PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Kenzo Abukara (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Mike Meyers (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Buckle up people - heeeeeeeeeere we go!

Abukara
vs
Meyers

190 cm
20
205 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

190 cm
21
204 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Brawler
Self confident

Good wrestler
Counter striker
Experienced

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 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Kenzo Abukara!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Mike Meyers!
The judges for this bout are Taro Takaoka, Yasuomi Hirokawa and Sosuke Kotani.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Abukara misses with a double jab.
Abukara swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.
Abukara throws a combination but comes up with nothing but fresh air.
Abukara throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Meyers.
Abukara misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Meyers dodges the punch combination from Abukara.
Abukara throws a nice looking combination but Meyers bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Abukara misses with a series of wild punches.
Abukara takes a swing at Meyers's ribcage but misses.
Abukara misses with a few strikes there.
Abukara throws a nice looking combination but Meyers bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Abukara is breathing heavily.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Good work by Meyers as he checks the leg kick.
Abukara misses with a few strikes there.
Meyers goes for a spinning back kick but it misses.
Meyers avoids a punch combination nicely.
Meyers throws a combination but comes up with nothing but fresh air.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Meyers shoots in and bounces Abukara off the cage to secure the takedown into guard.
Meyers stands up over Abukara, holding his feet. He dives back in and lands a decent shot to the head.
Meyers scoring with some ground and pound.
Meyers cracks Abukara with a solid left hand.
Meyers working from the guard for now, landing some ground and pound.
Meyers cracks Abukara with a solid left hand.
Meyers works over Abukara with some ground and pound from guard.
Abukara can't keep his opponent in guard - Meyers advances to half guard, no doubt looking to mount.
Abukara on his back here. We all know that wrestlers don't like being on their back so let's see if Abukara tries to get out of the position.
Abukara punching from the bottom.
Nice strikes from Meyers there.
Abukara knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Meyers on the ground.
Meyers lands with an elbow from half guard - that looked like it hurt.
Meyers frees up his trapped foot and advances to mount.
Meyers prevents Abukara from getting the reversal.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Meyers tries to control but Abukara wriggling away.
Abukara throwing punches from his back but nothing is landing.
Abukara is working to get back to half guard.
Meyers punishing his opponent with strikes.
Abukara tries to reverse the position but Meyers maintains control.
Meyers scores with a couple of good head shots there.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Meyers looking to finish Abukara with some ground and pound. This is bad for Abukara!
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Meyers landing strikes, looking to finish!

Abukara is rocked!
Meyers working away from the top, dropping strikes.
Oh Abukara is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Meyers is in the full mount, landing strikes.
Meyers landing strikes from the mount.
Meyers scoring with strikes but Abukara is staying in there.
Abukara is in a horrible position here. Meyers smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.
Abukara is in a horrible position here. Meyers smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.
The fighters are going at a pretty good pace and they're both starting to sweat now.
Abukara is working to get back to half guard.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Meyers cracks Abukara with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
Meyers lands with some vicious ground and pound - can Abukara hang on?
Meyers punishing his opponent with strikes.
Meyers can't quite control the action as he would like just now, as Abukara is looking to escape.
Abukara is desperately trying to get back to half guard.
A nice elbow there by Meyers.
Meyers is in the full mount, landing strikes.
Meyers scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish Abukara?
A nice elbow there by Meyers.
Meyers working Abukara over with strikes here.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Abukara is in a horrible position here. Meyers smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.
Meyers breaks from Abukara's wrist control and lands an elbow.
Meyers with a couple of short strikes.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The referee warns Abukara that he has to improve his position here as he takes two more clean shots to the head.
Meyers raining down shots from the mount!
Meyers controlling the pace for now.
Meyers with a couple of short strikes.
Meyers raining down shots from the mount!
Meyers lands a shot to the body, followed up by a shot to the exposed head of his trapped opponent.
Meyers unloading with bombs!
Abukara is looking to get to half guard.
Meyers scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish Abukara?
Abukara is wriggling around trying to escape.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Meyers landing strikes, looking to finish!
Abukara throwing punches from his back but nothing is landing.
Meyers with good strikes from the mount here!
Abukara throwing punches from his back but nothing is landing.
Meyers has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Abukara is working to get back to half guard.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Mike Meyers dominated that round.
That's time! Abukara's corner gives him a slap on the ass as he gets ready to fight.

Meyers fails miserably with a takedown attempt.
Meyers fails with a takedown attempt from distance.
Some bone on bone action there as Abukara checks a low kick. Luckily it wasn't a particularly hard one.
Meyers swinging wilding here.
Meyers fails with the takedown.
Kenzo Abukara has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Mike Meyers.
Meyers changes levels and looks for a double leg takedown. Abukara tries to avoid it but Meyers manages to keep hold of a leg and drag Abukara to the ground. Abukara escapes though and pops straight back up to his feet.
A punch combination from Meyers misses.
Meyers closes this distance looking for a takedown but Abukara circles away.
Meyers rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Abukara moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Meyers shoots in for a takedown but doesn't get it.
Meyers fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Meyers throws a right and a left that Abukara avoids nicely.
Meyers misses with a combination

and Abukara counters with a shoot takedown. Meyers fights it but they end up in guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Meyers trying to strike from the bottom but really, it's not the best position to be doing that from!
Abukara stopping the sweep attempt from Meyers.
Meyers is persisting with the attempt to improve his position.
Meyers striking off his back but it's not causing Abukara any problems.
Meyers trying to strike off his back.
Meyers throws a couple of weedy looking strikes off his back.

Well, the referee has seen enough. Neither fighter is active enough on the ground so he's stood them back up.
Meyers misses with a takedown attempt - Abukara sprawls well and throws a nice strike on the way out which just misses.
Meyers throws a right and a left that both miss.
Meyers shoots for a takedown but Abukara saw that one coming a mile off and avoided it easily.
Kenzo Abukara is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Meyers throws a looping left and ducks down for a takedown. He's got his arms around Abukara's waist but Abukara gets an underhook and avoids the takedown by throwing Meyers off to one side.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are starting to boo a lack of action.
Meyers tries to work over Abukara's front leg with a kick but Abukara checks it.
Abukara keeps the fight standing with a nice sprawl.
Kenzo Abukara seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Meyers fails with a takedown attempt from distance.
Meyers misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Meyers tries to bum rush Abukara with a series of wild strikes but Abukara uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Meyers fails to land the takedown.
Abukara slips a jab and a cross from Meyers.
Abukara seems to have got his legs back now.
Abukara throws a right hand that Meyers ducks under and follows up with a left that Meyers also avoids with ease.
Abukara throws a wild combination but nothing lands.
A big right from Abukara misses.
Abukara misses with the combination.

Meyers gets a takedown into half guard.
Meyers seems to be taking a bit of a break to think of his next move. He lands a short punch in the meantime.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Abukara gets full guard.
Abukara wants to sweep but no luck.
Meyers postures up and lands a big shot to Abukara's brow.
Meyers throwing strikes but missing.
Meyers wants to pass the guard but Abukara is keeping the position.
Meyers trying to move into half guard but instead Abukara has managed to sweep!
Meyers is striking from the bottom but Abukara uses the opportunity to pass into half guard.
Meyers wants to control but Abukara is keeping busy.
Meyers moves into full guard.
There's a bit of a scramble here and now Meyers is on top in guard.
Meyers scoring with some ground and pound.
Meyers postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Meyers lands a couple of elbows.
Meyers pushes down on Abukara's leg and manages to get into half guard.
Abukara is looking to get back to is feet but Meyers passes into side control.
Mike Meyers has got the better of the ground game so far.
Abukara tries to work a leg under to get back to half guard but Meyers wriggles his own leg back out and remains in side control.
Abukara is trying to get back to his feet.
Meyers landing strikes.
Abukara is looking to regain half guard here but Meyers keeps moving and retains side control.
Abukara can't do much from the bottom here.
Abukara looks to move to half guard but instead Meyers has passed into mount! Damn!
Meyers cracks Abukara with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
Abukara tries to hold on but Meyers postures up.
Abukara is looking to get to half guard.
Meyers avoids the attempt from Abukara to control.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

That was a close second round but I would say that Kenzo Abukara will probably get the nod.
The referee calls time. The cornermen exit stage left and we're back to business. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the final round!

Meyers takes a jab on the nose there. A little bit of blood seems to be coming out. Hopefully that won't affect his breathing.
Abukara blocks a head kick by Meyers.
Abukara misses with a jab, cross combination.
Abukara misses with a two punch combination.
Abukara swinging wilding here.
Abukara throws a right and a left that Meyers avoids nicely.

Abukara gets caught flat footed, as Meyers shoots in with a quick takedown into guard.
Meyers stands up over Abukara, holding his feet. He dives back in and lands a decent shot to the head.
Meyers passes into half guard.
Meyers trying to control from half guard but Abukara is working away.
Abukara is trying to stand up here but Meyers is controlling him well.
The referee walks around the fighters to get a better view of the action. Meyers lands a nice short elbow.
Meyers thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed Abukara's head.
Meyers takes a big intake of breath there - he's definitely tired.
Abukara is looking for a sweep. Meyers is wise to his cunning plan and keeps the top position.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Meyers drops an elbow to the side of Abukara's head.
Abukara is refusing to be controlled, as Meyers sits in half guard.
Meyers is taking a breather. Abukara says something to him but it's hard to make out. Perhaps he's telling him to get on with it and actually do something.
Abukara has hold of Meyers's hands but Meyers slips his arm to the side and lands an elbow.
Abukara missing with punches from the bottom.
Neither fighter is being very active at the moment, with Meyers in particular looking to stall.
Abukara has hold of Meyers's hands but Meyers slips his arm to the side and lands an elbow.
Meyers trying to control the action but Abukara is working from the bottom.
Abukara wants to improve his position but Meyers is controlling well.
Meyers is keeping good posture, landing some ground and pound.
Meyers wants to lay and pray for a moment but Abukara keeps working.
Meyers lands a big shot. The thud that echoes around the arena is like music to the fans' ears.
Abukara wants to get back to full guard.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Meyers lands with an elbow from half guard - that looked like it hurt.
Meyers lands with an elbow from half guard - that looked like it hurt.
Abukara manages to get to full guard.
Meyers preventing the sweep.

Abukara pushes Meyers off for just long enough to get back to his feet. Very athletic spring there.
Abukara lands a jab, followed by a cross and another cross, as Meyers backs up against the cage.
Abukara throws a right hand that Meyers ducks under and follows up with a left that Meyers also avoids with ease.
Meyers moves out of range as Abukara strikes.
Abukara looks to score with a jab to the body but Meyers is just out of range.
Abukara looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.
Abukara looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Abukara misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Meyers misses with a few strikes there.
Abukara misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Meyers.
Abukara throws a wild combination but nothing lands.
Meyers showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Abukara.
Abukara misses with a straight right.
Abukara throws a right and a left that both miss.
Abukara misses with an uppercut.
Abukara throws a right and a left that both miss.
Abukara misses with a double jab.

Meyers closes the distance and gets a double leg, slamming Abukara to the mat! Abukara manages to get full guard.
Abukara will have to put a bit more behind his punches if he's going to do any damage from this position.
Meyers distracts Abukara with his right hand and drops a big elbow with his other arm.
Meyers trying to control the position from guard on top but Abukara is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Meyers makes a bit of distance and scores with some ground and pound, still in guard.
Meyers scoring with some ground and pound.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Meyers lands a nice shot whilst sitting in his opponent's guard.
Meyers works over Abukara with some ground and pound from guard.
Meyers connects with a couple of short punches.
Abukara trying to keep a closed guard but Meyers is proving a slippery customer.
Abukara keeping moving, preventing Meyers from controlling successfully.
Meyers preventing the sweep.
Abukara is working the butterfly guard. He manages to land a nice scissor sweep and is now in half guard on the top. Nice move.
Meyers avoiding damage under a succession of punches from Abukara.
Abukara lands a massive shot from half guard that has rocked Meyers! More strikes land and this one is all over! Abukara jumps to his feet and is applauded loudly by the crowd!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:55 of round 3, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Kenzo Abukara!