PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Chest Mangold (ranked 1390 p4p, 2808 weight class) and Keir Toal (ranked 129 p4p, 228 weight class). Toal comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Irish Pub Song kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Keir Toal struggled to make weight for this fight. He only made it down to 146.5lbs at the first attempt and had to take the additional two hours to make the official bout weight. Let's see how much it's taken out of him. I'm sure you'll be fascinated to know that I was talking to some pointless Z list celebrity before the fight and he thought that Keir Toal was going to win. Let's see if he was right.

Mangold
vs
Toal

179 cm
29
155
12 - 13 - 1

167 cm
36
159
6 - 5 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Granite chin

Dangerous GnP
Good kicks
Powerful

Conviction
Conquer

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 12 - 13 - 1, fighting out of Las Vegas, Chest Mangold!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 6 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Keir Toal!
The judges for this bout are Nard Betker, Albert Achterberg and Daniel Blasius.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
A combination from Mangold does no damage.
Toal doesn't fully commit to the body shot counter.
Mangold moves away from the strike by Toal.
Toal looks to score with a jab to the body but Mangold is just out of range.
Mangold throws a hook to the side of Toal's head but Toal sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
Toal stumbles momentarily as he takes a strong leg kick from Mangold.
Toal misses the jab.
Mangold throws a poor cross that misses
and Toal counters with a nice uppercut.
Mangold lunges in with an uppercut that skims his opponent's chin.
Mangold staying out of range there.
Toal scores with a body shot.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Toal moves out of range of the body kick from Mangold.
Toal throws out a counter right but Mangold avoids it with no problem.
A low kick from Mangold misses
and Toal counters nicely by changing levels and landing a hook to the body.
Toal fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Mangold manages to avoid it.
Toal swings widly with a right hand
and Mangold counters with a big right hand! Oh Toal is in trouble here! Mangold follows up with more strikes and that's it! The ref has stopped it!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:56 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Chest Mangold!
After winning the bout, Chest Mangold thanked all his fans and promised he'd do even better in his next fight. The crowd seemed to love his humility.
Keir Toal was interviewed post fight and said 'I will be better!'.