PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight kickboxing rules bout between Katsurou De La Bambasio (ranked 7597 p4p, 684 weight class) and Niko Diaz (ranked 5664 p4p, 621 weight class). De La Bambasio comes to the ring accompanied by Steve James - Warrior feat. LIGHTS. Both these guys have solid standup skills and neither is particularly fantastic on the ground, so let's hope for a nice standup war!

De La Bambasio
vs
Diaz

187 cm
26
205 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

182 cm
20
190 lbs
4 - 3 - 0

Good knees
Granite chin

Excellent MT
Good gas tank

Freebok (85% Laundry)

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 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Katsurou De La Bambasio!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Niko Diaz!
The judges for this bout are Ren Mimura, Shirou Masuda and Kenichi Hosakawa.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Diaz lands a head shot.
De La Bambasio throws a poor cross that misses
and Diaz counters with a straight right hand.
Diaz takes an uppercut right on the button but keeps his composure.
Diaz dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
De La Bambasio just misses with a punch to the body.
Nice uppercut lands for Diaz. That snapped De La Bambasio's head back.

It looks like Katsurou De La Bambasio has been cut.
Diaz lands a head shot.
De La Bambasio takes a jab right on the kisser.
Diaz 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.
Diaz digs a good body shot into De La Bambasio's ribs.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Diaz scores with a straight right hand, right through his opponent's guard.
Diaz lands with a nice combination. De La Bambasio backs away looking to recover.
Diaz scores with a shot to the body.
Diaz darts in and out, connecting with a jab.
A left lands for Diaz.
Diaz's corner calls for a 1, 2 combination and Diaz duly obliges.
De La Bambasio doesn't manage to clinch there - Diaz circles away.
De La Bambasio rushes in with a sloppy looking punch
and Diaz counters with a straight right hand.

De La Bambasio is rocked!
De La Bambasio tries to clinch but Diaz moves away
and Diaz counters with a perfect left hook, dropping De La Bambasio to the canvas. He tries to get back up quickly but his equilibrium is all over the place! He's up... he's back down again! There's no need for a count as the referee calls off the bout!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:54 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punch). Niko Diaz!
Niko Diaz managed to slip a mention for his sponsors, Freebok (85% Laundry), into his post fight interview.