PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Khalil Zidane (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Muay Yahyaoui (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Zidane comes to the cage accompanied by Tool - Jimmy. Khalil Zidane could well score a knockout today. He has the power to get to Muay Yahyaoui's chin.

Zidane
vs
Yahyaoui

178 cm
31
142 lbs
18 - 5 - 0

180 cm
25
130 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent boxer
KO power

BJJ Blue Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Very confident

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the bantamweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 18 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Khalil Zidane!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Muay Yahyaoui!
The judges for this bout are Skip Squint, Hugh Johnson and Summer Carpenter.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Yahyaoui swings widly with a right hand
and Zidane counters with a leg kick.
Zidane wings a very wild body shot but it does the job and lands to the midsection.
Zidane lands a nice hook to Yahyaoui's body. Yahyaoui takes it in his stride and looks to land his own strikes.
Yahyaoui shoots in for a takedown. "Ole!" shouts Zidane as he jumps to the side.
Zidane lands a body shot.
Zidane pushes Yahyaoui away with a front kick.
Horrible takedown by Yahyaoui or perhaps it was just good defense by Zidane which made him look bad.
Zidane works the jab nicely.
Yahyaoui walks forward, straight into a front kick from Zidane.
Yahyaoui looks winded!
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Yahyaoui takes a body punch that cleary hurt but he's trying not to show any weakness.
Zidane steps into range and unloads a brutal right left combo! Yahyaoui is out on his feet! Zidane sets himself and nearly takes Yahyaoui's head off with a straight right, sending him crashing to the mat! Wow, that was nasty... but awesome! Wooo!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:43 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Strikes). Khalil Zidane!
Khalil Zidane retains his bantamweight title!
Khalil Zidane decided to go for the less than humble approach in his post fight interview, telling everyone how he is going to conquer the world. The crowd seemed to like it when really that sort of approach could have gone either way.