PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between William Weidman (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Rugal Gracie (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Weidman comes to the cage accompanied by Stronger. William Weidman has the edge in experience - let's see if he can make that count tonight.

Weidman
vs
Gracie

194 cm
25
205 lbs
4 - 0 - 0

205 cm
25
205 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Prefers standup

Powerful takedowns
Brawler
Powerful

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 4 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, William Weidman!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Rugal Gracie!
The judges for this bout are George Francis, Gwen Towbar and Tiny Johnson.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Gracie drops his hands and takes a jab to the jaw for his troubles.
Gracie has his head slapped from side to side by a 3 punch combination. That must have hurt him.
Weidman lands with a good body shot.
Jab by Weidman.
Gracie wants to slow Weidman down by chopping away at his legs.
Weidman scores with a nice strike.
Weidman lands a glancing blow to the side of Gracie's head.
Weidman dips to his left and cracks Gracie with an uppercut!
Gracie takes a shot right to the bread basket.
Gracie is a painfully thin specimen of a man. You do wonder whether a good body kick would snap him clean in two.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Gracie misses with a wild body shot.
Weidman bobs and weaves and throws out a fast jab that snaps Gracie's head backwards.
Weidman fakes a head punch and goes low to the body. Nicely done.
Weidman definitely looks more muscular than last time we saw him fight.
Gracie doesn't react quick enough there as he takes a shot to the body.
A left lands for Weidman.
Gracie doesn't manage to clinch there - Weidman circles away.
Weidman scores with a nice looking left hook and follows it up with an uppercut!
Gracie throws a sloppy head kick and Weidman moves out of range easily.
Gracie walks into a stiff left hand from Weidman.
Weidman slips a jab from Gracie.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Nice body punch from Weidman.
Weidman lands a beauty of a right hand that gets the crowd cheering.
Weidman cracks Gracie with a hook to the jaw. Both fighters smile at eachother and high-five before getting back down to business.

Gracie is rocked!
Weidman connects with a stiff jab that staggers Gracie - oh and he follows up with a huge uppercut that knocks him out cold! Man, that was brutal!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:18 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punches). William Weidman!
As William Weidman got his breath back, he grabbed the microphone and managed to blurt out the following: Ouch that guy took a beating.'.