PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Ta Sau Yat (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ziggy Vondopolous (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Sau Yat comes to the cage accompanied by 周杰倫 - 青花瓷. The crowd seem to be enjoying Vondopolous's choice of entrance music: ГРОТ - Рубежи. Ta Sau Yat has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Sau Yat
vs
Vondopolous

183 cm
27
185 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

188 cm
24
174 lbs
5 - 3 - 0

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Granite chin

Decent wrestler
Excellent boxer
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 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Ta Sau Yat!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Ziggy Vondopolous!
The judges for this bout are Skip Squint, Steve Erwin and Summer Carpenter.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Vondopolous is trying hard to land a takedown here. Sau Yat sprawls well and keeps this one on the feet.
Vondopolous shoots in for a takedown. He's persisting with it as Sau Yat sprawls well. Sau Yat wins this battle and keeps the fight standing. Vondopolous gets slowly back to his feet.
Vondopolous tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Sau Yat paws at him with a jab and circles away.

Sau Yat clinches up against the cage.
Vondopolous's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
Sau Yat throws a punch but it's blocked by Vondopolous.

Vondopolous manages to break the clinch.
Nice straight punches there by Sau Yat. You know Roy Jones Jr respects the hands of Sau Yat.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Vondopolous uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Sau Yat.
Sau Yat is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Sau Yat misses with a hook.
The fight stays on the outside here - Vondopolous looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Sau Yat stuffs the takedown.
Ta Sau Yat has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Ziggy Vondopolous.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are starting to boo a lack of action.
Sau Yat swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Vondopolous fails in his attempt to clinch.
Sau Yat throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
A shot to the body from Sau Yat misses

and Vondopolous counters by moving into the clinch.
Sau Yat just leaning against Vondopolous, taking a breather.
Vondopolous working aggressively here.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Vondopolous can't break the clinch.
A nice left hand lands by Sau Yat.
Sau Yat blocking some punches.
Vondopolous swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Sau Yat blocking some punches.
Vondopolous misses with a short punch on the inside.
Sau Yat goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Sau Yat tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Vondopolous's elbow.
Sau Yat pushes Vondopolous back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Vondopolous.
Sau Yat tries to work over Vondopolous's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Sau Yat lands a shoulder strike.
Vondopolous lands a hook to the body. It's hard to tell if that hurt Sau Yat or not.
Sau Yat presses Vondopolous against the cage and delivers a mid-strength body shot.
Vondopolous is trying to stall.
Sau Yat tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Sau Yat tries to throw a body punch but Vondopolous avoids it by throwing Sau Yat back against the cage.
Sau Yat slows down the pace here.
Vondopolous goes for a takedown attempt but Sau Yat pushes him away and we're back to fighting at a distance.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

Sau Yat moves into the clinch successfully.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Vondopolous misses with some punches.
Still in the clinch, Vondopolous scores with a nice short uppercut.
Some stalling of biblical proportions here from Vondopolous.
Vondopolous letting Sau Yat take a breather here.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
A short left from Sau Yat.
A short uppercut from Vondopolous.
Sau Yat misses with a punch to the body.
Vondopolous throws a head punch that misses.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

That was a close round but I would say that Ta Sau Yat will probably get the nod.
The corners get their ten second warning. Both fighters stand from their stools and stare eachother down, ready to get back to the action.

Vondopolous shoots in looking for a takedown but Sau Yat manages to keep the fight standing, pushing Vondopolous's face into the canvas for good measure before circling away.

Sau Yat moves into the clinch.
Vondopolous swings wildly with an uppercut but Sau Yat uses good head movement to avoid it.
Vondopolous can't break the clinch.
Sau Yat blocking some punches.
Sau Yat is trying to stall.
Sau Yat can't find room to land a body shot as Vondopolous controls the action.
A short left from Vondopolous.
A right hand to the body from Vondopolous.
Sau Yat misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Vondopolous lands a nice uppercut.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Sau Yat.
Sau Yat tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Vondopolous's elbow.
Vondopolous tries to throw a body punch but Sau Yat avoids it by throwing Vondopolous back against the cage.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Sau Yat throws a hook to the body. More of an arm punch but it's all scoring with the judges.
Sau Yat is trying to maintain a safe position but Vondopolous gets an underhook and turns Sau Yat into the cage.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Sau Yat.
Sau Yat's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
Vondopolous fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Sau Yat leaning against his opponent.

Vondopolous's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Ta Sau Yat is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Vondopolous tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Vondopolous fails with a rather predictable takedown attempt.
Vondopolous walks into a left hand.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Vondopolous fails to land the takedown.
Ta Sau Yat has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Ziggy Vondopolous.

Vondopolous fakes an overhand right and shoots for a takedown. Sau Yat sprawls well initially but Vondopolous persists and gets the takedown into half guard.
This has been an exciting period of action!
It looks like the ref is thinking about a standup.
Vondopolous is trying to control the action in half guard but Sau Yat is working away on the bottom, looking perhaps to get back to full guard.
Vondopolous lands with a punch from half guard.
Vondopolous thows a wild elbow that connects with the canvas.
Vondopolous sitting in half guard, looking to land shots. Sau Yat defending well though.
Vondopolous has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Sau Yat keeping control of the position.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Vondopolous frees up his trapped foot and advances to mount.
Vondopolous misses with a head shot.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Sau Yat is in a horrible position here, under a barrage of strikes, he's managing to avoid any damage.
Vondopolous throws some wild stikes that Sau Yat manages to avoid easily.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Sau Yat avoids a series of strikes thrown by Vondopolous.
Vondopolous is in the full mount, landing strikes.
Vondopolous lands an elbow that was bordering on illegal but the referee lets it go with a warning.
Vondopolous postures up and cracks his opponent a couple of times before moving back into close ground control. Sau Yat looks a forlorn figure.
Sau Yat on his back here. We all know that wrestlers don't like being on their back so let's see if Sau Yat tries to get out of the position.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
This has been an exciting period of action!
The fighters are starting to get a bit slippery now, which will make submissions a bit more difficult.
Vondopolous is still in mount, landing shots to his trapped opponent. Sau Yat can't stay in a position like this for much longer.
Sau Yat in a bad spot here, taking shots to the head.
Vondopolous lands a couple of nice shots there from mount.
Vondopolous postures up and connects with a big shot that has rocked Sau Yat badly. He's trying desperately to grab hold of Vondopolous around the waist but Vondopolous pushes him off and unloads with more strikes, forcing the referee to jump in and save him! Vondopolous is the winner by TKO! Vondopolous jumps onto the cage and shouts into the camera. "We did it momma!"

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:46 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Ziggy Vondopolous!
Ziggy Vondopolous took to the microphone after his victory and thanked his sponsors, Milwaukee's Best 159's - $75 for their support in the buildup to the fight.