PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Brodus Clay (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ej Balingit (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Both fighters really staring each other down here, as Ej Balingit enters the cage!

Clay
vs
Balingit

196 cm
25
275 lbs
12 - 3 - 0

205 cm
34
290 lbs
31 - 14 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Cardio machine

Olympic wrestler
World class MT
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 12 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Brodus Clay!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 31 - 14 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Ej Balingit!
The judges for this bout are Kenichi Hosakawa, Sosuke Kotani and Hirohito Nitta.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Balingit scores with a nice head shot.
Clay throws a hook but Balingit avoids it easily.
Brodus Clay seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
A jab from Clay finds it's way through Balingit's defenses.
Balingit digs a good hook to Clay's body.
Clay throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Clay slips a straight right by Balingit.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Balingit connects with a looping right hand.
Clay misses with a right hand
letting Balingit counter with a right hand.
Balingit lands with a right hand.
Clay throws a decent looking leg kick but it doesn't land clean.
Clay misses with a lunging right hand
and Balingit makes him pay by landing a nice hook to the body before moving out of range.
Balingit throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Balingit scores with a jab to the body.
Balingit misses with a looping left.
Balingit throws a sloppy body shot
and Clay counters with a straight right hand.
Clay bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
A swing and a miss from Clay.
Balingit lands a lovely overhand right.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Clay swings widly with a right hand
and Balingit counters with a straight right hand.

It looks like Brodus Clay has been cut.
Balingit tries to clinch but Clay is having none of it.
Balingit throws the left hand but Clay avoids the punch easily.
Balingit moves out of range of the strikes.
Balingit scores with a body shot.
Balingit ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Clay moves away.
Clay takes a shot right to the liver - Bas would have been proud of that punch.
Balingit takes a swing at Clay's ribcage but misses.
Clay keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Balingit.
Clay avoids the body shot from Balingit.
Clay throws an off balance right hand
and Clay takes a counter punch right on the button for his troubles.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Balingit cracks Clay with a good shot that sees him stumbling back into the cage.
Balingit throws a nice hook to the body that draws an oooh from the crowd.
Balingit loads up on a big right hand but Clay slips the punch.
Balingit slips in close and lands a nice hook before moving back out of range.
Clay will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Balingit throws a body punch but Clay moves out of range.
Balingit lands a beauty of a right hand that gets the crowd cheering.
Balingit is moving around nicely and scores here with a single head shot.
Balingit lands a nice hook to Clay's body. Clay takes it in his stride and looks to land his own strikes.
Balingit scores with a sloppy right hand. Clay should have avoided that one.
Balingit cracks a nice hook into Clay's ribs.
Balingit misses with a wild body shot.
Clay tries to score with a leg kick but it misses it's target.
Clay gets his head snapped back by a nice shot there.
Clay ducks under a wild hook from Balingit.
Clay throws a lazy uppercut
and Balingit counters with a nice jab to the body that keeps Clay thinking.
Balingit misses the shot to the body.
Balingit closes the distance and takes a jab right on the nose as he does so.
Clay uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Balingit.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Clay lands a glancing blow to the side of Balingit's head.
Clay misses the jab.
Clay throws an ugly left hook that misses

and Balingit counters by moving into the clinch. Good anticipation by Balingit.
Balingit lands a body shot.
Balingit has used his reach advantage pretty well so far tonight.
Clay is breathing heavily.
Balingit landing knees to the head.
Clay looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Balingit taking a break, stalling in the clinch.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Clay working hard to break the clinch.
Balingit stalling against the cage.
Balingit blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Clay goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Balingit unloads a knee to the mid-section. Clay lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Balingit unloads a knee to the mid-section.
Balingit lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Balingit tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Balingit pressing his opponent against the cage.
Balingit misses with a hook to the ribs.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Balingit scores with a shoulder strike.
Balingit lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Balingit has Clay pushed against the cage.
Balingit tries a body shot but Clay blocks it.
Balingit is trying to slow down the pace in the clinch, to catch his breath.
Balingit lands a body shot.
Clay can't break the clinch.
Clay tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Balingit lands a body punch.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Balingit pushes Clay back against the cage and unloads with a body punch.
Balingit with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
A short right hand to the side of the head by Balingit.
Balingit lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Clay backwards.
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. Balingit obliges.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Ej Balingit dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Brodus Clay's cut.
Well, the break between rounds is over. Let's get back to the scrappin!

Clay doesn't react quick enough there as he takes a shot to the body.
Clay misses with a wild body shot.
Balingit scores with a big left there. The judges will like that one.
Balingit scores with a big left there. The judges will like that one.

Balingit closes the distance and pushes Clay back into the cage.

Balingit drops Clay onto one knee with a big uppercut from the clinch! Clay is propped up by the cage and works his way back to his feet!

Clay is rocked!
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Balingit pushes Clay against the cage. Balingit is working some dirty boxing. Balingit pushes off with a quick right hook! Clay goes down! Clay tries to stand but stumbles back to his kness! Balingit moves in to finish and the ref steps in to prevent any more damage!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:31 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Ej Balingit!
Ej Balingit made sure to mention his sponsor, FinnFighter Nutrition (Five 160Q supps!) in his post fight interview.