PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Wanderlei Silva (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Lavar Johnson (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Johnson's choice of entrance music: Till I Collapse. Lavar Johnson is the more experienced fighter, so let's see if that makes a difference tonight.

Silva
vs
Johnson

166 cm
23
210 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

190 cm
22
205 lbs
2 - 7 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Great elbows
KO power

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Granite chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Wanderlei Silva!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Lavar Johnson!
The judges for this bout are Paul Aken, Paulsen Ambrosius and Daniel Blasius.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Johnson misses with a two punch combination.
Silva tries to close the distance and clinch but Johnson swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Johnson misses with a jab, cross combination.
Silva misses with a two punch combination.
Silva tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Silva throws a low kick but it's checked well by Johnson.
Silva dodges the punch combination from Johnson.
Silva throws a right and a left that Johnson avoids nicely.
Johnson throws a body kick that misses.
Silva lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Johnson circles away quickly and effectively.
Silva misses with a low kick.
Johnson checks a low kick from Silva.
Silva tries a low kick but Johnson avoids it.
The fight stays on the outside here - Silva looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Silva blocks the body kick.
Johnson fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Silva moves out of range of the body kick.

Johnson throws a left that rocks Silva and follows with a right that sends him tumbling to the canvas! Johnson dives into side control, looking to finish! Can Silva regain composure!

Silva is rocked!

It looks like Wanderlei Silva has been cut.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.

Johnson decides to stand up, so the ref orders Silva to his feet.
Oh Silva is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Silva really is a fat lump.
Silva does a little shimmy and throws a leg kick. The leg kick missed by a considerable margin though, making him look a little bit silly for doing the shimmy.
Johnson throws a half hearted mid kick.
Silva takes a step back and watches a body kick go sailing past his mid section.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Johnson is throwing a storm of strikes! Right hook, left hook and follows it up with a spinning back fist! Silva hits the canvas like a rag doll! And just like that, this one is over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:06 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Strikes). Lavar Johnson!
A very excited looking Lavar Johnson made sure he remembered to thank all the fans both in the arena and on the internet. He said all the coolest people spend all day on MMA websites, which got a big reaction.