PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Steven Williams (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Igor Vovchanchyn (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Steven Williams has the edge in experience - let's see if he can make that count tonight.

Williams
vs
Vovchanchyn

170 cm
24
154 lbs
3 - 2 - 0

172 cm
21
153 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Counter fighter
KO power

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent MT
Powerful

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 3 - 2 - 0, fighting out of London, Steven Williams!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Igor Vovchanchyn!
The judges for this bout are Daniel Blasius, Paul Aken and Radbod Blank.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Vovchanchyn closes the distance and clinches.
Vovchanchyn lands a nice shot to the body.
A nice right hand lands inside from Vovchanchyn.
Vovchanchyn presses Williams against the cage and delivers a mid-strength body shot.
Vovchanchyn cracks Williams with a nice body shot.
Vovchanchyn pushes Williams back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
A body shot lands from Vovchanchyn.
A short left from Vovchanchyn.
Vovchanchyn working some nice short punches in the clinch.
Williams tries to jump guard but he falls flat on his backside. Vovchanchyn smiles and moves away.
Williams is breathing heavily.
Vovchanchyn cracks Williams with a hook to the jaw. Both fighters smile at eachother and high-five before getting back down to business.
Vovchanchyn scores with a hook to the body. Williams takes a step back and tries to catch his breath.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Vovchanchyn swings wildly with a hook that is half blocked by Williams.

Williams is rocked!
Vovchanchyn scores with a body shot.
Oh Williams is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Williams takes a body punch that cleary hurt but he's trying not to show any weakness.
Williams seems to have got his legs back now.
Vovchanchyn has been working on his striking defense in training and it's paying off as Williams is landing a low percentage of strikes.
Nice body punch from Vovchanchyn.

Vovchanchyn cracks Williams with a big right hand that sends him crashing to the floor. Vovchanchyn has the opportunity to follow him to the ground but instead he's beckoning Williams to stand back up!

That's one minute gone in the round.
BAM! Vovchanchyn delivers a spinning backfist that drops Williams like a ragdoll! This is all oooooveeeer! He was out before he hit the ground!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:09 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Spinning Backfist). Igor Vovchanchyn!
Igor Vovchanchyn decided to hype himself up post fight. It was going well but he went on about it a bit too long and the crowd turned on him a little.