PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight kickboxing rules bout between Cecil Lightning (ranked 2756 p4p, 4045 weight class) and Mark Obama (ranked 378 p4p, 539 weight class). Obama has chosen Gods Gonna Knock You Out as his entrance music. Lightning has a slight injury, which hopefully won't affect the fight too much. Cecil Lightning could well score a knockout today. He has the power to get to Mark Obama's chin.

Lightning
vs
Obama

199 cm
18
210
4 - 0 - 0

190 cm
24
199
1 - 0 - 0

Lethal high kicks
Good chin

Excellent boxer
Intelligent

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 4 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Cecil Lightning!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Mark Obama!
The judges for this bout are Bart Greer, Michael Johnstone and Dirk Anderson.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Lightning jabbing away but nothing is landing.
Lightning avoids a punch combination nicely.
Obama rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Lightning moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Lightning throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.
Obama misses with a combination
and Lightning counters with a straight right hand.
Lightning throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.

Obama clinches up against the ropes.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Obama.
Obama looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.

Obama escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Obama misses with a hook
and Lightning connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
Obama swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.
A little feinted left hand from Lightning on the counter but he doesn't commit to it.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Obama misses with a head kick.
Mark Obama seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Obama misses with a combination
and Lightning counters with a good right hand that lands right on the jaw.
Lightning seems to be moving with more speed, compared to his last bout. He must have been working on that in the gym.
Lightning scores with a body shot.
Obama lands three nice shots there - that looked like it hurt!
Obama looks winded!
Obama misses the body punch
enabling Lightning to counter with a crisp jab.
Nice defenses there by Obama.
Lightning sizes up Obama with a pawing jab and scores with a straight right down the middle.

Obama is rocked!
Obama throws a combination that misses
and Lightning counters with a huge right that knocks Obama out cold! Lightning is running around with a crazed look on his face - you can see how much that meant to him!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:51 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Cecil Lightning!