PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Alexander Igor (ranked 3979 p4p, 23780 weight class) and Eftihios Nicolau (ranked 477 p4p, 560 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Igor
vs
Nicolau

176 cm
25
177
4 - 7 - 0

190 cm
25
170
0 - 2 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
World class MT
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
Lethal high kicks
Good gas tank

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 4 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Alexander Igor!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Eftihios Nicolau!
The judges for this bout are Darius Henderson, Ron Honeybunn and Summer Carpenter.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Nicolau misses with a hook.
Igor bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
Igor throws a head kick but Nicolau moves out of range.
Igor moves into range and lands a nice body kick.
Nicolau throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Donk. Nicolau catches Igor right on the button with a cross.

It looks like Alexander Igor has been cut.
Igor bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.

Nicolau has managed to clinch.
Nicolau takes an elbow to the temple.
Nicolau lands with a short punch from the clinch.
Igor digs a right hand into Nicolau's ribs. Those have got to be taking their toll on Nicolau's gas tank.
Igor blocks an uppercut.
Nicolau misses with a punch on the inside.
Nicolau misses with a hook to the ribs.
I was talking to Igor's coach per-fight and he was telling me that they'd been working on the clinch in the runup to this fight.
Nicolau misses with a short punch on the inside.
Nicolau is pushing Igor up against the cage, for a bit of lean and pray action. Action being used the in the loosest possible sense of the word.
Igor tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Nicolau takes an elbow to the temple.
Nicolau scores with an uppercut up the middle.
A short right from Nicolau.
Igor tries to work over Nicolau's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Nicolau can't find room to land a body shot as Igor controls the action.
An uppercut to the body lands inside from Nicolau.
Nicolau doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
A right hook to the body lands for Nicolau.
Igor softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Igor pushes off an throws an elbow but Nicolau leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.

Igor breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Igor is looking to clinch.
Nicolau misses with a body shot.
Igor takes a body punch but keeps moving.
Eftihios Nicolau seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Igor throws a head kick that misses.
Nicolau scores with a jab.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Igor throws a push kick but Nicolau slaps the foot to one side.
Igor looks for the body kick but Nicolau saw that one coming.
Nicolau is the aggressor but that punch slipped nicely by Igor.
Igor throws a counter high kick but Nicolau was just alert enough to avoid it.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Igor throws a hook but Nicolau avoids it easily.
Nicolau lands a beauty of a right hand that gets the crowd cheering.
Nicolau scores with a straight right hand, right through his opponent's guard.
Nice straight punches there by Nicolau. You know Roy Jones Jr respects the hands of Nicolau.
Nicolau throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.
Nicolau scores with a jab to the jaw of his opponent.

Igor is rocked!
Nicolau closes the distance and lands a vicious right hand that drops Igor! Nicolau dives in looking to finish! Igor is still trying to defend himself but he's taking too many shots and the referee has no choice but to stop the fight!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:29 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Eftihios Nicolau!