PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Ira Harrington (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Mike Freitag (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Freitag's choice of entrance music: The Prodigy - Poison. We have two fighters making their debuts here, so let's see who comes out of this one with their first professional victory.

Harrington
vs
Freitag

192 cm
24
178 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

184 cm
25
180 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter fighter
Cuts easily

Decent wrestler
Counter fighter
Tends to cut

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Ira Harrington!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Mike Freitag!
The judges for this bout are Paul Aken, Radbod Blank and Patrick Alders.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
We've got one fighter who appears to only be looking to counter and the other not looking particularly aggressive either, so we could be in for a dull fight.

Freitag fakes an overhand right and shoots for a takedown. Harrington sprawls well initially but Freitag persists and gets the takedown into half guard.
Harrington is looking for a sweep. Freitag is wise to his cunning plan and keeps the top position.
Harrington taking some punishment here, with Freitag in his half guard.
Freitag lands a big elbow from half guard. That looks like it's hurt Harrington quite badly. Harrington pulls Freitag in close trying to recover. Freitag postures up and lands two really hard shots that put Harrington on queer street! The ref takes a look and decides to call an end to the fight! Possibly an early stoppage but Harrington doesn't seem to be complaining too much.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:24 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Mike Freitag!
During a confident post fight interview, Mike Freitag thanked all his fans. He seemed very genuine when describing how motivated his fans keep him.