PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Carlton Robinson (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Xavier Cid (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Cid comes into a darkened arena with his song building. There's No Home for You Here kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Robinson
vs
Cid

180 cm
35
158 lbs
26 - 15 - 1

175 cm
33
159 lbs
25 - 10 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Granite chin

Good wrestler
World class MT
Granite chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 26 - 15 - 1, fighting out of London, Carlton Robinson!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 25 - 10 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Xavier Cid!
The judges for this bout are Yukihiro Shimada, Yukihiro Yamamoto and Sosuke Kotani.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Robinson misses with a looping right.
Carlton Robinson seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Robinson lands with a straight right. Cid didn't see that one coming.
Cid tries to close the distance and clinch up but Robinson swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Robinson lands a jab to the head.
Cid misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Robinson.
Robinson misses with a straight left.
Robinson on the wrong end of a vicious looking body shot.
Cid tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Robinson paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Cid throws a solid leg kick but Robinson takes the impact on his shin and smiles at Cid.
Robinson ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Cid moves away.
Cid comes forward and lands a shot to the body, then darts back out of range.
Robinson throws a lazy uppercut
and Cid makes him pay by landing a thudding low kick.
That kick from Cid tenderised Robinson's leg. Robinson is trying to keep his angry face on.
Cid buckles his opponent's knee momentarily with a nice leg kick.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Cid looks shocked there as he takes a right hand to the temple.
Cid fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Robinson manages to avoid it.
Cid moves out of range as Robinson strikes.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Robinson lands a nice hook to Cid's body. Cid takes it in his stride and looks to land his own strikes.
Thud! ouch! good body kick from Cid - that will leave a mark!
Robinson blocks the body kick.
Cid wants to clinch
and Robinson counters nicely by changing levels and landing a hook to the body.
Cid rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Robinson moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Cid staying out of range there.
Robinson thows a body shot but no joy.
Cid smiles there as he lands a nice right hand right on the button.
Robinson has been working on his boxing with his coaches at Bricktop's House of Hard Knocks in the buildup to the fight.
Cid lands a jab to the nose.
Robinson throws a hook but Cid avoids it easily.
Cid connects with a body shot that sends Robinson's belly button to the back.
Cid avoids the body shot from Robinson.
Robinson moves out of range as Cid strikes.
Cid throws a hook but Robinson avoids it easily.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Cid defending well as Robinson loads up on a big left hand.
Cid lands a jab. Then a cross. Then finally a nice hook to the body. Good work there by Cid.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Cid misses with a kick to the body.
Robinson blocks a jab.
A jab from Cid misses.
Nice defenses there by Cid.
Cid throws a nice outside leg kick.
Cid misses with a body shot.
Cid's jab looks to have found its range, popping Robinson under the eye.
Cid drops his hands and takes a jab to the jaw for his troubles.
Cid avoids the body shot from Robinson.
Robinson looks to score with a jab to the body but Cid is just out of range.
Cid misses with a hook
and Robinson counters with a stiff right hand.
Cid misses with a hook.
Cid misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Robinson.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Nice shot by Cid.
Cid scoring well with a low kick there.
Cid looks for the body kick but Robinson saw that one coming.
Cid slips a jab from Robinson.
Robinson looks to score with a jab to the body but Cid is just out of range.
A solid leg kick lands there for Cid.
Cid lands with a thumping leg kick.
Robinson bobs and weaves and throws out a fast jab that snaps Cid's head backwards.
Robinson lands a really nice looking cross but Cid seems unphased.
Cid throws a nice hook to the body that draws an oooh from the crowd.
Robinson takes a thudding leg kick, right into the meat of the thigh.
Robinson misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Cid.
Robinson avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Robinson cracks Cid with a hook to the jaw. Both fighters smile at eachother and high-five before getting back down to business.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Cid is the aggressor but that punch slipped nicely by Robinson.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Cid connects with a right hand. Robinson shakes it off.
A punch lands to the side of Robinson 's head but he takes it in his stride.
Robinson looks to score with a jab to the body but Cid is just out of range.
Robinson is really peppering his opponent's head with punches.
Robinson misses with a body shot.
Cid throws a half hearted mid kick.
Robinson is hobbling a little on that front leg after taking quite a few leg kicks so far in this fight.
Cid avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Robinson looks to score with a jab to the body but Cid is just out of range.
Cid misses the shot to the body.
Cid misses with a body shot.
Well, he's not going to score with shots like that. A lazy body kick attempt from Cid.
Nice uppercut lands for Cid. That snapped Robinson's head back.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Cid fakes a jab and scores with a low kick.
Cid tries to land a front kick but Robinson steps back. That was a bit too telegraphed.
Robinson throws out a token jab with nothing on it.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Xavier Cid dominated that round.
That's the end of the round. The referee orders the cornermen out of the cage so we can get back down to business.

Robinson misses with a body shot.
Robinson lands a jab to Cid's midsection.
Robinson throws a low kick but Cid moves out of range easily.
Good standup being displayed there by Cid as he connects with a hook.
Cid slips in close and lands a nice hook before moving back out of range.
That's a knee to de groin and it's over and out! Robinson crumples to the ground after an illegal strike from Cid - the referee stops the clock and Robinson gets 5 minutes to recover from that one. "I'm sorry" says Cid. Robinson manages to get back to his feet and the fight resumes.
Robinson catches Cid with a nice straight right. He seems pissed - ooooh, it's on now! On like donkey kong!
Cid throws an ugly left hook that misses
and Robinson counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.
Cid throws a quick inside leg kick.
Cid turns his hip over beautifully as he lands a nice leg kick.
Cid tries a head kick but it misses.
Robinson with a nice cross.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Nice shot by Robinson.
Robinson throws a jab when Cid was well out of range.
Robinson swings widly with a right hand
and he gets countered with a snapping leg kick.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Robinson moves forwards but Cid connects with a nice, crisp jab.
Cid tries to close the distance and clinch up but Robinson swats him away and circles back towards the center.

Cid has Robinson up against the cage in a clinch.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Robinson.
Cid digs a right hand into Robinson's ribs. Those have got to be taking their toll on Robinson's gas tank.
Robinson misses with a hook to the ribs.
Cid presses Robinson against the cage and delivers a mid-strength body shot.
Cid landing knees to the body.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Robinson.
Robinson tries to circle away but Cid has him pinned against the cage.
Cid lands a hook to the side of the head.
Cid wants to stall.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Cid leaning against his opponent.
Cid misses with a hook from the clinch.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Cid using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Robinson has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Robinson is working hard here but doesn't seem to be able to control effectively, up against the cage.
Robinson is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Cid can't find room to land a body shot as Robinson controls the action.
Cid letting Robinson take a breather here.
An uppercut to the body lands inside from Robinson.
Robinson is trying to force a seperation but Cid has the dominant position.
Robinson scores with an uppercut up the middle.
Robinson lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
Cid throws a knee to the head but misses.
Cid swings away with an uppercut that misses.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Cid misses with a punch on the inside.
Robinson is trying to stall.
Cid misses with a short punch on the inside.
Cid looking to throw knees to the head but Robinson is blocking nicely.
Cid lands a body punch in the clinch.
Robinson cracks Cid with a nice body shot.
Cid tries to work over Robinson's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.

Robinson breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
A looping hook to the body misses from Robinson. Cid does a little dance to reset his feet.
Cid throws a body punch but Robinson moves out of range.
Robinson looks to score with a jab to the body but Cid is just out of range.
Robinson scores with the left hand. Cid knows he should have avoided that one.
Robinson on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
Robinson throws a series of strikes that have Cid backpedaling.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Cid misses with a straight right.
Cid takes a punch to the jaw and another one to the bread basket.
Cid chopping away at his opponent's legs.
Robinson misses with a straight right.
Robinson's hands are dropping dangerously low here and Cid connects clean with a right hook that sends him down to one knee! Robinson scrambles back to his feet.
The fighters circling - Robinson throws out the jab but it was never going to land.
Cid swings for the body but Robinson moves out of range.
Cid closes the distance and takes a jab right on the nose as he does so.
An inside leg kick from Cid misses.
Cid lands a body shot.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
A nice leg kick lands there from Cid.
Cid tries to land a leg kick but Robinson saw it coming and moves away.
Robinson dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
A looping hook to the body misses from Cid. Robinson does a little dance to reset his feet.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

A close second round but Xavier Cid will probably get the nod - 10:9.
That's the end of the round. The referee orders the cornermen out of the cage so we can get back down to business. Let's hear some noise people - this is the final round!

Cid will need to close the distance a bit before he attacks - that leg kick was thrown from too far away.
Cid rushes in with a sloppy looking punch

and Robinson counters by clinching up.
Cid throws an elbow but it's blocked.
Cid misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Robinson.
Cid misses with a hook to the ribs.
Cid pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
A right hook to the body lands for Robinson.
Cid landing some nice looking knees to the body.
Cid utilising his Muay Thai to score with a knee to the body.
Robinson slowing the pace effectively.
Robinson misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Robinson lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of Cid backwards.
Robinson effectively controlling the action here.
Robinson has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Cid tries a body shot but Robinson blocks it.
Robinson is trying to push Cid away but Cid has him pressed against the cage, so he's going nowhere.
Cid utilising his Muay Thai to score with a knee to the body.
Cid is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Robinson is defending well for now.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Cid.
Cid makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Cid prevents Robinson from breaking the clinch.
Cid blocking some punches.
Robinson wants to get back to striking at distance but Cid won't allow it.
Robinson has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.
Cid works for underhooks and lands a body shot in the process.
Robinson scores with a nice hook to the head.
Cid tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Robinson's elbow.
Still in the clinch, Cid scores with a nice short uppercut.
Carlton Robinson has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Robinson has a couple of punches blocked by Cid.
Robinson blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Robinson softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Cid misses with a body punch.
Cid misses with a hook to the ribs.

Robinson pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Cid wants to land a leg kick but Robinson is out of range.
Robinson scores with a crisp jab that stopped Cid in his tracks.
Robinson displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Cid throws out the jab.
Robinson swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Cid lands a glancing blow to the side of Robinson's head.
Robinson throws a hook but Cid blocks it.
A telegraphed right hand from Robinson misses the target.
Cid misses with an attempted mid kick.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Cid takes a big uppercut there. He seems a bit wobbly but no, he's OK.
Robinson takes one on the chin but seems OK.
A nice leg kick lands there from Cid.
Cid lands with a two punch combination before moving back out of range.
Robinson throws a hook but Cid avoids it easily.
Cid throws a leg kick which misses Robinson's front leg but catches the back leg as Robinson tries to avoid it.
Cid tries to clinch up.
Robinson swings and misses with a shot to the body
and Cid counters with a leg kick.
Robinson swings for the body but Cid moves out of range.
Cid lunges at Robinson with a hook that half lands and is half blocked by Robinson's hand.
Robinson fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Cid manages to avoid it.
Robinson thows a body shot but no joy.
Robinson throws a jab when Cid was well out of range.
Cid throws a shot to the body.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Cid dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
Cid shakes his hands off, looking to compose himself, but takes a jab to the jaw whilst he does it.
A nice leg kick lands there from Cid.
Cid throws a sloppy head kick and Robinson moves out of range easily.
Robinson scores with a body shot.
Cid bobs and weaves and unloads with a good uppercut.
Cid cracks Robinson with a hook to the jaw. Both fighters smile at eachother and high-five before getting back down to business.
Robinson listening to his corner there, landing a nice uppercut.
Cid tries to clinch but Robinson moves out of range.
Robinson throws an ugly left hook that misses
and Cid counters with a big head kick but Robinson shrugs it off.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Robinson lands a jab.
Cid dips to his left and cracks Robinson with an uppercut!

And that's the end of the fight!
I would just about give that final round to Xavier Cid.
Well Cid has outworked and out performed his opponent in all aspects of the game today. He was simply too good and the decision should be no more than a formality. Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Yukihiro Shimada scores the fight 27:30
Judge Yukihiro Yamamoto scores the fight 28:30
Judge Sosuke Kotani scores the fight 29:29

In favor of your winner, by majority decision... Xavier Cid!
After the fight, Xavier Cid was humble in paying tribute to his opponent but made it clear he wants to go on to bigger and better things. It seemed to go down well with the crowd who cheered him loudly.