PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Duke Ruckus (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Caine Boyko (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Boyko has chosen Get Up by Korn & Skrillex as his entrance music. These two fighters really are very evenly matched on the feet - it will be fascinating to see who can assert themselves in that aspect of the fight.

Ruckus
vs
Boyko

195 cm
20
240 lbs
5 - 2 - 0

194 cm
20
224 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Cardio machine

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Good gas tank

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the super heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 5 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Duke Ruckus!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, Caine Boyko!
The judges for this bout are Wagner Zegers, Aafke Stam and Saam Ante.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Boyko pushes Ruckus away with a front kick.
Ruckus tries to close the distance and clinch up but Boyko swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Boyko swats away the attempt to clinch by Ruckus.
Boyko throws a body kick that misses.
Boyko cracks the inside of Ruckus's front leg.

Boyko has taken the fight to the clinch.
Boyko is trying to break free.
Ruckus lands a damaging elbow.
Boyko lands a damaging elbow.

It looks like Duke Ruckus has been cut.
Ruckus takes an elbow to the temple.
Ruckus misses with an elbow strike.
Boyko creates a bit of distance and throws an elbow that only just misses.
Ruckus misses with an elbow over the top.
Boyko blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Boyko throws an elbow that misses.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
The pace really dropping off here, momentarily.
Ruckus tries to land knees in the clinch but Boyko avoids the damage to the body.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Ruckus blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Ruckus scores with a knee to the head.
Ruckus lands an elbow just above Boyko 's eye.
Ruckus misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Boyko.
Ruckus putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has Boyko in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body.
Boyko avoids a wild elbow strike from Ruckus.
Ruckus tries to land knees in the clinch but Boyko avoids the damage to the body.
Boyko blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Boyko lands an elbow inside that Ruckus shrugs off.
Boyko misses with an elbow over the top.
Boyko tries to break free but Ruckus pushes him back against the cage.
Ruckus pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
Boyko is trying to break the clinch but Ruckus is controlling him.
Ruckus throws an elbow but it misses.
Ruckus landing knees to the body.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Ruckus misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Boyko.
Nice elbow from Boyko.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Boyko tries to land knees in the clinch but Ruckus avoids the damage to the body.
Ruckus using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Ruckus tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Boyko wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Ruckus misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Boyko.
Ruckus takes an elbow to the forehead.

Duke Ruckus's cut is getting worse.
Boyko wants to break free but Ruckus has control.
Ruckus lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!

It looks like Caine Boyko has been cut.
Boyko looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Ruckus is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Boyko is defending well for now.
Ruckus is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Boyko is defending well for now.
Boyko throws a knee to the head but misses.
Boyko looking to throw knees to the head but Ruckus is blocking nicely.
Ruckus trying to land knees to the body.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Ruckus comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Ruckus connects with a nasty looking knee right to Boyko's face.
Boyko throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Ruckus blocks it with crossed arms.
Boyko lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Boyko managing to block the knees to the body from Ruckus.
Boyko lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Boyko landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
Ruckus is breathing heavily.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Boyko stalling in the clinch.
Ruckus avoids the elbow strike from Boyko, against the cage.
Boyko working hard to break the clinch.
Ruckus managing to block the knees to the body from Boyko.
Good anti-grappling being displayed by Ruckus as Boyko tries to tie him up.
Boyko blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Boyko landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Boyko managing to block the knees to the body from Ruckus.
Ruckus tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Boyko avoids it.
Ruckus takes an elbow to the forehead.

Duke Ruckus's cut is bleeding quite badly. He's got to try and protect it.
Boyko lands an elbow inside.
Boyko lands a nice knee to the body.
Boyko scores a nice knee to the body.
Boyko utilising his Muay Thai to score with a knee to the body.
Boyko lands an elbow that stopped Ruckus in his tracks for a moment.
Boyko lands a big knee! That's hurt Ruckus! Oh, he's all over the place! Boyko lands another knee that sends Ruckus to the floor and the referee steps in to end the fight!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:44 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Caine Boyko!
Caine Boyko decided to thank the fans in attendance for making a great atmosphere. It seemed to go down pretty well.