PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Phil Rivers (ranked 2380 p4p, 2055 weight class) and Kotaro Asakura (ranked 193 p4p, 174 weight class). Rivers comes into the arena with RUNNING IN THE 90’s blaring out of the sound system. Asakura has chosen Venom by $ B as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. I'm sure you'll be fascinated to know that I was talking to some pointless Z list celebrity before the fight and he thought that Kotaro Asakura was going to win. Let's see if he was right.

Rivers
vs
Asakura

177 cm
28
155
13 - 9 - 0

173 cm
24
137
10 - 7 - 0

Good wrestling
Great elbows
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
Great elbows
Granite chin

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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 13 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Phil Rivers!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 10 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Kotaro Asakura!
The judges for this bout are Dmitry Maklakov, Aleksei Zolotukhin and Igor Prikhodko.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Rivers misses with a wild combination.
Asakura throws a couple of head shots and lands with the final one - a decent hook, which struck Rivers on the side of the head.
Asakura slips under a jab from Rivers.
Asakura throws a good cross that connects.
Asakura wings a very wild body shot but it does the job and lands to the midsection.
Phil Rivers seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Rivers throws out a loose jab but Asakura uses good head movement to avoid it.
A little jabbing left from Asakura on the counter but it doesn't find it's target.
Asakura slips a jab from Rivers.
Jab, jab by Asakura - just one landing.
Rivers lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Asakura circles away quickly and effectively.
Rivers drops his hands and takes a jab to the jaw for his troubles.
Rivers misses with a looping right.
A little jabbing left from Asakura on the counter but it doesn't find it's target.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Rivers misses with a hook. Asakura ducked under it nicely.
Rivers tests Asakura's chin there with a solid looking shot.
Rivers swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
A slow jab from Rivers misses its intended target.
Rivers just misses with a punch to the body.
A little jabbing left from Asakura on the counter but it doesn't find it's target.
Asakura throws a jab but it's blocked by Rivers.

Asakura rushes Rivers and presses him up against the cage.
Rivers tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Nice elbow from Asakura.
Rivers blocks an elbow strike.
Asakura lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Rivers backwards.
Our sources have told us that Rivers has been working on his elbows in the gym.
Rivers tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Asakura lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Rivers backwards.
Rivers misses with an elbow over the top.
Asakura throws a punch but it's blocked by Rivers.
Rivers tries to work over Asakura's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Asakura creates a bit of distance and throws an elbow that only just misses.
Rivers scores with a shot to the side of Asakura's head.
A short left from Asakura.
Rivers tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Rivers tries to work over Asakura's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Asakura lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Asakura lands a nice elbow.

It looks like Phil Rivers has been cut.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Asakura throws a punch but it's blocked by Rivers.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Rivers just misses with a elbow thrown towards Asakura's brow.
Asakura misses with a body punch.
Asakura misses with a hook from the clinch.
Asakura blocks an uppercut.
Rivers throws an elbow but it's blocked.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Rivers working aggressively here.
Asakura blocking some punches.

Asakura's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Rivers blocks a jab.
Some bone on bone action there as Rivers checks a low kick. Luckily it wasn't a particularly hard one.
Rivers shuffles to his left behind two crisp jabs. Asakura eats them both and turns towards Rivers to reposition himself and eats a stinging right hand-left hook combo.
Asakura keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Rivers.
Rivers throws a right hand that Asakura ducks under and follows up with a left that Asakura also avoids with ease.
Asakura moves out of range as Rivers strikes.
Asakura looks like he wants to counter punch here.
Jab by Rivers.
Nice defenses there by Asakura.
Asakura slips a straight right by Rivers.
Asakura showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Rivers.
Asakura throws a body kick but he wasn't in range.
Asakura connects nicely with a jab. Noted by the judges no doubt.

Rivers is rocked!
Rivers ducks into an uppercut from Asakura and that's knocked him out cold! This one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:53 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Kotaro Asakura!
Kotaro Asakura decided to thank the fans in attendance for making a great atmosphere. It seemed to go down pretty well.