Mitchell came into this fight as the clear underdog, nearly 2-1 on the betting odds. Coming off a “submission” win over Chas Skelly ( now a NC as it was overturned), Moffett was a larger, seemingly more athletic, and on paper more skilled submission grappling artist. The next fight we will take a look at his his bout with Bobby Moffett. Considering how many fighters come out of TUF and underwhelm in the UFC, you wouldn’t be able to fault someone for thinking Mitchell would not be one to keep an eye on. These next few portions of the fight we’ll look at are examples of Bryce’s relative inexperience coming back to bite him, and showing Katona’s craftiness on the ground.Įxiting the TUF 27 season, the 23 year old would fight fellow teammate, and Cormier’s first round draft pick, Tyler Diamond, winning by Majority Decision. His balance is compromised, and too far over Bryce, who grabs hold of Katona’s ankle, pulls toward him, and comes up into Katona, riding over Katona’s hook to get top side control. Katona wraps up Bryce’s neck to try and prevent Bryce from scooting under his hips and establishing the position. This gives him space to slide his left arm under Katona’s right hamstring to begin working to a deep half guard. Bryce inches his hips to his right as he begins to sit up again, threatening once more to come up for a single leg. Bryce is able to get an underhook and drops back down, forcing Katona to release the overhook and post to get his weight back over Bryce. Without the underhook, Bryce nudges Katona high over him as he looked to pass, and began to come up for the single leg. With Katona on top in half guard, Bryce is aggressively looking to sweep him over. What we got were some excellent grappling exchanges, which saw the larger Mitchell look to impose this size on Katona in the clinch, and the craftier Katona looking to find openings to exploit the holes of his less experienced opponent. The size advantage for Mitchell alone seemed a bit too much to handle, 4 inches in height and 5 in reach, considering Brad was a grappler where size advantages are helpful. Undersized, and a quiet personality in the house, Brad was definitely the underdog coming into this fight. The 6th pick for Cormier’s team, SBG Ireland trained Brad Katona moved onto the semi-finals with a Majority Decision win over recent UFC debutante Kyler Phillips. His next fight would be against his fellow team member, and eventual winner of the season, Brad Katona. Securing his first victory, and moving onto the semi-finals, the 2nd round draft pick for Cormier’s team showed why he was chosen so early. Once he secured the takedown and back control, just a few seconds into the round, the fight would remain there until Bryce attempted an armbar with 30 seconds left. The entirety of round 2 took place with Bryce backpacking Cucciniello for nearly 5 minutes straight. Keeping control of the upper body and head, Bryce rolls and throws his right leg over Cucciniello’s shoulder, locking up the figure four, and just pounds Cuccniello with shots until the round ends. Bryce is still high on the back, and in danger of losing position. Bryce is high on the back, but does a good job forcing Cucciniello to drop down again by sliding his right arm under the neck, forcing him to defend the choke. His ability to float his hips, gliding from position to position, back control, and relentless attacks, both submission attempts and ground pound, overwhelmed Cucciniello and led to an easy 2-0 decision win for Mitchell.īryce attempts to get his hooks and control in, and Cucciniello gets on all fours before he can consolidate his position, trying to shake him off as he did earlier. Despite his age, and relative inexperience, it’s easy to see that Bryce’s top control was going to be a problem for anyone he faced going forward. Bryce out-worked and out-grappled him throughout the match. His first fight was against Jay Cucciniello (8-0). At 23 years old, and 9-0, Mitchell was the 2nd pick by Team Cormier, having finished 8 of his 9 professional bouts by submission. It’s a testament to how tough Rosa is that he was able to work his way free of some bad spots, but Mitchell’s impressive display of top control is just another example of why Thug Nasty has caught the eyes of many fans.īryce Mitchell was brought into the UFC through The Ultimate Fighter, as part of their 27th season, the gimmick being undefeated fighters only. 3 rounds, 3 takedowns, 14 guard passes, and 5 submission attempts. It’s 2020, and Bryce Mitchell recorded his 13th professional victory over Charles Rosa just about 3 months ago, absolutely dominating the Ricardo Liborio black belt on the ground from the opening bell, to the final horn.
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