PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Thomas Crown (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ari Sybert (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Ari Sybert is the more experienced fighter, so let's see if that makes a difference tonight.

Crown
vs
Sybert

183 cm
22
187 lbs
2 - 1 - 0

186 cm
23
190 lbs
5 - 3 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent boxer
Cardio machine

BJJ Purple Belt
World class boxer
Good gas tank

World-Class Nutrition

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 2 - 1 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Thomas Crown!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 3 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Ari Sybert!
The judges for this bout are Ivan Kurochkin, Aleksei Zolotukhin and Valeri Chadov.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Sybert avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Sybert misses with a left hand
and Crown counters with a straight punch to the midsection.
Crown swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Sybert is moving around nicely and scores here with a single head shot.
Crown missing with a left hand there. Sybert was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
Sybert looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
Sybert misses with a hook.
Sybert lands with a nice body kick.
Crown swings for the body but Sybert moves out of range.
Sybert is moving around nicely and scores here with a single head shot.
Crown looks to land a left hand but Sybert moved out of range nicely.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Sybert lands a leg kick. The shin dug right into the meat of the thigh.
Sybert staying out of range there.
Crown moves out of range as Sybert strikes.
Sybert avoids the body shot from Crown.
Crown waving his hands out in front of him, looking to distract Sybert.
Crown changes levels and scores with a jab to the body.
Sybert steps to the side to avoid the strikes from Crown.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Sybert misses with a looping left.
Crown with poor footwork there. He got himself in a bit of a tangle, enabling Sybert to score with a decent uppercut.
Crown lands a beauty of a right hand that gets the crowd cheering.
Crown just misses with a punch to the body.
Crown connects with the punch.
Crown throws a combination but comes up with nothing but fresh air.
Sybert defending well as Crown loads up on a big left hand.
Crown misses with a telegraphed body shot
and Sybert counters with a leg kick that reverborates around the arena.
Sybert moves into range and lands a nice leg kick.
A jab from Sybert misses.
Crown fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Sybert manages to avoid it.
Sybert uses good head movement to avoid the hook from Crown.
Sybert sizes up Crown with a pawing jab and scores with a straight right down the middle.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Crown swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Crown misses with a body punch
and Sybert counters with an inside leg kick.
Crown avoids the head kick by Sybert.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Crown on the receiving end of a decent leg kick there by Sybert. Sybert obviously looking to wear him down.
Donk. Sybert catches Crown right on the button with a cross.
Crown ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Sybert moves away.
Crown thows a body shot but no joy.
Crown ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Sybert moves away.
Sybert lands a front kick.
Crown is breathing heavily.
Sybert buckles his opponent's knee momentarily with a nice leg kick.
Crown tries to check the leg kick but that clearly hurt him.
Nice straight punches there by Sybert. You know Roy Jones Jr respects the hands of Sybert.
Sybert buckles his opponent's knee momentarily with a nice leg kick.
Crown swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Sybert sizes up Crown with a pawing jab and scores with a straight right down the middle.
Crown has his front leg slapped to the side - a nice low kick landing there from Sybert.
Crown just misses with a punch to the body.
Sybert throws a right and a left that Crown avoids nicely.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Crown falls off balance throwing a combination
letting Sybert counter with a right hand.
Crown is looking to wear down Sybert with body shots, infact he's throwing more body shots than head shots at the moment.
Crown takes a thudding leg kick, right into the meat of the thigh.
Sybert lands a front kick.
Sybert throws a body kick that digs right into the meat.
Sybert lands a leg kick that knocks Crown off balance momentarily.
Sybert lands with an overhand left.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Crown takes a swing at Sybert's ribcage but misses.
Sybert lands a jab to the nose.

Crown is rocked!
Good leg kick by Sybert there. It's the ones that make that thud noise that hurt and that was an almighty thud.
Oh Crown is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Sybert throws a nice outside leg kick.
Crown seems to have got his legs back now.
Sybert scores with a decent looking hook.
Like a baseball bat into the meat of his leg there - nice leg kick by Sybert.
Sybert drops a shoulder and throws an uppercut that cracks Crown right on the button. Crown goes down! Sybert follows him to the mat and finishes the job with more strikes! Sybert gets the win via TKO!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:58 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Ari Sybert!
Ari Sybert thanked the fans post fight for their support.