PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Stephan Evurts (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Wsciekle Piesci (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Evurts comes to the cage accompanied by Welcome to the Jungle. Piesci has chosen Waldemar Kasta - Głos as his entrance music. The atmosphere really building for this one as we go over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Evurts
vs
Piesci

201 cm
32
276 lbs
15 - 7 - 0

201 cm
23
270 lbs
3 - 2 - 0

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Cardio machine

Good wrestler
World class boxer
Good gas tank

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 15 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Stephan Evurts!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Wsciekle Piesci!
The judges for this bout are Albert Achterberg, Aafke Stam and Paul Aken.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Evurts avoids the body shot from Piesci.
Evurts throws the left hand but Piesci avoids the punch easily.
Evurts takes a really solid shot there but just smiles back and shrugs his shoulders.
Evurts tries to clinch but Piesci is having none of it.
Evurts on the wrong end of a vicious looking body shot.
Evurts moves away from the strike by Piesci.
Piesci scores with a straight right hand, right through his opponent's guard.
Evurts comes forward and lands a shot to the body, then darts back out of range.
Piesci ducks under a wild hook from Evurts.
Piesci waving his hands out in front of him, looking to distract Evurts.
A slow jab from Evurts misses its intended target.
Evurts tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Piesci paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Evurts wants to clinch up but Piesci keeps it at a distance.
A big left from Evurts misses.
Piesci takes a step towards his opponent and connects with a left hand, before circling away.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
No joy there for Piesci, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
Piesci swings away with a body shot that misses
and Evurts cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.
Evurts avoids the body shot from Piesci.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Piesci lands a pitter patter jab to the forehead of his opponent.
Evurts loads up on a big right hand but Piesci slips the punch.
Piesci bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
Evurts misses with a looping left.
Evurts throws a nice looking combination but Piesci bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Evurts throws a body punch but Piesci moves out of range.
Piesci with a nice cross.
Piesci throws a shot to the body.
Piesci throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Evurts.
Piesci bobbing and weaving, closes the distance and lands a hook to the side of Evurts's head.
Piesci avoids the body shot from Evurts.
Stephan Evurts seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Piesci tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Evurts was well out of range. Poor timing from Piesci.
Piesci throws the left hand but Evurts avoids the punch easily.
Piesci just misses with a punch to the body.
Evurts takes a really solid shot there but just smiles back and shrugs his shoulders.
Evurts drops his hands and takes a jab to the jaw for his troubles.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Piesci fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Evurts manages to avoid it.
Evurts looks to land a combination but Piesci avoids it well.
Wsciekle Piesci is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Piesci takes a kick to the side of the head.

It looks like Wsciekle Piesci has been cut.
Piesci's corner calls for a 1-2. Piesci obliges with the 1 part as he scores the single shot and moves back out of range.
Evurts tries to close the distance and clinch but Piesci swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Piesci avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Piesci is landing a lot of head punches in this opening round! Evurts had better start moving his head a bit unless he wants his face to turn into pâté.
Evurts avoids a punch combination nicely.
Piesci moves his head to the side to avoid a jab but walks straight into a cross.
Evurts throws a body punch but Piesci moves out of range.
Evurts moves away from the strike by Piesci.
Piesci throws a right hand that Evurts ducks under and follows up with a left that Evurts also avoids with ease.
Evurts goes for a high kick. It partially lands.
Evurts is looking to clinch.

Evurts closes the distance and presses his opponent up against the cage.
Evurts lands a right hand.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Piesci lands a left hand that snaps the head of Evurts backwards.
Evurts fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Evurts lands a shot to the body.

Piesci's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Evurts falls off balance throwing a combination
and Piesci counters with a nice jab to the body that keeps Evurts thinking.
Piesci takes a swing at Evurts's ribcage but misses.
Piesci avoids a punch combination nicely.
Evurts slips a jab from Piesci.
Piesci throws a shot to the body.
A big right from Evurts misses.
Evurts fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
A big left from Evurts misses.
Piesci takes a shot right to the bread basket.
Evurts misses with a jab, cross combination.
Evurts gets cracked with a nice right hand there by Piesci.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Piesci throws a hard body shot but it just misses.

Evurts closes the distance and gets a trip takedown into side control. Piesci quickly recovers to half guard.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.

Piesci looking for submissions from an awkward position here.
Piesci wants to improve his position but Evurts is controlling well.
Piesci is not content to let Evurts control the position.

Piesci looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.
Evurts with a momentary lay and pray from half guard.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Piesci moves into full guard.
Evurts throwing elbows and punches but not connecting, as Piesci works some decent striking defense from the bottom.
Piesci has control of Evurts's left arm, preventing Evurts from doing any damage.
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 Stephan Evurts will probably get the nod.
The cut man is working on Wsciekle Piesci's cut.
OK. That's time! The bell goes and we're back to the action.

Piesci throws a jab to the body, straight down the pipe. Boom. That sent Evurts stumbling backwards but he manages to regain his composure quickly.

Evurts drops Piesci with a left right combo! Evurts follows him down to the ground into side control.

Piesci is rocked!
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Evurts controls the position from side control.
Piesci is still in real trouble! Can Evurts finish him?
Evurts's ground tactics aren't going to win him many fans. Let's hope he's got fireworks for us if he gets back to his feet because he's not doing much on the ground.
Piesci is sneaking out the side here. He's bucked Evurts off and has taken his back!
Evurts breaks Piesci's hooks off and manages to turn into his guard.
Evurts postures up from his opponent's guard, before exploding into some vicious ground and pound! Piesci covers up, he's hurt! Evurts keeps throwing the strikes, glancing at the referee... Will he stop it?? One more big shot from Evurts and the ref steps in to end the fight! Evurts can't hide his delight as he celebrates with his corner.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:40 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Stephan Evurts!
Stephan Evurts thanked the fans post fight for their support.