PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight kickboxing rules bout between Niles Vertebral (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Victor Chinyengetere (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Vertebral
vs
Chinyengetere

175 cm
20
160 lbs
4 - 2 - 0

177 cm
20
177 lbs
2 - 6 - 0

Excellent boxer
Big heart

Dangerous knees
Good gas tank

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 4 - 2 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Niles Vertebral!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 6 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Victor Chinyengetere!
The judges for this bout are David Hoff, Sandra Marshall and Dirk Anderson.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

The fight moves into the clinch position.
Chinyengetere lands an elbow inside.
Vertebral is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Chinyengetere is defending well for now.
Vertebral avoids a wild elbow strike from Chinyengetere.
Chinyengetere lands an elbow just above Vertebral 's eye.
Chinyengetere blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Chinyengetere lands a damaging elbow.
Chinyengetere lands an elbow inside that Vertebral shrugs off.
Chinyengetere with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Chinyengetere with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
Chinyengetere lands an elbow inside that Vertebral shrugs off.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Chinyengetere throws an elbow but it misses.
Chinyengetere tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Chinyengetere tries to land a knee to the head but misses.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Vertebral dodges an elbow strike from Chinyengetere.
Vertebral takes an elbow to the temple.
Chinyengetere misses with a knee to the head.
Vertebral blocks an elbow strike.
Chinyengetere misses with a knee to the head.
Chinyengetere comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Chinyengetere throws an elbow that misses.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Chinyengetere.
The referee is keeping an eye on Chinyengetere - much more stalling and he will separate the fighters.
Chinyengetere tries to land a knee to the head but Vertebral blocks with his arms.
Chinyengetere with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
Chinyengetere managing to block the knees to the body from Vertebral.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Chinyengetere pushes off an throws an elbow but Vertebral leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Chinyengetere.
Chinyengetere throws an elbow that misses.
Chinyengetere lands a nice elbow.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Chinyengetere lands an elbow inside that Vertebral shrugs off.
Chinyengetere with a knee to the head.

Vertebral is rocked!
Chinyengetere using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Vertebral has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Oh Vertebral is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Chinyengetere scores with a knee to the head.
Vertebral blocks an elbow strike.
Chinyengetere lands a damaging elbow.
Nice elbow from Chinyengetere.
Chinyengetere looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Chinyengetere misses with an elbow strike.
Vertebral blocks an elbow strike.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Chinyengetere lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Chinyengetere lands a good knee to the midsection. Vertebral won't want to take too many of those.
Chinyengetere scores with a knee to the head.
Chinyengetere with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Chinyengetere with a knee to the head.
Chinyengetere looks more muscular than last time we saw him. He must have been on the weights.
Nice elbow from Chinyengetere.
Chinyengetere cracks Vertebral on the bridge of the nose with a nasty looking elbow! Vertebral crumples to the floor in pain, holding his face! It doesn't look like he's going to beat the count - he's out of it! This one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:35 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Elbows). Victor Chinyengetere!
Victor Chinyengetere decided to hype himself up post fight. It was going well but he went on about it a bit too long and the crowd turned on him a little.