PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Rafael Da Silva (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Nickk Diaz (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Da Silva kept the crowd waiting but all that was forgotten when his ring entrance music started. The incomparable musical genius that is Good Time. Both fighters will be looking to make this an exciting fight for the fans, I'm sure!

Da Silva
vs
Diaz

192 cm
19
210 lbs
3 - 2 - 0

183 cm
24
205 lbs
1 - 3 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Basic striking
Granite chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Good kicks
Very confident

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 3 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Rafael Da Silva!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Nickk Diaz!
The judges for this bout are Seu Braga, Felipe Paraventi and Alexandre Firmino.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Diaz throws a left and a right that both miss
and Da Silva counters with a nice body shot.
Diaz misses with a combination
and Da Silva counters nicely by changing levels and landing a hook to the body.
Diaz avoids a punch combination nicely.
Da Silva will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Diaz uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Da Silva.
A punch combination from Diaz misses.
Diaz throws the left hand but Da Silva avoids the punch easily.
Da Silva lands with a good body shot.
Da Silva fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Diaz manages to avoid it.
Diaz lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Da Silva circles away quickly and effectively.
Da Silva scores with a shot to the body.

Da Silva bobs and weaves into range and then changes levels and scores with a nice takedown into side control.
An elbow from Da Silva crashes against the mat.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Da Silva fails to land a wild elbow strike.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Da Silva in side control, working for a kimura. He's got hold of an arm and he's torquing it... Diaz is tapping! That's the end of the fight!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:20 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Rafael Da Silva!
Rafael Da Silva bigged himself up after the win. The crowd seemed to love it.