PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Hannibal Barca (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Iwan Matwijenko (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Matwijenko is bobbing his head along to his entrance song: RANDORI!. Both fighters really staring each other down here, as Iwan Matwijenko enters the ring!

Barca
vs
Matwijenko

193 cm
30
218 lbs
22 - 9 - 0

192 cm
38
218 lbs
22 - 7 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Cardio machine

Good wrestler
World class MT
Powerful

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 22 - 9 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Hannibal Barca!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 22 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Iwan Matwijenko!
The judges for this bout are Igor Prikhodko, Sergei Dronov and Viktor Lagutenko.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
A looping hook to the body misses from Matwijenko. Barca does a little dance to reset his feet.
Good leg kick by Matwijenko there. It's the ones that make that thud noise that hurt and that was an almighty thud.
Matwijenko will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.

Barca moves into range and clinches up with Matwijenko.

Matwijenko pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Barca throws a leg kick but Matwijenko sees it coming and checks it nicely.
Barca throws a low kick but his opponent is out of range.
Matwijenko looked like he wanted to counter with a punch but didn't throw it.
A solid leg kick lands there for Matwijenko.
Barca cracks a nice hook into Matwijenko's ribs.
Matwijenko rushes in with a sloppy looking punch
and Barca connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
Barca throws out a loose jab but Matwijenko uses good head movement to avoid it.
Matwijenko misses the shot to the body.
Barca fakes a jab and throws a low kick but Matwijenko checks it well.
Barca digs a good body shot into Matwijenko's ribs.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Barca lands with a good body shot.
A nice inside leg kick there by Barca. That's going to slow Matwijenko down.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Barca just misses with a punch to the body.
A left and a right from Barca both land. Nice combination.
Barca scores with a shot to the body.
Matwijenko looks winded!
Barca lands an overhand left. A wild punch that just about connected.
Barca lands an uppercut out of nowhere! Matwijenko falls backwards - clearly groggy! Barca dives in and finishes the fight with more strikes for a TKO finish!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:24 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Hannibal Barca!
A victorious Hannibal Barca thanked his army of followers in his post fight interview, telling people to make sure they follow him on Twitter.