Bryce Mitchell had sufficient of Kron Gracie pulling guard so he determined to make use of the transfer towards him with an enormous slam and a few vicious elbows that led to a knockout win at UFC 310.
In a grappling heavy matchup, Mitchell needed to survive a submission scare within the second spherical however made Gracie pay after desperately making an attempt to pull the battle again to the bottom a number of moments later. Quite than simply fall to the canvas, Mitchell drove Gracie down after which adopted up with some devastating elbow strikes that completed the battle at simply 39 seconds into the third spherical.
It was a powerful ending from Mitchell, who paid credit score to Gracie for almost pulling off the upset together with his submission try.
“I didn’t have an choice to take him down or not,” Mitchell mentioned about Gracie repeatedly pulling him to the bottom. “I had no possibility. In case you are preventing a Gracie, don’t go towards the cage with him. I actually thought he may break the arm. That’s a Gracie. Present him respect. That’s a Gracie.”
It didn’t take lengthy for the battle to finish up on the ground however Mitchell confirmed no worry after Gracie dragged him to the bottom. Mitchell was methodical on high, peppering away with punches however by no means permitting Gracie any room to work together with his world-class grappling from the underside.
Following a sluggish shifting opening spherical, Gracie really got here out firing on the ft with Mitchell coming proper again at him. It was a short-lived change, nevertheless, as a result of Gracie ultimately conceded one other takedown with Mitchell again on high of him.
Mitchell stood again up once more however that lasted for under a second with Gracie grabbing onto him and falling again into his guard once more. This time, Gracie was in a position to swivel his hips and search for an armbar earlier than adjusting to search for a triangle choke as an alternative.
Mitchell resisted, escaped and unloaded with a number of punches simply earlier than the spherical ended.
Because the third spherical acquired began, Gracie closed the gap and jumped as much as pull the battle all the way down to the bottom once more however this time Mitchell used the momentum to deliver him crashing to the canvas. The hellacious elbow strikes adopted with Gracie going limp because the referee rushed in to cease the battle.
The win places Mitchell again on observe following a scary knockout loss to Josh Emmett in his earlier outing as he improves his file to 2-2 over his final 4 fights.