PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Kingo Kongo (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Meng Hippo (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Hippo comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Black Sun Empire-Arrakis kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Kongo
vs
Hippo

194 cm
18
240 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

225 cm
22
300 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Good chin

BJJ White Belt
Decent boxing
Intelligent

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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 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Kingo Kongo!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Meng Hippo!
The judges for this bout are Seu Braga, Edson Gomes and Daniel Cesar.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Kongo avoids a punch combination nicely.
Hippo misses with a series of wild punches.
A punch combination from Hippo misses.
Kongo wants to clinch.
Kongo connects with a lovely right hand, straight down the pipe.
Kongo drops his hands momentarily and Hippo takes advantage with a crisp shot to the head.
Hippo throws a series of punches but Kongo avoids them all with ease.
Hippo connects with a slap. Keep your fist closed son.
Kongo is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Kongo takes a punch right to his stomach. That took the wind out of him momentarily.
Hippo throws a nice looking combination but Kongo bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
A left and a right from Hippo both land. Nice combination.

It looks like Kingo Kongo has been cut.
Kongo wants to clinch up but Hippo keeps it at a distance.
Jab by Kongo.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Kongo fakes low and throws an overhand right that catches Hippo on the side of the head.
Kongo avoids the body shot from Hippo.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Hippo scores with a three punch combo!
Kongo tries to close the distance and clinch up but Hippo swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Hippo ducks down and throws a hook to the body.
Hippo tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Kongo was well out of range. Poor timing from Hippo.
Hippo throws an uppercut from half a mile away. Kongo sees it coming and avoids it easily.
Hippo lands a pitter patter jab to the forehead of his opponent.
A punch combination from Hippo misses.
Hippo scores with a sloppy right hand. Kongo should have avoided that one.
Kongo throws a head kick that misses.
Hippo lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Kongo circles away quickly and effectively.
Hippo throws a right and a left that Kongo avoids nicely.
Hippo throws a series of punches but Kongo moves out of range.
Kongo looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.
Kongo lands with a nice combination. Hippo backs away looking to recover.

It looks like Meng Hippo has been cut.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!

Kongo fakes with an overhand right and moves in to clinch with Hippo, pushing him back against the cage.
Hippo lands a nice shot to the body.
Hippo on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Hippo lands a body shot.
Hippo wants to break free but Kongo has control.
Hippo working some nice short punches in the clinch.
Hippo blocks an uppercut.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Hippo.
Nice body punch from Kongo - that landed with a thud.
Kongo throws a knee to the head but misses.
The referee calls for Hippo to work.
Kongo wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Kongo misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Hippo.
Hippo softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Hippo avoiding damage as Kongo throws knees to the body.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Kongo creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Kongo tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Hippo's elbow.
Kongo throws a hook to the body. More of an arm punch but it's all scoring with the judges.
Kongo using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
A right handed body shot lands from Kongo.
Kongo works on Hippo's body with a couple of short punches.
Hippo looks gassed!
Hippo blocks a body shot from Kongo.
Kongo leaning against his opponent.

Kongo breaks the clinch.
Kongo tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Hippo throws a right and a left that both miss.
Kongo fails with an attempt to clinch.
Hippo throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Kongo tries to clinch up.
Hippo lands a nice hook to Kongo's body. Kongo takes it in his stride and looks to land his own strikes.
Kongo moves in looking to clinch but Hippo pushes him off.
Hippo swats away the attempt to clinch by Kongo.
Hippo swats away the attempt to clinch by Kongo.
Kongo wants to clinch.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Kongo lands three nice shots there - that looked like it hurt!
Hippo misses with a double jab
and Kongo counters with a nice uppercut.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Kongo walks forward and throws a big overhand right! Hippo drops to the floor like a sack of potatoes! Kongo swarms on him with more punches until the referee wrestles him away from Hippo's unconscious body! Wow, that was brutal!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:27 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Kingo Kongo!