PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight kickboxing rules bout between Kenji Nakamoto (ranked 4793 p4p, 25437 weight class) and Sylvester Malone (ranked 421 p4p, 524 weight class). Sylvester Malone will no doubt be trying to keep this one on the feet, where he has a distinct advantage.

Nakamoto
vs
Malone

177 cm
26
150
2 - 1 - 0

168 cm
21
145
0 - 2 - 0

Solid Muay Thai
Intelligent

Excellent boxer
Very confident

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 2 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Kenji Nakamoto!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Sylvester Malone!
The judges for this bout are Ren Mimura, Kenichi Hosakawa and Shigeki Sano.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Nakamoto lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Malone circles away quickly and effectively.
Malone tries to clinch but Nakamoto moves out of range.
Malone looks to land a body kick but Nakamoto moved away.
Nakamoto fails to land with a series of punches.
Malone slips a jab and a cross from Nakamoto.
Nakamoto avoids the body shot from Malone.
Nakamoto avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
As Malone looks to move away, Nakamoto throws a big counter combo but Malone just gets out of the way.
A combination from Nakamoto does no damage.
Malone misses with a two punch combination.
Malone tries to grapple but his opponent circles
and Nakamoto counters with a one-two to the body.
Malone moves in looking to clinch but Nakamoto pushes him off.
Nakamoto moves out of range of the body kick from Malone.
Malone fails in his attempt to clinch.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Malone throws a leg kick

and Nakamoto counters by moving into the clinch. Good anticipation by Nakamoto.
Malone is trying to force a seperation but Nakamoto has the dominant position.
Nakamoto working Malone over with knees to the body.
Malone stalling in the clinch but Nakamoto improves position.
Nakamoto throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Malones head.
Malone takes a knee to the side of the body.
Nakamoto connects with a knee to the head.
Nakamoto scores a nice knee to the body.
Nakamoto keeps control of Malone as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Nakamoto lands an elbow inside.

It looks like Sylvester Malone has been cut.
A knee to the head by Nakamoto.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Malone looking to slow down the pace here.
Nakamoto creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Malone's defenses.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Nakamoto digs a right hand underneath Malone's ribcage. Malone let out a lung full of air as it connected.
Nakamoto softening up his opponent with strikes, against the ropes.
Malone looks winded!
Nakamoto scores with a nice hook to the head.
Nakamoto lands a shoulder strike.
Malone wants to stall.
Malone takes an elbow to the forehead.
Nakamoto connects with a nasty looking knee right to Malone's face.
Nakamoto managing to block the knees to the body from Malone.
Nakamoto crunches a lovely knee into Malone's ribcage.
Nakamoto lands a good knee to the midsection. Malone won't want to take too many of those.
The crowd applaud the fighters' efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Nakamoto landing some nice looking knees to the body.
And that is the end of the round. The fighters go back to their corners.

Kenji Nakamoto dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Sylvester Malone's cut.
The referee calls time. The cornermen exit stage left and we're back to business.

Nakamoto throws a nice looking combination but Malone bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Malone takes a swing at Nakamoto's ribcage but misses.
Nakamoto avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Malone tries to clinch but Nakamoto is having none of it.
Malone walks into a perfectly timed head kick by Nakamoto and drops face first to the floor! Malone's eyes are wide open but he's not all there - he's just flopping around the mat like a drunk on rollerskates! The referee doesn't even start the count - he's called an end to the fight, with Malone in no position to continue!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:24 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Head Kick). Kenji Nakamoto!