PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between John Rbn (ranked 4389 p4p, 358 weight class) and Tien Shinhan (ranked 25154 p4p, 454 weight class). Shinhan comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Skillet - Forsaken kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! I'm sure you'll be fascinated to know that I was talking to some pointless Z list celebrity before the fight and he thought that Tien Shinhan was going to win. Let's see if he was right.

Rbn
vs
Shinhan

175 cm
24
157 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

175 cm
24
153 lbs
0 - 2 - 0

Good wrestling
Great elbows
KO power

BJJ Purple Belt
Lethal high kicks
Prefers standup

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 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, John Rbn!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 2 - 0, fighting out of London, Tien Shinhan!
The judges for this bout are Chris Edwards, Phil Schofield and Andrew Berry.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Shinhan misses with a low kick.
Shinhan buckles his opponent's knee momentarily with a nice leg kick.
Rbn has his front leg slapped to the side - a nice low kick landing there from Shinhan.
A good leg kick by Shinhan.
Rbn stumbles momentarily as he takes a strong leg kick from Shinhan.
Shinhan will need to close the distance a bit before he attacks - that leg kick was thrown from too far away.
Shinhan connects with a leg kick. Rbn looked like he was expecting something else and didn't defend it.
A good leg kick by Shinhan.
Tien Shinhan seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Shinhan cracks the inside of Rbn's front leg.
Shinhan lands a nice leg kick that just misses Rbn's sensitive parts.
Rbn checks the leg kick nicely there.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Good work by Rbn as he checks the leg kick.
Rbn misses with a jab, cross combination.
Shinhan flicks out a counter leg kick but Rbn steps away.
Shinhan throws a nice inside leg kick.
Shinhan looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.

Rbn throws a big overhand right that connects, sending Shinhan tumbling to the canvas!

Shinhan is rocked!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Rbn arches his back and unloads with a massive left and a right! Shinhan's eyes roll back into his head, he's out cold! The ref dives in to stop the fight - wow, they were hard shots!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:20 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Strikes). John Rbn!
During a confident post fight interview, John Rbn thanked all his fans. He seemed very genuine when describing how motivated his fans keep him.