PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Satchmo Knox (ranked 23246 p4p, 626 weight class) and Paul Rabbitte (ranked 5040 p4p, 512 weight class). Chooooooooon! I think Knox might be my favorite fighter, now he's come out to Riot | Three Days Grace. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Knox
vs
Rabbitte

197 cm
21
218 lbs
0 - 3 - 1

189 cm
22
220 lbs
3 - 7 - 0

Decent wrestler
Excellent MT
Cardio machine

BJJ Purple Belt
Good kicks
Granite chin

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 - 3 - 1, fighting out of London, Satchmo Knox!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 7 - 0, fighting out of London, Paul Rabbitte!
The judges for this bout are Shirou Masuda, Tatsuya Matsuyama and Ren Mimura.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Knox throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Knox lands a jab to the head.

It looks like Paul Rabbitte has been cut.
Knox ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Rabbitte moves away.
Knox throws a hook but Rabbitte blocks it.
Sloppy strikes from Rabbitte. Those never looked like landing.
Knox dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
Rabbitte tries to clinch but Knox moves out of range.
Rabbitte's hands are dropping dangerously low here and Knox connects clean with a right hook that sends him down to one knee! Rabbitte scrambles back to his feet.
Knox definitely looks more muscular than last time we saw him fight.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.

Knox closes the distance and clinches.
Rabbitte tries a knee to the head but Knox blocks it.
Rabbitte looking to stall.
Knox lands a right hand.
Rabbitte throws a knee to the head but misses.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Rabbitte looking to throw knees to the head but Knox is blocking nicely.
A short right from Knox on the inside.
Rabbitte goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Knox blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Knox pushes Rabbitte back against the cage and unloads with a body punch.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Knox creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.

Rabbitte breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.

Knox moves into range and clinches up with Rabbitte.
Still in the clinch, Knox scores with a nice short uppercut.
Knox works on Rabbitte's body with a couple of short punches.
Rabbitte looks winded!
Knox lands a right hand that snaps the head of Rabbitte backwards.
Knox makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Knox is leaning against Rabbitte and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.
Knox working some nice short punches in the clinch.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Nice body punch from Knox - that landed with a thud.
A nice right hand lands inside from Knox.
A right hand to the body from Knox.
Knox lands a body shot in the clinch.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Knox lands a body shot in the clinch.
Knox is leaning against Rabbitte and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.
Knox lands on the inside with an uppercut.

Rabbitte breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.

Knox clinches.

Rabbitte breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Knox throws a shot to the body.
Knox tests Rabbitte's chin there with a solid looking shot.
Knox lands a beauty of a right hand that gets the crowd cheering.
Knox uses good head movement to avoid the hook from Rabbitte.
Knox connects with a crisp jab.

That has opened up Paul Rabbitte's cut even more.
Knox scores with a body shot.
Rabbitte on the wrong end of a vicious looking body shot.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Both fighters circle each other, looking for something big. Knox moves in and throws an overhand right. That hurt Rabbitte! Knox continues to tee off on Rabbitte, landing with a left and a right! Knox connects with a right hand that leaves Rabbitte sleeping against the cage! What a finish by Knox!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:11 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punches). Satchmo Knox!
During a confident post fight interview, Satchmo Knox thanked all his fans. He seemed very genuine when describing how motivated his fans keep him.