PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Mickey Flannerry (ranked 1311 p4p, 168 weight class) and Christos Eskenpopoludopulos (ranked 4826 p4p, 477 weight class). Both fighter's entrance songs getting the crowd jumping here.

Flannerry
vs
Eskenpopoludopulos

188 cm
23
195 lbs
9 - 7 - 0

190 cm
31
195 lbs
7 - 4 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Very quick

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent MT
Knockout power

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 9 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Mickey Flannerry!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 7 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Christos Eskenpopoludopulos!
The judges for this bout are Ben Hemmingworth, Darius Henderson and Bruno Hogan.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Eskenpopoludopulos throws out a loose jab but Flannerry uses good head movement to avoid it.
Eskenpopoludopulos throws a right hand that misses
and Eskenpopoludopulos takes a counter punch right on the button for his troubles.
Eskenpopoludopulos tries to clinch there but Flannerry circles away.
Eskenpopoludopulos swings widly with a right hand
and Flannerry counters with a nice uppercut.
Eskenpopoludopulos wants to clinch.
Christos Eskenpopoludopulos seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Eskenpopoludopulos moves into range and throws a combination. A nice jab followed by a hook to the body.

It looks like Mickey Flannerry has been cut.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Eskenpopoludopulos lands a nice looking body shot.
We've been told by Flannerry's head coaches at Damage Inc. that he's been working on his takedown defense in preparation for this fight.
Eskenpopoludopulos ducks right into an uppercut from Flannerry.
Flannerry misses with a double jab

and Eskenpopoludopulos moves into the clinch.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Flannerry working hard to break the clinch.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Eskenpopoludopulos creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Stalling in the clinch from Eskenpopoludopulos.
Flannerry lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
Flannerry scores with a shoulder strike.

Eskenpopoludopulos is rocked!
Flannerry creates a bit of space for himself and rocks Eskenpopoludopulos with a big uppercut! Eskenpopoludopulos tries to clinch up but Flannerry pushes him back against the cage and lands another monster strike that crumples Eskenpopoludopulos to the mat! Eskenpopoludopulos covers up and Flannerry unloads with more strikes until the referee steps in to end the bout!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:32 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punches). Mickey Flannerry!
A very excited looking Mickey Flannerry rambled incoherently for about 5 minutes post fight about how awesome he is. It was kinda funny for a while but then everyone got annoyed.