PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a super heavyweight kickboxing rules bout between Shiny Aoki (ranked 921 p4p, 22 weight class) and Alcibiades Cleinias (ranked 3160 p4p, 50 weight class). Aoki comes to the ring accompanied by Stunna 4 Vegas Ft. Moneybagg Yo - Tomorrow . Cleinias is bouncing up and down as he enters the arena, backed by Zorba The Greek. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Aoki
vs
Cleinias

176 cm
32
171 lbs
20 - 4 - 0

186 cm
23
200 lbs
5 - 5 - 0

World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Excellent boxer
Good gas tank

Trap-Alot-Clothing

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the super heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 20 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Shiny Aoki!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Alcibiades Cleinias!
The judges for this bout are Aafke Stam, Daniel Blasius and Nard Betker.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Cleinias smiles there as he lands a nice right hand right on the button.
Cleinias lands three nice shots there - that looked like it hurt!
Aoki uses good head movement to avoid the hook from Cleinias.
Aoki showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Cleinias.
Alcibiades Cleinias seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Aoki scores with a leg kick.
Wow, both these guys are really going for it!

Aoki moves into the clinch.
Aoki is trying to slow down the pace of the fight but Cleinias is keeping busy.
Cleinias is looking to break free of the clinch but Aoki has double underhooks.
Cleinias wants to get back to striking at distance but Aoki won't allow it.
Cleinias blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Cleinias wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Cleinias tries to circle away but Aoki has him pinned against the ropes.

Aoki breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
A left and a right from Cleinias both land. Nice combination.

It looks like Shiny Aoki has been cut.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Aoki drops his hands momentarily and Cleinias takes advantage with a crisp shot to the head.

Aoki is rocked!
Cleinias connects with a single shot there.
Oh Aoki is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Aoki slips a jab and a cross from Cleinias.
Aoki staying out of range there.
Cleinias misses with a shot to the body
and Aoki counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.

It looks like Alcibiades Cleinias has been cut.
Aoki looks to land a left hand but Cleinias moved out of range nicely.

Aoki walks into a big right hand from Cleinias and goes down! The referee sends Cleinias to a neutral corner as Aoki gets back to his feet. He looks OK so we're back under way.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Cleinias misses with an uppercut. Aoki saw that one coming.

Cleinias catches his opponent with a big hook that sends him to the canvas! Aoki stumbles back to his feet but will the referee allow it to continue? Aoki walks forwards and this one will be allowed to continue! Come on!

Cleinias gets tackled into the ropes by Aoki. Aoki maintains the clinch.
Aoki swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Aoki tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Cleinias avoids it.

Cleinias escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Aoki connects with an inside leg kick.
Aoki seems to have got his legs back now.
Cleinias has used his reach advantage pretty well so far tonight.
Aoki scores with a nice strike.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Cleinias scores with the left hand. Aoki knows he should have avoided that one.
Cleinias misses with a telegraphed body shot
and Aoki counters with a thumping low kick.
A nice leg kick lands there from Aoki.
Aoki misses with a double jab.
Cleinias falls off balance throwing a combination
and Aoki makes him pay by landing a thudding low kick.
Cleinias jabbing away but nothing is landing.
A punch combination from Cleinias misses.
Aoki has been talking about how he's improved his wrestling in the run up to the fight so let's see if that's enough to sway the balance.
Cleinias works the jab nicely.
Cleinias on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
Cleinias will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Cleinias rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Aoki moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
It looked like Aoki was trying to counter with a body shot coming off that last attack from Cleinias.
Aoki moves into range and lands a nice body kick.
Cleinias looks winded!
Cleinias misses with a two punch combination.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Cleinias misses with a lunging right hand
and Aoki counters with a nice uppercut.
Cleinias moves his head to the side to avoid a jab but walks straight into a cross.
Aoki moves out of range as Cleinias strikes.
Aoki quickly followed up with a counter body kick but doesn't connect.
Aoki comes forward and lands a shot to the body, then darts back out of range.

Aoki gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.

Aoki manages to break the clinch.
Aoki connects with a lovely jab that went straight through the gap between Cleinias's hands.

That has opened up Alcibiades Cleinias's cut even more.
Cleinias shuffles to his left behind two crisp jabs. Aoki eats them both and turns towards Cleinias to reposition himself and eats a stinging right hand-left hook combo.

Aoki moves into the clinch successfully.
Still in the clinch, Aoki scores with a nice short uppercut.
A nice left hand lands by Aoki.
Aoki lands a right hand that snaps the head of Cleinias backwards.

Cleinias is rocked!
Cleinias takes a shot to the head.
Cleinias is still on wobbly legs! Can Aoki finish him?

Aoki creates a bit of space for himself and unleashed what can only be described as a tiger uppercut, straight out of Street Fighter! Cleinias crashes to the mat! Can he make it back to his feet in time? 3,4,5, yes, he's made it back to his feet. He seems OK so it looks like we're going to continue!
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Cleinias rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Aoki moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Cleinias seems to have recovered his senses.
Aoki takes an uppercut right on the jaw but it doesn't phase him.
Cleinias drops his guard momentarily, allowing Aoki to crack him with a picture perfect lead left hook! Boom! Down goes Cleinias! Oh, he's in big trouble - I don't like his chances here as the referee's count reaches 5. 6,7,8,9...10! He's out! Aoki takes it!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:57 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punch). Shiny Aoki!
A loyal slave to those sponsorship dollars, Shiny Aoki made sure he mentioned Trap-Alot-Clothing, along with how happy he was to win his fight.