A crowd of Japanese people came and tossed Kimura high in celebration while Hélio was helped out to tend his arm. He also walked into the mat and tapped Kimura's back thrice, signaling desistance. Finally, when the judoka was about to twist it a third time, Hélio's brother Carlos threw the towel. As Gracie still refused to give up, Masahiko twisted the arm further and broke it again. Hélio did not surrender, so Kimura rotated the arm until it broke. Unable to breathe under Kimura, Gracie tried to get out by pushing with his arm, and at the moment Kimura seized the limb and executed gyaku-ude-garami. The judoka held him in place for almost three minutes before moving his weight over Gracie's head. Įntered the second round, after blocking a tomoe nage attempt by Gracie, Kimura threw him to the mat by osoto gari, and this time he followed him to the ground right after and pinned him with kuzure-kami-shiho-gatame. As Hélio nodded, Kimura continued until the bell call. Later, Kimura realized Gracie's ear was dripping blood and asked if he was okay. At one point, probably during the yoko-sankaku-jime, the pressure was such that Gracie lost consciousness without Kimura noticing, only waking up when Kimura released his hold in order to switch to another position. He pinned Hélio and switched between kuzure-kami-shiho-gatame, yoko-shiho-gatame, yoko-sankaku-jime and kesa-gatame. At the end of the round, the Japanese dropped Gracie with osoto gari and engaged in a brief ground struggle. However, Gracie was able to perform ukemi safely thanks to the soft mat used in the match, so Kimura couldn't subdue him by throwing alone. The Brazilian tried to throw his opponent down with osoto gari and kouchi gari, but Kimura blocked them and in turn started scoring multiple throws, including ouchi gari, harai goshi, uchi mata and ippon seoi nage.
Īt the start of the first round, Hélio and Kimura immediately went to a clinch. Although Kato, whom the ropes impeded from repositioning, tried to counter it by resuming his hold, he lost consciousness, forcing Kimura to throw the towel.
At that moment, Kato froze in the belief the referee would stop the action to disentangle them and drag them away from the ropes, but it didn't happen, which allowed Hélio to lock his choke during Kato's mistake. After half an hour of fighting, Kato decided to take the bout to the ground and attempted to choke Gracie with juji-jime, which caused them to become entangled with the ring ropes when Hélio tried to counter with his own. Again, Kato dominated the early rounds and threw Hélio several times, even tossing him out of the ring at one point. The match took place on September 29 at the Ginásio do Ibirapuera in São Paulo. As the crowds were unsatisfied, Kato offered Hélio a rematch, this time without time limits. The three-round match was controlled by Kato thanks to his superiority at throwing, but the mats were too soft to make his throws decisive and thus Hélio was able to perform ukemi-waza until the end of the time, ending the match in a draw.
Kato and Hélio faced off on Septemat Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro.
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