PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Grady Meyers (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Bob Gracie (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Bob Gracie will no doubt be looking to use his reach advantage to good effect.

Meyers
vs
Gracie

167 cm
18
142 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

185 cm
22
155 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Counter striker
Intelligent

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Tends to cut

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 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Grady Meyers!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Bob Gracie!
The judges for this bout are Chris Downing, Stewart Dunkirk and Cecil Peabody.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Meyers misses with a takedown attempt - Gracie sprawls well and throws a nice strike on the way out which just misses.

Meyers gets taken down but at least he's managed to land in guard.
We've had a lack of effective grappling in the last minute or so, which could well see a referee standup.
Gracie keeps in close for a moment and lands a decent shot to the side of Meyers's head.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Meyers bucks up whilst keeping hold of a body lock, managing to reverse the position. Now he's in top in Gracie's guard.
Gracie tries to land a sweep but no joy.
Meyers passes easily into side control. Nice work.
Meyers wants to lay and pray for a moment but Gracie keeps working.
Gracie sneaks a leg under to get back to half guard.
Gracie is looking to get back to full guard here but Meyers has managed to pass to side control instead.
Gracie is letting Meyers control him for a moment.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Gracie tries to get back to half guard but can't.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Gracie wants to improve his position, back to half guard but Meyers has ideas of his own. He's got hold of Gracie's far side arm and it looks like he's got an Americana. Ohh! Ohhhh! OOOOOOOOOH! A human being's arm is not meant to bend like that! Gracie is tapping like a morse code operator on the Titanic! SOS SOS! He's out of here! Great win for Meyers!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:25 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Americana). Grady Meyers!