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Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Holden Gracie (ranked 3088 p4p, 2247 weight class) and Louis Sutherland (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Sutherland has chosen Pressure as his entrance music. Gracie has a slight injury, which hopefully won't affect the fight too much. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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190 cm 39 196 27 - 20 - 0 |
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183 cm 26 185 4 - 1 - 0 |
BJJ Brown Belt World class boxer Insanely flexible |
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Decent wrestler Basic striking Determined |
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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 27 - 20 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Holden Gracie! And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner. With a record of 4 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Louis Sutherland! The judges for this bout are Steve Smith, Gregory Folan and Dillan Fox.
![](https://www.mmatycoon.com/images/fight/round1.jpg) The bell rings for round one and we are underway! Nice sprawl there from Sutherland as Gracie shoots in. Gracie is breathing heavily. Gracie shoots in looking for a double leg takedown. Sutherland defends it nicely.
Sutherland closes the distance and clinches up, looking for a takedown. He shifts his weight and gets a nice trip into half guard. The two fighters exchange a few words. I couldn't hear what they were saying but maybe it's more fun if you make it up yourself. Sutherland connects with a nice short shot to Gracie's temple. Sutherland winds up and cracks Gracie with a swinging punch to the side of the head. Sutherland lands with an elbow from half guard - that looked like it hurt. Sutherland looks to score some points with some ground and pound. Gracie taking some punishment here, with Sutherland in his half guard. Sutherland passes to full mount! Gracie is in a horrible position here. Sutherland smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd. Gracie keeping his composure momentarily, calmly looking to get back to half guard.
Sutherland has his opponent pinned against the cage, landing some nasty ground and pound that is really making a bit of a mess out of Gracie's face.
![](https://www.mmatycoon.com/images/fight/1.gif) That's one minute gone in the round. Gracie is trying desperately to improve position. Sutherland looking to ground and pound his opponent to a finish here.
The crowd growing excited in anticipation of a finish here! Right on cue, Sutherland cracks his opponent with a massive right hand that draws loud cheers!
Sutherland scores with a couple of good head shots there.
Sutherland looks more muscular than last time we saw him. He must have been on the weights. Sutherland lands an elbow that was bordering on illegal but the referee lets it go with a warning. Sutherland scores with a couple of good head shots there.
Gracie is in a horrible position here. Sutherland smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.
Sutherland is landing with some decent strikes but Gracie is trying to advance his position so the referee is letting the fight continue. Sutherland scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish Gracie?
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd. Gracie taking shots to the head. Gracie is bucking up trying to escape but Sutherland cracks him with another couple of good strikes. Gracie working to try and regain half guard.
Sutherland pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage. A nice elbow there by Sutherland. The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily. Sutherland unloading with bombs!
![](https://www.mmatycoon.com/images/fight/2.gif) That's two minutes gone in the round. Sutherland lands a shot to the body, followed up by a shot to the exposed head of his trapped opponent.
BOOM! Sutherland connects with a massive shot to the dome!
Sutherland working Gracie over with strikes here. Gracie takes a big shot to the head but keeps on trying to improve his position. Sutherland cracks Gracie with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
Both fighters have adopted an aggressive gameplan on the ground! Gracie is looking to get to half guard. The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work. Sutherland scores with a couple of good head shots there.
Sutherland lands a big shot there that rocks Gracie but he's holding on and managing to survive for now.
Sutherland tries to control but Gracie wriggling away. The referee warns Gracie that he has to improve his position here as he takes two more clean shots to the head.
![](https://www.mmatycoon.com/images/fight/rocked2.gif) Gracie is rocked! Gracie is in a horrible position here. Sutherland smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.
Oh Gracie is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!! Gracie can't escape the position.
Sutherland dominating with strikes here. Sutherland looking to ground and pound his opponent to a finish here.
Sutherland is still in mount, landing shots to his trapped opponent. Gracie can't stay in a position like this for much longer.
![](https://www.mmatycoon.com/images/fight/3.gif) That's three minutes gone in the round. Sutherland with good strikes from the mount here! Sutherland in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.
Sutherland unloads with some vicious shots from mount and Gracie wants out - he looks towards the referee who steps in to save him! Sutherland celebrates on the cage and the crowd goes wild!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:25 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Louis Sutherland!
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energy
A | B |
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hype
A | B |
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pop
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mgr
A | B |
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RATING
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