PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight kickboxing rules bout between Melankomas Caria (ranked 1616 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ray Cooper Iv (ranked 6727 p4p, 0 weight class). Cooper Iv comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Hawaiian Kickboxer kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Both these guys have solid standup skills and neither is particularly fantastic on the ground, so let's hope for a nice standup war!

Caria
vs
Cooper Iv

186 cm
20
171 lbs
7 - 2 - 0

176 cm
26
138 lbs
4 - 8 - 0

Solid boxing
Very quick

Excellent MT
Heavy handed

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 7 - 2 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Melankomas Caria!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 8 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Ray Cooper Iv!
The judges for this bout are Santiago Holmes, Winston Alpacca and Daniel Franklin.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Caria gets a clinch.
Caria lands a body shot in the clinch.
A body shot lands from Caria.
Cooper Iv throws a head punch that misses.
Cooper Iv is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Caria lands a nice uppercut.
Caria lands a left hand.
Cooper Iv misses with some punches.
Cooper Iv is a painfully thin specimen of a man. You do wonder whether a good body kick would snap him clean in two.
Cooper Iv trying to land knees to the body.
Caria is leaning against Cooper Iv and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.
A short right from Caria.
Still in the clinch, Caria scores with a nice short uppercut.
Caria lands a body punch - he's looking to wear down Cooper Iv.
Cooper Iv tries to land knees in the clinch but Caria avoids the damage to the body.
Cooper Iv misses with the head strike.
Cooper Iv missing with knees to the body.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Nice body punch from Caria - that landed with a thud.
Caria displaying some good clinch control by pressing Cooper Iv up against the cage.
Caria lands with a short punch from the clinch.
Caria lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.
Caria throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Cooper Ivs head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Caria lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.

Cooper Iv is rocked!
Caria lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
Cooper Iv is still on wobbly legs! Can Caria finish him?
Caria cracks Cooper Iv with a big uppercut, right up the middle and Cooper Iv goes down! Oh, he's hurt! He's bigtime hurt! The referee is giving him a chance to get back to his feet - 4,5,6,7, no, he's called it off! Cooper Iv wasn't going to make it and the fight is over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:14 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punch). Melankomas Caria!
Melankomas Caria decided to thank the fans in attendance for making a great atmosphere. It seemed to go down pretty well.
Ray Cooper Iv spoke after the fight, saying 'This was my last fight. I had a horrible career and it is time to hang up the gloves after a short career'.