PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Balin Le Savage (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Milton Blahyi (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Blahyi comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Cowards by American Head Charge kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Milton Blahyi acknowledges the crowd's support as he enters the cage.

Le Savage
vs
Blahyi

192 cm
23
220 lbs
3 - 2 - 0

190 cm
25
210 lbs
11 - 4 - 0

Good wrestling
Lethal high kicks
KO power

Good wrestler
Good kicks
Good gas tank

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Balin Le Savage!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 11 - 4 - 0, fighting out of New York, Milton Blahyi!
The judges for this bout are Jorge Garcia, Franklyn Lucas and Dean Styles.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Blahyi keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Blahyi has been spending a lot of time sparring his boxing in the run up to the fight, trying to sharpen up those hands and look for a knockout.
Le Savage takes a swing at Blahyi's ribcage but misses.
Balin Le Savage seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Blahyi tries a head kick but it misses.
Blahyi lands a nice hook to Le Savage's body. Le Savage takes it in his stride and looks to land his own strikes.
Le Savage scores with a sloppy punch to the body. Not much technique there but it did the business.
Le Savage lands a beauty of a right hand that gets the crowd cheering.
Blahyi keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Blahyi dodges the punch combination from Le Savage.
Le Savage lands a jab.

Blahyi forces Le Savage back against the cage and clinches.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Le Savage doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Blahyi trying to stall but Le Savage improves his position.
Blahyi swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Come on Le Savage - let's have some action - none of this stalling nonsense.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Blahyi is trying to stall.
Blahyi struggles to land a body shot inside as Le Savage controls his hands.
Le Savage misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Le Savage is working hard here but doesn't seem to be able to control effectively, up against the cage.
A short body shot lands from Le Savage as the two fighters clinch.
Le Savage has a couple of punches blocked by Blahyi.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Le Savage.
The pace really dropping off here, momentarily.
Blahyi throws a punch but it's blocked by Le Savage.
A real battle for position is taking place between these two warriors.
Blahyi's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
Blahyi misses with a short punch on the inside.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Blahyi tries to throw a body punch but Le Savage avoids it by throwing Blahyi back against the cage.
Blahyi misses with a body punch.

Blahyi gets double underhooks and manages to take the fight to the ground.
Blahyi engaging in some classic timewasting tactics.
Le Savage is adopting a defensive guard.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Le Savage looking to control.
Le Savage working a defensive guard but Blahyi manages to pass into side control anyway.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
You can see the frustration on Le Savage's face, being in this tough position on the bottom.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Le Savage parries the strikes from Blahyi easily there. Blahyi is wary of posturing up too much because it might enable Le Savage to escape.
Le Savage regains half guard.
Blahyi prevents Le Savage from improving his position.
Le Savage is looking to control Blahyi's leg but it's slowly edging free. Can Le Savage avoid being mounted?
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

Blahyi is trying a forearm choke… I don't think that's going to do much at this level of the game.
Blahyi is thwarting Le Savage's attempts to control the position.
Blahyi uses his free foot to push down on Le Savage's thigh. Eventually he works his other foot free and he's advanced to mount - this is trouble for Le Savage.
Le Savage is desperately trying to get back to half guard.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Blahyi lands a couple of nice shots there from mount.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Blahyi scores with a couple of good head shots there.
Blahyi cracks Le Savage with a big head shot that has him covering up instantly! He's rolled onto his side and the referee has seen enough - this one is aaaaaaaaaaall over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:42 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Milton Blahyi!
Post fight, Milton Blahyi stared into the camera and said 'If the ref wasn't here, I'd have eaten your fucking heart!'.