PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Az Hole (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Kristijan Golubovic (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Hole
vs
Golubovic

197 cm
25
247 lbs
0 - 5 - 0

190 cm
25
245 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Solid boxing
Very strong

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Heavy handed

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Az Hole!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Kristijan Golubovic!
The judges for this bout are , and .

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Golubovic circles away from the clinch attempt.
Golubovic misses with a few strikes there.
Golubovic looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.

Golubovic closes the distance and clinches.
Hole jumps guard but Golubovic stands there with Hole around his waist. Hole gives up and drops back to his feet. We remain in the clinch.
Golubovic throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Hole blocks it with crossed arms.
Golubovic gets double underhooks to prevent a takedown attempt from Hole.
Golubovic lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of Hole backwards.
Golubovic throws a hook to the body. More of an arm punch but it's all scoring with the judges.
Hole lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!

It looks like Kristijan Golubovic has been cut.
A short right hand to the side of the head by Golubovic.
Golubovic tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Still in the clinch, Golubovic scores with a nice short uppercut.

Hole breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Golubovic throws a hard body shot but it just misses.

Golubovic takes the fight into the clinch.
Hole lands a nice shot to the body.
Hole connects with a nasty looking knee right to Golubovic's face.
Golubovic makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Hole lands with a short punch from the clinch.
Hole digs a right hand into Golubovic's ribs. Those have got to be taking their toll on Golubovic's gas tank.
Golubovic looks gassed!
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Hole tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Hole connects with a nasty looking knee right to Golubovic's face.

Hole jumps into guard, dragging Golubovic to the mat.
Hole wants to sweep here but Golubovic controlling him for the moment.
Hole seems keen to control rather than go for a submission, at least for now.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Golubovic won't allow Hole to get back to his feet.
Golubovic working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
Golubovic stopping the sweep attempt from Hole.
Golubovic trying to pass the guard but can't manage it just yet.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are getting on the fighters' backs, as the pace has dropped off in the last minute or so.
Hole not looking particularly offensive just at the moment.
Golubovic must be cautious of submissions here, given that his opponent has the superior Jiu Jitsu.

Well, the referee has seen enough. Neither fighter is active enough on the ground so he's stood them back up.
Golubovic lands with an overhand left.
Hole is looking to clinch but Golubovic is avoiding it.

Golubovic moves into the clinch.
Golubovic using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Hole has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.

Hole manages to break the clinch.
Golubovic will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Hole throws a sloppy head kick and Golubovic moves out of range easily.
Wow, both these guys are really going for it!
Golubovic swinging wildly here.
Hole avoids a punch combination nicely.

Hole moves into range and clinches up with Golubovic.
Hole with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Hole tries a knee to the head but he's missed.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Golubovic tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Golubovic throws a knee to the head but misses.
Golubovic lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.

Hole breaks the clinch.
Golubovic fails in his attempt to clinch.
Hole tries to clinch but Golubovic moves out of range.
A slow jab from Golubovic misses its intended target.

Golubovic has closed the distance and engaged Hole in a clinch.
Golubovic cracks Hole with a nice body shot.
Golubovic looking to throw knees to the head but Hole is blocking nicely.

Hole breaks the clinch.
Hole connects with a right hand. Golubovic shakes it off.
Hole wants to clinch up but Golubovic keeps it at a distance.
Golubovic throws a shot to the body.
Hole closes the distance and takes a jab right on the nose as he does so.
Golubovic throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.
The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily.
Hole tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Golubovic tries to clinch up.
Hole misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Hole is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Hole throws a sloppy head kick and Golubovic moves out of range easily.
Hole tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Golubovic paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Golubovic lands a powerful looking uppercut that connected with his opponent's jaw.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Hole misses with a double jab.
Golubovic scores with a jab to the body.

Golubovic clinches with his opponent.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Hole throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Golubovic blocks it with crossed arms.
Hole connects with a nasty looking knee right to Golubovic's face.
Golubovic looking to throw knees to the head but Hole is blocking nicely.
Golubovic lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
Golubovic lands an uppercut.
Golubovic with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Hole misses with a knee to the head.
Golubovic misses with a knee to the head.
Golubovic lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Golubovic.
Golubovic lands a shot to the body.
Golubovic throws a knee to the head but misses.
Golubovic tries to land knees in the clinch but Hole avoids the damage to the body.
Golubovic misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Hole.
Hole connects with a knee to the head.
Hole misses with a hook from the clinch.

Hole breaks from the clinch.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Hole gets his head snapped back by a nice shot there.
Golubovic takes a kick to the side of the head.
Golubovic scores with a sloppy punch to the body. Not much technique there but it did the business.
Golubovic sizes up Hole with a pawing jab and scores with a straight right down the middle.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Kristijan Golubovic dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Kristijan Golubovic's cut.
The corners get their ten second warning. Both fighters stand from their stools and stare eachother down, ready to get back to the action.

Golubovic pushes Hole up against the cage in a clinch.
Hole dodges an elbow strike from Golubovic.
Golubovic scores with an uppercut up the middle.
Knees to the body from Hole.
Hole is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Golubovic is defending well for now.
Golubovic works for underhooks and lands a body shot in the process.
Golubovic throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Hole blocks it with crossed arms.
Hole tries to jump guard but he falls flat on his backside. Golubovic smiles and moves away.
Hole throws a head kick that misses.
Hole tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Golubovic connects with the punch.
Hole avoids the body shot from Golubovic.
Golubovic keeps the fight on the outside.
Nice shot by Golubovic.
A telegraphed right hand from Hole misses the target.
Hole moves forwards but Golubovic connects with a nice, crisp jab.
Hole tries to clinch there but Golubovic circles away.
Golubovic swats away the attempt to clinch by Hole.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Hole tries to clinch up.
Hole tries to close the distance and clinch up but Golubovic swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Golubovic lands a jab to the nose.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Hole lands with a head kick! That's gotta hurt.
Golubovic throws a two punch combo that lands nicely.
The fight stays on the outside here - Hole looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
A right-left combo lands from Golubovic.

Hole is rocked!
Hole tries a head kick but it misses.
Golubovic cracks Hole with a right hand to the side of the head.
Oh Hole is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Golubovic scores with a jab to the jaw of his opponent.
Hole tries to clinch up.
Hole tries to shoot in for a takedown. He's got hold of a leg but Golubovic swivels and escapes.
Golubovic ducks down and throws a hook to the body.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Golubovic drops Hole with a big left hand! Hole is injured, injured bad! Golubovic jumps in and finished him with strikes! The fight is over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:37 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Kristijan Golubovic!