PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Mirko Vucinic (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jesse Reeding (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Vucinic comes to the cage accompanied by Destroy Destroy Destroy - To Die Without Honor/The Winged Panther. These two fighters really are very evenly matched on the feet - it will be fascinating to see who can assert themselves in that aspect of the fight.

Vucinic
vs
Reeding

186 cm
23
193 lbs
7 - 5 - 0

190 cm
29
200 lbs
5 - 12 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent boxer
Very strong

BJJ Blue Belt
World class MT
Powerful

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 7 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Mirko Vucinic!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 12 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Jesse Reeding!
The judges for this bout are Roosa Järviläinen, Matti Vanhoillinen and Arvi Lind.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Vucinic clinches with his opponent.
Reeding throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Vucinic blocks it with crossed arms.
Reeding can't break the clinch.
Reeding misses with a knee strike.
Reeding throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Vucinic blocks it with crossed arms.
Reeding misses with a knee strike.
Reeding throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Vucinic blocks it with crossed arms.
Reeding misses with a knee to the head.
Reeding throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Vucinic blocks it with crossed arms.
Reeding tries to land a knee to the head but Vucinic blocks with his arms.
Reeding tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Vucinic unloads a knee to the mid-section.
Reeding looks gassed!

Vucinic breaks from the clinch.

Vucinic closes the distance and clinches.
Reeding with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Reeding looking to throw knees to the head but Vucinic is blocking nicely.

Vucinic escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Vucinic fakes a couple of low kicks, before throwing one on the third attempt. It connects and Reeding has to reset his feet before getting ready to engage.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Vucinic throws a body kick that sends a sickening thudding noise reverberating around the arena.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Vucinic pushes Reeding up against the cage in a clinch.
Reeding tries a knee to the head but Vucinic blocks it.
Reeding misses with a knee strike.
Vucinic leaning his opponent against the cage.
A short left from Vucinic.
Reeding on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Vucinic.
A short right hand to the side of the head by Vucinic.
Vucinic lands a body punch - he's looking to wear down Reeding.
Reeding managing to block the knees to the body from Vucinic.

Vucinic pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Good leg kick by Vucinic there. It's the ones that make that thud noise that hurt and that was an almighty thud.
A nice leg kick lands there from Vucinic.
Vucinic lands a jab, followed by a cross and another cross, as Reeding backs up against the cage.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!

Vucinic gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.

Vucinic's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Vucinic throws a right hand that Reeding ducks under and follows up with a left that Reeding also avoids with ease.
Reeding throws a sloppy head kick and Vucinic moves out of range easily.
Thud! ouch! good body kick from Vucinic - that will leave a mark!
Vucinic lands with a kick to the temple. Reeding shrugs as if to say "is that all you've got?"
Vucinic scores with a sloppy punch to the body. Not much technique there but it did the business.
A head kick misses from Vucinic.

Vucinic has closed the distance and engaged Reeding in a clinch.
Vucinic stalling here - the referee won't stand for too much of that.
Vucinic scores with a shot to the side of Reeding's head.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Vucinic lands an elbow just above Reeding 's eye.
Reeding wants to break the clinch but can't.
Reeding tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Reeding throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Vucinic blocks it with crossed arms.

Vucinic breaks the clinch.

Vucinic moves into the clinch.
Reeding misses with a knee to the head.
Vucinic tries to break the clinch but Reeding is controlling the position.
Vucinic tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Reeding avoiding damage as Vucinic throws knees to the body.
Reeding using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Vucinic has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Vucinic landing knees to the head.
Vucinic looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Vucinic lands with a light punch inside.
Reeding tries a knee to the head but Vucinic blocks it.
Reeding tries a knee to the head but Vucinic blocks it.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Vucinic lands a damaging elbow.
Reeding misses with a knee strike.
Vucinic content to slow the pace in the clinch.
Vucinic lands a nice looking hook to the body, against the cage.
Reeding tries a knee to the head but Vucinic blocks it.
Vucinic makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Reeding tries to land a knee to the head but Vucinic blocks with his arms.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Vucinic misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Reeding.
Vucinic lands a body punch in the clinch.

Vucinic escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Vucinic scores with a nice one two combo and darts back out of range to avoid anything coming in the opposite direction.

Reeding is rocked!

Vucinic closes the distance and presses his opponent up against the cage.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Reeding tries to land a knee to the head but Vucinic blocks with his arms.

Vucinic breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.

Vucinic moves into the clinch successfully.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Mirko Vucinic dominated that round.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action.

Reeding throws a sloppy head kick
and Vucinic counters with a nice body shot.
Mirko Vucinic seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Reeding pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Vucinic moves into range and throws a combination. A nice jab followed by a hook to the body.
Reeding is still on wobbly legs! Can Vucinic finish him?

Vucinic darts in and clinches Reeding up against the cage.
Reeding seems to have recovered his senses.
Reeding tries to land a knee to the head but Vucinic blocks with his arms.
Reeding tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Reeding tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Reeding wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Vucinic has him pressed against the cage.
Reeding misses with a knee to the head.
Vucinic stalling in the clinch.
Reeding keeps control of Vucinic as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Vucinic displaying some good clinch control by pressing Reeding up against the cage.
Reeding is breathing heavily.

Vucinic escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Reeding throws a head kick that misses
and Vucinic counters with a left and a right that stings Reeding.
Reeding throws a head kick but Vucinic moves out of range.
Vucinic fakes with a right hand and throws a good leg kick, right into the thigh. That had to hurt Reeding.
Vucinic throws a combination. Reeding tries to block but a couple of punches get through.
Vucinic cracks Reeding's jaw with two stiff jabs then ducks low and throws a soul-severing right uppercut to the mouth!! Reeding slumps to the ground with blood on his lips. The referee steps in before Vucinic can do further damage! This one is done, son!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:31 of round 2, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Mirko Vucinic!