PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Young Hope (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ceino Rey (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Hope
vs
Rey

180 cm
21
193 lbs
2 - 1 - 0

181 cm
22
190 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Solid Muay Thai
KO power

BJJ White Belt
Decent boxing
Heavy handed

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 2 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Young Hope!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Ceino Rey!
The judges for this bout are Matti Vanhoillinen, Arvi Lind and Anni Minnemäki.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Hope misses with a few strikes there.
Hope tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Hope throws a shot from downtown. Rey moves away and avoids it.
Rey misses with a straight right.
Hope looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
Hope tries to clinch but Rey is having none of it.
Hope doesn't manage to clinch there - Rey circles away.
Hope tries to clinch but Rey is having none of it.
Hope throws a head kick that misses.
Hope bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
Hope is looking to clinch.
Young Hope seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Hope tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Hope is looking to clinch.
Rey swats away the attempt to clinch by Hope.
Hope tries to clinch there but Rey circles away.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Hope tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Hope tries to clinch but Rey moves out of range.
Hope throws a head kick that Rey semi-blocks.

It looks like Ceino Rey has been cut.
Hope fails in his attempt to clinch.
Rey checks a leg kick.
Hope doesn't manage to clinch there - Rey circles away.
Hope wants to clinch.
The fight stays on the outside here - Hope looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Hope is looking to clinch.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Hope fails in his attempt to clinch.
Rey keeps the fight on the outside.
Hope misses with a body kick.
Rey throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Hope is looking to clinch but Rey is avoiding it.
Hope is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Hope wants to clinch up but Rey keeps it at a distance.
Hope tries to clinch but Rey moves out of range.
Hope misses with an uppercut. Rey saw that one coming.
Hope fails in his attempt to clinch.
Hope tries to clinch there but Rey circles away.
A nice inside leg kick there by Hope. That's going to slow Rey down.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Hope ducks under an overhand right and circles away with a smile on his face.
Hope wants to clinch.
Hope connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there.
Hope keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Hope tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Rey paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Hope tries to clinch up but Rey circles away and keeps his distance.
Hope tries to clinch there but Rey circles away.
Rey swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Hope fails in his attempt to clinch.
Hope tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
My god... these two guys really need to pick up the pace or everyone will leave to go get a beer.
Hope tries to clinch up but Rey circles away and keeps his distance.
Hope tries to close the distance and clinch but Rey swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Hope wants to clinch up but Rey keeps it at a distance.
Hope lands a nice leg kick that just misses Rey's sensitive parts.
A slapping leg kick lands for Hope.
Hope tries to close the distance and clinch but Rey swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Rey checks a leg kick.
Hope moves in looking to clinch but Rey pushes him off.
Hope tries to clinch up but Rey circles away and keeps his distance.
Hope throws a shot from downtown. Rey moves away and avoids it.
Hope throws a leg kick but Rey sees it coming and checks it nicely.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Young Hope dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Ceino Rey's cut.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action!

Rey swats away the attempt to clinch by Hope.
Hope tries to clinch up but Rey circles away and keeps his distance.
Hope moves in looking to clinch but Rey pushes him off.
Hope fails with an attempt to clinch.
Hope tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Hope tries to clinch up.
Hope goes to the watering hole and comes back with a big thumbs up from the judges as he scores a three punch combo.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Rey lands a slapping body shot.
Hope fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Rey fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Hope manages to avoid it.
Young Hope is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Hope tries to clinch but Rey is having none of it.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Rey lands with a right hand.
Hope misses with a body kick.
Hope throws a half hearted mid kick.
Rey cracks Hope with an open hand slap.

It looks like Young Hope has been cut.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Hope tries to clinch up.
Hope wants to clinch up but Rey keeps it at a distance.
Hope tries to close the distance and clinch up but Rey swats him away and circles back towards the center.

Rey sends Hope crashing to the mat with a devastating uppercut! Rey is motioning to the referee to let Hope up. He wants to try and finish this one on the feet!

Hope is rocked!
This has been an exciting period of action!
Hope throws a head kick that misses.
Rey fakes the body blow, causing Hope to drop his hands! Left hook to the temple! Hope goes stiff, and falls face first into the mat. Goodnight!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:52 of round 2, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Ceino Rey!