PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Hugues De Payen (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Kake Nyrkki (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

De Payen
vs
Nyrkki

185 cm
22
180 lbs
6 - 1 - 0

186 cm
21
185 lbs
5 - 1 - 1

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent boxer
Cardio machine

BJJ Brown Belt
Good low kicks
Powerful

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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 6 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Hugues De Payen!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 1 - 1, fighting out of Helsinki, Kake Nyrkki!
The judges for this bout are Marco Blurström, Roosa Järviläinen and Johanna Lukiainen.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
De Payen bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
Nyrkki connects with a slap. Keep your fist closed son.
Nyrkki lets the fists fly and connects with a left straight followed by a right hook.
Nyrkki loads up on a big right hand but De Payen slips the punch.
Nyrkki is looking to clinch.
De Payen looks to land a body kick but Nyrkki moved away.
Nyrkki scores with a nice right hand.
Nyrkki lands a nice leg kick that just misses De Payen's sensitive parts.
Good standup being displayed there by Nyrkki as he connects with a hook.
Nyrkki moves into range and throws a lovely three punch combination.
Nyrkki scores with a slapping inside leg kick.
De Payen scores with a hook to the body. Nyrkki takes a step back and tries to catch his breath.
De Payen takes a thudding leg kick, right into the meat of the thigh.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
De Payen misses with a low kick as Nyrkki jumps back.

That's one minute gone in the round.
De Payen throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Nyrkki.
Nyrkki tries to clinch up but De Payen circles away and keeps his distance.
Nyrkki scores with a straight right hand, right through his opponent's guard.
Nyrkki tries to clinch up.
De Payen misses the jab.
De Payen checks a low kick from Nyrkki.
A slapping leg kick lands for Nyrkki.
Kake Nyrkki seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Nyrkki pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Nyrkki throws a right hand that misses
and De Payen counters with a stiff right hand.
De Payen blocks a jab.
De Payen avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
De Payen finds nothing but air with that leg kick attempt.
Nyrkki swings widly with a right hand
and De Payen counters with a straight right hand.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Nyrkki throws a lazy head kick
and De Payen counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.

It looks like Kake Nyrkki has been cut.
De Payen looks to score with a jab to the body but Nyrkki is just out of range.
Nyrkki throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.
Nyrkki tries to clinch up.
Nyrkki throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Nyrkki misses with a head kick.
A head kick by Nyrkki misses
and De Payen makes him pay by landing a thudding low kick.
De Payen displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Nyrkki throws out the jab.
De Payen clobbers Nyrkki with an overhand right that has the crowd gasping. That made a horrendous noise.
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!
Nyrkki tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
De Payen lands a head shot.
De Payen uses good head movement to avoid the hook from Nyrkki.
De Payen swats away the attempt to clinch by Nyrkki.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Nyrkki on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
Nyrkki looks gassed!
De Payen stuns Nyrkki with a nice body shot, before stepping back out of range.
De Payen lands with a thumping leg kick.
De Payen lands a leg kick. The shin dug right into the meat of the thigh.
Nyrkki checks a leg kick.
De Payen misses the jab.
De Payen wants to slow Nyrkki down by chopping away at his legs.
The fight stays on the outside here - Nyrkki looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Nyrkki misses with a right hand
and De Payen counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Nyrkki moves in looking to clinch but De Payen pushes him off.
Nyrkki gets cracked with a nice right hand there by De Payen.
Nyrkki moves out of range as De Payen strikes.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
De Payen avoids the head kick by Nyrkki.
Nyrkki on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
De Payen wants to slow Nyrkki down by chopping away at his legs.
Nyrkki thows a leg kick but De Payen checks it
and De Payen counters with an inside leg kick.
De Payen misses with a body shot.
De Payen looks to score with a jab to the body but Nyrkki is just out of range.
De Payen fakes a jab and scores with a low kick.
De Payen throws the kick towards the body but Nyrkki avoids it.
Nyrkki throws a poor cross that misses
and De Payen cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Boom, another hit is landed. "You're gunna get knocked out" taunts De Payen, as that shot connected.

That has opened up Kake Nyrkki's cut even more.
De Payen misses with a low kick.

Oooooh!!! De Payen has knocked Nyrkki down with a huge combo! De Payen steps away and waves a wobbly Nyrkki back to his feet! This one might not go much longer!
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Hugues De Payen dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Kake Nyrkki's cut.
That's time! Back to the action!

De Payen misses the shot to the body.
De Payen misses with an uppercut.
A jab from De Payen finds it's way through Nyrkki's defenses.
A jab from Nyrkki misses.
De Payen tries a low kick but Nyrkki avoids it.
Nyrkki throws a lazy uppercut
and De Payen counters with a low kick, right behind Nyrkki 's knee.
Nyrkki blocks a head kick by De Payen.
Nyrkki looks for the body kick but De Payen saw that one coming.
Nyrkki fails with an attempt to clinch.
De Payen connects with a lovely jab that went straight through the gap between Nyrkki's hands.
De Payen lands a nice leg kick that just misses Nyrkki's sensitive parts.
Nyrkki is breathing heavily.
Nyrkki scores with a sloppy right hand. De Payen should have avoided that one.
Nice straight punches there by Nyrkki. You know Roy Jones Jr respects the hands of Nyrkki.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Nyrkki takes a body punch but keeps moving.
De Payen lands a nice looking body shot.
A good leg kick by De Payen.
Good exchange - De Payen coming out on top.
De Payen jabbing away but nothing is landing.
De Payen misses with a looping left.
De Payen jabs Nyrkki to the body, keeping him at a distance.
De Payen lands a nice hook to Nyrkki's body. Nyrkki takes it in his stride and looks to land his own strikes.
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!
De Payen turns his hip over beautifully as he lands a nice leg kick.
This fight brought to you by 5M nutrition - it's mmmmm tasty. Nice jab by De Payen.
De Payen moving in and out of range nicely, whilst landing the scoring shot.

Nyrkki is rocked!

The cut above Kake Nyrkki's eye is starting to cause him problems now.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Nyrkki checks the leg kick nicely there.
Nyrkki is still on wobbly legs! Can De Payen finish him?
De Payen throws a hook to the side of Nyrkki's head but Nyrkki sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
Nyrkki seems to have recovered his senses.
De Payen ducks down and throws a hook to the body.
OH! Nyrkki has been rocked by a huge right hand and is in deep trouble! De Payen smells blood and charges in for the finish! De Payen unloads a vicious overhand right and connects to the jaw of Nyrkki sending him face first to the canvas! Unbelievable!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:21 of round 2, we have a winner by way of KO (Punches). Hugues De Payen!