PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Tyson Silva (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Shaq Diesel (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Tyson Silva has a significant reach advantage - let's see if he can make it count.

Silva
vs
Diesel

225 cm
22
300 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

190 cm
23
273 lbs
2 - 2 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Cuts easily

Good wrestler
Brawler
Determined

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 Rio de Janeiro, Tyson Silva!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Shaq Diesel!
The judges for this bout are Alexandre Firmino, Seu Braga and Felipe Paraventi.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Silva tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Diesel paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Silva looks exhausted already! Oh dear, he should have come in in better shape than this!

Diesel closes the distance and gets a double leg, slamming Silva to the mat! Silva manages to get full guard.
Diesel is pushing down on Silva's leg trying to pass to half guard. Silva is fighting to maintain full guard but Diesel has managed to sneak the leg through.

Diesel is looking for a kimura here.
Silva taking some punishment here, with Diesel in his half guard.
Silva tries to kick Diesel off but Diesel keeps his base steady and stays in half guard.
Diesel slips a nice elbow through Silva's hands, connecting with Silva's forehead.
Silva on the receiving end of some nice ground and pound.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Silva has hold of Diesel's hands but Diesel slips his arm to the side and lands an elbow.

Diesel is working for a kimura but Silva is defending it quite comfortably.
Diesel passes the half guard and he's now in mount! Big trouble for Silva!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Diesel raining down shots from the mount!
Diesel has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Diesel lands a couple of nice shots there from mount.
Diesel is in the full mount, landing strikes.
Diesel cracks Silva with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
Diesel with good strikes from the mount here!

It looks like Tyson Silva has been cut.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
A nice elbow there by Diesel.

Silva is rocked!

Tyson Silva's cut is getting worse.
Oooh a big shot lands for Diesel! Silva is out! The ref dives in to save him from more punishment!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:02 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Strikes). Shaq Diesel!