PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Childish Gambino (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Daken Akihiro (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Gambino comes to the cage accompanied by Freaks and Geeks. 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 Daken Akihiro was going to win. Let's see if he was right.

Gambino
vs
Akihiro

182 cm
29
166 lbs
16 - 8 - 0

172 cm
29
162 lbs
11 - 2 - 0

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Cardio machine

Good wrestler
World class MT
Granite chin

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the lightweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 16 - 8 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Childish Gambino!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 11 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Daken Akihiro!
The judges for this bout are Dillan Fox, William Peck and Elvis Blanc.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Akihiro ducks under a wild hook from Gambino.
Gambino checks a low kick from Akihiro.
Akihiro lands a beauty of a right hand that gets the crowd cheering.
Akihiro dances in quickly and lands a nice inside leg kick on Gambino. That did some damage!
Akihiro throws a hook to the side of Gambino's head but Gambino sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
A big left from Gambino misses.
Gambino swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Akihiro throws a mid kick that lands with a slap.
Gambino looks to have improved his striking defense since last time we saw him fight.
Gambino checks the leg kick.
Akihiro has been working on his striking defense in training and it's paying off as Gambino is landing a low percentage of strikes.
A head kick from Akihiro lands but Gambino takes it in his stride.

It looks like Childish Gambino has been cut.
Akihiro scores with a head kick.
Gambino throws a body shot but no joy.
Akihiro buckles his opponent's knee momentarily with a nice leg kick.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Gambino on the wrong end of an overhand right that came out of nowhere.

Akihiro pushes Gambino up against the cage in a clinch.
Gambino blocking some punches.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Gambino blocks a body shot from Akihiro.

Gambino breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Gambino throws a nice hook to the body that draws an oooh from the crowd.
Akihiro with a hook.

Gambino is rocked!
Gambino doesn't react quick enough there as he takes a shot to the body.
Akihiro tries to clinch up.
Akihiro defending well as Gambino loads up on a big left hand.
Gambino throws a two punch combo that lands nicely.
Akihiro scores with a slapping inside leg kick.
Akihiro throws a half hearted mid kick.
Akihiro tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Akihiro ducks under a wild hook from Gambino.
Gambino will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Akihiro lands a leg kick and bounces back out of range.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Akihiro tries to score with an inside leg kick but telegraphs it and Gambino is able to avoid easily.
Akihiro throws a nice inside leg kick.
Akihiro is looking to slow Gambino down with leg kicks.
Nice defenses there by Akihiro.
Nice defenses there by Gambino.

Akihiro pushes Gambino up against the cage in a clinch.
Akihiro lands a hook that snaps the head of Gambino backwards.
Akihiro lands a hook to the side of the head.
Akihiro lands a shoulder strike.
Gambino wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Akihiro keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Gambino's efforts to push away.
Akihiro lands a hook that snaps the head of Gambino backwards.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Akihiro.
Akihiro misses with a hook from the clinch.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Gambino blocks an uppercut.
Akihiro misses with the head strike.
Akihiro pushes Gambino back against the cage and unloads with a body punch.
Gambino is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Akihiro keeps control of Gambino as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Akihiro misses with some punches.
Akihiro scores with a shot to the side of Gambino's head.
Akihiro misses with a punch on the inside.
Akihiro throws a punch but it's blocked by Gambino.
Akihiro lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
Gambino has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.
Akihiro lands with a right to the head.
Gambino blocks an uppercut.
Gambino is looking to break free of the clinch but Akihiro has double underhooks.
Gambino is trying to force a seperation but Akihiro has the dominant position.

Gambino escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Akihiro misses with a body kick.
Gambino sees a low kick coming and goes to check it, but it's actually a body kick and it thuds into his unprotected ribs.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Akihiro connects with a right hand. Gambino shakes it off.
Akihiro throws a sloppy body shot
and Gambino counters with a nice uppercut.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Akihiro lands with a hook. Gambino tried to avoid it but it clipped the top of his head.
Gambino looks up at the clock. Bad move! Akihiro lands a right hand from hell, dropping Gambino. Akihiro pounces and finishes the fight with a flurry of punches and elbows.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:21 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Daken Akihiro! Daken Akihiro retains his lightweight title!
Daken Akihiro decided to go for the less than humble approach in his post fight interview, telling everyone how he is going to conquer the world. The crowd seemed to like it when really that sort of approach could have gone either way.