PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Thiago Gracie (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Mike Williams (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Williams has chosen A Kind of Magic as his entrance music. There are an array of beautiful celebrities at ringside tonight! I wonder if any of them paid for their tickets.

Gracie
vs
Williams

195 cm
23
199 lbs
7 - 3 - 0

193 cm
20
188 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Basic striking
Experienced

BJJ Blue Belt
Decent boxing
Determined

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 7 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Thiago Gracie!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Mike Williams!
The judges for this bout are Don Winkell, and Jack Bonds.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Williams leaves Gracie with his face pressed against the mat as he sprawls beautifully, defending against a solid takedown attempt.
Williams stuns Gracie with a nice body shot, before stepping back out of range.
Gracie is trying hard to land a takedown here. Williams sprawls well and keeps this one on the feet.
Gracie shoots in for a takedown but Williams shows good takedown defense.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Thiago Gracie. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Williams lands the left hand.

It looks like Thiago Gracie has been cut.
Williams lands a pitter patter jab to the forehead of his opponent.

Gracie is rocked!
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Williams slaps away a takedown attempt from Gracie, before circling back to the center of the mat.
Oh Gracie is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!

Williams lands a big uppercut and Gracie crumbles to the floor! The ref thinks about stopping the fight but Gracie looks OK. Williams waves Gracie back to his feet!
Williams cracks Gracie with a hook to the temple - Gracie is on wobbly legs here! Williams swarms him with hook after hook, landing with each one! Gracie falls to the canvas face first and the referee dives in to stop the fight! Williams wins by TKO!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:34 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punches). Mike Williams!