PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Gronk Groenhud (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Mike Marsden (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Groenhud comes to the cage accompanied by Sometime Lonely by Kelly Chen. Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Groenhud
vs
Marsden

225 cm
29
135 lbs
18 - 10 - 0

165 cm
23
145 lbs
9 - 0 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Excellent boxer
Very strong

Good wrestler
World class MT
Granite chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the bantamweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 18 - 10 - 0, fighting out of London, Gronk Groenhud!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 9 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Mike Marsden!
The judges for this bout are Chris Edwards, Andrew Berry and James Atkins.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Groenhud does a little shimmy and throws a leg kick. The leg kick missed by a considerable margin though, making him look a little bit silly for doing the shimmy.
Groenhud swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.
Marsden blocks the body kick.
Groenhud throws a jab, cross combination which is slipped

and Marsden counters with a head kick that drops Groenhud to the mat! Groenhud scrambles across the canvas and gets back to his feet, still wobbly!

Groenhud is rocked!
Groenhud takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Oh Groenhud is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Marsden misses with a head kick.
Groenhud seems to have got his legs back now.
Marsden lands a leg kick and bounces back out of range.
Groenhud throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.
Groenhud misses with a straight left.
Some wild striking there from Marsden.
Groenhud really does look like a pencil wearing a pair of gloves. Let's hope he has a gameplan to suit that ridiculous body shape.
Marsden moves out of range as Groenhud strikes.
Marsden is looking to slow Groenhud down with leg kicks.
Groenhud shoots in but doesn't get the takedown
and Marsden counters with a slapping leg kick.
Groenhud is breathing heavily.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Marsden looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
Groenhud misses with a double jab
and Marsden counters with a straight punch to the midsection.
Marsden shuffles to his left behind two crisp jabs. Groenhud eats them both and turns towards Marsden to reposition himself and eats a stinging right hand-left hook combo.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Groenhud throws a body kick that misses.
Groenhud throws a head kick that misses.
Marsden scores with the left hand. Groenhud knows he should have avoided that one.
Groenhud ducks under a wild hook from Marsden.
Marsden connects with a nice looking jab.
Marsden throws a wild combination but nothing lands.
Groenhud gets clipped by a big right hand and goes down spinning to the canvas! Marsden gets the back mount and begins to drop bombs on his rocked foe! Groenhud is too out of it to defend against the strikes and the referee jumps in to save him from the beatdown!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:27 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Mike Marsden! Mike Marsden retains his bantamweight title!