PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Andrew Barcello (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Fedor Silva (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Silva's choice of entrance music: Gwen Stacy-Gone Fishing see you in a year. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Barcello
vs
Silva

189 cm
22
170 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

189 cm
22
168 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Basic striking
KO power

BJJ Blue Belt
Basic striking
Determined

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Andrew Barcello!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Fedor Silva!
The judges for this bout are , Frank Antenori and Timothy Bukovac.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Silva shoots in but Barcello avoids the takedown attempt easily.
Barcello misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Andrew Barcello seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Barcello tries a head kick but it misses.

Silva bobs and weaves into range and then changes levels and scores with a nice takedown into side control.
Silva scores with a couple of short elbows.
Barcello tries to improve position but can't.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Silva wants to control but Barcello is keeping him busy.
Barcello is working to avoid the ground and pound but Silva connects with a decent elbow.
Barcello tries to bench press Silva off him but Silva keeps the position.
Barcello on the wrong end of some ground and pound.
Silva looks up at the clock and then as Barcello takes his cue and looks up at the clock too, Silva smacks him right in the chops with a big elbow! How rude!
Silva scoring with punches from side control.
Barcello is working hard to escape and get back to his feet. After a battle for position, Silva asserts his dominance and retains side control.
Check out the look on Silva's face as he threw that strike - that's one determined fighter!
Silva blocks the strikes from Barcello.

That's one minute gone in the round.
The referee asks Silva politely if he wouldn't mind getting on with it and actually doing something. Silva prefers to stall for the moment though.
Barcello takes an elbow right on the bridge of the nose and winces in pain.
Silva is a painfully thin specimen of a man. You do wonder whether a good body kick would snap him clean in two.
Barcello is trying to get back to half guard.
Silva cracks Barcello with an elbow. That is naaassty.
Barcello is not content to let Silva control the position.
Barcello is positioning himself to get back to half guard.
Barcello is working hard here to advance position.
Silva cracks Barcello with an elbow. That is naaassty.
Barcello regains half guard.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are getting on the fighters' backs, as the pace has dropped off in the last minute or so.
The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily.
Barcello works his way to full guard. Good work.
Silva throwing strikes but missing.
Silva slips nicely into half guard.
Silva lands with a punch from half guard.
Barcello throws a strike from the bottom that misses.
Silva is keen to just control but Barcello is a slippery customer.
Silva prevents Barcello from improving his position.
Barcello is breathing heavily.
Barcello gets full guard.
Barcello can't keep his opponent in guard - Silva advances to half guard, no doubt looking to mount.
Barcello is trying to escape back to his feet but Silva uses the scramble to pass into side control.
Silva wants to control but Barcello is keeping him busy.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Silva lands a decent elbow from side control.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Barcello is trying to improve his position.
Barcello manages to get back to half guard.

Barcello looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.
Silva looks to score some points with some ground and pound.
Both fighters really going for it on the ground here!
Silva passes to full mount!
BOOM! Silva connects with a massive shot to the dome!
Silva content just to control the position here.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
A nice elbow there by Silva.
Silva in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.
Silva connects with a couple of good shots from mount.
Barcello working to try and regain half guard.
Silva controlling the pace for now.
The crowd growing excited in anticipation of a finish here! Right on cue, Silva cracks his opponent with a massive right hand that draws loud cheers!
Silva controlling the pace for now.
Barcello working to try and regain half guard.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Fedor Silva dominated that round.
Well, the break between rounds is over. Let's get back to the scrappin!

Silva has Barcello up against the cage in a clinch.
Barcello creates a bit of distance and throws an elbow that only just misses.
Barcello has had enough of the clinch but Silva keeps him there for the moment.

Barcello breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Barcello throws a head kick that misses.
Silva will have to do better than that with his takedown attempts.
A really sloppy takedown attempt there from Silva.
Barcello throws a sloppy head kick and Silva moves out of range easily.
Silva shoots in but Barcello avoids the takedown attempt easily.
Andrew Barcello has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Fedor Silva.
Silva shoots for a takedown but Barcello saw that one coming a mile off and avoided it easily.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Barcello throws a sloppy head kick and Silva moves out of range easily.
Barcello misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Barcello throws a head kick but Silva moves out of range.
Silva throws a series of punches but Barcello avoids them all with ease.
Silva fails with a takedown attempt.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Silva shoots in but no luck this time.
A head kick from Barcello lands but Silva takes it in his stride.
Barcello shoots for a double leg takedown but Silva sprawls well. He's pushed Barcello's face into the mat and manages to get back to his feet relatively easily.
Barcello fails with a rather predictable takedown attempt.

Silva scores a trip takedown into side control. Nice.
Silva scores with punches from side control.
Silva creates a bit of distance and throws down some hard shots.
Barcello gets one leg under and gets the fight to half guard.
Barcello throws a strike from the bottom that misses.
Silva seems very keen to just sit and control from half guard but Barcello does not like that idea so much and is remaining active off his back.
Barcello missing with punches from the bottom.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Nice strikes from Silva there.
Silva tries to pass to full mount but Barcello defends it.

The referee has ruled that neither fighter is active enough on the ground and has stood them back up.
Barcello throws a head kick that half lands.
Silva gets his takedown attempt stuffed easily

and Barcello counters with a nice double leg into half guard.
Barcello tries to stand but his arm is trapped.
Silva on the receiving end of some nice ground and pound.
Silva blocking the ground and pound attempt from Barcello.

Barcello is working for submissions here but there's nothing on.

Silva kicks off Barcello and gets to his feet.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Silva fails with the takedown.
Silva slips a jab and a cross from Barcello.
Silva swings wildly with a couple of big hooks

and Barcello counters with a nice double leg into half guard.
Barcello blocks the strikes from Silva.
Barcello thows a wild elbow that connects with the canvas.
Barcello is keeping good posture, landing some ground and pound.
Ground and pound from Barcello.
Silva moves into full guard.
Barcello throws a big right hand that misses.
Barcello wants to pass the guard but Silva is keeping the position.
Barcello won't allow Silva to sweep him here.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

The referee has ruled that neither fighter is active enough on the ground and has stood them back up.

Silva closes the distance and gets a double leg, slamming Barcello to the mat! Barcello manages to get full guard.
Silva sneaks a leg through and gets to half guard. That was like a knife through butter how easily he passed Barcello's guard.
Barcello wants to get back to his feet.
Silva looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Barcello with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
Barcello is looking for a sweep. Silva is wise to his cunning plan and keeps the top position.
Silva takes advantage of the dominant position to land a couple of big hammer fists.
Silva working over Barcello with some ground and pound. Barcello looks like he wants out of this position, which is understandable.
Barcello gets back to full guard.
Silva in full guard, throwing the ground and pound. No damage this time.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Barcello throws a couple of shots from the bottom but they don't land.

The referee has ruled that neither fighter is active enough on the ground and has stood them back up.
Barcello throws a sloppy head kick and Silva moves out of range easily.
Silva blocks a head kick by Barcello.
Barcello has a takedown stuffed.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Andrew Barcello dominated that second round.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action! And we move into the final round!

Silva scores a takedown into full mount!
A nice elbow there by Silva.
Silva tries to control but Barcello wriggling away.
Silva lands a heavy elbow.
Barcello really trying hard to get back to half guard here.
Silva landing strikes from the mount and Barcello is in trouble!
Silva landing shots from mount.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.
Barcello is trying to escape the mount.
Barcello swinging wildly from the bottom but he's not landing.
Fedor Silva has got the better of the ground game so far.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Silva putting on the heat here with some good ground and pound!
Silva breaks from Barcello's wrist control and lands an elbow.
Barcello is bucking up trying to escape but Silva cracks him with another couple of good strikes.
Barcello is in all sorts of trouble here.
Silva lands a nice shot to the head.
Silva looking to control but Barcello is working nicely, looking to advance position himself.
Silva cracks Barcello with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
Silva has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Barcello keeping his composure momentarily, calmly looking to get back to half guard.
Silva raining down shots from the mount!
Silva looking to control but Barcello is working nicely, looking to advance position himself.
Silva looking to ground and pound his opponent to a finish here.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are starting to boo a lack of action.
Silva raining down shots from the mount!
Barcello is trying desperately to improve position.
Barcello flailing away with punches but nothing is landing.
Silva lands with some strikes.
Silva looking to control and managing it successfully.
Barcello keeping his composure momentarily, calmly looking to get back to half guard.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Barcello trying desperately to get to his feet.
Barcello is looking to get to half guard.
Silva working Barcello over with strikes here.
Barcello is desperately trying to get back to half guard.
Silva with a couple of short strikes.
Silva won't let Barcello get back to his feet... He wants to keep the fight where it is for now.
Silva is in the full mount, landing strikes.
Silva lands with some strikes.
Silva looking to control and managing it successfully.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
A lull in the action here being met with boos from the crowd.
Silva with the ground and pound from mount.
Silva working the ground and pound effectively.
Barcello is trying to stand up.
Silva looking to finish Barcello with some ground and pound. This is bad for Barcello!
Silva looking to control but Barcello is working nicely, looking to advance position himself.
Barcello wants to get back to his feet.
Boooooooooooooooooooo!!! God, this has been a terrible round. Come on you two, sort yourselves out!
Silva working the ground and pound effectively.
Barcello really trying hard to get back to half guard here.

And that's the end of the fight!
Fedor Silva comfortably won the final round on my scorecard.
I think Silva has won this one but let's see whether the judges agree with me. Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Percy O'Donnell scores the fight 28:29
Judge Frank Antenori scores the fight 28:29
Judge Timothy Bukovac scores the fight 28:29

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Fedor Silva!