PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Waldo Whip (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Gerry Kelly (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Chooooooooon! I think Whip might be my favorite fighter, now he's come out to BLUNT- . Kelly is bobbing his head along to his entrance song: Pink Floyd with Van Morrison - Comfortably Numb. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Whip
vs
Kelly

203 cm
27
276 lbs
9 - 7 - 0

182 cm
21
230 lbs
7 - 0 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Solid boxing
KO power

Good wrestler
Decent boxing
Good gas tank

Pride Nutrition
Pride Nutrition

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 9 - 7 - 0, fighting out of New York, Waldo Whip!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 7 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, Gerry Kelly!
The judges for this bout are Jonathan Paton, Reed Andrews and John Roberts.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Whip on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
Whip looks to clinch
and Whip takes a counter punch right on the button for his troubles.
Kelly misses with a lunging right hand
and Whip cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.

It looks like Gerry Kelly has been cut.
Kelly waving his hands out in front of him, looking to distract Whip.

Kelly gets the takedown into side control.
Kelly cracks Whip with a big elbow.
Whip is positioning himself to get back to half guard.
You can see the frustration on Whip's face, being in this tough position on the bottom.
Whip manages to get back to half guard.
Kelly trying to control from half guard but Whip is working away.
Kelly working to pass to mount. He's got his hand pressing down on Whip's thigh. Whip counters though and makes it back to full guard.
Whip working the defensive guard well to avoid strikes from Kelly.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Kelly throws a sloppy strike and Whip has hooked up an armbar on the loose arm! He's turned and extended fully! Kelly is forced to tap! Great BJJ from Whip!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:32 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Waldo Whip!