PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Israel Adesanya (ranked 3893 p4p, 4045 weight class) and Ramon Gracie (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Adesanya comes to the cage accompanied by Israel Adesanya Entrance Music. The key to victory for Israel Adesanya has got to be keeping the fight on the feet.

Adesanya
vs
Gracie

193 cm
20
184
3 - 0 - 0

180 cm
48
171
33 - 10 - 1

BJJ White Belt
Dangerous knees
Cardio machine

Olympic wrestler
Basic striking
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Israel Adesanya!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 33 - 10 - 1, fighting out of Amsterdam, Ramon Gracie!
The judges for this bout are Anni Minnemäki, Marco Blurström and Johanna Lukiainen.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Gracie fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Adesanya manages to avoid it.
Gracie misses with a looping left.
A good leg kick by Adesanya.
We've been told by Adesanya's head coaches at IMMAC Training Facilityâ„¢ that he's been working on his takedown defense in preparation for this fight.
Adesanya throws a quick head kick that skims the top of Gracie's head.
Gracie takes a step back and watches a body kick go sailing past his mid section.
Gracie on the wrong end of a vicious looking body shot.
Adesanya lands a body shot.
Gracie throws a jab when Adesanya was well out of range.
Adesanya scores with a kick to the body.
Adesanya throws a body shot but no joy.
Adesanya fakes a head punch and goes low to the body. Nicely done.
Adesanya throws a body kick despite being completely out of range

and Gracie counters with a shoot takedown into half guard.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Adesanya trying to hold on to Gracie's head to control him but Gracie postures up.

Adesanya is looking to regain full guard. He's left an arm up in the air though and Gracie has latched onto it... Big trouble! Gracie pivots for an armbar - it's in tight and it Adesanya is tapping in no time flat! Great counter grappling there from Gracie!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:56 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Ramon Gracie!
During a confident post fight interview, Ramon Gracie thanked all his fans. He seemed very genuine when describing how motivated his fans keep him.
Israel Adesanya was interviewed post fight and said 'I’ve seen it so many times. When you see somebody rising you want to tear them down because you feel inadequate and you want to call it humble. I am extraordinarily humble, believe me, but you’ll never know that because you never get to know me. Understand this, if one of us shining, we all win.'.