PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Sean Whelan (ranked 5258 p4p, 576 weight class) and Grady Froelich Jr (ranked 7420 p4p, 713 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Whelan
vs
Froelich Jr

190 cm
25
210 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

202 cm
24
198 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Big heart

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Tends to cut

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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, Sean Whelan!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Grady Froelich Jr!
The judges for this bout are Shigeki Fujiwara, Ren Mimura and Taro Takaoka.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Froelich Jr looks to land a left hand but Whelan moved out of range nicely.
A shot to the body from Froelich Jr misses
and Whelan counters with a straight right hand.

Whelan gets caught napping as Froelich Jr dives in and scores a takedown. Whelan manages to retain guard.
Froelich Jr is a painfully thin specimen of a man. You do wonder whether a good body kick would snap him clean in two.
Froelich Jr trying to control but Whelan is working from the bottom.

Whelan pushes Froelich Jr off for just long enough to get back to his feet. Very athletic spring there.
Froelich Jr with a poor takedown
and Whelan counters with a stiff right hand.

It looks like Grady Froelich Jr has been cut.
Froelich Jr wants to clinch.
Whelan swung with a counter punch to the body but it didn't connect.
Whelan cracks Froelich Jr with a hook to the temple - Froelich Jr is on wobbly legs here! Whelan swarms him with hook after hook, landing with each one! Froelich Jr falls to the canvas face first and the referee dives in to stop the fight! Whelan wins by TKO!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:58 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punches). Sean Whelan!
After the fight, Sean Whelan was humble in paying tribute to his opponent but made it clear he wants to go on to bigger and better things. It seemed to go down well with the crowd who cheered him loudly.