PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Jeffrey Sarpong (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Konstantin Manison (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Manison has chosen Wherever I May Roam as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. Both fighters look pumped up here. Let's hope this is a good fight!

Sarpong
vs
Manison

187 cm
33
187 lbs
30 - 11 - 2

185 cm
31
200 lbs
28 - 16 - 0

Abu Dhabi Champ
Excellent boxer
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
World class boxer
Good gas tank

Voodoo Nutrition
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 30 - 11 - 2, fighting out of St Petersburg, Jeffrey Sarpong!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 28 - 16 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Konstantin Manison!
The judges for this bout are James Atkins, Steven Brown and James Ackerman.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Manison lands with a shot to the body.
Sarpong defending well as Manison loads up on a big left hand.
Manison ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Sarpong moves away.
Manison keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Manison with poor footwork there. He got himself in a bit of a tangle, enabling Sarpong to score with a decent uppercut.
Manison keeps the fight on the outside.
Manison doesn't fully commit to the body shot counter.
Manison leaves Sarpong with his face pressed against the mat as he sprawls beautifully, defending against a solid takedown attempt.
Sarpong swings for the body but Manison moves out of range.
Manison throws a shot from downtown. Sarpong moves away and avoids it.
Sarpong fakes with the hands and throws a leg kick but Manison is out of range.
Sarpong throws out a token jab with nothing on it.
Manison lands with a cross to side of his opponent's head.

It looks like Jeffrey Sarpong has been cut.
Like a baseball bat into the meat of his leg there - nice leg kick by Sarpong.
Manison takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.

Sarpong clinches with his opponent.
Sarpong misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Still in the clinch, Manison scores with a nice short uppercut.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Sarpong throws a head punch that misses.
Manison avoids the elbow strike from Sarpong, against the cage.
Sarpong lands a body punch in the clinch.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Sarpong fails to land with a short punch on the inside.

Manison escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Sarpong will have to do better than that with his takedown attempts.
Manison darts in and out, connecting with a jab.
Manison fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Sarpong manages to avoid it.
Manison 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.
Sarpong takes an uppercut right on the jaw but it doesn't phase him.
Sarpong misses with a hook. Manison ducked under it nicely.
Manison looks like he wants to counter punch here.
Manison tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Sarpong was well out of range. Poor timing from Manison.
Sarpong fakes a jab and scores with a low kick.

Sarpong forces Manison back against the cage and clinches.
Manison dodges an elbow strike from Sarpong.
Manison blocks an elbow strike from Sarpong.

Manison manages to break the clinch.
Sarpong tries to clinch but Manison moves out of range.
Sarpong definitely looks more muscular than last time we saw him fight.
The sound of bone on bone echoes around the arena as Sarpong checks a leg kick.
Manison lands a jab to the head.
This fight brought to you by 5M nutrition - it's mmmmm tasty. Nice jab by Sarpong.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Manison throws a big shot that misses.
Sarpong displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Manison throws out the jab.
Sarpong lands a nice looking kick to the body. Manison takes a step back to recover.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Sarpong lands a leg kick that knocks Manison off balance momentarily.
Sarpong pivots as if he's going to throw a leg kick but stops half way.
Manison tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Sarpong was well out of range. Poor timing from Manison.
A solid leg kick lands there for Sarpong.
Manison misses with a few strikes there.
Sarpong lands a nice leg kick that just misses Manison's sensitive parts.
Sarpong throws a head kick that misses.
Manison throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.
Sarpong dances in quickly and lands a nice inside leg kick on Manison. That did some damage!
Sarpong misses with a takedown attempt - Manison sprawls well and throws a nice strike on the way out which just misses.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Jeffrey Sarpong. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Manison lands a jab to the head.
Manison on the wrong end of a decent looking cross there.
Sarpong misses with a body shot.
Sarpong lands a nice looking kick to the body. Manison takes a step back to recover.
Sarpong lands a glancing blow to the side of Manison's head.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Sarpong tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Manison throws a hook but Sarpong blocks it.
An attempted straight right counter from Sarpong misses the target.
Manison throws a good cross that connects.
Sarpong connects with a lovely jab that went straight through the gap between Manison's hands.
Sarpong slips a straight right by Manison.
Wow, both these guys are really going for it!
Manison dips to his left and cracks Sarpong with an uppercut!
Sarpong misses with a leg kick.
Manison is the aggressor but that punch slipped nicely by Sarpong.
Manison loads up on a big right hand but Sarpong slips the punch.
Sarpong tries to clinch up against the cage, rushing in to close the distance. Manison manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat.
Sarpong misses with a telegraphed body shot
and Manison connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
Manison chopped to the floor by a nice leg kick but he springs right back up before Sarpong can pounce on him.
Sarpong throws a body kick that misses.
Sarpong slips under a jab from Manison.
Manison throws out a powerful jab.
Jeffrey Sarpong seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Sarpong slips in close and lands a nice hook before moving back out of range.

Sarpong fakes a strike and closes the distance, dragging Manison to the ground. Sarpong is now in Manison's guard.
Sarpong postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.
Sarpong preventing the sweep.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

Manison looking for subs off his back but Sarpong has passed one foot through into half guard.

Sarpong is looking for a kimura but he's never going to get it from there.
Manison wants to improve his position but Sarpong is controlling well.
Sarpong trying to control from Manison's half guard. Manison has other ideas though and has regained full guard.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Sarpong keeps in close for a moment and lands a decent shot to the side of Manison's head.
Sarpong has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
The crowd applaud the fighters' efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Sarpong working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
Manison looking to hit a scissor sweep but Sarpong is one step ahead there.
Manison lands a beautiful sweep and he's now moved into his opponent's guard.

And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

That was a close round but I would say that Jeffrey Sarpong will probably get the nod.
The cut man is working on Jeffrey Sarpong's cut.
The corners get their ten second warning. Both fighters stand from their stools and stare eachother down, ready to get back to the action.

Sarpong stuns Manison with a nice body shot, before stepping back out of range.
Sarpong throws a half hearted mid kick.
Manison throws out a counter right but Sarpong avoids it with no problem.
Sarpong moves out of range as Manison strikes.
A jab from Sarpong does it's job there.
Manison avoids the body shot from Sarpong.
Manison's leg has a nasty welt from taking a succession of leg kicks. That must be slowing him down.
Sarpong uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from Manison.
Manison avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Sarpong tries to clinch up.
Sarpong swings and misses with a shot to the body
and Sarpong takes a counter punch right on the button for his troubles.
Sarpong tries to clinch up against the cage, rushing in to close the distance. Manison manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat.
Manison now looks to counter with a shot at the body.
Sarpong takes a swing at Manison's ribcage but misses.
Manison lands with a cross.
Manison scores with a jab to the jaw.
Sarpong tries to clinch but Manison moves out of range.
Manison throws a hook but Sarpong blocks it.
Manison misses with a wild body shot.
Sarpong quickly followed up with a counter body kick but doesn't connect.
Manison sees a low kick coming and goes to check it, but it's actually a body kick and it thuds into his unprotected ribs.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Sarpong's hands are dropping dangerously low here and Manison connects clean with a right hook that sends him down to one knee! Sarpong scrambles back to his feet.
Manison throws a hook to the side of Sarpong's head but Sarpong sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Manison lands an overhand left. A wild punch that just about connected.
Manison throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.
Manison paws at his opponent with the jab and then lunges in with a straight, right on the button.

Sarpong is rocked!
Manison closes the distance and lands a vicious right hand that drops Sarpong! Manison dives in looking to finish! Sarpong is still trying to defend himself but he's taking too many shots and the referee has no choice but to stop the fight!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:17 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Konstantin Manison!
Konstantin Manison seemed lost for words in his post fight interview but he remembered to thank his fans and directed everyone to his website.