PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Bryan Petrosyan (ranked 3657 p4p, 3769 weight class) and Ryan Gracie (ranked 427 p4p, 435 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Petrosyan
vs
Gracie

178 cm
25
155
2 - 3 - 1

178 cm
25
155
3 - 4 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Good chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent boxer
Knockout power

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 2 - 3 - 1, fighting out of The Island, Bryan Petrosyan!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 4 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Ryan Gracie!
The judges for this bout are Bart Greer, David Hoff and Peter Branson.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Gracie cracks Petrosyan with a hook to the jaw. Both fighters smile at eachother and high-five before getting back down to business.
Petrosyan shakes his hands off, looking to compose himself, but takes a jab to the jaw whilst he does it.

The fight moves into the clinch position.
A frustrated look appears on Gracie's face as he tries to break the clinch.

Petrosyan escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Petrosyan pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Gracie lands a vicious shot with the stealth of a sniper and the strength of a viper. Are vipers that strong? I can think of lots of things that are stronger than a viper - not many rhyme with sniper though.

It looks like Bryan Petrosyan has been cut.
Gracie throws a body shot but no joy.
Gracie takes a punch right to his stomach. That took the wind out of him momentarily.
Gracie dodges the punch combination from Petrosyan.
Gracie throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.

Petrosyan clinches up against the cage.
Gracie wants to get back to striking at distance but Petrosyan won't allow it.
Gracie dodges an elbow strike from Petrosyan.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Gracie can't break the clinch.
Petrosyan keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Gracie's efforts to push away.

Petrosyan breaks from the clinch.
Petrosyan on the wrong end of a nice hook.
Petrosyan throws a jab when Gracie was well out of range.
Petrosyan swings for the body but Gracie moves out of range.
Gracie looks to score with a jab to the body but Petrosyan is just out of range.
Petrosyan tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Petrosyan pivots as if he's going to throw a leg kick but stops half way.
Petrosyan misses with a straight left.
Petrosyan misses with an uppercut
and Gracie cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.
Petrosyan lands a powerful looking uppercut that connected with his opponent's jaw.
Petrosyan lands a lovely overhand right.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Petrosyan looking to throw a kick but he's pulled out of it.
A punch combination from Petrosyan misses.
Gracie staying out of range there.
Petrosyan definitely looks more muscular than last time we saw him fight.
Gracie takes a body punch but keeps moving.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Gracie tries to score with a leg kick but it misses it's target.
Gracie throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Petrosyan looks to throw the jab but Gracie is out of range.
Petrosyan lands a high kick!
Gracie ducks under an overhand right and circles away with a smile on his face.
A jab lands there for Petrosyan.
Petrosyan moving in and out of range nicely, whilst landing the scoring shot.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Good exchange - Gracie coming out on top.
Petrosyan ducks right into an uppercut from Gracie.
Petrosyan misses with a two punch combination.
Gracie is pinned up against the cage taking some big shots here. The referee is looking closely deciding whether he should stop the fight.
Petrosyan misses with a head kick.
Gracie throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Gracie connects with a lovely right hand, straight down the pipe.
Gracie displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Petrosyan throws out the jab.
Gracie scores to the head and body with a nice combination!
Gracie pounces like a tiger and cracks Petrosyan with a vicious hook! Petrosyan is down but not out! Gracie follows up with more strikes forcing the ref to jump in and stop it!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:54 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punches). Ryan Gracie!