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Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Thor White (ranked 257 p4p, 344 weight class) and Holden Gracie (ranked 27 p4p, 35 weight class). The atmosphere really building for this one as we go over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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Good wrestling
World class boxer
Insanely flexible |
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BJJ Brown Belt
World class MT
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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 24 - 15 - 1, fighting out of Las Vegas, Thor White!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 27 - 14 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Holden Gracie!
The judges for this bout are Alexandre Firmino, Paulo Santos and Felipe Paraventi.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
White misses with a looping left.
Gracie looks to land a combination. White sees it coming but can only parry a couple of the shots.
Gracie gets taken down but at least he's managed to land in guard.
Gracie looking to sweep here. No luck so far.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
White wants to control from the top but Gracie keeps moving.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
White slips effortlessly into side control - very nice.
White tries for a kimura. Not really close to a finish though.
White is looking to take a break and control but Gracie is keeping him honest, looking to work from the bottom.
White thinks about going for a far side armbar but bails out and retains the dominant position instead.
That's one minute gone in the round.
White trying to control the position but Gracie is working away.
White is looking to finish here, going for an Americana. Gracie knows the correct defense though, so he's OK.
Gracie is trying to improve his position.
White trying to control the action but Gracie is working from the bottom.
White is looking for a kimura. He might have it! No, Gracie has escaped the position, nice work there.
White looking for an arm triangle but it's way too loose to do anything.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Well. There's a bit of a lull in the action here and the crowd are starting to get restless.
White working away.
White wants to lay and pray for a moment but Gracie keeps working.
Gracie is looking to regain half guard here but White keeps moving and retains side control.
White tries for an arm triangle. That looks pretty tight to me. Is this one over!?! Possibly, maybe, no White has let go of the choke. Obviously it wasn't as tight as we thought!
Gracie gets one leg under and gets the fight to half guard.
White tries to pass to full mount but Gracie defends it.
White is trying a forearm choke� I don't think that's going to do much at this level of the game.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
White is working for submissions here but there's nothing on.
Gracie trying to control from the bottom.
White is trying to work for a kimura but Gracie is defending well.
White has hold of the far side arm. He's working for the Kimura, can Gracie defend it? White steps over the head and cranks it - Gracie is tapping out! That was textbook stuff right there - nice submission victory for White!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:41 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Thor White!
During a confident post fight interview, Thor White thanked all his fans. He seemed very genuine when describing how motivated his fans keep him.
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energy
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hype
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pop
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mgr
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FIGHT
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