PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Christian Pagliarulo (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Thomas Silver (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Both these guys have solid standup skills and neither is particularly fantastic on the ground, so let's hope for a nice standup war!

Pagliarulo
vs
Silver

225 cm
25
300 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

186 cm
27
247 lbs
9 - 10 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Intelligent

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the super heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Christian Pagliarulo!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 9 - 10 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Thomas Silver!
The judges for this bout are Tiny Johnson, Wesley Smith and Frank Dennis.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Silver staying out of range there.

Silver drops Pagliarulo with a hook right on the temple. He thinks about going to the ground but Pagliarulo looks back up at him and smiles so Silver waves him back to his feet - he obviously thinks he can knock him out after that shot landed.

Pagliarulo is rocked!

It looks like Christian Pagliarulo has been cut.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Silver misses with a few strikes there.
Oh Pagliarulo is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Pagliarulo dodges the punch combination from Silver.
Pagliarulo seems to have got his legs back now.
Silver misses with a looping right.
Silver grits his teeth and throws a big right-left combo! Pagliarulo takes both shots clean on the chin and is out cold! Silver cracks him once more on his way down, as the crowd goes wild! They enjoyed that one!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:22 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punches). Thomas Silver!
Thomas Silver decided to go for the less than humble approach in his post fight interview, telling everyone how he is going to conquer the world. The crowd seemed to like it when really that sort of approach could have gone either way.