Pride15: Ishizawa Vs. Ryan Gracie

[Mako]

This is a detailed play by play; if you don't want to know results, STOP READING NOW!

Again, sorry for the caps lock, but no way am I going back to correct the whole thing!

ISHIZAWA VS. RYAN GRACIE:

RD1: RYAN THROWS A LG KICK, AND ISHIZAWA GOES FOR TAKEDOWN, RYAN TRIES TO GO TO GD, ISHIZAWA IN SIDE CTRL. RYAN TRIES TO SIT BACK INTO GD, BUT ISHIZAWA STANDS UP. RYAN BUT SCOOTS AS ISHIAWA THROWS LEG KICKS TO NO EFFECT. REF STANDS THEM UP. RYAN LEG KICK, ISHI TO TAKEDOWN, TO SIDE CTRL. GOOD, TIGHT CTRL, RYAN CAN’T RECOMPOSE GD. ISHI THROWS SEVERAL NICE KNEES TO RYANS SIDE. RYAN TRIES TO RECOMPOSE GD, AND GETS ½ GD BEFORE ISHI STANDS UP. RYAN BUT SCOOTS. ISHI DOESN’T GIVE HIM SPACE. ISHI TRIES MORE HORRIBLE LEG KICKS. VERY VERY BAD FORM. REF STANDS THEM UP. RYAN LEG KICK, ISHI TAKEDOWN, RYAN MOTIONS TO REF WHO STOPS THE FIGHT. RYAN IS WRITHING ON THE GROUND IN PAIN, HOLDING HIS RIBS (PROBABLY FROM KNEES IN PREVIOUS SIDE CONTROL). ISHI JUMPS OUT OF THE RING TO RUN AND SHAKE INOKI’S HAND. RYAN IS NOW ON HIS FEET, DOUBLED OVER AND HOLDING HIS RIBS. HE FALLS TO HIS BACK. HE IS IN OBVIOUS AGONY. IN REPLAY IT LOOKS LIKE ISHI MAY HAVE INJURED THE RIB AS HE “BUMPED” RYANS LEGS TO GET SIDE CONTROL. THE TWIST MAY HAVE POPPED A RIB OR SOMETHING.
ISHIZAWA DOMINATED THIS FIGHT. SUPRISINGLY, HE CONTROLLED IT IN VERY BJJ FORM, DOUBLE LEG TAKEDOWN, PASS GD, SIDE CONTROL. VERY STRANGE FIGHT. THE ONLY OFFENSE RYAN MOUNTED WERE 3 MISSED LEG KICKS WHICH ALL RESULTED IN TAKEDOWNS? HE COULDN’T HOLD ½ GUARD, A POSITION HE HAS TRAINED IN ALL HIS LIFE? HE COULDN’T ESCAPE ISHIZAWA’S SIDE CTRL? HMM. VERY STRANGE FIGHT.

I CAN GUARANTEE THAT IF WALLID AND RYAN HAD MET TONIGHT, WALLID WOULD HAVE KILLED HIM. WALLID LOOKED TO BE IN INCREDIBLE SHAPE, AND VERY, VERY FOCUSED. RYAN LOOKED OFF OF HIS GAME, AND WAS DOMINATED BY ISHIZAWA.

[YeLLa-TiGeR]

I hope the fight does down and I hope Wallid wins!