PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Kirill Chernicin (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Maciej Zegan (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Zegan has chosen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4B99CQV3uY&feature=related as his entrance music. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Chernicin
vs
Zegan

170 cm
26
150 lbs
6 - 16 - 0

180 cm
33
153 lbs
22 - 21 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Solid Muay Thai
KO power

Good wrestler
Excellent boxer
Determined

Spartan Nutrition

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 6 - 16 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Kirill Chernicin!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 22 - 21 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Maciej Zegan!
The judges for this bout are Shigeki Sano, Yukihiro Shimada and Ren Mimura.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Chernicin takes a really solid shot there but just smiles back and shrugs his shoulders.
Chernicin misses with a takedown attempt - Zegan sprawls well and throws a nice strike on the way out which just misses.
Chernicin has a takedown stuffed.
Zegan was about to counter that last move with a leg kick but changes his mind.
Zegan lands a leg kick and bounces back out of range.
Zegan throws a nice inside leg kick.
Chernicin will have to do better than that with his takedown attempts.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Kirill Chernicin. That's going to take a lot out of him.

Zegan clinches with his opponent.

Zegan escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Chernicin closes this distance looking for a takedown but Zegan circles away.
Zegan lunges in with an uppercut that skims his opponent's chin.

It looks like Kirill Chernicin has been cut.
Zegan pushes Chernicin away with a front kick.
Chernicin takes a body punch that cleary hurt but he's trying not to show any weakness.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Chernicin walks into a stiff left hand from Zegan.
Zegan scores with a decent looking hook.

Chernicin is rocked!
Zegan throws a leg kick which misses Chernicin's front leg but catches the back leg as Chernicin tries to avoid it.
Oh Chernicin is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!

Zegan clinches up with Chernicin and pushes him back against the ropes.
A right handed body shot lands from Zegan.
The fighters are pressed against the ropes, as the pace of the fight slows.
Zegan has Chernicin pressed against the ropes. He pushes Chernicin back and as he springs towards him off the ropes, Zegan throws a beautiful elbow that sends Chernicin crashing to the floor! Zegan piles on the pressure with more strikes! Chernicin is flailing away but he's not defending himself and the referee steps in to stop the fight!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:58 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Maciej Zegan!
Maciej Zegan decided to go for the less than humble approach in his post fight interview, telling everyone how he is going to conquer the world. The crowd seemed to like it when really that sort of approach could have gone either way.