PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Yaya Yugo (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Hanson Gredial (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The fight MMA fans around the world have waited their entire lives for!

Yugo
vs
Gredial

190 cm
25
215 lbs
3 - 0 - 0

190 cm
25
212 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

Good takedowns
Counter striker
Granite chin

BJJ White Belt
Decent boxing
Granite chin

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 New York, Yaya Yugo!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, Hanson Gredial!
The judges for this bout are Lou da Vinci, Dean Styles and David Schapiro.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Gredial cracks Yugo with a right hand to the side of the head.
Sloppy strikes from Gredial. Those never looked like landing.
Gredial misses with a few strikes there.
Gredial displaying good standup as he scores with a three punch combination.
Gredial closes the distance and lands a one-two.

It looks like Yaya Yugo has been cut.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Gredial throws a right hand that Yugo ducks under and follows up with a left that Yugo also avoids with ease.
Gredial throws a nice looking combination but Yugo bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Some wild striking there from Gredial.
Gredial feints a jab promting Yugo to slip. Gredial then demonstrates his capabilities by jabbing again. Yugo slips again and ducks right into an uppercut.

Gredial gets taken down but at least he's managed to land in guard.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Yugo passes Gredial's right leg, so he's now in half guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Yugo uses his free foot to push down on Gredial's thigh. Eventually he works his other foot free and he's advanced to mount - this is trouble for Gredial.

Yugo is controlling this nicely and is looking to make no mistakes. Gredial is trying to wiggle out of this horrible position. Gredial flips to his side and attempts to get a leg in for half guard. Yugo anticipates the leg and manages to get behind Gredial and secures both hooks! This could be bad! Yugo slips an arm under Gredial chin and tries to position for a rear naked choke. Yugo has worked the choke in now and it looks tight. Yugo is squeezing on Gredial like an anaconda would it's prey. Gredial fails to tap and has fallen unconscious! We've got ourselves a winner by way of a rear naked choke!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:25 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (RNC). Yaya Yugo!