PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Robin Godbeard (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Shinobu Tsukasa (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Godbeard kept the crowd waiting but all that was forgotten when his ring entrance music started. The incomparable musical genius that is God Save the Queen. Shinobu Tsukasa has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Godbeard
vs
Tsukasa

180 cm
28
175 lbs
8 - 3 - 0

188 cm
22
174 lbs
3 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Solid boxing
Experienced

BJJ Purple Belt
Dangerous knees
Good gas tank

El Zoido's Feeble Fightwear *** ROUPA DOS BROTHER*

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, for the welterweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 8 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Robin Godbeard!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Shinobu Tsukasa!
The judges for this bout are Eliza Hachem, Damien Edna and Summer Carpenter.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Godbeard stumbles momentarily as he takes a strong leg kick from Tsukasa.
Godbeard swinging wildly here.
Good work by Tsukasa as he checks the leg kick.
Nice shot by Tsukasa.
Godbeard on the wrong end of a nice jab.
Godbeard fails to land with a series of punches.
Godbeard takes a thudding leg kick, right into the meat of the thigh.
Godbeard scores with a nice one two combo and darts back out of range to avoid anything coming in the opposite direction.
Robin Godbeard seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Godbeard misses with a head kick.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
A solid leg kick lands there for Tsukasa.

Tsukasa moves into range and clinches up with Godbeard.
Tsukasa connects with a knee to the head.
Godbeard is looking to break free of the clinch but Tsukasa has double underhooks.
Godbeard can't break the clinch.
Godbeard wants to break free but Tsukasa has control.
Tsukasa throws a knee to the head but misses.
Godbeard takes a knee right on the jaw!
Tsukasa taking a break, stalling in the clinch.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Godbeard wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Tsukasa has him pressed against the cage.
Tsukasa lands an elbow inside.
Knees in the clinch landing for Tsukasa.
Tsukasa lands a knee to the body.
Tsukasa tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Tsukasa scores a nice knee to the body.
Tsukasa stalls.
Tsukasa using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Godbeard is breathing heavily.
Tsukasa lands a knee to the head.
Tsukasa unloads a knee to the mid-section. Godbeard lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Tsukasa connects with a nasty looking knee right to Godbeard's face.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Tsukasa keeps control of Godbeard as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Tsukasa leaning his opponent against the cage.
Tsukasa working Godbeard over with knees to the body.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Tsukasa working Godbeard over with knees to the body.
Tsukasa is trying to wear down his opponent with knees to the body.
Tsukasa lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Tsukasa with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
Tsukasa is struggling to control the position.
Tsukasa using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Tsukasa lands a damaging elbow.
Tsukasa softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Tsukasa lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Nice elbow from Tsukasa.
Come on Tsukasa - let's have some action - none of this stalling nonsense.
Tsukasa lands a knee to the head.
Godbeard is looking to break free of the clinch but Tsukasa has double underhooks.
Tsukasa with a knee to the head.
Godbeard wants to break the clinch but can't.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Godbeard tries to circle away but Tsukasa has him pinned against the cage.
Knees in the clinch landing for Tsukasa.
Tsukasa landing some nice looking knees to the body.
Tsukasa stalling here - the referee won't stand for too much of that.
Godbeard takes a knee right on the jaw!
Tsukasa is struggling to control the position.
Tsukasa prevents Godbeard from breaking the clinch.
Tsukasa scores with a knee to the head.
Tsukasa landing knees to the body.
Tsukasa scores with a knee to the head.
Tsukasa is clearly stalling here... Pick up the pace son.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Tsukasa lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Tsukasa connects with a nasty looking knee right to Godbeard's face.

Godbeard is rocked!

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Tsukasa is struggling to control the position.
Oh Godbeard is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Godbeard seems to have got his legs back now.
The ref breaks the fighters up, due to lack of action by Shinobu Tsukasa.
Tsukasa lands with an uppercut that bounces Godbeard off the cage and back into range.
Tsukasa lands with a nice low kick. That'll leave a bruise.
Tsukasa with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
Godbeard misses with a two punch combination.
A left lands for Tsukasa.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!

Tsukasa closes the distance and clinches.
Tsukasa comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Godbeard takes a knee right on the jaw!
Tsukasa scores with a knee to the head.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Shinobu Tsukasa dominated that round.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action.

A head kick misses from Godbeard.
Godbeard swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Tsukasa paws at his opponent with the jab and then lunges in with a straight, right on the button.
Godbeard throws a body kick despite being completely out of range
and Tsukasa counters with a nice uppercut.
The crowd cheers as Godbeard lands an impressive looking overhand right. Tsukasa doesn't seem phased though.
Tsukasa checks a leg kick.
Godbeard pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Tsukasa scores with a slapping inside leg kick.
The fighters are starting to get sweaty, which will make takedowns a bit more tricky.
Godbeard tries to work over Tsukasa's front leg with a kick but Tsukasa checks it.
Tsukasa lands a leg kick. The shin dug right into the meat of the thigh.
Good shot there by Tsukasa.
Tsukasa has been the more effective fighter overall so far.
Godbeard misses with a two punch combination.
A combination from Godbeard does no damage.
Tsukasa has used his reach advantage pretty well so far tonight.
Tsukasa fakes a head shot and lands one to the body.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Tsukasa's jab looks to have found its range, popping Godbeard under the eye.
Tsukasa clobbers Godbeard with an overhand right that has the crowd gasping. That made a horrendous noise.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Tsukasa connects with a leg kick. Godbeard looked like he was expecting something else and didn't defend it.
Godbeard looks to land a body kick but Tsukasa moved away.
Tsukasa digs a good body shot into Godbeard's ribs.
Godbeard stumbles momentarily as he takes a strong leg kick from Tsukasa.

Tsukasa lands a big head kick that sends Godbeard tumbling to the mat! Tsukasa takes a step backwards and waves Godbeard back to his feet - he wants the finish!
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Tsukasa lands a nice looking body shot.
Godbeard stumbles momentarily as he takes a strong leg kick from Tsukasa.
Shinobu Tsukasa seems to be getting the better of the standup.
Jab, jab by Tsukasa - just one landing.
Tsukasa feints with a shoulder and throws a nice leg kick to Godbeard's calf.
Tsukasa lands a big head kick that sends Godbeard to the canvas! Tsukasa follows up with strikes from the mount that forces the ref to step in and stop the fight!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:44 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Shinobu Tsukasa!
Shinobu Tsukasa is the new welterweight champion!