Invicta FC 30 results & video: Frey takes 105-pound title with controversial win vs. Grusander
Check out the results and highlights from Invicta FC 30, where Jinh Yu Frey won a unanimous decision over Minna Grusander to capture the vacant atomweight belt in the main event.
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Eddie Mercado@TheEddieMercado Jul 22, 2018, 1:08am EDT
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For the first time in over two years, Invicta FC has an atomweight champion. Invicta FC 30 just wrapped up with and Jinh Yu Frey winning a controversial decision over Minna Grusander to win the promotion’s vacant 105 pound belt. Commentators TJ DeSantis and Julie Kedzie were both convinced that Grusander had won the fight, stating during the broadcast that they believed Grusander had done enough. Nevertheless, Frey is Invicta’s new atomweight champion.
The fighters went toe-to-toe from the go, with Frey landing a couple sinister crosses, and did so a few times while exiting the clinch. Grusander kept shoving Frey up against the fence, working for the takedown, and when she finally achieved it, she didn’t have much time to work. Grusander returned to her grinding gameplan in the second round, but Frey was able to get herself back into open space to land some more of those mean crosses. Grusander landed with the foot to the face of Frey which allowed her to get the clinch up against the cage again, but failed to get a takedown and a referee separation brought the bout back into open space.
Frey blasted an early takedown to open up the third round, and got to work from the full guard of Grusander. Frey had to fend off the sticky guard of Grusander, but managed to make time to drop some vicious blows in-between minding her P’s and Q’s. Grusander didn’t return to her feet in that round. Grusander put her opponent’s back up against the fence early in the fourth act, and then the atomweights began exchanging elbows. It was clear that Grusander was landing the better bows, cutting Frey on the scalp. Frey spun into open space and blasted a takedown, but Grusander sprung right back up and took the fight back to the cage. Grusander answered the bell with some serious swelling around her right eye, but nonetheless marched forward, putting the pressure on her opponent. Frey continued to strike on the back foot, landing her left hand periodically and upping her volume down the stretch.
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Full fight card results:
- Jinh Yu Frey def. Minna Grusander by unanimous decision (49-46, 48-47 x2): Atomweight Title