PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight kickboxing rules bout between Eric Kronke (ranked 23014 p4p, 3072 weight class) and Julius Benedict (ranked 562 p4p, 338 weight class). Kronke's entrance music is Feuer Frei. A fine choice. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Kronke
vs
Benedict

188 cm
31
218
7 - 16 - 1

188 cm
33
205
12 - 9 - 0

World class boxer
Cardio machine

World class MT
Heavy handed

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 7 - 16 - 1, fighting out of New York, Eric Kronke!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 12 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Julius Benedict!
The judges for this bout are Wagner Zegers, Aafke Stam and Albert Achterberg.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Kronke moves his head to the side to avoid a jab but walks straight into a cross.
Benedict pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
Kronke lands a jab to the head.
Kronke tries to bum rush Benedict with a series of wild strikes but Benedict uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Benedict on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.

Benedict cracks Kronke with a perfect right hand that drops him to the mat! Kronke is sitting up but I can't see if he's OK from my position. The referee's count has reached 5,6,7 and Kronke is still not up. Can he make it? 8,9, he's up! Wow, he cut that one a bit fine!
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Kronke walks straight into a jab right on the nose. That one stung - he's blinking and trying to clear his head.

Kronke is rocked!
We've been informed that Benedict has been sparring a lot of Muay Thai in the buildup to this fight so let's see if that has an impact on the result.
Eric Kronke seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Kronke swings away with a body shot that misses
and Benedict counters with a low kick, right behind Kronke 's knee.
Benedict steps to the side to avoid the strikes from Kronke.
Kronke walks straight into devastating uppercut and drops to the floor, clearly wobbled! Can he beat the count? 4,5,6,7... he's up! And he's down again! The ref steps in and calls an end to the fight! What a punch that was!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:35 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punch). Julius Benedict!