PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Thor Silva (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jonny West (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Silva comes to the ring accompanied by Sandstorm. Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the ring.

Silva
vs
West

180 cm
19
185 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

187 cm
25
185 lbs
5 - 4 - 1

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent boxer
Very strong

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent boxer
Granite chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Thor Silva!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 4 - 1, fighting out of Amsterdam, Jonny West!
The judges for this bout are Radbod Blank, Saam Ante and Wagner Zegers.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Silva looks to land a combination but West avoids it well.
Silva lands the left hand.
Silva's corner calls for a 1-2. Silva obliges with the 1 part as he scores the single shot and moves back out of range.
West gets his head snapped back by a nice shot there.
Silva fails to land with a series of punches.
West throws an uppercut from half a mile away. Silva sees it coming and avoids it easily.
Silva looks to throw the jab but West is out of range.
Nice body punch from West.
West throws a lazy right hand but Silva sees it coming a mile off and sidesteps it easily.
Silva showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from West.
Silva closes the distance and lands a one-two.
Silva's corner calls for a 1,2 combination and Silva duly obliges.
Silva uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by West.
Silva slips a jab from West.
Boom, another hit is landed. "You're gunna get knocked out" taunts Silva, as that shot connected.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Silva throws an overhand right that lands on West's shoulder, as West tries to avoid the shot.
West looks to score with a jab to the body but Silva is just out of range.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Silva displaying good standup as he scores with a three punch combination.
Silva avoids a punch combination nicely.
Silva thows a left - swing and a miss!
West slips a jab and a cross from Silva.
West misses with a body shot.
Silva scores with a nice one two combo and darts back out of range to avoid anything coming in the opposite direction.
Silva tries to bum rush West with a series of wild strikes but West uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
West has his hands up protecting his head but a hook from Silva finds it's way round the side to connect with West's head.
West misses with a wild body shot.
Silva throws a series of punches but West avoids them all with ease.
Silva fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Silva swings wildly with a hook that is half blocked by West.
Silva lands a two punch combo.
West slips a jab and a cross from Silva.
West digs a good body shot into Silva's ribs.
Silva dips down and scores with a jab to the body.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
West lets the fists fly and connects with a left straight followed by a right hook.

It looks like Thor Silva has been cut.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Silva misses with a combination
and West counters with a nice uppercut.
Silva lands a powerful looking uppercut that connected with his opponent's jaw.
Silva displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as West throws out the jab.
Silva misses with a wild body shot.
West moves away from the strike by Silva.
West ducks under a wild hook from Silva.
Silva throws a right and a left that West avoids nicely.
West tries to bum rush Silva with a series of wild strikes but Silva uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Silva ducks under a wild hook from West.
Silva is really head hunting here, hardly looking to strike to the body at all.
Silva lands a jab-cross combination.
West jabbing away but nothing is landing.
Silva misses with the combination.
Silva misses with a wild body shot.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Silva lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but West circles away quickly and effectively.
Silva throws a sloppy body shot
and West counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.
Silva lands a powerful looking uppercut that connected with his opponent's jaw.
Silva throws a combination but it was largely blocked by West.
Silva misses with a wild combination.
Silva is working the combinations to good effect here.
Silva takes a punch right to his stomach. That took the wind out of him momentarily.
Silva tries to bum rush West with a series of wild strikes but West uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Silva uses good head movement to avoid the hook from West.
West is on the wrong end of a nice combination from Silva.
Silva throws a series of punches but West moves out of range.
Silva thows a body shot but no joy.
Silva lands with a hook. West tried to avoid it but it clipped the top of his head.
West avoids a punch combination nicely.
Silva slips in close and lands a nice hook before moving back out of range.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
West avoids the body shot from Silva.
West lands a powerful looking uppercut that connected with his opponent's jaw.
A jab from Silva finds it's way through West's defenses.
Silva scores with a three punch combo!
West gets his head snapped back by a nice shot there.
Silva slips a straight right by West.
Silva lands with a nice combination. West backs away looking to recover.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Silva fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Silva slips under a jab.
Silva throws a nice hook to the body that draws an oooh from the crowd.
West looks gassed!
Silva throws a nice hook to the body that draws an oooh from the crowd.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Silva fakes a head punch and goes low to the body. Nicely done.
Silva throws a left and a right that both miss
and West counters with a left and a right that stings Silva.
Silva jabs away that one connects to the head of his opponent.
Silva with a nice cross.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

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

Silva with a body punch. A glancing blow.
Silva lands a two punch combo.
Silva throws a combination but it was largely blocked by West.
West throws out a loose jab but Silva uses good head movement to avoid it.
Silva scores with a one two! West had his feet all tangled up there and couldn't avoid the strikes.
West walks straight into a jab right on the nose. That one stung - he's blinking and trying to clear his head.
Silva throws a right hand that West ducks under and follows up with a left that West also avoids with ease.
West loads up on a big right hand but Silva slips the punch.
West takes a body punch but keeps moving.
West takes a shot to the nose. Hopefully that hasn't broken it.
Thor Silva is winning the standup battle so far.
Silva scores with a nice strike.
West is breathing heavily.
Silva misses with a double jab
and West counters with a nice uppercut.
Silva swinging wildly here.
Silva misses with a jab, cross combination.
Silva misses with the combination.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Silva comes forward and lands a shot to the body, then darts back out of range.
Silva lands with a good body shot.
Silva lands with a straight right. West didn't see that one coming.
West walks into a left hand.
Silva throws a series of strikes that have West backpedaling.
Silva misses with a two punch combination.
Silva throws a right and a left that West avoids nicely.
Silva tries to bum rush West with a series of wild strikes but West uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Silva lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but West circles away quickly and effectively.
Silva throws a series of strikes that have West backpedaling.
Silva misses with the combination.
Silva swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.
Silva misses with a double jab.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
West avoids a punch combination nicely.
Silva connects with a slap. Keep your fist closed son.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Silva slips in close and lands a nice hook before moving back out of range.
Silva misses with a double jab.
Silva throws a right and a left that both miss.
Silva lands a pitter patter jab to the forehead of his opponent.
Silva lands a lovely overhand right.
Silva throws a combination. West tries to block but a couple of punches get through.
Left hook, right uppercut from Silva.
Silva scores with a nice head shot.
Silva will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Silva lands with a straight right. West didn't see that one coming.
West throws a right hand that Silva ducks under and follows up with a left that Silva also avoids with ease.
Thor Silva is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Silva throws a combination but it was largely blocked by West.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Silva thuds a left hand into West's body.
Silva is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that West can do to turn this around?
Silva connects with a lovely right hand, straight down the pipe.
Silva lands a jab to the nose.
Silva lands a vicious shot with the stealth of a sniper and the strength of a viper. Are vipers that strong? I can think of lots of things that are stronger than a viper - not many rhyme with sniper though.
West has a pretty nasty looking mouse under his right eye.

Silva lands a left and a right that send West crashing to the mat, dazed. Silva thinks about following him to the mat but decides to wave him back up to his feet!

West is rocked!
Silva connects with a jab, followed by a picture perfect straight right that sends West to the canvas, out cold! What a finish by Silva!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:28 of round 2, we have a winner by way of KO (Punches). Thor Silva!