PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Ken Gracie (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Boris Ivan (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Gracie comes to the cage accompanied by Kickstart. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Gracie
vs
Ivan

185 cm
25
205 lbs
3 - 0 - 0

190 cm
21
212 lbs
7 - 5 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Counter striker
Good chin

BJJ Brown Belt
Decent boxing
Powerful

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 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Ken Gracie!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 7 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Boris Ivan!
The judges for this bout are Thiago Cunha, Luis Engracia and Seu Braga.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Gracie shoots in and scores a nice double leg takedown into half guard.
The referee is asking the fighters to pick up the pace.

Gracie is working for a submission of some sort.
Gracie is looking to take a break and control but Ivan is keeping him honest, looking to work from the bottom.

Gracie is sneakily working for an arm triangle but Ivan sees it coming and defends easily.
Ivan is looking to improve his position.

Gracie is working for a submission of some sort.
Ivan is working for an escape here. He's hooked one of Gracie's legs and he's managed to sneak out and take Gracie's back!

Ivan is working for the choke. He's slipped one arm under the chin. Gracie has to defend the other arm for all he's worth... but Ivan has managed to get that arm free too and he's tightening the choke! Gracie taps out and looks absolutely disgusted with himself. Ivan doesn't care though - he's delighted!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:02 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (RNC). Boris Ivan!