PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Kengo Watanabe (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Arron Gillespie (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Gillespie has chosen Attack Attack! - The Wretched as his entrance music. Kengo Watanabe could well score a knockout today. He has the power to get to Arron Gillespie's chin.

Watanabe
vs
Gillespie

182 cm
26
193 lbs
8 - 5 - 0

190 cm
27
200 lbs
8 - 2 - 0

Dangerous GnP
Brawler
Good chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Decent boxing
Heavy handed

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 8 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Kengo Watanabe!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 8 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Arron Gillespie!
The judges for this bout are Tatsuya Matsuyama, Kenichi Hosakawa and Yukihiro Yamamoto.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Watanabe misses with a wild body shot.
Gillespie lands with a two punch combination before moving back out of range.

It looks like Kengo Watanabe has been cut.
Watanabe dodges the punch combination from Gillespie.
Gillespie uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Watanabe.
Gillespie tries to clinch but Watanabe is having none of it.
Gillespie fails in his attempt to clinch.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Watanabe has his head snapped back a nice jab. A little nod from Watanabe there as he acknowledges the shot.

Gillespie cracks Watanabe with a big right hand that sends him to the floor! Watanabe looks wobbly but he's sprung back up to his feet straight away… can Gillespie finish him?

Watanabe is rocked!

Gillespie gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
Oh Watanabe is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Watanabe wants a takedown but no success here.
Gillespie gets underhooks to prevent Watanabe's takedown attempt.
Gillespie throws a head punch that misses.
Watanabe seems to have got his legs back now.
A head punch on the inside from Gillespie fails to land.
Watanabe goes for a takedown attempt but Gillespie pushes him away and we're back to fighting at a distance.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Kengo Watanabe. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Gillespie drops Watanabe with a big left hand! Watanabe is injured, injured bad! Gillespie jumps in and finished him with strikes! The fight is over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:37 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Arron Gillespie!
Arron Gillespie managed to slip a mention for his sponsors, Valhalla Fight Wear, into his post fight interview.