PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Harry Styles (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Lord Frieza (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Styles comes into the arena with Bomfunk MC's - Freestyler blaring out of the sound system. Lord Frieza is the more experienced fighter, so let's see if that makes a difference tonight.

Styles
vs
Frieza

180 cm
25
162 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

175 cm
26
140 lbs
2 - 4 - 0

Good wrestling
Brawler
KO power

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent MT
Determined

Helsinki Xtreme Fightwear
Aspire Nutrition

IniTech Nutrition

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Harry Styles!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Lord Frieza!
The judges for this bout are Shigeki Sano, Yuuki Gou and Hirohito Nitta.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Frieza tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Frieza tries to clinch up against the cage, rushing in to close the distance. Styles manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat.
Frieza bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
Styles throws an ugly left hook that misses
and Frieza counters nicely by changing levels and landing a hook to the body.
No luck for Frieza with that takedown attempt.
Styles misses with an uppercut
and Frieza counters with a straight punch to the midsection.
Styles misses with a hook. Frieza ducked under it nicely.
Frieza shoots in looking for a takedown but Styles manages to keep the fight standing, pushing Frieza's face into the canvas for good measure before circling away.

Styles moves into the clinch.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Frieza looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Frieza lands a nice elbow.
A right handed body shot lands from Styles.
Frieza jumps guard but Styles stands there with Frieza around his waist. Frieza gives up and drops back to his feet. We remain in the clinch.
Harry Styles has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Lord Frieza.
Frieza struggles to land a body shot inside as Styles controls his hands.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Styles.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Frieza looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Styles lands a hook that snaps the head of Frieza backwards.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Styles.
A nice right hand lands inside from Styles.
Frieza blocking some punches.
Styles lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
I was talking to Styles's coach per-fight and he was telling me that they'd been working on the clinch in the runup to this fight.
Frieza doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Good body shot from Styles.
Frieza working hard to break the clinch.
Styles swings wildly with an uppercut but Frieza uses good head movement to avoid it.
A nice right hand lands inside from Styles.
Frieza tries a body shot but Styles blocks it.
Frieza wants to break free but Styles has control.
Styles works on Frieza's body with a couple of short punches.
A short right hand to the side of the head by Styles.
Frieza is trying to pull guard but Styles turns him against the cage and we stay in the clinch.
Styles takes an elbow to the forehead.
Styles misses with some punches.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Styles makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Styles scores with a nice hook to the head.
Styles doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Styles lands a left hand.
Styles makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.

Frieza is rocked!
Styles misses with a hook from the clinch.
Frieza is still on wobbly legs! Can Styles finish him?
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Frieza creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Styles has a couple of punches blocked by Frieza.
Frieza seems to have recovered his senses.
Styles scores with a shot to the side of Frieza's head.

Styles drops Frieza onto one knee with a big uppercut from the clinch! Frieza is propped up by the cage and works his way back to his feet!
Styles blocks a body shot from Frieza.
Styles pushes Frieza against the cage. Styles is working some dirty boxing. Styles pushes off with a quick right hook! Frieza goes down! Frieza tries to stand but stumbles back to his kness! Styles moves in to finish and the ref steps in to prevent any more damage!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:43 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Harry Styles!
During a confident post fight interview, Harry Styles thanked all his fans. He seemed very genuine when describing how motivated his fans keep him.