PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Shaslik Styless (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Seifer Almasy (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Rumors backstage are that the fighters have been paid to keep it standing but we know that would never happen in MMA!

Styless
vs
Almasy

188 cm
22
223 lbs
6 - 2 - 0

188 cm
26
215 lbs
10 - 6 - 0

Good wrestling
Good knees
KO power

Good wrestler
Excellent MT
Powerful

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 6 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Shaslik Styless!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 10 - 6 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Seifer Almasy!
The judges for this bout are Timothy Bukovac, Frank Antenori and Jack Bonds.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Almasy tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Styless paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Almasy fails in his attempt to clinch.
Almasy is looking to clinch but Styless is avoiding it.
Styless goes for a double leg but Almasy avoids the attempt and the two fighters end up clinched against the cage as Almasy continues to drive forward.
Styless blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Almasy blocks an elbow strike.
Styless struggles to land a body shot inside as Almasy controls his hands.
Styless lands an uppercut.
Knees in the clinch landing for Almasy.
Styless misses with a short punch on the inside.
Styless throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Almasy blocks it with crossed arms.
Almasy with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Almasy with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Styless misses with the head strike.
Almasy looking to throw knees to the head but Styless is blocking nicely.
Styless will no doubt start fighting again in a minute but for now he's just having a little rest, leaning Almasy up against the cage.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Styless using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Almasy has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Styless has a body lock and is looking for a takedown. Almasy is bouncing around trying to prevent the takedown and somehow he has indeed managed to stay on his feet.
Styless tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Almasy missing with knees to the body.
Almasy with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
Almasy takes a knee to the side of the body.
Styless tries to work over Almasy's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Styless is trying to break the clinch but Almasy has him pressed against the cage.
Styless tries for a takedown. No joy.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Shaslik Styless. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Almasy with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Almasy being controlled against the cage.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Styless throws a knee to the head but misses.
Almasy scores with a knee to the head.
Styless throws a punch but it's blocked by Almasy.
Styless throws a knee to the head but misses.
Almasy using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Styless has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Both fighters working to control the clinch.
Styless tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Styless utilising his Muay Thai to score with a knee to the body.
Almasy scores with a shoulder strike.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Almasy unloads a knee to the mid-section. Styless lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Styless with a knee to the head.
Almasy tries to land a knee to the head but Styless blocks with his arms.

Styless manages to break the clinch.
Seifer Almasy seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.

Almasy rushes Styless and pushes him back against the cage in a clinch.
Almasy with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Almasy blocks an elbow strike.
Styless misses with a knee strike.
Styless working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Styless is trying to drag Almasy to the mat but Almasy just about manages to keep his footing. He used the cage to his advantage there.
Styless throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Almasy blocks it with crossed arms.
Almasy using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Styless has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Styless tries to land a knee to the head but Almasy blocks with his arms.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Almasy blocking some punches.
Styless fails to pull guard.
A real battle for position is taking place between these two warriors.
Almasy scores with a knee to the head.

It looks like Shaslik Styless has been cut.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Almasy managing to block the knees to the body from Styless.
Styless lands with a short shot to the head.
Styless stalling in the clinch but Almasy improves position.
Styless can't seem to implement his control oriented gameplan at the moment. That's no bad thing of course, for those of us who want to see a good fight.
Styless swings away with an uppercut that misses.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Styless tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Almasy tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Shaslik Styless dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Shaslik Styless's cut.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action!

Almasy tries to clinch up.
The fight stays on the outside here - Almasy looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Almasy tries to clinch up.

Almasy takes the fight into the clinch.
Styless misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Almasy.
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. Almasy obliges.
Almasy is pushing Styless up against the cage, for a bit of lean and pray action. Action being used the in the loosest possible sense of the word.
Almasy tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Styless has a couple of punches blocked by Almasy.
Almasy stalling.
Styless drops down for a takedown but doesn't get it.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Almasy stalling here - the referee won't stand for too much of that.
The crowd are getting on Almasy's back here. They're not happy about his lack of aggression in the clinch.
Almasy with a knee to the head.

Styless is rocked!
Almasy has Styless pressed up against the cage in a tight Thai clinch. Styless is arching his back, trying to avoid the knees but a big one sneaks through from Almasy - that's hurt Styless badly! Oh, another knee lands and Styless is covering up! The referee steps in to save him - possibly a bit early but Styless doesn't seem to be complaining.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:49 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Knees). Seifer Almasy!