PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight kickboxing rules bout between Lyndon Knowles (ranked 5913 p4p, 5866 weight class) and Nero Vogels (ranked 527 p4p, 524 weight class). Fingers crossed for an exciting fight - I'm sure both fighters are looking for a nice under the table bonus!

Knowles
vs
Vogels

205 cm
21
242
4 - 0 - 0

199 cm
21
265
4 - 1 - 1

Excellent boxer
Cardio machine

Lethal high kicks
Good gas tank

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 4 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Lyndon Knowles!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 1 - 1, fighting out of Montreal, Nero Vogels!
The judges for this bout are Paulo Santos, Thiago Cunha and Daniel Cesar.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Vogels keeps Knowles at a distance using the push kick.
Knowles blocks the body kick.
Knowles takes a nasty kick to the mid section... That should keep him thinking. Does he try and block and risk a head kick landing?
Vogels goes for a spinning back kick but it misses.

Vogels closes the distance and clinches.
Vogels lands a shoulder strike.
I was talking to Knowles's coach per-fight and he was telling me that they'd been working on the clinch in the runup to this fight.
Vogels scores with a shot to the side of Knowles's head.
Knowles misses with a body punch.
With the fighters clinched against the ropes, Vogels creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Vogels lands a nice elbow from the clinch.

It looks like Lyndon Knowles has been cut.
Knowles misses with a hook from the clinch.
Knowles fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Vogels makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Vogels fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Knowles takes a shot to the head.
Knowles misses with the head strike.
Vogels working some nice short punches in the clinch.
Knowles fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Vogels lands a nice uppercut.
Vogels lands a right hand.

Knowles is rocked!
Vogels breaks the clinch momentarily and cracks Knowles with a big right hook that drops him to the canvas! Knowles looks like he might be in big trouble here! The referee has started the count straight away and we're up to 5 already. Knowles 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 1:08 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punch). Nero Vogels!
A victorious Nero Vogels thanked his army of followers in his post fight interview, telling people to make sure they follow him on Twitter.