PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Marcio Aldo (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Thiago Silvas (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). I'm sure you'll be fascinated to know that I was talking to some pointless Z list celebrity before the fight and he thought that Thiago Silvas was going to win. Let's see if he was right.

Aldo
vs
Silvas

174 cm
22
161 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

185 cm
19
167 lbs
0 - 3 - 0

Good wrestling
Counter striker
Granite chin

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of London, Marcio Aldo!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 3 - 0, fighting out of London, Thiago Silvas!
The judges for this bout are Chris Edwards, William Gold and James Atkins.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Aldo takes a step back and watches a body kick go sailing past his mid section.
Crunch! Silvas slams his shin into Aldo's torso.
Silvas stuffs a takedown. It's all about dictating where the fight takes place and Silvas wants it to stay on the feet.
Silvas is looking to clinch but Aldo is avoiding it.
A leg kick checked by Silvas.
Silvas connects with a solid leg kick.
Aldo closes the distance and clinches up with Silvas, looking for a takedown. Aldo pushes Silvas against the cage but Silvas circles to the side and manages to break the clinch.
Silvas tries to clinch up but Aldo circles away and keeps his distance.
Silvas is looking to clinch but Aldo is avoiding it.
Aldo misses with a few strikes there.
Silvas tries to clinch up but Aldo circles away and keeps his distance.
Silvas feints with a shoulder and throws a nice leg kick to Aldo's calf.
Nice takedown defense from Silvas. No joy for Aldo on that attempt.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Marcio Aldo. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Silvas scores with a leg kick.
Silvas tries to clinch up.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Silvas avoids a punch combination nicely.
Silvas tries to clinch up.
Aldo avoids the head kick by Silvas.
The sound of bone on bone echoes around the arena as Silvas checks a leg kick.

Aldo bobs and weaves into range and then changes levels and scores with a nice takedown into side control.
Aldo content to control the pace. The referee will try and keep them active though.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Aldo seems to have a rather negative gameplan on the ground. He seems keen to just score the takedown and hold down Silvas for as long as he can get away with.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Silvas is trying to control Aldo's posture but Aldo avoids it.
You can see the frustration on Silvas's face as Aldo controls the position.
Silvas taking a bit of punishment here - Aldo scoring with strikes.
Aldo tries to advance to mount but can't.
Silvas is trying to escape the position but Aldo is controlling the position.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Aldo has knee on belly and now moves to full mount! Trouble for Silvas!
Aldo looking to finish with strikes here!
Aldo landing strikes from the mount and Silvas is in trouble!
Aldo working Silvas over with strikes here.
Aldo with shots to the head and body - Silvas looks very uncomfortable down there.
Silvas is trying to escape the mount.
Silvas in a bad spot here, taking shots to the head.
Aldo controlling his opponent.
Aldo looking to finish with strikes here!

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Aldo cracks Silvas with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
Silvas sneaks a leg back under and regains half guard and is working straight away to try and get back to guard. He hasn't managed just yet though.
Silvas tries to regain full guard. Instead though, Aldo has advanced to mount. Uh oh.
Silvas tries to hold on but Aldo pushes him away.
Aldo content just to control the position here.
A nice elbow there by Aldo.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

That was a close round but I would say that Marcio Aldo will probably get the nod.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action.

Silvas throws a sloppy head kick and Aldo moves out of range easily.
Silvas lands with a thumping leg kick.

Silvas clinches up against the cage.
Silvas tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Aldo avoids it.
Silvas prevents Aldo from breaking the clinch.
Silvas creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Aldo's defenses.

It looks like Marcio Aldo has been cut.
Silvas keeps control of Aldo as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Silvas crunches a lovely knee into Aldo's ribcage.
Good anti-grappling being displayed by Aldo as Silvas tries to tie him up.
Silvas landing knees to the head.
Aldo tries to take the fight to the ground by pulling guard but can't manage it.
Silvas is trying to stall.

Aldo is working on a single leg takedown against the cage. Silvas can't fight it off and eventually Aldo manages to take the fight to the floor. Silvas looks annoyed but at least he's managed to land in guard.
Aldo controls from within his opponent's guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Silvas looking for a sweep. Not yet Silvas, not yet.
Aldo controls the pace of the fight for a moment.
Aldo trying to control the position from guard on top but Silvas is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Aldo is really struggling to control Silvas but he's trying to hold on to the position.
Aldo looking to control the position here, rather than advance.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Well. There's a bit of a lull in the action here and the crowd are starting to get restless.
Aldo throwing strikes but missing.
Aldo slips nicely into half guard.
Aldo looks over to his corner - he wants some instructions but his corner are not responding.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

The referee stands the fighters back up. Marcio Aldo just wasn't active enough from the dominant position.
Silvas moves in looking to clinch but Aldo pushes him off.
Aldo keeps the fight on the outside.
Silvas turns his hip over beautifully as he lands a nice leg kick.
Thiago Silvas is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Silvas showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Aldo.

Aldo drives through with a takedown into guard.
Aldo wants to pass the guard but Silvas is keeping the position.
Silvas is trying to keep Aldo in close.
Aldo wants to pass the guard but Silvas is keeping the position.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Aldo controls the pace of the fight for a moment.
Aldo trying to control the position from guard on top but Silvas is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Aldo is intent on slowing down the pace of the fight, simply looking to control.
Aldo wants to control from the top but Silvas keeps moving.
Aldo looking to control the position here, rather than advance.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

That was a close second round but I would say that Marcio Aldo will probably get the nod.
The cut man is working on Marcio Aldo's cut.
That's the end of the round. The referee orders the cornermen out of the cage so we can get back down to business. Let's hear some noise people - this is the final round!

Aldo throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Silvas.
Silvas is looking to clinch.
Aldo shoots in with a takedown attempt and he has Silvas pinned against the cage. Silvas gets the underhooks and manages to circle away.
Aldo fails with a takedown attempt from distance.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Silvas tries to clinch but Aldo moves out of range.
Horrible takedown by Aldo or perhaps it was just good defense by Silvas which made him look bad.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Marcio Aldo. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Silvas tries to clinch up but Aldo circles away and keeps his distance.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Silvas wants to clinch.
Silvas tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Aldo shoots in but no luck this time.
Silvas stuffs a takedown. It's all about dictating where the fight takes place and Silvas wants it to stay on the feet.
Silvas tries to clinch there but Aldo circles away.
Aldo misses with an uppercut. Silvas saw that one coming.
Silvas fails in his attempt to clinch.
A really sloppy takedown attempt there from Aldo.
Aldo throws a looping left and ducks down for a takedown. He's got his arms around Silvas's waist but Silvas gets an underhook and avoids the takedown by throwing Aldo off to one side.
Good leg kick by Silvas there. It's the ones that make that thud noise that hurt and that was an almighty thud.
Thiago Silvas has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are starting to boo a lack of action.
Silvas tries to close the distance and clinch but Aldo swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Marcio Aldo is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Aldo tries to clinch but Silvas is having none of it.
Silvas takes a shot to the eye socket. That's gotta hurt.
A clash of legs there as Aldo blocks the low kick.
Silvas throws a leg kick which misses Aldo's front leg but catches the back leg as Aldo tries to avoid it.
Silvas tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Aldo paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Aldo checks the leg kick.
Aldo circles away from the clinch attempt.
Silvas tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
No luck for Aldo with that takedown attempt.
Silvas is looking to take this fight into the clinch.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Silvas fails with an attempt to clinch.
Silvas fails with an attempt to clinch.
A really sloppy takedown attempt there from Aldo.
Silvas scores with a slapping inside leg kick.
Marcio Aldo is fighting for a decision here - he's started to take the cautious approach.
Silvas doesn't manage to clinch there - Aldo circles away.
Silvas tries to score with a leg kick but it misses it's target.
Silvas explodes with a nice body kick and back out of range. Nice work.

Silvas rushes Aldo and pushes him back against the cage in a clinch.
Silvas holding his opponent close, against the cage.
Aldo tries to break free but Silvas pushes him back against the cage.
A frustrated look appears on Aldo's face as he tries to break the clinch.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Silvas content to slow the pace in the clinch.
Aldo takes an elbow to the forehead.
Silvas prevents Aldo from breaking the clinch.
Aldo takes an elbow to the temple.

Marcio Aldo's cut is getting worse.
Aldo fails to pull the fight into his guard.
Silvas landing knees to the head.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.
Silvas lands a damaging elbow.
Silvas gets double underhooks to prevent a takedown attempt from Aldo.
Aldo is hobbling a little on that front leg after taking quite a few leg kicks so far in this fight.
Silvas gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.

Marcio Aldo's cut is bleeding quite badly. He's got to try and protect it.
Silvas gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Silvas using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Silvas gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Silvas scores a nice knee to the body.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Silvas lands a damaging elbow.

Jeez, Marcio Aldo's cut is really nasty now. The referee must be thinking about getting that checked.
Silvas lands a damaging elbow.

The referee calls the doctor in to look at Marcio Aldo's cut. Oh no, the doctor has called an end to the bout!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:56 of round 3, we have a winner by way of TKO (Cut). Thiago Silvas!