PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Johnie Ballantine (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Gunter Streicher (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Streicher has chosen Wait And Bleed as his entrance music. Gunter Streicher struggled to make weight for this fight. He only made it down to 207.9lbs 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. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Ballantine
vs
Streicher

188 cm
27
210 lbs
22 - 9 - 0

187 cm
31
227 lbs
20 - 6 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Cardio machine

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent MT
Powerful

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the light heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 22 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Johnie Ballantine!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 20 - 6 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Gunter Streicher!
The judges for this bout are , and .

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Nice cross by Streicher.
Streicher ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Ballantine moves away.
Ballantine ducks down and throws a hook to the body.
Nice uppercut there from Ballantine.
Streicher throws a nice looking combination but Ballantine bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Streicher misses with a double jab.
Ballantine fails in his attempt to clinch.
Ballantine is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Streicher's corner calls for a 1-2. Streicher obliges with the 1 part as he scores the single shot and moves back out of range.

Ballantine lands a left and a right that send Streicher crashing to the mat, dazed. Ballantine thinks about following him to the mat but decides to wave him back up to his feet!
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Ballantine moves out of range of the body kick.
Streicher tries to land a front kick but Ballantine steps back. That was a bit too telegraphed.
Ballantine throws a nice inside leg kick.
Streicher looks gassed!
Ballantine tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Streicher lands a nice looking kick to the body. Ballantine takes a step back to recover.

Ballantine forces Streicher back against the cage and clinches.
Ballantine lands a hook to the body. It's hard to tell if that hurt Streicher or not.
Streicher wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
A shot in the inside from Ballantine.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Ballantine lands a hook to the side of the head.
Ballantine can't find room to land a body shot as Streicher controls the action.
Streicher is trying to break the clinch but Ballantine has him pressed against the cage.
Streicher's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
Ballantine lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.

Streicher is rocked!
Ballantine lands an uppercut in the clinch that drops Streicher to his knees! Ballantine keeps firing more shots against his stricken opponent and the referee jumps in to save him!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:27 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Johnie Ballantine!
Johnie Ballantine retains his light heavyweight title!