PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight kickboxing rules bout between Johnny Gallagher (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and John Brophy (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Brophy has chosen Last Caress/Green Hell - Metallica as his entrance music. Johnny Gallagher has the edge in experience - let's see if he can make that count tonight.

Gallagher
vs
Brophy

184 cm
19
206 lbs
3 - 2 - 0

193 cm
19
220 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

Dangerous knees
Cardio machine

Dangerous knees
Heavy handed

Arcticus University: London

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 3 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Johnny Gallagher!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, John Brophy!
The judges for this bout are Sam Margolis, Paul Tew and Daniel Bishop.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Gallagher moves into the clinch successfully.
Gallagher avoids the elbow strike from Brophy, against the cage.
Gallagher crunches a lovely knee into Brophy's ribcage.
Gallagher putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has Brophy in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body.
Gallagher digs a right hand underneath Brophy's ribcage. Brophy let out a lung full of air as it connected.
Brophy told us before the fight that he's been working on his elbows. An under utilised technique these days - let's see if it can sway the outcome of the fight.
Gallagher presses Brophy against the cage and delivers a mid-strength body shot.
Gallagher using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Brophy trying to stall but Gallagher improves his position.
Brophy can't break the clinch.
Gallagher stalling the fight.
Gallagher tries to land knees in the clinch but Brophy avoids the damage to the body.
Gallagher blocks an elbow strike.
Brophy missing with knees to the body.
Brophy throws an elbow but it's blocked.
A nice left hand lands by Brophy.
Gallagher controlling the action here for a moment.
Brophy is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Brophy tries to break the clinch but Gallagher is controlling the position.
Gallagher lands a body shot.
Brophy looks winded!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Gallagher tries a knee to the head but Brophy blocks it.
Brophy comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.

It looks like Johnny Gallagher has been cut.
Gallagher tries to land knees in the clinch but Brophy avoids the damage to the body.
Brophy throws a head punch that misses.
Brophy managing to block the knees to the body from Gallagher.
Gallagher slows down the pace here.
With the fighters up against the cage, Brophy throws an elbow but misses.
Gallagher blocks an elbow strike.
Brophy tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Gallagher stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.
Gallagher lands a nice knee to the body.
Gallagher taking a break, stalling in the clinch.
Brophy creates a bit of distance and throws an elbow that only just misses.
Gallagher keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Brophy's efforts to push away.
A body shot lands from Gallagher.
A nice left hand lands by Gallagher.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Gallagher trying to land knees to the body.
Nice elbow from Brophy.
Gallagher avoids a wild elbow strike from Brophy.
Gallagher landing some nice looking knees to the body.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Gallagher crunches a lovely knee into Brophy's ribcage.
Gallagher putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has Brophy in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body.
The pace really dropping off here, momentarily.
Gallagher landing knees to the head.
A hook to the body from Gallagher.
Gallagher lands a knee to the body.
Gallagher is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Brophy is defending well for now.
Brophy misses with an elbow strike.
Knees in the clinch landing for Gallagher.
Gallagher misses with a knee to the head.
Gallagher throws a hook to the body. More of an arm punch but it's all scoring with the judges.
Brophy on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Gallagher with a knee to the head.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Gallagher displaying some good clinch control by pressing Brophy up against the cage.
Knees to the body from Gallagher.
Gallagher connects with a knee to the head.
The fighters are pressed against the cage, as the pace of the fight slows.
Gallagher is struggling to control the position.
Brophy wants to stall.
Brophy blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Gallagher.
Brophy on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Brophy blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Brophy throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Gallagher cracks Brophy with a nice body shot.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Gallagher will no doubt start fighting again in a minute but for now he's just having a little rest, leaning Brophy up against the cage.
Brophy blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Brophy lands an elbow that stopped Gallagher in his tracks for a moment.
A left hand lands to the body for Gallagher.
Brophy looking to throw knees to the head but Gallagher is blocking nicely.
A short right hand to the side of the head by Brophy.
Brophy stalling in the clinch but Gallagher improves position.
Gallagher throws a hook to the body. More of an arm punch but it's all scoring with the judges.
Gallagher lands a good knee to the midsection. Brophy won't want to take too many of those.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Gallagher cracks Brophy with a nice body shot.
Gallagher is leaning against Brophy and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.
Gallagher stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.
Gallagher tries to land knees in the clinch but Brophy avoids the damage to the body.
Brophy takes a knee right on the jaw!
Brophy avoiding damage as Gallagher throws knees to the body.
Gallagher missing with knees to the body.
Gallagher pushes Brophy back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Johnny Gallagher dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Johnny Gallagher's cut.
The corners get their ten second warning. Both fighters stand from their stools and stare eachother down, ready to get back to the action.

Brophy takes one to the side of the head.
Gallagher ducks down and throws a hook to the body.
Gallagher takes a nasty kick to the mid section... That should keep him thinking. Does he try and block and risk a head kick landing?
Brophy looks to score with a jab to the body but Gallagher is just out of range.
It looked like Gallagher was trying to counter with a body shot coming off that last attack from Brophy.
Gallagher lands with a cross to side of his opponent's head.
Brophy pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
Brophy looks to land a body kick but Gallagher moved away.
Gallagher lands a jab to the head.
John Brophy seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
A jab lands there for Gallagher.

Brophy is rocked!
Gallagher connects with a quick right hand that sends Brophy tumbling backwards onto the canvas! As his head bounces into the cage, it doesn't look good for him beating the count! 3,4,5,6,7 and he's up! No, he's back down again! This one is all over - the referee has called off the fight!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:45 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punch). Johnny Gallagher!
Johnny Gallagher decided to thank the fans in attendance for making a great atmosphere. It seemed to go down pretty well.