PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Razkan Karmax (ranked 1059 p4p, 1314 weight class) and Malcolm King (ranked 138 p4p, 167 weight class). Karmax comes into the arena with BloodSports blaring out of the sound system. The crowd seem to be enjoying King's choice of entrance music: YoungBoy Never Broke Again – White Teeth. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Karmax
vs
King

184 cm
34
177
12 - 6 - 0

185 cm
36
171
23 - 20 - 0

Great wrestler
World class boxer
Granite chin

BJJ Brown Belt
World class boxer
Good gas tank

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 12 - 6 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Razkan Karmax!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 23 - 20 - 0, fighting out of New York, Malcolm King!
The judges for this bout are Taro Takaoka, Tatsuya Matsuyama and Kenichi Hosakawa.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Karmax throws out a powerful jab.
Karmax 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.

Karmax has taken the fight to the clinch.
King misses with a punch on the inside.
King tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
King goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Karmax stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.
A short right hand to the side of the head by King.
King throws a punch but it's blocked by Karmax.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for King.
A nice left hand lands by King.
Karmax blocks an uppercut.
A right handed body shot lands from Karmax.
Karmax blocking some punches.
A head punch blocked on the inside by King.
King misses with a short punch on the inside.
Karmax softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
King working aggressively here.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
King fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Karmax tries to work over King's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Karmax blocks a punch to the side of the head.
King pushes Karmax back against the cage and unloads with a body punch.
King fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
A head punch blocked on the inside by King.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Still in the clinch, King scores with a nice short uppercut.
King lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of Karmax backwards.
Karmax tries a body shot but King blocks it.
King working some nice short punches in the clinch.
King tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Nice body punch from King.
Karmax goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
King throws a head punch that misses.
King throws a punch but it's blocked by Karmax.
King misses with a body punch.
A short uppercut from Karmax.
Karmax lands a shoulder strike.
Karmax throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Kings head.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for King.
Karmax's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!

Karmax pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
King lands with a nice body punch.
King avoids the body shot from Karmax.
King looks like he wants to counter punch here.
Karmax moves out of range of the leg kick from King.
Good exchange - Karmax coming out on top.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

Karmax closes the distance and presses his opponent up against the cage.
Karmax's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
King tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Karmax's elbow.
King lands a shoulder strike.
King scores with a hook to the body.
King tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
King can't find room to land a body shot as Karmax controls the action.
Karmax blocks a punch to the side of the head.
King makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Still in the clinch, Karmax scores with a nice short uppercut.
Karmax blocking some punches.
King throws a hook to the body. More of an arm punch but it's all scoring with the judges.
A head punch blocked on the inside by King.
Karmax tries to throw a body punch but King avoids it by throwing Karmax back against the cage.
King blocks a body shot from Karmax.
King misses with a body punch.
King has a couple of punches blocked by Karmax.
King pushes Karmax back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for King.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Karmax throws a punch but it's blocked by King.
Karmax throws a head punch that misses.
King throws a punch but it's blocked by Karmax.
King swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Karmax misses with a shot to the kidneys.
King misses with a hook from the clinch.
Karmax lands with a short punch from the clinch.
King lands on the inside with an uppercut.
King fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Karmax misses with a punch on the inside.
Karmax lands with a short punch from the clinch.
King working aggressively here.
Good body shot from Karmax.
Karmax lands a hook to the body. It's hard to tell if that hurt King or not.
Karmax lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of King backwards.
King softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
King tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Karmax blocking some punches.
King is trying to maintain a safe position but Karmax gets an underhook and turns King into the cage.
King misses with a body punch.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Karmax softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Karmax has a couple of punches blocked by King.
Karmax scores with a nice hook to the head.
Karmax lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.

King is rocked!
Karmax scores with an uppercut up the middle.
King is still on wobbly legs! Can Karmax finish him?
Karmax lands a hook to the body. It's hard to tell if that hurt King or not.
King working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
King throws a punch but it's blocked by Karmax.
Karmax lands a left hand that snaps the head of King backwards.
Karmax tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
King tries to throw a body punch but Karmax avoids it by throwing King back against the cage.
King swings wildly with an uppercut but Karmax uses good head movement to avoid it.
Karmax unloads with a big right hand that wobbles King! He's leaning against the cage trying to keep his feet but Karmax is unloading with more strikes now! King drops to his knees and the referee stops the fight for a TKO!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:40 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Razkan Karmax!
Our winner, Razkan Karmax, made sure he spent some time buttering up the crowd during his post fight interview, which will no doubt bring him a few more fans.