PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Jay Crawford (ranked 1272 p4p, 202 weight class) and Ramil Pulatov (ranked 2235 p4p, 317 weight class). Pulatov has chosen Melvins - A History Of Bad Men as his entrance music. Both fighters look pumped up here. Let's hope this is a good fight!

Crawford
vs
Pulatov

190 cm
26
215 lbs
5 - 2 - 0

190 cm
26
225 lbs
7 - 4 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
World class boxer
Good gas tank

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 5 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Jay Crawford!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 7 - 4 - 0, fighting out of London, Ramil Pulatov!
The judges for this bout are Johanna Lukiainen, Roosa Järviläinen and Marco Blurström.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Crawford 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.
Crawford lands a straight punch to the body, keeping Pulatov at a distance.
Pulatov throws a body shot but no joy.
A big left from Crawford misses.
Pulatov lands a slapping body shot.
Pulatov cracks a nice hook into Crawford's ribs.
Pulatov tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Crawford was well out of range. Poor timing from Pulatov.
Crawford ducks under a wild hook from Pulatov.
Crawford has been working on his boxing with his coaches at Mary Gracies Jiu Jitsu in the buildup to the fight.
Crawford throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Crawford throws a wild body kick that Pulatov sees coming a mile off.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Pulatov moves out of range of the body kick from Crawford.
Crawford misses with a body kick.
Crawford throws a body kick but he was well out of range there.
Crawford avoids a punch combination nicely.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Pulatov avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Pulatov throws out a counter right but Crawford avoids it with no problem.
Pulatov lunges at Crawford with a hook that half lands and is half blocked by Crawford's hand.
Jay Crawford seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Crawford ducks low and lands a nice hook to the body of his opponent.
Pulatov waving his hands out in front of him, looking to distract Crawford.
Pulatov takes one to the side of the head.
Pulatov takes a jab on the nose there. A little bit of blood seems to be coming out. Hopefully that won't affect his breathing.
Pulatov throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Crawford.
Crawford wants to take advantage of his opponent's missed offense by moving into the clinch.
Crawford scores with a head kick. Pulatov tried to block it but didn't get his arm up in time.
Crawford scores with a shot to the body.
Crawford throws a body kick but he was well out of range there.
Pulatov throws a counter combo.
Nice body kick there by Crawford.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Pulatov misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Crawford.
Pulatov swats away the attempt to clinch by Crawford.
Pulatov looked like he wanted to counter with a punch but didn't throw it.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Crawford misses with a hook. Pulatov ducked under it nicely.
Pulatov is throwing a lot of body shots here, looking to wear down Crawford rather than just go for the knockout.
Crawford misses with a body kick.
Crawford throws a hook but Pulatov avoids it easily.
Pulatov misses with a few strikes there.
Crawford throws a leg kick but Pulatov sees it coming and moves out of range.
Crawford missing with a left hand there. Pulatov was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
Crawford lands a nice leg kick that just misses Pulatov's sensitive parts.
Crawford steps in with a hook that catches Pulatov right on the chin and knocks him to the floor! Crawford follows him down with more strikes and that's all she wrote! Pulatov looks absolutely devastated.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:37 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Jay Crawford!
Jay Crawford spent the whole post fight interview bigging himself up. It didn't go down that well with the fans after a while as they thought it was a bit arrogant.