PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between David Haye (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Shogun Rua (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Well, I have no idea who's going to take this one!

Haye
vs
Rua

190 cm
25
205 lbs
4 - 1 - 0

190 cm
28
201 lbs
9 - 7 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Experienced

Decent wrestler
Good kicks
Powerful

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 4 - 1 - 0, fighting out of London, David Haye!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 9 - 7 - 0, fighting out of London, Shogun Rua!
The judges for this bout are Daniel Bishop, Andrew Berry and Richard Clark.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Haye misses with a head kick.
Haye throws a head kick that misses.
Haye throws a jab, cross combination which is slipped
and Rua connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
Rua ducks under a wild hook from Haye.
A head kick by Haye misses
and Rua counters with a thumping low kick.
Haye scores with a hook to the body. Rua takes a step back and tries to catch his breath.
Haye misses with a hook. Rua ducked under it nicely.
Haye throws an ugly left hook that misses
and Rua counters with a nice leg kick.
Rua scoring well with a low kick there.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Haye misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Haye takes a kick to the side of the head.

It looks like David Haye has been cut.
That's a knee to de groin and it's over and out! Haye crumples to the ground after an illegal strike from Rua - the referee stops the clock and Haye gets 5 minutes to recover from that one. "I'm sorry" says Rua. Haye manages to get back to his feet and the fight resumes.
Haye is breathing heavily.
Like a baseball bat into the meat of his leg there - nice leg kick by Rua.
Rua feints and then cracks Haye's leading leg with a nice low kick. He's obviously looking to slow Haye down.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Rua connects with a leg kick. Haye looked like he was expecting something else and didn't defend it.
Rua throws a jab when Haye was well out of range.

Rua takes the fight into the clinch.
Rua stalling the fight.
Haye fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Rua lands a knee to the head.
Rua has Haye pressed up against the cage in a tight Thai clinch. Haye is arching his back, trying to avoid the knees but a big one sneaks through from Rua - that's hurt Haye badly! Oh, another knee lands and Haye is covering up! The referee steps in to save him - possibly a bit early but Haye doesn't seem to be complaining.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:38 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Knees). Shogun Rua!