoya misses with a hook.
La De Hoya works Route's body with a nice hook.
Route tries to score with an inside leg kick but telegraphs it and La De Hoya is able to avoid easily.
La De Hoya tries to clinch there but Route circles away.
Route throws a body kick that misses.
La De Hoya connects with a crisp jab.
Route keeps the fight on the outside.
Route 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.
La De Hoya uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Route.
Route misses with a body shot.
La De Hoya scores with a reasonable looking shot to the body. Route doesn't seem bothered though.
La De Hoya lands a jab to the head.
La De Hoya ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Route moves away.
Route sizes up La De Hoya with a pawing jab and scores with a straight right down the middle.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
La De Hoya throws the left hand but Route avoids the punch easily.
Route lands a right hook to the body.
La De Hoya goes for a spinning back kick but it misses.
Route throws the kick towards the body but La De Hoya avoids it.
Route swings for the body but La De Hoya moves out of range.
Wow, both these guys are really going for it!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Route takes a push kick to the midsection and stumbles backwards.
La De Hoya misses with a left hand
and Route counters with a straight punch to the midsection.
La De Hoya displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Route throws out the jab.
Route buckles his opponent's knee momentarily with a nice leg kick.
La De Hoya takes one to the chin there.
Route lands a glancing blow to the side of La De Hoya's head.
Route keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from La De Hoya.
La De Hoya throws a right high kick that is partially blocked by Route.
La De Hoya moves out of range of the body kick from Route.
Route on the receiving end of a decent leg kick there by La De Hoya. La De Hoya obviously looking to wear him down.
La De Hoya throws a body kick that sends a sickening thudding noise reverberating around the arena.
La De Hoya walks forward, straight into a front kick from Route.
This has been an exciting period of action!
La De Hoya lands with a right hand.
Route throws a body shot but no joy.
Route misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from La De Hoya.
Route misses with a low kick.
Good work by Route as he checks the leg kick.
La De Hoya throws a body kick but he wasn't in range.
La De Hoya swings for the body but Route moves out of range.
La De Hoya connects with a single shot there.
Route moves out of range as La De Hoya strikes.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Route misses with a straight left.
La De Hoya digs a good hook to Route's body.
A head kick misses from La De Hoya.
Route attempts a leg kick but it's missed by a good margin.
Route with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
La De Hoya walks into a left hand.
La De Hoya blocks a low kick nicely.
La De Hoya throws a decent looking leg kick but it doesn't land clean.
Route looked like he wanted to counter with a punch but didn't throw it.
Route stumbles momentarily as he takes a strong leg kick from La De Hoya.
Route swats away the attempt to clinch by La De Hoya.
La De Hoya dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
Route tried to score with a low kick but La De Hoya checks it.

La De Hoya gets in close and instigates a clinch.
The crowd applaud the fighters' efforts here as the round comes to an end.
La De Hoya goes for a body shot but it's blocked.

Route manages to break the clinch.
La De Hoya lands with a hook. Route tried to avoid it but it clipped the top of his head.
Route throws a head kick but La De Hoya moves out of range.
A jab from Route misses.
And that is the end of the round. The fighters go back to their corners.

That was a close round but I would say that Marious La De Hoya will probably get the nod.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action!

La De Hoya bobs and weaves and then throws a good body kick.
La De Hoya tries to land a leg kick but Route saw it coming and moves away.
La De Hoya throws a front kick that sends Route stumbling back into the ropes.
La De Hoya tries a head kick but it misses.

La De Hoya clinches up with Route and pushes him back against the ropes.
La De Hoya pushes Route back against the ropes and lands a hook to the side of the head.
Route blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
La De Hoya crunches a lovely knee into Route's ribcage.
La De Hoya is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Route is defending well for now.
Route is working La De Hoya over against the ropes.
Route tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Route lands a left hand that snaps the head of La De Hoya backwards.
Route has a couple of punches blocked by La De Hoya.
La De Hoya goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Route tries a body shot but La De Hoya blocks it.
It really doesn't seem like the step up in weight is hurting La De Hoya here at all. He's more than holding his own against the bigger man.

Route manages to break the clinch.
La De Hoya swings away with a leg kick that misses.
La De Hoya lands a beauty of a right hand that gets the crowd cheering.
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!
Route throws a body shot but no joy.
La De Hoya scores with a body shot.
La De Hoya scores with a jab to the jaw of his opponent.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Route takes a step back and watches a body kick go sailing past his mid section.
Marious La De Hoya seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
La De Hoya is looking to land body kicks.
La De Hoya walks straight into an uppercut. Luckily it didn't land flush.
Route misses with a straight right.
La De Hoya is looking to counter with a shot to the body.
Some bone on bone action there as Route checks a low kick. Luckily it wasn't a particularly hard one.
La De Hoya connects with a good right hand that stumbles Route. Route circles away out of range and recomposes himself.
La De Hoya throws a body kick but he wasn't in range.
Route tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
La De Hoya works his jab well there, keeping his opponent at a distance.
Route takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
La De Hoya is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that Route can do to turn this around?
Route looking to throw a kick but he's pulled out of it.
Route scoring well with a low kick there.
La De Hoya is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
La De Hoya is pinned up against the ropes taking some big shots here. The referee is looking closely deciding whether he should stop the fight.
La De Hoya throws a half hearted mid kick.
La De Hoya tries to clinch there but Route circles away.
Route connects with a right hand. La De Hoya shakes it off.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
La De Hoya takes a jab right on the kisser.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
La De Hoya avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Route connects with a solid leg kick.
Route changes levels and scores with a jab to the body.
Route takes a swing at La De Hoya's ribcage but misses.
La De Hoya throws a quick counter head kick but Route was just out of range.
Route takes a swing at La De Hoya's ribcage but misses.
La De Hoya on the wrong end of a decent looking cross there.
A decent looking cross lands there for Route.
A jab from La De Hoya misses.
La De Hoya misses with a low kick.
La De Hoya is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Route throws a couple of head shots and lands with the final one - a decent hook, which struck La De Hoya on the side of the head.
The fight stays on the outside here - La De Hoya looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
The crowd applaud the fighters' efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Route jabs at La De Hoya's body.
La De Hoya lands a leg kick that knocks Route off balance momentarily.

La De Hoya has taken the fight to the clinch.
La De Hoya throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Routes head.
And that is the end of the round. The fighters go back to their corners.

That was a close second round but I would say that Marious La De Hoya will probably get the nod.
The minute break is over - no more time for sponges and pep talks - back to the action! This is the final round!

La De Hoya connects with the punch.
En Route has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!
Marious La De Hoya is fighting for a decision here - he's started to take the cautious approach.
Route checks a low kick from La De Hoya.
La De Hoya throws a low kick but Route moves out of range easily.

La De Hoya drives through and clinches with Route against the ropes.
Route swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Route working some nice short punches in the clinch.
Route doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. La De Hoya obliges.
Route wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
A short uppercut from La De Hoya.
La De Hoya scores with a hook to the body.
A shot in the inside from Route.
La De Hoya blocking some punches.
La De Hoya working some nice short punches in the clinch.
A short right hand to the side of the head by Route.
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!
Route prevents a body shot from La De Hoya.
Route misses with some punches.
La De Hoya tries to work over Route's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Route tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Route tries to work over La De Hoya's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Route.
Knees to the body from La De Hoya.
La De Hoya prevents a body shot from Route.
Route misses with the head strike.
Route lands with a right to the head.
La De Hoya missing with knees to the body.
A head punch on the inside from Route fails to land.

Route escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
La De Hoya throws a right hand that misses
and Route connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
La De Hoya scores with a jab to the body.
La De Hoya moves out of range of the body kick from Route.
Route moves out of range as La De Hoya throws a body kick.
Nice shot by La De Hoya.
Route looks for the body kick but La De Hoya saw that one coming.
Route steps to his left, right into the path of a big body kick from La De Hoya. That one must have hurt.
La De Hoya takes a punch right to his stomach. That took the wind out of him momentarily.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Route moves out of range of the strikes.
La De Hoya motions for Route to come forward. La De Hoya throws a leg kick but it misses it's target.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Route misses with a low kick.
Route looks for the body kick but La De Hoya saw that one coming.
Route connects with a body shot that sends La De Hoya's belly button to the back.
A nice inside leg kick there by Route. That's going to slow La De Hoya down.
A good leg kick by La De Hoya.
A good leg kick by La De Hoya.
Route ducks right into an uppercut from La De Hoya.
Oooooooooooh, not good. A low kick from Route lands where it shouldn't have, right in the... well, you know what he did? He kicked him in the penis. He's injured, injured bad. The referee sends both fighters to their corners and La De Hoya has 5 minutes to recover. He's OK now though... a thumbs up from La De Hoya and we're back underway with a touch of gloves.
Marious La De Hoya is winning the standup battle so far.
La De Hoya fakes a couple of low kicks, before throwing one on the third attempt. It connects and Route has to reset his feet before getting ready to engage.
A chopping leg kick lands by Route.
Route lands an overhand left. A wild punch that just about connected.
Route throws a jab but it's blocked by La De Hoya.
Route looks to land a body kick but La De Hoya moved away.
A slow jab from Route misses its intended target.
Route just manages to avoid a counter high kick fromLa De Hoya.
La De Hoya misses with a head kick.
The crowd applaud the fighters' efforts here as the round comes to an end.
La De Hoya is looking to slow Route down with leg kicks.
A low kick lands for La De Hoya.
La De Hoya keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
La De Hoya tries to close the distance and clinch up but Route swats him away and circles back towards the center.
La De Hoya uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Route.

And that's the end of the fight!
I would just about give that final round to En Route.
I think La De Hoya has won this one but let's see what the judges have to say. Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Yukihiro Yamamoto scores the fight 28:30
Judge Ren Mimura scores the fight 29:29
Judge Shirou Masuda scores the fight 29:29

The fight is ruled a majority draw!