PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Fernando Silva (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Brandon Love (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). We have two fighters making their debuts here, so let's see who comes out of this one with their first professional victory.

Silva
vs
Love

190 cm
21
250 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

195 cm
22
283 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Good chin

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Heavy handed

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Fernando Silva!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Brandon Love!
The judges for this bout are Daniel Cesar, Paulo Santos and Luis Engracia.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Love scores with a punch to the head.
Silva looks for a takedown here. Will he get it? Love is fending him off so far but Silva persists. Nope, Love circles away and we're back to standing.
Love throws a looping left and ducks down for a takedown. He's got his arms around Silva's waist but Silva gets an underhook and avoids the takedown by throwing Love off to one side.
Love should think about turning a few of those tyres round his middle into muscle if he wants people to take him seriously as an athlete.
Silva tries to move into range but Love moves to the side and lands with a nice right hand.
Brandon Love seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Silva closes the distance and clinches up with Love, looking for a takedown. Silva pushes Love against the cage but Love circles to the side and manages to break the clinch.
Silva throws a big shot that misses.
Silva has his takedown stuffed

and Love decides to take the opportunity to score a takedown. He's landed in Silva's guard.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Fernando Silva. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Silva wants to sweep here but Love controlling him for the moment.
Love trying to land body shots but he keeps hitting the mat.

Silva is working an open guard so Love takes the opportunity to get back to his feet.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!

Silva gets a clinch.
Silva prevents Love from breaking the clinch.

Silva manages to break the clinch.
Love paws at his opponent with the jab and then lunges in with a straight, right on the button.
Silva takes a shot to the nose. Hopefully that hasn't broken it.
Love uses good footwork to get in and out, landing a nice hook.

Love closes the distance and clinches.
Love is trying to break the clinch but Silva has him pressed against the cage.

Silva ties up his opponent against the cage and manages to drag the fight down to the ground. Silva no doubt will be looking to work submissions from his guard.
Love must be cautious of submissions here, given that his opponent has the superior Jiu Jitsu.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Silva has a closed guard, preventing Love from standing up.

Silva manages to escape and get back to his feet.
Good exchange - Love coming out on top.
Silva shoots in but no luck this time.
Silva is breathing heavily.
A head kick from Silva lands but Love takes it in his stride.

It looks like Brandon Love has been cut.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Silva tries for a takedown but Love sees it coming a mile off and avoids it easily.
Love connects with a looping right hand.
A cross from Love lands.
The fighters circling - Silva throws out the jab but it was never going to land.
Silva misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Love tries a head kick but it misses.
Love throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.
Good shot there by Love.

Love gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.

Silva pulls guard successfully.
Love postures up.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Love throwing shots from guard but he's hitting more mat than opponent.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Love scoring with some ground and pound.
Love won't allow Silva to sweep him here.
Love content to strike from guard, landing some decent shots.
Silva is trying to control the position from the bottom.
Love wants to control from the top but Silva keeps moving.
Love tries to free his leg and advance position but Silva is retaining full guard.

Well, the referee has seen enough. Neither fighter is active enough on the ground so he's stood them back up.
Silva fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Love manages to avoid it.
Love works his jab well there, keeping his opponent at a distance.
Silva takes a jab on the nose there. A little bit of blood seems to be coming out. Hopefully that won't affect his breathing.
Love getting the better of the striking in that exchange.
Love scores with a three punch combo!
Love misses with a few strikes there.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Love scores with a nice right hand.
Boom, another hit is landed. "You're gunna get knocked out" taunts Love, as that shot connected.

Love bobs and weaves into range and then changes levels and scores with a nice takedown into side control.
Love cracks Silva with an elbow. That is naaassty.
Love throwing strikes but missing, from side control.
Silva manages to get one leg in to regain half guard.
Love tries to stand but his arm is trapped.
Love really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Silva. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
The fighters are starting to get a bit slippery now, which will make submissions a bit more difficult.
Love looks to land a strike but Silva avoids it nicely and regains full guard.
Silva will have to put a bit more behind his punches if he's going to do any damage from this position.
Silva is working the butterfly guard. He manages to land a nice scissor sweep and is now in half guard on the top. Nice move.
Silva trying to control the pace.
Silva prevents Love from standing back up.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Silva is trying to control. Love wants to improve his position but can't escape this time.
Silva is going to have to think about doing something other than just controlling because Love is managing to avoid having the position dictated to him.
Love is looking to escape.
Love is trying to get back to full guard.
Silva trying to control from half guard but Love is working away.

Love manages to escape and get back to his feet!
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Love fails to land the takedown.
Love is landing a lot of head punches in this opening round!Silva had better start moving his head a bit unless he wants his face to turn into pâté.
Silva blocks a jab.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Brandon Love dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Brandon Love's cut.
That's time! Silva's corner gives him a slap on the ass as he gets ready to fight.

Silva lands a nice leg kick that just misses Love's sensitive parts.
Silva shoots and misses
and Love counters with a straight right hand.

Love has managed to clinch.
A nice left hand lands by Love.
Love wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Silva has him pressed against the cage.
A short right from Love on the inside.
Silva prevents Love from breaking the clinch.
Love lands a hook to the side of the head.
Love has had enough of the clinch but Silva keeps him there for the moment.
Love tries to break the clinch but Silva is controlling the position.
Love wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Silva has him pressed against the cage.
Silva has a body lock and is looking for a takedown. Love is bouncing around trying to prevent the takedown and somehow he has indeed managed to stay on his feet.

Silva breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Love misses with a kick to the body.
The fight stays on the outside here - Love looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Silva tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Love lunges at Silva with a hook that half lands and is half blocked by Silva's hand.
Silva misses with a jab, cross combination.
Love connects with a crisp jab.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Silva fails with a takedown attempt.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Fernando Silva. That's going to take a lot out of him.

Love shoots in for a takedown and gets it. Oh and he's advanced to full mount straight away.
Love is still in mount, landing shots to his trapped opponent. Silva can't stay in a position like this for much longer.
Silva sneaks a leg under to get to half guard.
Silva is trying to control but can't.
Love throwing shots but Silva is blocking nicely.
The referee walks around the fighters to get a better view of the action. Love lands a nice short elbow.
Love is thwarting Silva's attempts to control the position.

Silva is looking to sinch up a gullotine here but Love pulls his head out easily.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Love seems to be taking a bit of a break to think of his next move. He lands a short punch in the meantime.
Love is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.

Well, the referee has seen enough. Neither fighter is active enough on the ground so he's stood them back up.
Love throws a body kick but he was well out of range there.
Silva gets cracked with a nice right hand there by Love.
Silva tries to close the distance and clinch up but Love swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Silva misses with a takedown attempt. He shot from a bit too far out.
Love tries to grapple but his opponent circles
and Silva counters with a low kick, right behind Love 's knee.
Love throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.
Love with a jab.
Love throws a head kick that misses.

Silva scores with a takedown into Love's guard.
Silva won't allow Love to get back to his feet.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Love throws a couple of shots from the bottom but they don't land.
Brandon Love has got the better of the ground game so far.
Love is looking to get back to his feet but can't, whilst Silva is controlling him.

Silva stands and steps away. Love gets to his feet too and we're back to the striking game.

Love closes the distance and presses his opponent up against the cage.
Love tries to break the clinch but Silva is controlling the position.
Love is trying to break the clinch but Silva has him pressed against the cage.
Silva has a body lock and is looking for a takedown. Love is bouncing around trying to prevent the takedown and somehow he has indeed managed to stay on his feet.
Love is trying to break the clinch but Silva has him pressed against the cage.
Love fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Silva is trying to slow down the pace of the fight but Love is keeping busy.
Love lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Silva tries to take the fight to the ground by pulling guard but can't manage it.
Love is trying to break free.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

Silva pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Love with a jab.
Love lands with a cross.
Silva looks frustrated there after his takedown attempt is stuffed easily.
Love tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Love slips a straight right by Silva.

Love closes the distance and presses his opponent up against the cage.
Love doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Love is trying to break the clinch but Silva has him pressed against the cage.

Silva breaks the clinch.
Silva avoids the head kick by Love.
Love scores to the head and body with a nice combination!
Love is looking to clinch but Silva is avoiding it.
Silva looks like he's developed a pretty tasty lump over his left eye. He'll need to avoid taking much more damage to that.
Love avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Love lands with an overhand left.
Silva lands with an overhand left.
Silva throws a jab, cross combination which is slipped

and Love counters by moving into the clinch.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Brandon Love showed his class in that round. I'd imagine he'll take it on all the scorecards.
The cut man is working on Brandon Love's cut.
The minute break is over - no more time for sponges and pep talks - back to the action! This is the final round!

Silva changes levels and looks for a double leg takedown. Love tries to avoid it but Silva manages to keep hold of a leg and drag Love to the ground. Love escapes though and pops straight back up to his feet.
Silva rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Love moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
No luck for Silva with that takedown attempt.
Love dips to his left and cracks Silva with an uppercut!
Love stalks Silva and leaps in with a furious combination of punches. Uppercuts and crosses smash into Silva's face. Silva staggers backwards, shaken.
Love scores with a straight right hand, right through his opponent's guard.

Love moves into range and clinches up with Silva.
Love scores with a shoulder strike.
Love wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Silva has Love pressed up against the cage and is working for takedown. Love manages to improve position though and keeps the fight standing.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Fernando Silva. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Silva tries to pull guard but Love holds him up against the cage and eventually Silva drops back down to his feet.
Love throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Silvas head.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Love.
Love lands with a short shot to the head.
Love has had enough of the clinch but Silva keeps him there for the moment.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.
Silva tries to pull guard but Love won't allow it.
Love wants to get back to striking at distance but Silva won't allow it.
Love is looking to break free of the clinch but Silva has double underhooks.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Love lands a right hand.
Love is trying to break the clinch but Silva has him pressed against the cage.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Love.
Silva prevents Love from breaking the clinch.
Love is trying to break free.
Nice elbow from Silva.
Silva unloads a knee to the mid-section. Love lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.

Silva manages to break the clinch.
Love tries to close the distance and clinch up but Silva swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Love clinches but Silva breaks the clinch

and Silva counters by moving into the clinch. Good anticipation by Silva.
Love tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Silva goes for a takedown in the clinch but Love prevents it.
Silva jumps guard but Love stands there with Silva around his waist. Silva gives up and drops back to his feet. We remain in the clinch.
Love tries to land knees in the clinch but Silva avoids the damage to the body.
Love wants a takedown but no success here.

Silva successfully pulls guard.
Silva is trying to keep Love in close.
Brandon Love is fighting for a decision here - he's started to take the cautious approach.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Silva wants to stand but Love is controlling the position.

Silva is active off his back here, looking for submissions.
Love sitting in guard, not really doing much.
Love trying to stand up but can't free himself from Silva's guard.
Silva controlling the position.
Love postures up.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Well, the referee has seen enough. Neither fighter is active enough on the ground so he's stood them back up.
Love throws a head kick that misses.
Left hook, right uppercut from Love.
Silva wants to clinch.
Love works his jab well there, keeping his opponent at a distance.
The sound of bone on bone echoes around the arena as Love checks a leg kick.

The fight moves into the clinch position.
Silva prevents Love from breaking the clinch.
Silva trying to control the position but instead, Love has worked for underhooks and has pushed Silva into the cage.
Silva lands a body shot.
Love blocks the elbow strike.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Neither fighter has done anything of merit for a good minute or two here and the crowd are not happy about it.
Silva jumps guard but his hands slip and he falls flat on his back. Well, he's made himself look a right mug there, as Love walks away with a smile on his face. Silva gets slowly back to his feet and shakes his head.

Love closes the distance, clinches up and gets a nice trip takedown into side control. Very smooth.
Silva can't do much from the bottom here.
Silva gets back to half guard.
Love tries to stand and escape but Silva is controlling the position.
Silva preventing any damage for now, controlling his opponent's head.
Love wants to get back to his feet.
Love looks to score some points with some ground and pound.

And that's the end of the fight!
Brandon Love comfortably won the final round on my scorecard.
Well Love has outworked and out performed his opponent in all aspects of the game today. He was simply too good and the decision should be no more than a formality. 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 Daniel Cesar scores the fight 27:30
Judge Paulo Santos scores the fight 27:30
Judge Luis Engracia scores the fight 27:30

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Brandon Love!