PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Nickolai Ketchum (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jason Michaels (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Ketchum comes to the cage accompanied by Moskau. Michaels is bobbing his head along to his entrance song: Invaders Must Die - The Prodigy. Nickolai Ketchum is staring across the cage at his opponent, tweaking his nipples... Tweaking his own nipples that is.

Ketchum
vs
Michaels

180 cm
22
159 lbs
3 - 4 - 0

173 cm
21
170 lbs
6 - 2 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Basic striking
Cardio machine

Decent wrestler
Decent boxing
Good gas tank

SAVE A FIGHTER

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Nickolai Ketchum!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 6 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Jason Michaels!
The judges for this bout are Paul Aken, Daniel Blasius and Saam Ante.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Ketchum staying out of range there.
Ketchum misses with a series of wild punches.
Ketchum looks to land a combination but Michaels avoids it well.
Ketchum will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Ketchum throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Ketchum tries to bum rush Michaels with a series of wild strikes but Michaels uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Ketchum throws a nice looking combination but Michaels bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Michaels moves out of range as Ketchum strikes.
Ketchum throws a right and a left that both miss.
Ketchum looks to throw the jab but Michaels is out of range.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Michaels ducks right into an uppercut from Ketchum.
Michaels misses with an uppercut
and Ketchum counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.
Michaels slips a jab and a cross from Ketchum.
Ketchum misses with a few strikes there.
Ketchum looks to land a combination but Michaels avoids it well.
Michaels keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Michaels lands a jab to the head.

It looks like Nickolai Ketchum has been cut.
Michaels tries to bum rush Ketchum with a series of wild strikes but Ketchum uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Michaels throws a shot from downtown. Ketchum moves away and avoids it.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The fighters circle momentarily. Michaels darts into range and connects with a nice straight punch.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Ketchum swings and misses with a hook to the body.
A nice combination there by Ketchum.
Michaels uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Ketchum.
A right-left combo lands from Ketchum.
Ketchum misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Michaels.
Michaels avoids the body shot from Ketchum.
Michaels throws a shot from downtown. Ketchum moves away and avoids it.
Ketchum misses with a wild body shot.
Ketchum is looking to wear down Michaels with body shots, infact he's throwing more body shots than head shots at the moment.
Michaels showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Ketchum.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Ketchum falls off balance throwing a combination
letting Michaels counter with a right hand.
Michaels avoids the body shot from Ketchum.
Michaels takes one to the chin there.
Ketchum scores with a nice strike.
Nice defenses there by Michaels.
Ketchum lands with a nice body punch.
Ketchum bobs and weaves and unloads with a good uppercut.
Ketchum tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Michaels was well out of range. Poor timing from Ketchum.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Ketchum throws a jab to the body, straight down the pipe. Boom. That sent Michaels stumbling backwards but he manages to regain his composure quickly.
Ketchum misses with a jab to the body
and Michaels counters with a lovely straight right hand!
Ketchum keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Jab by Ketchum.
Ketchum misses the shot to the body.
Ketchum throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.
Ketchum is moving around nicely and scores here with a single head shot.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Michaels throws a series of punches but Ketchum avoids them all with ease.
Ketchum lands an overhand left. A wild punch that just about connected.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Nickolai Ketchum dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Nickolai Ketchum's cut.
OK. That's time! The bell goes and we're back to the action.

Ketchum fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Ketchum lands with a two punch combination before moving back out of range.
Ketchum throws a jab to the body, straight down the pipe. Boom. That sent Michaels stumbling backwards but he manages to regain his composure quickly.
Ketchum goes to the watering hole and comes back with a big thumbs up from the judges as he scores a three punch combo.

Michaels is rocked!
Ketchum throws a 1-2 combo that connects squarely on Michaels's jaw, knocking him onto his back! Ketchum dives in looking to finish as Michaels flails his arms in a desperate attempt to block Ketchum's strikes! Ketchum is raining down hammerfists and the ref stops it! Michaels's desperate flailing just didn't constitute intelligent defence. Some people will probably question the ref's decision but Michaels was definitely hurt and the ref saved him from taking unnecessary punishment. A fighter's safety is paramount in this sport.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:31 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Nickolai Ketchum!
A loyal slave to those sponsorship dollars, Nickolai Ketchum made sure he mentioned Untouchable Fight Nutrition, along with how happy he was to win his fight.