PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Nemanja Prijovic (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Budo Rei (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Rei has chosen Alice in Chains - No Excuses as his entrance music. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Prijovic
vs
Rei

190 cm
31
210 lbs
22 - 6 - 0

187 cm
32
215 lbs
33 - 17 - 0

Great wrestler
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
World class MT
Good gas tank

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the light heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 22 - 6 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Nemanja Prijovic!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 33 - 17 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Budo Rei!
The judges for this bout are Sam Margolis, Phil Schofield and William Gold.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
A punch lands to the side of Rei 's head but he takes it in his stride.

It looks like Budo Rei has been cut.
Rei throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Prijovic has his front leg slapped to the side - a nice low kick landing there from Rei.
Prijovic bobs and weaves and unloads with a good uppercut.
Rei throws a sloppy head kick and Prijovic moves out of range easily.
Prijovic misses with a right hand
and Rei counters with a stiff right hand.
Prijovic finds nothing but air with that leg kick attempt.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Oooooooooooh, not good. A low kick from Rei lands where it shouldn't have, right in the... well, you know what he did? He kicked him in the penis. He's injured, injured bad. The referee sends both fighters to their corners and Prijovic has 5 minutes to recover. He's OK now though... a thumbs up from Prijovic and we're back underway with a touch of gloves.
A slow jab from Rei misses its intended target.
Rei digs a good body shot into Prijovic's ribs.
Rei pulls out of a head kick attempt.

Prijovic moves into the clinch.
Rei scores with an uppercut up the middle.
Rei doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Prijovic gets through Rei's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Still in the clinch, Prijovic scores with a nice short uppercut.

That's one minute gone in the round.
A short body shot lands from Prijovic as the two fighters clinch.
Prijovic swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Prijovic lands a hook to the body. It's hard to tell if that hurt Rei or not.
Rei lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of Prijovic backwards.
Rei wants to get back to striking at distance but Prijovic won't allow it.
A right handed body shot lands from Prijovic.
Rei crunches a lovely knee into Prijovic's ribcage.
Prijovic lands a shoulder strike.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Rei trying to land knees to the body.
A right handed body shot lands from Prijovic.
Rei looks winded!
A shot in the inside from Prijovic.
Rei is looking to break free of the clinch but Prijovic has double underhooks.
Prijovic misses with a hook from the clinch.
Prijovic keeps control of Rei as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.

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

Prijovic cracks Rei with a big right hand that sends him to the floor! Rei looks wobbly but he's sprung back up to his feet straight away… can Prijovic finish him?

Rei is rocked!
Rei tries to get into range but Prijovic steps to the side and lands a beautiful hook that drops Rei! He's faceplanted into the mat, ass in the air... he's out cold! That's an image he won't want to show his grandkids when he gets older! Prijovic scores the big KO victory!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:57 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Nemanja Prijovic!
Nemanja Prijovic retains his light heavyweight title!
A less than humble Nemanja Prijovic misjudged his post fight interview somewhat and came across a little too arrogant whilst trying to hype up his own abilities.