PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between 3 Piece Soda (ranked 1247 p4p, 328 weight class) and Leonardo Da Silva (ranked 145 p4p, 21 weight class). Soda comes to the ring accompanied by 3 Nights. Da Silva has chosen Lil Uzi Vert - XO Tour Llif3 as his entrance music. Both fighters will be looking to make this an exciting fight for the fans, I'm sure!

Soda
vs
Da Silva

165 cm
29
150
9 - 5 - 0

167 cm
40
142
37 - 18 - 0

Abu Dhabi Champ
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Excellent grappler
World class boxer
Granite chin

Grunge Nutrition

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 9 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, 3 Piece Soda!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 37 - 18 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Leonardo Da Silva!
The judges for this bout are Shirou Masuda, Yasuomi Hirokawa and Sosuke Kotani.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Da Silva takes a jab right on the kisser.
Soda lands a really nice looking cross but Da Silva seems unphased.
Soda works his jab well there, keeping his opponent at a distance.
Soda misses with a hook to the body
and Da Silva counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.
Jab by Soda.
Soda lands an overhand left. A wild punch that just about connected.
Da Silva keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Soda misses with an uppercut
and Da Silva counters with a shot to the ribs. That looked like it hurt.
Soda throws a good cross that connects.
Soda looks frustrated there after his takedown attempt is stuffed easily.
Da Silva swings away with a counter right hand but no contact made.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Jab by Soda.
Soda throws a looping left and ducks down for a takedown. He's got his arms around Da Silva's waist but Da Silva gets an underhook and avoids the takedown by throwing Soda off to one side.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Soda's jab looks to have found its range, popping Da Silva under the eye.
Soda attempts a low kick but it misses it's target.
A little jabbing left from Da Silva on the counter but it doesn't find it's target.
Soda on the wrong end of an overhand right that came out of nowhere.
Da Silva takes a big uppercut there. He seems a bit wobbly but no, he's OK.
A looping hook to the body misses from Soda. Da Silva does a little dance to reset his feet.
Soda ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Da Silva moves away.
Soda uses good footwork to get in and out and land a nice right hand before Da Silva has time to react.
Soda is really peppering his opponent's head with punches.
Da Silva displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Soda throws out the jab.
Soda backing away here, and Da Silva unleashes a leg kick that just misses.
Soda has been working on his boxing with his coaches at Cloud9 in the buildup to the fight.
Soda moves in looking to clinch but Da Silva pushes him off.
Good leg kick by Soda.
Soda dances in quickly and lands a nice inside leg kick on Da Silva. That did some damage!
Soda misses with a kick to the body

and Da Silva counters with a nice double leg into side control. Soda won't be happy with that.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Soda tries to buck Da Silva off but Da Silva is having none of it.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Soda struggling a bit here.
Soda is going to have to think about doing something other than just controlling because Da Silva is managing to avoid having the position dictated to him.

Soda is trying to get back to half guard. He's pushing on Da Silva's leg. Oh but that's left an opportunity for Da Silva! He's got an arm triangle... it looks tight! He's rotating and Soda has tapped! This one is allllll over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:25 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Arm Triangle). Leonardo Da Silva!
Leonardo Da Silva decided to thank the fans in attendance for making a great atmosphere. It seemed to go down pretty well.