PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Nicolas Gracie (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Niklas Kronwall (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Gracie comes into the arena with Sabaton - The Art of War blaring out of the sound system. We have two fighters making their debuts here, so let's see who comes out of this one with their first professional victory.

Gracie
vs
Kronwall

189 cm
18
216 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

195 cm
18
205 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

Good takedowns
Brawler
Intelligent

BJJ White Belt
Brawler
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 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, Nicolas Gracie!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, Niklas Kronwall!
The judges for this bout are Jonathan Paton, Eddie Farnsworth and Chad Campbell.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Kronwall will have to do better than that with his takedown attempts.
Kronwall shoots in but no luck this time.

Gracie changes levels and drives through with a really nice takedown into side control. Kronwall looks really pissed at himself for not defending that better.
Gracie is looking to take a break and control but Kronwall is keeping him honest, looking to work from the bottom.
Gracie is pausing for a moment. What's he doing? It looks like he's clearing his nose. Oh dude! He's shot a load of snot all down Kronwall's shoulder. That is not cool.
Gracie trying to control the action but Kronwall is working from the bottom.
Gracie controls the position.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Kronwall is not content to let Gracie control the position.

Gracie has hold of Kronwall's arm here. He's working for an Americana. It looks like he might have it! Kronwall tries to escape but he's just digging himself in deeper - Gracie cranks the arm and Kronwall screams in pain! The ref makes a decision and ends the fight before the tap - no complains from Kronwall, who is just happy to have his arm attached to his body.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:56 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Americana). Nicolas Gracie!
Nicolas Gracie 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.