PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Ichabod Crane (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Arthur Minasian (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Crane's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, Broken Bones - Decapitated. The crowd seem to be enjoying Minasian's choice of entrance music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX4b4eyEwI8. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Crane
vs
Minasian

200 cm
28
287 lbs
14 - 11 - 0

194 cm
26
262 lbs
7 - 2 - 0

Great wrestler
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Olympic wrestler
World class MT
Good gas tank

Spartan Nutrition

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 14 - 11 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Ichabod Crane!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 7 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Arthur Minasian!
The judges for this bout are Aafke Stam, Patrick Alders and Nard Betker.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Minasian avoids a punch combination nicely.
Crane misses with a series of wild punches.
A shot to the liver by Minasian. Beautiful body shot.
A nice combination there by Crane.
Crane lands a jab-cross combination.
A punch combination from Crane misses.
Minasian lunges in with an uppercut that skims his opponent's chin.
Minasian dances in quickly and lands a nice inside leg kick on Crane. That did some damage!
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!

Minasian lands a left and a right that send Crane crashing to the mat, dazed. Minasian thinks about following him to the mat but decides to wave him back up to his feet!

It looks like Ichabod Crane has been cut.
Crane lands with a right hand.
Minasian circles and sees the opportunity to plant his feet and throw a really nice straight left hand that drops Crane to the canvas! Crane doesn't know where he is but he's trying to survive - Minasian keeps piling on the pressure and forces the referee to step in! This one is aaaaaall over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:50 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Arthur Minasian!
An out of breath Arthur Minasian thanked his loyal fans in his post fight interview, giving them credit for his success over the course of his career.