PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Anti Satosari (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Carlos Gracie (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Satosari comes to the cage accompanied by Primo Victoria. Gracie has chosen Total War - The Shogun II as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. Carlos Gracie has the power to score a knockout today if he connects clean with Anti Satosari's chin.

Satosari
vs
Gracie

188 cm
32
197 lbs
18 - 8 - 0

180 cm
29
200 lbs
16 - 8 - 0

Good wrestling
World class MT
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
Excellent MT
Powerful

5th Round Clothing
$10

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 18 - 8 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Anti Satosari!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 16 - 8 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Carlos Gracie!
The judges for this bout are Mauricio Rocha, Leandro Rodrigues and Paulo Santos.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Satosari defends well against a solid takedown attempt from Gracie.
Gracie has a nice red mark on his side after a thudding body kick by Satosari.

Satosari moves into the clinch.
Gracie looking for a takedown.
Satosari scores a nice knee to the body.
Gracie takes an elbow to the forehead.
Satosari prevents the takedown attempt.
Anti Satosari has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Carlos Gracie.
Gracie goes for a takedown in the clinch but Satosari prevents it.
Gracie managing to block the knees to the body from Satosari.
Gracie has a body lock and is looking for a takedown. Satosari is bouncing around trying to prevent the takedown and somehow he has indeed managed to stay on his feet.
Satosari is trying to slow down the pace of the fight but Gracie is keeping busy.
With the fighters up against the cage, Satosari throws an elbow but misses.
Gracie drops to a knee looking for a takedown but Satosari gets the underhooks and prevents it.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Satosari tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Satosari with a knee to the head.
Satosari prevents a takedown attempt there.
Satosari landing knees to the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
The fighters are pressed against the cage, as the pace of the fight slows.
Satosari lands a nice knee to the body.
Gracie looks gassed!
Satosari manages to get underhooks and slows down the pace for a moment.

Gracie gets double underhooks and manages to take the fight to the ground.
Satosari has control of Gracie's left arm, preventing Gracie from doing any damage.
Satosari has controlled the position for a good 20 seconds, which will no doubt be starting to frustrate his opponent.
Gracie trying to land body shots but he keeps hitting the mat.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Satosari keeping full guard, as Gracie tries to pass.
Satosari controlling Gracie's posture.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.

The referee decides to stand the fighters back up, due to lack of activity on the part of Anti Satosari.

Satosari tries to keep at a distance but Gracie has taken the fight into the clinch.
Satosari lands with a light punch inside.
Satosari missing with knees to the body.

Gracie has moved round to his opponent's back and is looking for a suplex! Oh snap! He's tossed Satosari clear over his head and slammed him to the mat!

Gracie is remaining active here, looking for the choke. The more discerning members of the crowd will appreciate his efforts.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Gracie working for a choke but Satosari reverses nicely into Gracie 's guard.
Satosari advances position into side control!
Satosari tries to move to mount but Gracie blocks the move with his legs.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The fighters are starting to get a bit slippery now, which will make submissions a bit more difficult.
Gracie is looking to regain half guard here but Satosari keeps moving and retains side control.
Satosari just content to control the position.
Gracie manages to get back to half guard.
Satosari with a momentary lay and pray from half guard.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Gracie is trying to maintain the position but Satosari is very close to passing his half guard.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Anti Satosari dominated that round.
The corners get their ten second warning. Both fighters stand from their stools and stare eachother down, ready to get back to the action.

Gracie chopped to the floor by a nice leg kick but he springs right back up before Satosari can pounce on him.
Satosari ducks under a wild hook from Gracie.
Anti Satosari is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Gracie misses with a telegraphed body shot
and Satosari counters with a leg kick.
Satosari throws a hook to the side of Gracie's head but Gracie sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
Satosari throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.
Gracie takes a shot to the eye socket. That's gotta hurt.
Satosari chopping away at his opponent's legs.
A lazy body kick from Satosari

and Gracie counters with a nice double leg into guard.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Satosari trying to control the position.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Satosari seems keen to control rather than go for a submission, at least for now.
Gracie wants to pass the guard but Satosari is keeping the position.
Gracie is fighting to break Satosari's control of his arms but Satosari is doing a good job of controlling the position at the moment.
Gracie stands up and looks to throw the legs aside to pass to side control. Satosari swivels though and keeps the full guard.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

We're going to have a standup here because Anti Satosari wasn't active enough for the referee's liking.
Gracie throws a jab, cross combination which is slipped
and Satosari counters with a big head kick but Gracie shrugs it off.
Gracie shoots in looking for a double leg takedown. Satosari defends it nicely.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Whack! Satosari lands a heavy head kick that drops Gracie. The ref tackles Satosari to stop the fight - a great save by the referee because Gracie was done.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:11 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Head Kick). Anti Satosari!
Anti Satosari decided to go for the less than humble approach in his post fight interview, telling everyone how he is going to conquer the world. The crowd seemed to like it when really that sort of approach could have gone either way.