Garry Tonon Leglocks Promoter Ralek Gracie in Metamoris 7 Replacement Main Event

The headliner of Metamoris 7 wasn’t the bout anticipated or expected, but at least it ended. Sunday, inside the Ray Dolby Ballroom in Los Angeles, grappling star Garry Tonon gave up 40 pounds to Metamoris founder and promoter Ralek Gracie in their makeshift main event, but still managed to pull off a trademark chain of leglocks in order to force the tap just beyond the 15-minute mark of a scheduled 20. While the 205-pound Gracie did hit a beautiful drop seoinage at one point on his smaller foe, Tonon’s non-stop attacking and scrambling drove the pace of the match, forcing Gracie to the defensive more often than not. Tonon tried to attack from back control on several occasions, but wound up evenually rolling for a toe hold that allowed him to sweep to top position in an inverted guard and in the blink of an eye, turned it into a kneebar for the tap. “He’s considerably heavier than me and he’s been grappling all of his life, so I didn’t want to do something like blow my load in the first 10 minutes or so then not be able to submit him, because not being able to submit him wouldn’t have looked good for me,” Tonon said after the bout. It was the third Metamoris win for Tonon, a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt in the Renzo Gracie lineage under Tom DeBlass and Ricardo Almeida. The 25-year-old previously guillotined Kit Dale at Metamoris 4 in August 2014 before returning three months later at Metamoris 5, heel hooking Zak Maxwell. The originally planned main event was a rematch between jiu-jitsu legends Roger Gracie and Marcus “Buchecha” Almeida who grappled to a 20-minute time limit draw at Metamoris 1 in October 2012. In May, Almeida announced that despite being announced for the Metamoris 7 headliner, he had never signed a contract and would not compete at the event. Subsequently, his rival Gracie said he had no interest in facing …

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