PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Eric Farrow (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Stump Whacker (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Farrow
vs
Whacker

189 cm
22
200 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

185 cm
18
209 lbs
2 - 2 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter striker
KO power

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter striker
Granite chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 2 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Eric Farrow!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 2 - 0, fighting out of London, Stump Whacker!
The judges for this bout are William Gold, Chris Edwards and Richard Clark.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Farrow has taken the fight to the clinch.
Knees in the clinch landing for Whacker.

Whacker escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Farrow tries to clinch but Whacker is having none of it.
Farrow tries to clinch but Whacker moves out of range.
Farrow throws a looping left and ducks down for a takedown. He's got his arms around Whacker's waist but Whacker gets an underhook and avoids the takedown by throwing Farrow off to one side.
Farrow closes the distance and clinches up with Whacker, looking for a takedown. Farrow pushes Whacker against the ropes but Whacker circles to the side and manages to break the clinch.

Whacker gets caught flat footed, as Farrow shoots in with a quick takedown into guard.
A big thud reverberates around the arena there as Farrow accidentally thumps the mat. Hopefully he's not broken his hand.
Whacker preventing the ground and pound from doing any damage.
Farrow has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
Farrow lands a couple of elbows.
Whacker controls Farrow momentarily but Farrow frees himself.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Whacker wants to sweep here but Farrow controlling him for the moment.

Whacker is working actively off his back, looking to secure an arm or perhaps work for a triangle.
Farrow looking to sit in guard and control but Whacker gets the butterfly guard and sweeps. He's now in the guard on the top.
Farrow keeping moving, preventing Whacker from controlling successfully.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Well. There's a bit of a lull in the action here and the crowd are starting to get restless.
Whacker stands up and looks to throw the legs aside to pass to side control. Farrow swivels though and keeps the full guard.
Whacker stopping the sweep attempt from Farrow.

Farrow is looking for a triangle here but Whacker uses the submission attempt to pass into side control.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Whacker wants to lay and pray for a moment but Farrow keeps working.
Whacker is chipping away with strikes.
Farrow stops Whacker from passing to mount.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
A lull in the action here being met with boos from the crowd.
Farrow manages to work his way to half guard, despite Whacker's best efforts.

Farrow looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.
The fighters are battling for position here. Farrow manages to regain full guard. Nice work.

Farrow looking to try and escape his hips here, looking for a submission. It looks like he's going for a triangle but Whacker is defending well. Farrow quickly switches to an armbar and extends the arm! Whacker has no choice but to tap, to a very quick submission! Wow, that was lightning fast! Farrow celebrates on the ropes, with the crowd.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 5:03 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Eric Farrow!