{"id":287504,"date":"2010-02-06T19:52:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T00:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:mma,article,yhoo-ept_sports_mma_experts-218052:1"},"modified":"2010-02-06T19:52:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T00:52:22","slug":"next-generation-gracie-bombs-at-ufc-109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/287504","title":{"rendered":"Next-generation Gracie bombs at UFC 109"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a323.yahoofs.com\/ymg\/ept_sports_mma_experts__16\/ept_sports_mma_experts-693891286-1265535940.jpg?ymE_BpCDGsCBsnGn\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The UFC better hope aspiring heavyweights around the world don&#8217;t get a look at Rolles Gracie&#8217;s debut with the promotion. Everyone would like to make it to the big show, but Gracie didn&#8217;t look like he belonged or wanted to be here. <\/p>\n<p>Gracie was exhausted after three minutes as he grasped for air on several takedown attempts in the second round. On his third try, he just laid there and Beltran went to work. He sat down on Gracie, who clearly wanted out of the fight. Beltran landed 15 shots as Gracie turtled. Referee Herb Dean stopped the fight at 1:31 of the second round to start off the night at UFC 109 in Las Vegas. <\/p>\n<p>Gracie, a second-degree jiu-jitsu black belt, took terrible shots all fight long. He did get Beltran on the deck early via the clinch and a trip. Gracie (3-1) immediately got to the mount and slapped on a rear-naked choke. Beltran (11-3) was able to free himself and eventually reverse his way out of the mount. That was the last bit of trouble Beltran was in.<\/p>\n<p>Based on his name &#8212; and the fact that Beltran was called in this week when Mostapha Al Turk was dumped from the card due to visa problems &#8212; Gracie was a minus-700 at Las Vegas sportsbooks. If Al Turk sees this fight, he&#8217;ll probably be sick to his stomach. Based on his performances so far in the UFC, Al Turk would&#8217;ve destroyed Gracie. He&#8217;s now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmaweekly.com\/absolutenm\/templates\/dailynews.asp?articleid=10687&amp;zoneid=13\" >rumored for UFC 112<\/a> in Abu Dhabi against Jon Madsen. <\/p>\n<p>Beltran caught the attention of the UFC and matchmaker Joe Silva last month. A San Diego native, he knocked off UFC veteran Houston Alexander in Tulsa.<\/p>\n<p>Gracie is the grandson of Carlos Gracie Sr., and<br \/>\nson of Rolls Gracie.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>HAGUE STARTS SLOW, LOSES DECISION TO TUCHSCHERER<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Tim Hague showed up to throwdown in the third round, but that was it. As a result, he dropped a majority decision to Chris Tuchscherer, 29-28, 28-28 and 29-28. Hague dominated the final round with a flurry at the start of the round. He rocked Tuchscherer with some big shots and eventually the Canadian gained top control. Hague (10-3, 1-2 UFC) rotated from full guard to the mount to side control, but he could never finish his opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Tuchscherer (18-2, 1-1 UFC) didn&#8217;t dominate the first two rounds, but Hague was so inactive that you had to give &quot;Crowbar&quot; the nod. For the second fight in a row, Tuchscherer&#8217;s cup was put to the test. In his UFC debut against Gabriel Gonzaga, Tuchscherer was drilled with a low blow so hard that it split his cup and had him spitting up blood in the locker room following the fight. He got nailed again on Saturday in the opening two minutes but recovered quickly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UFC better hope aspiring heavyweights around the world don&#8217;t get a look at Rolles Gracie&#8217;s debut with the promotion. Everyone would like to make it to the big show, but Gracie didn&#8217;t look like he belonged or wanted to be here. Gracie was exhausted after three minutes as he grasped for air on several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}