PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Mark Franklin (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Nobutaka Hiyoshi (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Hiyoshi has chosen Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter as his entrance music. Nobutaka Hiyoshi has the power to score a knockout today if he connects clean with Mark Franklin's chin.

Franklin
vs
Hiyoshi

183 cm
25
183 lbs
7 - 3 - 0

183 cm
21
181 lbs
9 - 4 - 0

Decent wrestler
Excellent boxer
Very strong

BJJ Purple Belt
Decent boxing
Powerful

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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 7 - 3 - 0, fighting out of New York, Mark Franklin!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 9 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Nobutaka Hiyoshi!
The judges for this bout are John Kavanagh, Dean Styles and David Schapiro.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Franklin misses the shot to the body.
Franklin swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Franklin throws a lazy right hand but Hiyoshi sees it coming a mile off and sidesteps it easily.
Franklin throws a hook but Hiyoshi blocks it.
Franklin pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
A jab from Franklin misses.
Hiyoshi scores with a nice looking left hook and follows it up with an uppercut!
Franklin scores with a body shot.
A slow jab from Franklin misses its intended target.
Hiyoshi will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Hiyoshi throws a hook but Franklin avoids it easily.
Hiyoshi doesn't react quick enough there as he takes a shot to the body.
Franklin lands a nice looking body shot.
Jab, jab by Franklin - just one landing.
Hiyoshi slips under a jab.

That's one minute gone in the round.
A jab from Hiyoshi misses.
Franklin throws a looping overhand right but Hiyoshi ducks down to avoid it.
Franklin thuds a left hand into Hiyoshi's body.
Franklin pivots, looking for a leg kick but Hiyoshi is out of range and Franklin settles back down.
Hiyoshi doesn't manage to clinch there - Franklin circles away.
Franklin cracks Hiyoshi with a nice right hand that draws applause from the crowd.
Hiyoshi catches Franklin with a nice straight right. He seems pissed - ooooh, it's on now! On like donkey kong!
Hiyoshi lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Franklin circles away quickly and effectively.
Hiyoshi slips a straight right by Franklin.
Franklin stuns Hiyoshi with a nice body shot, before stepping back out of range.
Hiyoshi on the wrong end of a vicious looking body shot.
Franklin lands the left hand.
Franklin misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Hiyoshi.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Hiyoshi is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Franklin scores with a sloppy right hand. Hiyoshi should have avoided that one.
Hiyoshi fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Franklin moves out of range of the strikes.
Franklin fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Hiyoshi throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Franklin connects with a single shot there.
Hiyoshi looks to score with a jab to the body but Franklin is just out of range.
Franklin fakes low and throws an overhand right that catches Hiyoshi on the side of the head.
A shot to the body from Hiyoshi misses
and Franklin counters with a left and a right that stings Hiyoshi.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Nice uppercut there from Franklin.
Hiyoshi throws a hook but Franklin blocks it.

Hiyoshi gets in close and instigates a clinch.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Hiyoshi blocking some punches.
Hiyoshi digs a right hand into Franklin's ribs. Those have got to be taking their toll on Franklin's gas tank.
Franklin is trying to slow down the pace of the fight but Hiyoshi is keeping busy.
Hiyoshi stalling the fight.
Franklin blocking some punches.
Franklin is looking to control Hiyoshi's arms but Hiyoshi gets an underhook and turns him. Now Franklin has his back to the cage.
Hiyoshi presses Franklin against the cage and delivers a mid-strength body shot.
Hiyoshi misses with a short punch on the inside.
Franklin lands a nice looking hook to the body, against the cage.
A frustrated look appears on Franklin's face as he tries to break the clinch.
Hiyoshi works on Franklin's body with a couple of short punches.
A head punch on the inside from Franklin fails to land.
Hiyoshi swings away with an uppercut that misses.
A short uppercut from Hiyoshi.
Franklin stalling in the clinch but Hiyoshi improves position.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Some stalling of biblical proportions here from Hiyoshi.
Hiyoshi tries to throw a body punch but Franklin avoids it by throwing Hiyoshi back against the cage.
Hiyoshi has Franklin pushed against the cage.
Franklin pushes Hiyoshi back against the cage and unloads with a body punch.
Hiyoshi misses with a punch to the body.
Franklin's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
Hiyoshi leaning his opponent against the cage.
Franklin misses with a short punch on the inside.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Hiyoshi lands with a light punch inside.
Hiyoshi is leaning against Franklin and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.
A nice right hand lands inside from Hiyoshi.
Franklin working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Mark Franklin dominated that round.
OK. That's time! The bell goes and we're back to the action.

Franklin looks to score with a jab to the body but Hiyoshi is just out of range.
Franklin misses with a shot to the body
and Franklin takes a counter punch right on the button for his troubles.

Franklin is rocked!
Hiyoshi throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Oh Franklin is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Franklin looks up at the clock. Bad move! Hiyoshi lands a right hand from hell, dropping Franklin. Hiyoshi pounces and finishes the fight with a flurry of punches and elbows.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:20 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Nobutaka Hiyoshi!