PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight kickboxing rules bout between Marious La De Hoya (ranked 21778 p4p, 4886 weight class) and George Alexopoulos (ranked 514 p4p, 461 weight class). George Alexopoulos has the eye of the tiger tonight.

La De Hoya
vs
Alexopoulos

169 cm
44
140
42 - 18 - 2

175 cm
18
155
0 - 2 - 0

World class MT
Cardio machine

Brawler
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 42 - 18 - 2, fighting out of Amsterdam, Marious La De Hoya!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, George Alexopoulos!
The judges for this bout are Albert Achterberg, Wagner Zegers and Aafke Stam.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Alexopoulos fakes with an overhand right and moves in to clinch with La De Hoya, pushing him back against the ropes.
La De Hoya throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Alexopouloss head.
La De Hoya lands with a right to the head.
Nice body punch from La De Hoya - that landed with a thud.
La De Hoya lands a nice shot to the body.
A short right hand to the side of the head by La De Hoya.
La De Hoya with a knee to the head.
La De Hoya lands with a short head shot on the inside.
Alexopoulos tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and La De Hoya avoids it.
Alexopoulos working hard to break the clinch.
Alexopoulos is looking to break free of the clinch but La De Hoya has double underhooks.
La De Hoya scores with a shoulder strike.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. La De Hoya obliges.
Alexopoulos looks winded!
Alexopoulos tries to work over La De Hoya's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
A quick uppercut on the inside from La De Hoya.
Knees to the body from La De Hoya.
La De Hoya lands a good knee to the midsection. Alexopoulos won't want to take too many of those.
A short body shot lands from La De Hoya as the two fighters clinch.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Alexopoulos takes an elbow to the temple.
With the fighters clinched against the ropes, La De Hoya creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
A short right hand to the side of the head by La De Hoya.
La De Hoya stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.
La De Hoya landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
La De Hoya lands a nice elbow.
La De Hoya utilising his Muay Thai to score with a knee to the body.
La De Hoya landing some nice looking knees to the body.
A right hand to the body from La De Hoya.
La De Hoya lands a left hand.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
La De Hoya lands a shoulder strike.
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. La De Hoya obliges.
La De Hoya working Alexopoulos over with knees to the body.
A right handed body shot lands from La De Hoya.
La De Hoya lands a body punch.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
A right hand to the body from La De Hoya.
La De Hoya gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.

Alexopoulos is rocked!

It looks like George Alexopoulos has been cut.
Good body shot from La De Hoya.
Alexopoulos is still on wobbly legs! Can La De Hoya finish him?
La De Hoya breaks the clinch momentarily and cracks Alexopoulos with a big right hook that drops him to the canvas! Alexopoulos looks like he might be in big trouble here! The referee has started the count straight away and we're up to 5 already. Alexopoulos get to one knee - can he make it back to his feet? No, he's flopped back to the mat - he's out - this one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:18 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punch). Marious La De Hoya!
Marious La De Hoya tried to hype himself up post fight but didn't word it too well and it ended up with him sounding like a bit of a tool.