PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Vitor Bahia (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and rasan gracie (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). gracie comes into a darkened arena with his song building. wanderlei intro kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! The fight MMA fans around the world have waited their entire lives for!

Bahia
vs
gracie

190 cm
22
195 lbs
4 - 5 - 0

175 cm
24
185 lbs
6 - 7 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Experienced

BJJ Purple Belt
Brawler
Knockout power

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 4 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Vitor Bahia!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 6 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, rasan gracie!
The judges for this bout are Emerson Jorge, Alexandre Firmino and Paulo Santos.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
gracie looking to land some kicks to the body here.
Bahia scores with a crisp jab that stopped gracie in his tracks.
Bahia circles away from the clinch attempt.

Bahia gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
gracie misses with the head strike.
Good anti-grappling being displayed by Bahia as gracie tries to tie him up.

Bahia breaks from the clinch.
gracie shoots in but no luck this time.
Vitor Bahia seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Bahia lands a nice leg kick that just misses gracie's sensitive parts.
Bahia shoots in for a takedown but gracie shows good takedown defense there and keeps this one on the feet.
Bahia throws a head kick that misses.
gracie leaves Bahia with his face pressed against the mat as he sprawls beautifully, defending against a solid takedown attempt.
gracie doesn't succeed with the takedown
and Bahia counters with a slapping leg kick.

A big head kick from Bahia and gracie is sent sprawling to the canvas!

It looks like rasan gracie has been cut.
gracie looks gassed!
This has been an exciting period of action!
gracie can't do much from the bottom at the moment, as Bahia controls the pace.
Bahia with a flurry of punches that miss.
gracie keeping moving, preventing Bahia from controlling successfully.

Bahia gets to his feet. gracie looking to butt scoot but the ref puts an end to that. On your feet son!

That's one minute gone in the round.

Bahia closes the distance, clinches up and gets a nice trip takedown into side control. Very smooth.

Bahia has hold of gracie's arm. He's looking for a kimura. gracie seems comfortable defending it but Bahia has shifted his position slighty and is cranking on the arm! gracie is real pain and he's forced to tap out! gracie is disgusted with himself for not defending it better but Bahia couldn't care less - he's delighted!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:12 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Vitor Bahia!