Watch the FULL FIGHT between Bryce Mitchell and Kron Gracie in this intense MMA showdown! Two elite fighters with completely different styles—Mitchell’s relentless wrestling against Gracie’s legendary Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Who came out on top?
🔹 Bryce Mitchell (The Tactical Grappler)
🔹 Kron Gracie (BJJ Legend & Submission Specialist)
🔹 Bryce Mitchell (The Tactical Grappler)
🔹 Kron Gracie (BJJ Legend & Submission Specialist)
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00:00Bryce Mitchell, man, he's such a character.
00:11Hey, Bryce Mitchell has some stuff, but he has a thing about seat belts.
00:16Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:17Well, you never know when you might have to jump out of the moving home vehicle
00:20and take care of some issues.
00:22If you're driving off of a cliff, you can't have a seat belt.
00:25Bryce Mitchell's wife Erin and son Tucker are on the floor tonight to watch him
00:29compete.
00:30Mitchell is in those camo trunks.
00:32Crone Gracie counters in black.
00:36Son's name is Tucker because he was on Tucker Carlson.
00:40Very nice load kick from Bryce Mitchell.
00:44Nice knee to the body.
00:46Another one.
00:47Yep.
00:48Look at this.
00:49He's looking for the takedown.
00:50Crazy.
00:51Crone looks small compared to Bryce, huh?
00:54Like, really thin.
00:55Yeah.
00:58Probably doesn't like to lose a lot of weight.
01:03You know, he's very, very health conscious.
01:06Yes.
01:07Very concerned about the implications of weight training or, excuse me, weight cutting.
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01:18But this just shows that Bryce Mitchell was very confident in his ground game.
01:21Yeah.
01:22The fact that he was willing to engage Gracie in the area that he shines the most right away.
01:28And he's going to be having to play with you in the field.
01:30And he's going to be able to play with you in the right place.
01:31He's going to play with you while they're dry.
01:32Right.
01:33And while having some success on the feet.
01:34But this is exactly what fighting is, right?
01:35This might bite him in the butt, right?
01:38But because the guy's good at something, you can't ignore what you're good at.
01:41Well, Charles Jourdain was able to shut the ground game down as well.
01:43You know, when they were on the ground.
01:45Well, you know when when they were on the ground
01:52It was one of those situations where crone was forced to kind of pull guard
01:57Multiple times in that fight and these guys are good in grappling, but they're better when they're on top
02:03You know you can be good at it from your guard in jiu-jitsu
02:07But in fighting you never want to be on your back trying to set up submission especially when people can punch you
02:12Yeah, well they can punch you. It's just so different than in mma. Yeah regular jiu-jitsu
02:21With the bows in there
02:23Nate Diaz to our right in the corner of chrome Gracie tonight
02:29Along with Randy Spence and sergio's fighter
02:42A.J. Cunningham joining roly delgado and willy mclaughlin in the corner bryce mitchell for the first time tonight
02:53First time we've seen mitchell since that devastating knockout loss to josh emmett a year ago. He was number 10 going in number 13 tonight
03:00And a lot of his success has been rooted in his ability to take people down to control them, right?
03:07That's exactly what he's doing right now to chrome gracie
03:09Well, not just that but chrome right now has only been defensive off of his back
03:14He's just controlling posture and using a full guard and hasn't started working his hips
03:19So now he's clamping down on the right arm
03:26But he got it out so bryce who's also a black belt in jiu-jitsu. It's it's not easy to submit a guy like this
03:33So chrome trying to use his legs and control the upper body but he hasn't been able to have any success so far
03:48Coach dean thomas with us all night. What do you see in good sir?
03:51Yeah, I'll tell you what I thought it was a little weird for
03:53Bryce mitchell to want to take gracie down, but he's doing a good job of head control
03:58Notice where he keeps his head he keeps his head over gracie's head always pushing in and when he doesn't have his head in contact
04:04He uses his hands and not allows chrome gracie to get full 360 degree movement because he's controlling the head
04:11His arms are always very short. Look at how short his arms are always bent
04:16Nothing gets long in the way from his body, right?
04:19When you get long and extended is when people jump on submissions
04:22Bryce keeps everything real tight almost in that can opener position
04:26George c pierre used to be really good at this
04:28He would fight you from the full guard. He was always coming inside pummeling
04:32Keeping his hands tight never allowing you to get started
04:38DC knows bryce mitchell exceedingly well you coached him on season 27 the ultimate fighter back in 2018
04:44He told him that you know, he didn't look like a guy that would do what he's done, you know
04:48To get into the top 10 in the world rankings
04:51Right
04:53But bryce believes himself like dixie made the
04:56Correct changes to not only extend his career
05:00But moving back into the top 10 and hopefully at some point to the top 5
05:04All right, pretty easy 10-9 round for bryce mitchell
05:11In round one
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05:18So roly delgado in the mitchell corner, ooh, big left hand for krone gracie early round two
05:28Mitchell corner didn't like the activity in round one
05:32Good job, good work
05:34Nice, nice
05:36Nice, nice
05:38Nice, nice
05:40Nice, nice
05:42Yeah
05:44Oh, nice knee by mitchell
05:46Oh, an elbow now
05:48Use your feet, use your feet
05:50Use your feet
05:54Use your feet
05:56Oh
05:58Again
05:59And then
06:00Now, now
06:01The referee should be a little bit more
06:03Yeah
06:04Involved
06:05In this round
06:06After seeing how the first runs went
06:08I know he said guys keep moving a little bit down on the bottom
06:11This time if nothing's happening
06:13I would not be opposed to him standing the back up
06:16I'm just kind of surprised as I was in the charles jordain fight that krone isn't more dynamic from the bottom
06:27So what we're seeing is basically just controlling posture utilizing full guard but no attempts to mix things up
06:35No attempts to switch to a half guard perhaps try to sweep no no attempts to just do something to mix things up
06:45Right
06:46Because he had zero success from this position in the first round and he finds himself in the exact same spot in the second round
06:52Right and some of the corner advice was to throw elbows off of your back
06:55Yeah, I just I didn't understand that
06:56Yeah
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07:09Another thing I thought was interesting was Bryce Mitchell's corner said the ground is what it is you're better than him
07:14Which I thought was pretty impressive that they have that kind of confidence in him
07:19There it is, smart by Bryce
07:22Fans appreciate that in-flight decision as Mitchell welcomes Gracie back to his feet
07:27That knee up the middle is there for Bryce Mitchell
07:32Oh, not again
07:33Every time Bryce takes the body lock
07:36Yeah
07:37Gracie jumps to the guard
07:38Yeah
07:40But he doesn't attack
07:41No
07:42Right, that's surprising
07:45To go to the guard and not do anything from him
07:48No, it's completely defensive
07:51And he's not maneuvering his legs, right?
07:54He's not getting his legs up to a high guard
07:58He's not, like, trying for omoplata or anything to control the arms
08:02Yeah, if he's gonna go down there, he needs to be attacking submissions
08:05But now he's kind of moving
08:06Yes, now he's moving
08:07Arm bar
08:08Arm bar, arm bar
08:11This is not a good place for Bryce
08:12No
08:13This is dangerous
08:14Look how he's curling his toes
08:15Like, when his arm, his arm bar, his guard is very tight
08:19When he gets you into a situation like this, it's very different than other people
08:22Right
08:23This is a world championship caliber Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt
08:26This is what you want to see from Crone Gracie
08:28If he's gonna pull guard, he's gotta be going to submissions
08:31And right now, he's got Bryce in trouble
08:32Nope
08:33Well, he's gonna switch to a triangle
08:34He's gonna switch to a triangle
08:35He's gonna switch to a triangle
08:36He's gonna switch to a triangle
08:37But he's gotta turn his body towards his right
08:38He's way too off to the side of the triangle
08:40He might be able to do it
08:41He might be able to do it
08:42He's gonna keep rotating
08:43He's gonna keep rotating
08:44He's gonna keep rotating
08:45And he's gonna pull down on his left leg
08:47And grab a hold of it
08:49If he can grab a hold of it, he can cinch up this triangle
08:52He's close
08:53And he's
08:54He's just gotta adjust a little
08:56Yes sir
08:57But if he rotates and adjusts, he might be able to get it still
09:00It's not a good place for Bryce
09:02It's just a matter of the length of the legs
09:06He's got kinda short legs
09:07But he's rotating
09:08See, he's changing it again
09:09He's gonna take his back
09:10He's gonna take his back
09:11Bryce is in a bad spot here
09:16He's in a bad spot with a very dangerous guy
09:19Bryce keeps that 2-on-1 though
09:20He'll find himself pretty safe
09:22As long as he keeps that 2-on-1 pushed away
09:25He's eliminating his left arm
09:3045 seconds in the run
09:32He's in a much better position now
09:33Yeah
09:34Because Crowe doesn't have his back really anymore
09:37He's more on the bottom
09:41Now he's in guard again
09:42So Bryce is successfully rotated to a position
09:45Where he's on top again
09:48Crowe does have one arm
09:50One leg across the shoulder
09:51Okay
09:52Now it's better
09:53Now it's dangerous
09:54Now it's dangerous
09:55Armbar
09:56Yeah, he was setting up that armbar
09:58He's got it
09:59He's got it
10:00He's got it
10:01He's got it
10:02This is a very dangerous spot for Bryce
10:05Oh!
10:06And he gets out of it
10:07Beautiful job by Bryce Mitchell
10:10And Nasty ground and pound by Bryce at the end of the second round
10:16Doug Nasty survives
10:1810 minutes
10:19And last round
10:20Crowe Gracie in black
10:22Bryce Mitchell in the camo trunks
10:24I don't know if Bryce is gonna be as eager to go to the ground again after that second round
10:34Yeah, I doubt it
10:35But there were two scary moments for him in that round
10:39Gracie credited with one submission attempt in round two
10:42Wow, when the first arm bar was as deep as the second one
10:45Yeah
10:49No, no, no
10:51No
10:53Oh!
10:55Oh!
10:56That nasty Bryce Mitchell sleeps
10:59Crown Gracie
11:00Wow
11:01Wow
11:02Wow
11:03Wow
11:04That elbow was nasty
11:06Wow
11:07What a way to end it, Tug
11:10Nasty with an elbow from hell
11:13Out of nowhere
11:15So, as soon as Crowe pulls guard, Bryce kind of power slams him
11:21Lands a couple nasty punches in the body and then that big elbow
11:26And there's another one
11:27Let's take a listen to it in real time
11:29Look at that person got him right on the chin.
11:45He's already up.
11:46Ladies and gentlemen, referee Keith Peterson is called a stop to this contest at 39 seconds of round number three.
11:55Declared the winner by knockout Bryce the Nasty Mitchell.
12:07Congratulations, sir.