PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Royce Gracie (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Kazuo Imanari (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Gracie
vs
Imanari

185 cm
26
270 lbs
6 - 9 - 0

176 cm
25
203 lbs
6 - 3 - 1

Good takedowns
Basic striking
KO power

Good takedowns
Counter striker
Knockout power

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 1 rounds, in the super heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 6 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Royce Gracie!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 6 - 3 - 1, fighting out of Tokyo, Kazuo Imanari!
The judges for this bout are Yasuomi Hirokawa, Ren Mimura and Shigeki Sano.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Gracie doesn't succeed with the takedown

and Imanari counters with a nice double leg into side control. Gracie won't be happy with that.
The referee wants the fighters to be more active or he's going to reset them on the feet.

Imanari tries for a kimura. Not really close to a finish though.
Imanari trying to control the position but Gracie is working away.
Gracie sneaks a leg under to get back to half guard.
Gracie gets back to full guard.
Imanari won't allow Gracie to sweep him here.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Imanari sneaks a leg through and gets to half guard. That was like a knife through butter how easily he passed Gracie's guard.
Gracie is trying to get back to full guard.

Gracie is looking to sinch up a guillotine here but Imanari pulls his head out easily.
Imanari moves into full mount! Gracie won't be happy about that!
Gracie is looking to get to half guard.
Imanari can't quite control the action as he would like just now, as Gracie is looking to escape.
Imanari content just to control the position here.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

Imanari looking to secure an arm triangle but Gracie defends it well.
Imanari looking to control but Gracie is working nicely, looking to advance position himself.
Gracie is writhing around trying to get back to his feet.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Imanari prevents Gracie from getting the reversal.
Gracie could do with losing a few pounds - he looks very soft around the mid section, to put it politely.
Imanari controlling his opponent.
Imanari can't quite control the action as he would like just now, as Gracie is looking to escape.
Gracie working to try and regain half guard.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Imanari seems to be looking to move to his opponent's back but Gracie is holding on tight.
Gracie tries to hold on but Imanari pushes him away.
Imanari looking to control but Gracie is working nicely, looking to advance position himself.
Gracie is trying desperately to improve position.

That's five minutes gone in the round.
Imanari avoids the attempt from Gracie to control.
Imanari pushing the pace here, looking to move to his opponents back and work for a finish.
Imanari looking to control but Gracie is working nicely, looking to advance position himself.

That's six minutes gone in the round.
Gracie is looking to improve his position but Imanari isn't that keen on the idea.
Imanari wants to take Gracie's back but he can't do it this time.
Gracie is wriggling around trying to escape.
Gracie tries to hold on but Imanari postures up.
Imanari trying to control but he's not successful this time.
Gracie is desperately trying to get back to half guard.

That's seven minutes gone in the round.
Imanari can't control as he wanted to and Gracie manages to get the fight back to his half guard.
Imanari trying to control the pace.
Gracie trying to control from the bottom.
Neither fighter is being very active at the moment, with Imanari in particular looking to stall.
Gracie controlling the leg, holding on to half guard.

That's eight minutes gone in the round.

The referee decides to stand the fighters back up.
Gracie has a takedown stuffed.
A really sloppy takedown attempt there from Gracie.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Royce Gracie. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Gracie has a takedown stuffed.
Imanari tries to clinch up against the cage, rushing in the close the distance. Gracie manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat.
Gracie will have to do better than that with his takedown attempts.
Some wild striking there from Imanari.

Imanari closes the distance and clinches.

That's nine minutes gone in the round.
Gracie tries to circle away but Imanari has him pinned against the cage.
Imanari looking to slow down the pace here.
Gracie is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Gracie slows down the pace here.
Gracie prevents a takedown attempt there.

And that's the end of the fight!
Kazuo Imanari comfortably won the final round on my scorecard.
I think Imanari has won this one but let's see whether the judges agree with me. Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.

Judge Yasuomi Hirokawa scores the fight for Kazuo Imanari!
Judge Ren Mimura scores the fight for Kazuo Imanari!
Judge Shigeki Sano scores the fight for Kazuo Imanari!

Kazuo Imanari wins by unanimous decision!
A victorious Kazuo Imanari thanked his army of followers in his post fight interview, telling people to make sure they follow him on Twitter.