PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Forrest Penn (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jonas Freeman (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Freeman has chosen Men At Work - Land Down Under as his entrance music. These two fighters really are very evenly matched on the feet - it will be fascinating to see who can assert themselves in that aspect of the fight.

Penn
vs
Freeman

189 cm
20
216 lbs
6 - 1 - 0

190 cm
21
215 lbs
11 - 5 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent boxer
Cardio machine

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent boxer
Powerful

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 6 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Forrest Penn!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 11 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Jonas Freeman!
The judges for this bout are Shigeki Sano, Kenichi Hosakawa and Ren Mimura.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Freeman slips a straight right by Penn.
Penn scores with a sloppy right hand. Freeman should have avoided that one.
Penn's corner calls for a 1-2. Penn obliges with the 1 part as he scores the single shot and moves back out of range.
Freeman tries to close the distance and clinch but Penn swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Penn blocks a jab.
Freeman throws a hook but Penn avoids it easily.
Penn lands with a good body shot.
Penn slips under a jab.
Freeman misses with a body punch
enabling Penn to counter with a crisp jab.
Penn blocks a jab.
Freeman looks to land a left hand but Penn moved out of range nicely.
Freeman throws a feint and then finishes with a kick to the body.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Freeman tries to clinch but Penn moves out of range.
Nice defenses there by Penn.
Freeman lands with a cross.

It looks like Forrest Penn has been cut.
Freeman avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Freeman tries to close the distance and clinch up but Penn swats him away and circles back towards the center.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Penn fakes and then throws a beautiful body shot. Freeman looks a bit winded and takes a step backwards to take a breath.
Penn takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Penn blocks the body kick.
Freeman misses the jab.
Jonas Freeman seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Freeman tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Penn thows a left - swing and a miss!
Freeman throws a sloppy body shot
enabling Penn to counter with a crisp jab.
Freeman throws a big shot that misses.
Freeman tried to score with a low kick but Penn checks it.
Penn lands a nice shot to the body.
Freeman looks gassed!
Freeman takes a solid shot to the body. That one hurt him but he's trying not to show it.
Freeman thows a left - swing and a miss!
A jab from Penn does it's job there.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Penn misses the jab.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Freeman misses with a looping right.
Boom, another hit is landed. "You're gunna get knocked out" taunts Penn, as that shot connected.
Freeman throws a low kick, looking for Penn's leg but Penn calmly moves out of range.
Freeman throws the left hand but Penn avoids the punch easily.
Penn lands with a cross to side of his opponent's head.
Donk. Penn catches Freeman right on the button with a cross.
Penn scores with a decent looking hook.
Penn comes forward and lands a shot to the body, then darts back out of range.

Penn lands a big uppercut and Freeman crumbles to the floor! The ref thinks about stopping the fight but Freeman looks OK. Penn waves Freeman back to his feet!

Freeman is rocked!
Penn closes the distance and lands a crisp combination that knocks Freeman out cold! Freeman corner are devastated, head in hands behind our commentary position. Poor guys.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:46 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punches). Forrest Penn!