PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Maguila Silva (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ron Stevens (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Ron Stevens acknowledges the crowd's support as he enters the cage.

Silva
vs
Stevens

171 cm
24
145 lbs
3 - 5 - 0

176 cm
21
138 lbs
3 - 4 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent boxer
Insanely flexible

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter striker
Heavy handed

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the bantamweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Maguila Silva!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Ron Stevens!
The judges for this bout are Stewart Dunkirk, Robert Twigg and Frank Dennis.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Stevens keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Silva throws an uppercut from half a mile away. Stevens sees it coming and avoids it easily.
Stevens showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Silva.
Stevens feints a jab promting Silva to slip. Stevens then demonstrates his capabilities by jabbing again. Silva slips again and ducks right into an uppercut.
Silva throws a right and a left that Stevens avoids nicely.
Silva thuds a left hand into Stevens's body.
No joy there for Silva, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
Silva misses with an uppercut
and Stevens counters with a nice body kick.
Stevens needs to keep his hands up - Silva had a free shot at his head there.
Stevens dodges the punch combination from Silva.
Silva connects with a lovely right hand, straight down the pipe.
Stevens keeps the fight on the outside.
Silva's jab looks to have found its range, popping Stevens under the eye.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Silva wants to clinch.
Stevens throws the kick towards the body but Silva avoids it.
Silva misses with a two punch combination.
A lazy left from Silva finds it's target.
Stevens fails to land with a series of punches.
Stevens is a painfully thin specimen of a man. You do wonder whether a good body kick would snap him clean in two.
Stevens throws a head kick that misses.
Stevens throws a series of punches but Silva avoids them all with ease.
Maguila Silva seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Silva tries a head kick but it misses.
Stevens throws a sloppy head kick and Silva moves out of range easily.
Silva getting the better of the striking in that exchange.
Silva tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Stevens was well out of range. Poor timing from Silva.
Stevens shakes his hands off, looking to compose himself, but takes a jab to the jaw whilst he does it.

Stevens is rocked!

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Stevens takes a shot to the nose. Hopefully that hasn't broken it.
Stevens is still on wobbly legs! Can Silva finish him?
Silva ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Stevens moves away.
Stevens gets clipped by a big right hand and goes down spinning to the canvas! Silva gets the back mount and begins to drop bombs on his rocked foe! Stevens is too out of it to defend against the strikes and the referee jumps in to save him from the beatdown!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:13 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Maguila Silva!
In his post fight interview, Maguila Silva gave a big smile as he said 'I want to thank all the motherfucker coaches of Fight Gone Bad gym here in Las Vegas, who will make me he best.'.