PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Darius Corki (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Dude Love (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Love has chosen Dude Love as his entrance music. I'm sure you'll be fascinated to know that I was talking to some pointless Z list celebrity before the fight and he thought that Dude Love was going to win. Let's see if he was right.

Corki
vs
Love

170 cm
25
198 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

197 cm
25
194 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
KO power

BJJ White Belt
Good kicks
Prefers standup

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 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Darius Corki!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Dude Love!
The judges for this bout are Bart Greer, Daniel Franklin and Peter Branson.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Corki closes the distance and clinches.
A real battle for position is taking place between these two warriors.
Love blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Love landing knees to the body.
Both fighters working to control the clinch.
A short right from Love on the inside.
Love tries a knee to the head but Corki blocks it.
Corki tries to stall but Love uses the opportunity to gain a better position.
Corki misses with a hook from the clinch.
Love stalling in the clinch but Corki improves position.
Corki misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Love.
Corki misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Corki tries to land knees in the clinch but Love avoids the damage to the body.
Love misses with a short punch on the inside.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Corki.
Love blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Corki misses with a short punch on the inside.
A head punch on the inside from Corki fails to land.
Corki tries to land knees in the clinch but Love avoids the damage to the body.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Corki tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Love on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Love with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
Corki misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Love.
Corki lands a body punch in the clinch.
Come on Corki - let's have some action - none of this stalling nonsense.
Love is clearly stalling here... Pick up the pace son.
Love tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Love is trying to slow down the pace in the clinch, to catch his breath.
Love unloads a knee to the mid-section.
Corki takes a knee right on the jaw!
Love lands a good knee to the midsection. Corki won't want to take too many of those.
Love stalling in the clinch.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Corki tries to land knees in the clinch but Love avoids the damage to the body.
Corki tries to work over Love's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Some stalling of biblical proportions here from Love.
Corki tries a body shot but Love blocks it.
Corki working aggressively here.
Corki on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Love landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Corki takes a knee right on the jaw!
Corki is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Love is defending well for now.
Corki is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Love is defending well for now.
Corki tries a body shot but Love blocks it.
Love tries to land a knee to the head but Corki blocks with his arms.
Love with a knee to the head.
Corki definitely looks more muscular than last time we saw him fight.
Corki working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Corki stalls.
Love putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has Corki in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Love with a knee to the head.

It looks like Darius Corki has been cut.
Corki tries to stall but Love uses the opportunity to gain a better position.
Love blocking some punches.
Corki content to slow the pace in the clinch.
Corki trying to land knees to the body.
Love avoiding damage as Corki throws knees to the body.
Love taking a breather.
Corki misses with some punches.
Corki takes a knee to the side of the body.
Love managing to block the knees to the body from Corki.
Corki managing to block the knees to the body from Love.
Love lands a nice knee to the body.
Corki is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Love is defending well for now.
Love controlling the action here for a moment.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

Love pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Corki misses with a telegraphed body shot
and Love counters with an inside leg kick.
Love lands a leg kick and bounces back out of range.
Ooooh, nice body kick lands from Love. Corki shrugs it off though.
Corki is breathing heavily.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Love drops his hands momentarily and Corki takes advantage with a crisp shot to the head.

Corki clinches.
Love landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
Corki is looking to control Love's arms but Love gets an underhook and turns him. Now Corki has his back to the cage.

Love's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Corki throws an ugly left hook that misses
and Love counters with a lovely straight right hand!
Love defending well as Corki loads up on a big left hand.
Love ducks under an overhand right and circles away with a smile on his face.
Darius Corki seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Love scores with a slapping inside leg kick.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

A close round but Dude Love will probably get the nod.
The cut man is working on Darius Corki's cut.
OK. That's time! The bell goes and we're back to the action.

Corki tries to check the leg kick but that clearly hurt him.
Corki on the wrong end of a kick to the body.
Corki throws a right hand that misses
and Love counters with a big head kick but Corki shrugs it off.

Love lands a big head kick that sends Corki tumbling to the mat! Love takes a step backwards and waves Corki back to his feet - he wants the finish!

Corki is rocked!
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Love throws a powerful right kick. Corki tried to block low but the kick was high! Corki was taken right off of his feet! Love jumps in to finish the job and the ref tackles him! The fight is over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:21 of round 2, we have a winner by way of KO (Head Kick). Dude Love!
A less than humble Dude Love misjudged his post fight interview somewhat and came across a little too arrogant whilst trying to hype up his own abilities.