PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Kassidy Cullen (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Amir Khan (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). On his way into the cage it seems that Kassidy Cullen has been attacked by a crazed fan! It looks like it might have been the just bleed guy! Luckily Kassidy Cullen seems to be OK! I thought that lunatic was in prison!?

Cullen
vs
Khan

180 cm
37
169 lbs
28 - 12 - 2

177 cm
32
166 lbs
16 - 12 - 0

Good wrestling
Great elbows
Cardio machine

Good wrestler
World class boxer
Good gas tank

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 28 - 12 - 2, fighting out of Las Vegas, Kassidy Cullen!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 16 - 12 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Amir Khan!
The judges for this bout are Gregory Folan, Steve Smith and Alec Ball.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Cullen misses with a wild body shot.
A looping hook to the body misses from Khan. Cullen does a little dance to reset his feet.
Khan throws a series of punches but Cullen avoids them all with ease.
Khan misses with a body kick.
Khan lands a nice shot that snaps Cullen's head back.
Cullen fakes a jab and throws a low kick but Khan checks it well.
Cullen slips under a jab.
Cullen appears to be looking for a counter punch to the body.
Cullen walks into a jab.
Cullen ducks under a wild hook from Khan.
Khan throws a leg kick but Cullen sees it coming and checks it nicely.
Cullen was looking to counter that move with a punch but didn't quite pull the trigger.
Cullen walks straight into an uppercut. Luckily it didn't land flush.
Donk. Khan catches Cullen right on the button with a cross.
Khan scores with a sloppy punch to the body. Not much technique there but it did the business.
Khan tries to clinch up but Cullen circles away and keeps his distance.
Khan sizes up Cullen with a pawing jab and scores with a straight right down the middle.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Khan tries to clinch but Cullen is having none of it.
Cullen throws a low kick but his opponent is out of range.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Cullen throws a leg kick but he was too far away and it doesn't land.
Cullen misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Amir Khan seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
A chopping leg kick lands by Khan.
Cullen uses good head movement to avoid the hook from Khan.
Cullen appeared to be looking to counter that last move with a leg kick.
Khan dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
Amir Khan is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Cullen scores with a head kick.
Cullen throws a leg kick but Khan sees it coming and moves out of range.
Cullen scores with a slapping inside leg kick.
Khan tries to clinch but Cullen moves out of range.
Cullen slips under a jab.
Cullen is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Cullen throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Khan lands a right hook to the body.
Khan swings for the body but Cullen moves out of range.
Cullen was looking to counter that move with a punch but didn't quite pull the trigger.
Khan scores with a leg kick.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Khan lands a straight punch to the body, keeping Cullen at a distance.
We've been informed that Khan has been sparring a lot of Muay Thai in the buildup to this fight so let's see if that has an impact on the result.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Khan moves out of range of the leg kick from Cullen.
Cullen lands a nice shot to the body.
Cullen lands a body shot.
Cullen misses with an uppercut.
Khan takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Khan is moving around nicely and scores here with a single head shot.
Cullen avoids a punch combination nicely.
Khan punishes Cullen's body with a nice straight punch.
Khan lands a slapping body shot.
Khan throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Cullen.
A left and a right from Khan both land. Nice combination.
Cullen tries to clinch up
and Khan counters with a lovely straight right hand!

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Khan connects with a hook to the side of his opponent's head.
Khan feints with a shoulder and throws a nice leg kick to Cullen's calf.
Khan scores with a punch to the head.
Cullen attempts a leg kick but it's missed by a good margin.
Cullen keeps the fight on the outside.
Cullen slips a jab from Khan.
Cullen throws a body punch but Khan moves out of range.
Khan fakes low and throws an overhand right that catches Cullen on the side of the head.
Khan lands a jab to Cullen's midsection.
Khan dances in quickly and lands a nice inside leg kick on Cullen. That did some damage!
Cullen lands with a thumping leg kick.
Khan checks a low kick from Cullen.
Cullen scores with a jab to the jaw.

Cullen takes the fight into the clinch.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Khan wants to stall.

Cullen jumps guard.

Cullen working from the bottom, still in full guard. He's managed to get a loose triangle. Khan doesn't seem to be doing much to defend here, obviously he feels comfortable in the position. Khan manages to throw the legs off his shoulder and he's back into guard - no problem.
Khan trying to stand up but can't free himself from Cullen's guard.
Khan passes Cullen's left leg - he's now in half guard.
Khan seems content to maintain position for now, rather than mounting any offense.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Amir Khan dominated that round.
That's time! Cullen's corner gives him a slap on the ass as he gets ready to fight.

Cullen checks a leg kick.
Cullen is looking to counter with a shot to the body.
Good standup being displayed there by Cullen as he connects with a hook.
Cullen thuds a left hand into Khan's body.
Cullen throws the left hand but Khan avoids the punch easily.
Cullen fakes with the hands and throws a leg kick but Khan is out of range.
Cullen throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Cullen steps to the side to avoid the strikes from Khan.
Khan scores with a jab. Cullen acknowledges it with a nod of the head.

Cullen rushes Khan and presses him up against the cage.
Nice body punch from Khan - that landed with a thud.
Khan holding his opponent close, against the cage.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Cullen dictating the pace here, as the fighters clinch against the cage.
Khan scores with a shoulder strike.
Khan has been the more effective fighter overall so far.
Khan pushes Cullen back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Khan swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Khan swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Khan misses with the head strike.
Khan wants to stall.
Khan stalls.
The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily.
Khan lands a hook to the side of the head.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Khan.
Khan fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Cullen lands a right hand that snaps the head of Khan backwards.
Khan takes an elbow to the temple.
Khan misses with the head strike.
Cullen stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.
Khan fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Khan tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Khan doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Cullen presses Khan against the cage and delivers a mid-strength body shot.
Cullen manages to get underhooks and slows down the pace for a moment.
Cullen tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Khan's elbow.
Khan misses with some punches.
Khan misses with a punch on the inside.
Khan misses with a short punch on the inside.
Khan taking a breather.
Khan working aggressively here.
A short left from Khan.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Khan throws a head punch that misses.
Khan is trying to slow down the pace in the clinch, to catch his breath.
A shot in the inside from Khan.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Khan throws a head punch that misses.
Cullen throws a punch but it's blocked by Khan.
Cullen tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Cullen lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
Cullen working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Cullen misses with a hook from the clinch.
Cullen misses with an elbow strike.
Cullen blocks an uppercut.
Khan misses with a hook to the ribs.
Cullen looking to stall.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Cullen.
Khan gets underhooks to prevent Cullen's takedown attempt.
Cullen lands a good knee to the midsection. Khan won't want to take too many of those.
Khan lands a left hand that snaps the head of Cullen backwards.
Cullen holding his opponent close, against the cage.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Khan on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Khan goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Khan tries a body shot but Cullen blocks it.
Cullen doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Cullen blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Cullen struggles to land a body shot inside as Khan controls his hands.
Khan misses with the head strike.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Cullen blocking some punches.
Khan throws a hook to the body. More of an arm punch but it's all scoring with the judges.
Khan misses with the head strike.
Cullen struggles to land a body shot inside as Khan controls his hands.
Khan tries to throw a body punch but Cullen avoids it by throwing Khan back against the cage.
Khan throws a head punch that misses.
Khan swings away with an uppercut that misses.
A nice right hand lands inside from Khan.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

A close second round but Amir Khan will probably get the nod - 10:9.
The fighters get back to their feet, the hooter sounds and we're back to the action! The crowd applaud as we get ready to start the final round!

Cullen dodges the punch combination from Khan.
Khan checks the leg kick nicely there.
Cullen tries to work over Khan's front leg with a kick but Khan checks it.
Cullen misses with a straight left.
Khan swings away with a counter right hand but no contact made.
Khan takes a kick to the side of the head.
Cullen fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Khan manages to avoid it.
Cullen looks to land a combination but Khan avoids it well.
Cullen misses the shot to the body.
Khan looks like he wants to counter punch here.
Khan scores with a jab to the jaw.
Khan throws the left hand but Cullen avoids the punch easily.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
A good leg kick by Cullen.
Cullen throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Khan lands with a cross.
Khan rushes in with a sloppy looking punch
and Cullen counters with an outside leg kick.
Cullen ducks low and lands a nice hook to the body of his opponent.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Cullen fakes high and shoots in for a takedown but Khan avoids it really well and circles away.
Cullen defending well as Khan loads up on a big left hand.
Cullen was looking to counter that last move with a shot to the body but he didn't commit.
Khan fakes and then throws a beautiful body shot. Cullen looks a bit winded and takes a step backwards to take a breath.
Cullen does a little shimmy and throws a leg kick. The leg kick missed by a considerable margin though, making him look a little bit silly for doing the shimmy.
Decent striking displayed by Khan there.
Khan tries to bum rush Cullen with a series of wild strikes but Cullen uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Cullen throws a front kick aimed at Khan's knee but Khan avoids it well.
Khan with a hook.
Cullen works Khan's body with a nice hook.
Cullen misses with a wild body shot.
Khan scores with a sloppy punch to the body. Not much technique there but it did the business.
Cullen throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Kassidy Cullen has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!
Cullen is looking to wear down Khan with body shots, infact he's throwing more body shots than head shots at the moment.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Khan throws out a token jab with nothing on it.
Cullen tried to counter with a leg kick but Khan avoided it.
Cullen throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.
Cullen avoids a punch combination nicely.
Cullen tries to close the distance and clinch up but Khan swats him away and circles back towards the center.
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!
Jab from Khan.
Khan fakes and then throws a beautiful body shot. Cullen looks a bit winded and takes a step backwards to take a breath.
Khan throws a head kick that misses.
Cullen throws a lazy right hand but Khan sees it coming a mile off and sidesteps it easily.
Khan ducks low and lands a nice hook to the body of his opponent.
A clash of legs there as Khan blocks the low kick.
Khan ducks under a wild hook from Cullen.
A chopping leg kick lands by Khan.
Cullen takes a jab on the nose there. A little bit of blood seems to be coming out. Hopefully that won't affect his breathing.
Khan pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
Cullen thinks about countering with a head kick.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Cullen circles to his right before unloading a perfect head kick! Khan drops to the canvas, hurt badly! Cullen follows Khan to the ground and unloads with a series of strikes that force the referee to step in and end the fight! This one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:08 of round 3, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Kassidy Cullen!
Jumping up and down and very excited, Kassidy Cullen waved his t-shirt featuring Hell's Balls Recovery (160)'s logo in front of the cameras.