PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Beta Knox (ranked 1803 p4p, 183 weight class) and Philip Ziskie (ranked 883 p4p, 97 weight class). Knox kept the crowd waiting but all that was forgotten when his ring entrance music started. The incomparable musical genius that is Anthrax | Fight Em Till You Can't. These two fighters really are very evenly matched on the feet - it will be fascinating to see who can assert themselves in that aspect of the fight.

Knox
vs
Ziskie

172 cm
31
158 lbs
11 - 9 - 0

173 cm
23
156 lbs
10 - 4 - 0

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
Excellent MT
Good gas tank

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the featherweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 11 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Beta Knox!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 10 - 4 - 0, fighting out of New York, Philip Ziskie!
The judges for this bout are Topper Green, Ben Hemmingworth and Steve Erwin.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Ziskie falls off balance throwing a combination
and Knox counters with a stiff right hand.

It looks like Philip Ziskie has been cut.
Knox takes a kick to the side of the head.
A bone on bone clash there as Knox blocks the leg kick.
Philip Ziskie seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Knox throws a body punch but Ziskie moves out of range.
A little jabbing left from Ziskie on the counter but it doesn't find it's target.
Knox jabbing away but nothing is landing.
Knox scores with a hook to the body. Ziskie takes a step back and tries to catch his breath.
Ziskie looks to throw the jab but Knox is out of range.
Ziskie misses with a right hand
and Knox counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.

Ziskie gets in close and instigates a clinch.
Knox throws a head punch that misses.
Knox blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Ziskie lands with a right to the head.

It looks like Beta Knox has been cut.
Ziskie is leaning against Knox and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Knox blocks an uppercut.
Knox throws a punch but it's blocked by Ziskie.
Ziskie lands a nice uppercut.
Still in the clinch, Ziskie scores with a nice short uppercut.
Ziskie lands a shoulder strike.
A nice right hand lands inside from Ziskie.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Ziskie tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Knox misses with the head strike.
Still in the clinch, Knox scores with a nice short uppercut.
Knox misses with a short punch on the inside.
Ziskie lands a left hand.
Knox lands with a light punch inside.
Knox is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.

Ziskie manages to break the clinch.
Knox throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
A jab from Ziskie misses.
Knox throws a hook to the side of Ziskie's head but Ziskie sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
Knox backing away here, and Ziskie unleashes a leg kick that just misses.

Ziskie closes the distance and clinches.
Ziskie lands a body shot in the clinch.
Knox can't find room to land a body shot as Ziskie controls the action.
Ziskie blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Ziskie lands a shoulder strike.
Ziskie lands a body punch.
A short uppercut from Ziskie.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Knox swings wildly with an uppercut but Ziskie uses good head movement to avoid it.
Knox struggles to land a body shot inside as Ziskie controls his hands.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Knox tries to stall but Ziskie uses the opportunity to gain a better position.
Knox blocks an uppercut.
Ziskie scores with a shot to the side of Knox's head.
Ziskie misses with a hook from the clinch.
Ziskie swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Ziskie makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Ziskie gets through Knox's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Ziskie misses with a hook from the clinch.
A head punch on the inside from Ziskie fails to land.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Knox.
Ziskie has a couple of punches blocked by Knox.
Knox fails to land with a short punch on the inside.

Ziskie manages to break the clinch.

Ziskie instigates a clinch.
Ziskie lands a right hand that snaps the head of Knox backwards.
Ziskie working aggressively here.
Ziskie lands with a short head shot on the inside.
Knox is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Ziskie lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Ziskie cracks Knox with a nice body shot.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Knox tries to work over Ziskie's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Ziskie working some nice short punches in the clinch.

Ziskie breaks from the clinch.
The crowd cheers as Ziskie lands an impressive looking overhand right. Knox doesn't seem phased though.
Nice jab there from Ziskie.
Ziskie tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Knox paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Ziskie misses with a series of wild punches.
Ziskie uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Knox.
Ziskie clobbers Knox with an overhand right that has the crowd gasping. That made a horrendous noise.

Ziskie gets in close and instigates a clinch.

Knox breaks the clinch.

Ziskie forces Knox back against the cage and clinches.
Ziskie blocks an uppercut.
Knox blocking some punches.
Knox blocks an uppercut.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Knox tries to break free but Ziskie pushes him back against the cage.

Ziskie breaks the clinch.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Ziskie throws a hook but Knox avoids it easily.
A clash of legs there as Knox blocks the low kick.
Knox missing with a left hand there. Ziskie was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
Ziskie scores with a punch to the head.
Ziskie tries to clinch but Knox moves away
and Knox cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.

Ziskie closes the distance and clinches.
Ziskie lands an uppercut.
Knox lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
Knox lands with a light punch inside.
Ziskie lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Knox backwards.
Knox misses with a short punch on the inside.
Ziskie lands with a short punch from the clinch.
Knox scores with a hook to the body.
Ziskie lands a body punch in the clinch.
The crowd applaud the fighters' efforts here as the round comes to an end.

Ziskie manages to break the clinch.
Knox rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Ziskie moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Knox misses the body punch
and Ziskie counters with a lovely straight right hand!
Ziskie takes a body punch but keeps moving.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Philip Ziskie dominated that round.
Both fighters have cut men working on them during the interval.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action!

Ziskie is looking to chop away at Knox's legs.
Knox swung with a counter right hand that didn't connect.
Ziskie throws a poor cross that misses
and Knox counters with a straight punch to the midsection.
Knox misses with a wild body shot.
Ziskie with a jab.
Ziskie thows a left - swing and a miss!
Ziskie connects with a lovely right hand, straight down the pipe.
Knox paws at his opponent with the jab and then lunges in with a straight, right on the button.
Knox throws a body shot but no joy.
A swing and a miss from Ziskie.
Ziskie misses with a hook.
The fighters are going at a pretty good pace and they're both starting to sweat now.
Ziskie connects with a good right hand that stumbles Knox. Knox circles away out of range and recomposes himself.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Ziskie clobbers Knox with an overhand right that has the crowd gasping. That made a horrendous noise.
Knox throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
A countering left hand to the body from Ziskie misses.
Ziskie has been the more effective fighter overall so far.
A left and a right from Ziskie both land. Nice combination.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Knox misses with a hook. Ziskie ducked under it nicely.
Ziskie has been working his punching technique in the buildup to the fight and it appears to be paying off.
Knox takes a punch right to his stomach. That took the wind out of him momentarily.
Ziskie walks forward and throws out a flicking leg kick. Knox checks it nicely though, as he moves to the side.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Knox throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Ziskie keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Knox.
Knox misses with a wild body shot.
A big right from Ziskie misses.
Ziskie checks a low kick. Bone on bone - not my idea of a good time.
Knox with poor footwork there. He got himself in a bit of a tangle, enabling Ziskie to score with a decent uppercut.
Knox on the wrong end of a nice hook.
Ziskie scores with a nice one two combo and darts back out of range to avoid anything coming in the opposite direction.
Knox misses the shot to the body.
Ziskie tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Knox paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Ziskie lands a really nice looking cross but Knox seems unphased.
Knox looks to score with a jab to the body but Ziskie is just out of range.

The fight moves into the clinch position.
Ziskie misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Knox misses with a shot to the kidneys.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
A nice left hand lands by Ziskie.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Ziskie working aggressively here.
Philip Ziskie seems to be working more effectively in the clinch in the fight so far.
Ziskie softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.

Knox is rocked!
Ziskie working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Oh Knox is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!

Ziskie's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.

Ziskie closes the distance and pushes Knox back into the cage.
Ziskie scores with a shoulder strike.
Knox swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Ziskie misses with a hook from the clinch.
Ziskie works on Knox's body with a couple of short punches.
Knox blocking some punches.
Ziskie misses with some punches.
A nice left hand lands by Ziskie.
Knox fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Knox misses with a body punch.
Ziskie working aggressively here.
Knox can't find room to land a body shot as Ziskie controls the action.
Ziskie swings wildly with an uppercut but Knox uses good head movement to avoid it.
A short right from Ziskie on the inside.
Knox blocks an uppercut.
Knox swings wildly with an uppercut but Ziskie uses good head movement to avoid it.
Ziskie scores with a shot to the side of Knox's head.
Ziskie dips a shoulder and cracks Knox with a mighty uppercut! Knox falls back against the cage and Ziskie unloads with a barrage of strikes! Knox is completely out with his eyes open, only supported by the cage! Save him ref! Eventually the ref decides to do his job and jumps in - Ziskie screams abuse at the incompetent official before going over to celebrate with his corner. Brutal stuff!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:58 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Philip Ziskie!
Philip Ziskie is the new featherweight champion!
Our winner, Philip Ziskie, made sure he spent some time buttering up the crowd during his post fight interview, which will no doubt bring him a few more fans.