PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Mikhail Yudovich (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Sadji Nosla (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Yudovich comes to the cage accompanied by Zetsubou Restaurant (ZSZS ED3 Ver.). The atmosphere really building for this one as we go over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Yudovich
vs
Nosla

185 cm
23
210 lbs
15 - 2 - 0

220 cm
23
210 lbs
11 - 5 - 0

Dangerous GnP
Excellent boxer
Very strong

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent MT
Powerful

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the light heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 15 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Mikhail Yudovich!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 11 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Sadji Nosla!
The judges for this bout are Wesley Smith, Chris Downing and Gwen Towbar.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Nosla uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Yudovich.
Yudovich pivots, looking for a leg kick but Nosla is out of range and Yudovich settles back down.
Yudovich fails to land the takedown.
Nosla is a painfully thin specimen of a man. You do wonder whether a good body kick would snap him clean in two.
Nosla walks into a jab.
Yudovich misses with a hook. Nosla ducked under it nicely.
Yudovich takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Yudovich misses the shot to the body.
Yudovich misses with a takedown attempt. He shot from a bit too far out.
Nosla bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
Nosla staying out of range there.
Nosla uses good head movement to avoid the hook from Yudovich.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Nosla lands a head kick!

It looks like Mikhail Yudovich has been cut.
Yudovich changes levels and scores with a jab to the body.
Yudovich swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Nosla throws a nice looking combination but Yudovich bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Nosla scores with a head kick.
Nosla lands a body shot.
Sadji Nosla is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
A jab from Yudovich misses.
Nosla throws a push kick but Yudovich slaps the foot to one side.
Yudovich throws a leg kick
and Nosla counters with a leg kick.
Yudovich is really struggling to find his range with his punches. Nosla's reach advantage is clearly causing him problems.
Yudovich is the aggressor but that punch slipped nicely by Nosla.
Yudovich throws a leg kick
and Nosla counters with a series of strikes. Yudovich will be more careful next time no doubt.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Yudovich tries to work over Nosla's front leg with a kick but Nosla checks it.
Yudovich misses with a jab to the body
and Nosla counters with a left and a right that stings Yudovich.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Yudovich tried to score with a low kick but Nosla checks it.
Nosla will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Nosla scores with a jab. Yudovich acknowledges it with a nod of the head.
Nosla uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Yudovich.
Nosla keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Yudovich.
A solid leg kick lands there for Yudovich.
Nosla throws a shot to the body.
Yudovich feints with a shoulder and throws a nice leg kick to Nosla's calf.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Yudovich thuds his shin into the meat of Nosla's side.
Yudovich thows a body shot but no joy.
Yudovich misses with a wild body shot.
Yudovich tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Nosla was well out of range. Poor timing from Yudovich.
A lazy left from Yudovich finds it's target.
Yudovich looks to land a right hand but Nosla moved out of range.
A low kick from Yudovich misses
and Nosla counters with a nice uppercut.
Yudovich fails with the takedown.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Mikhail Yudovich. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Yudovich swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Yudovich misses with an uppercut.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Nosla misses with a hook. Yudovich ducked under it nicely.
Nosla uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Yudovich.
Yudovich fakes with a right hand and throws a good leg kick, right into the thigh. That had to hurt Nosla.
Nosla bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
Nosla takes a jab right on the nose. That must have hurt but he shrugs his shoulders and looks to return the favor.
Yudovich will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Yudovich looks to score with a jab to the body but Nosla is just out of range.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Yudovich takes a head kick and keeps coming.
Yudovich lands with a good body shot.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Yudovich misses with a straight right.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

That was a close round but I would say that Mikhail Yudovich will probably get the nod.
The cut man is working on Mikhail Yudovich's cut.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action.

Yudovich misses with a body punch
and Nosla counters with a series of strikes. Yudovich will be more careful next time no doubt.
Yudovich throws a right hand that Nosla ducks under and follows up with a left that Nosla also avoids with ease.
Nosla cracks Yudovich with a nice right hand that draws applause from the crowd.
Nosla defending well as Yudovich loads up on a big left hand.
Yudovich's corner calls for a 1,2 combination and Yudovich duly obliges.
Yudovich throws a predictable looking body shot
and Nosla counters with a stiff right hand.
A shot to the body from Yudovich misses
and Nosla counters with a flying knee. Nice.
Yudovich throws an uppercut from half a mile away. Nosla sees it coming and avoids it easily.
Yudovich throws out a token jab with nothing on it.
Yudovich throws a jab but it's blocked by Nosla.
Yudovich misses with an uppercut.

That's one minute gone in the round.
A left lands for Yudovich.
Like a baseball bat into the meat of his leg there - nice leg kick by Yudovich.
Yudovich throws a big shot that misses.
Sadji Nosla is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
A shot to the body from Yudovich misses
and Nosla counters with a three punch combo that has Yudovich backing up. Yudovich nods at Nosla to acknowledge the strikes.
Yudovich throws a jab when Nosla was well out of range.
Yudovich drops Nosla with a straight left! Oh this is bad for Nosla! Yudovich dives in and starts dropping bombs - the referee has no choice but to step in and save him!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:34 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (strikes). Mikhail Yudovich!
Mikhail Yudovich retains his light heavyweight title!