PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight kickboxing rules bout between Xavier Armstrong (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and John Lilburne (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Lilburne has chosen You'll never walk alone as his entrance music. 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 John Lilburne was going to win. Let's see if he was right.

Armstrong
vs
Lilburne

191 cm
30
223 lbs
20 - 8 - 2

188 cm
28
218 lbs
25 - 16 - 0

World class MT
Cardio machine

Dangerous knees
Heavy handed

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KAISER

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 20 - 8 - 2, fighting out of Tokyo, Xavier Armstrong!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 25 - 16 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, John Lilburne!
The judges for this bout are Ren Mimura, Shigeki Sano and Yasuomi Hirokawa.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Lilburne scores with a decent looking hook.
Armstrong takes a step back and watches a body kick go sailing past his mid section.
Lilburne fakes low and throws an overhand right that catches Armstrong on the side of the head.

Armstrong clinches.
Armstrong lands a good knee to the midsection. Lilburne won't want to take too many of those.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Armstrong blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Armstrong blocks an elbow strike.
Lilburne lands with a short punch from the clinch.
Lilburne swings wildly with an uppercut but Armstrong uses good head movement to avoid it.
Armstrong misses with some punches.
Armstrong misses with a hook to the ribs.
Lilburne misses with a short punch on the inside.
A head punch on the inside from Armstrong fails to land.
Armstrong is trying to stall.
Lilburne throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Lilburne wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Armstrong lands a good knee to the midsection. Lilburne won't want to take too many of those.
Lilburne looks winded!
Lilburne takes a shot to the head.
Lilburne takes a shot to the head.
Armstrong landing some nice looking knees to the body.
Lilburne is trying to push Armstrong away but Armstrong has him pressed against the cage, so he's going nowhere.
Armstrong softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Armstrong lands a body punch in the clinch.
Armstrong misses with a body punch.
Armstrong tries a knee to the head but Lilburne blocks it.
Nice body punch from Armstrong - that landed with a thud.
Nice body punch from Armstrong.
Knees in the clinch landing for Armstrong.
Armstrong taking a breather.
A body shot lands from Armstrong.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Armstrong goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Nice body punch from Armstrong.
Lilburne blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Armstrong tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Lilburne avoids it.
Lilburne blocks a body shot from Armstrong.
Lilburne looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Armstrong lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.
Armstrong misses with a hook to the ribs.
Lilburne pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
Lilburne is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Armstrong is defending well for now.
Armstrong tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Lilburne avoids it.
Lilburne's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!

That's two minutes gone in the round.
A shot in the inside from Armstrong.
The referee is keeping an eye on Armstrong - much more stalling and he will separate the fighters.
Lilburne tries to throw a body punch but Armstrong avoids it by throwing Lilburne back against the cage.
Armstrong lands a nice uppercut.

Lilburne is rocked!
Armstrong blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Lilburne is still on wobbly legs! Can Armstrong finish him?
Armstrong lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Armstrong cracks Lilburne with a big uppercut, right up the middle and Lilburne goes down! Oh, he's hurt! He's bigtime hurt! The referee is giving him a chance to get back to his feet - 4,5,6,7, no, he's called it off! Lilburne wasn't going to make it and the fight is over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:27 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punch). Xavier Armstrong!
Xavier Armstrong seemed lost for words in his post fight interview but he remembered to thank his fans and directed everyone to his website.