PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight kickboxing rules bout between Bryan Ducharme (ranked 4518 p4p, 24691 weight class) and Stan Young (ranked 563 p4p, 653 weight class). Both fighter's entrance songs getting the crowd jumping here.

Ducharme
vs
Young

198 cm
18
214
1 - 0 - 0

185 cm
20
200
2 - 6 - 0

Excellent boxer
Big heart

Great elbows
Heavy handed

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 St Petersburg, Bryan Ducharme!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 6 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Stan Young!
The judges for this bout are Shirou Masuda, Yasuomi Hirokawa and Sosuke Kotani.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Ducharme throws a couple of head shots and lands with the final one - a decent hook, which struck Young on the side of the head.
Young on the wrong end of a vicious looking body shot.

Ducharme closes the distance and clinches.
Ducharme lands with a left to the head.
Young dictating the pace here, as the fighters clinch against the ropes.
Young wants to stall.
Ducharme lands a right hand.
Ducharme lands with a short punch from the clinch.

Young manages to break the clinch.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Ducharme misses with a hook to the body
and Young counters with a nice uppercut.

It looks like Bryan Ducharme has been cut.
Ducharme's corner calls for a 1-2. Ducharme obliges with the 1 part as he scores the single shot and moves back out of range.

Ducharme has taken the fight to the clinch.
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!
Young is trying to slow down the pace of the fight but Ducharme is keeping busy.
Ducharme lands a shoulder strike.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Ducharme stalling the fight.
Ducharme working some nice short punches in the clinch.
A short right from Ducharme.
Ducharme effectively controlling the action here.
Ducharme lands a left hand that snaps the head of Young backwards.
I was talking to Ducharme's coach per-fight and he was telling me that they'd been working on the clinch in the runup to this fight.
Ducharme lands a nice uppercut.
Ducharme lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Young backwards.
Ducharme stalling in the clinch.
Young missing with knees to the body.
Ducharme is stalling here.

Young manages to break the clinch.
Young misses with a looping left.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Ducharme ducks down and throws a hook to the body.
Ducharme ducks low and lands a nice hook to the body of his opponent.
Ducharme misses with a lunging right hand

and Young counters with a lead uppercut that lands right on the button! Ducharme goes down! Will Ducharme beat the count? 3,4,5 - he's up! No problem. Let's get back to the action!

Ducharme is rocked!
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Ducharme throws a sloppy body shot
and Young counters with a lead uppercut that lands right on the button! Ducharme goes down! Will Ducharme beat the count? 3,4,5,6,7,8... he's not going to make it! 9,10! He's out!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:24 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punch). Stan Young!