PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Chris Weidman (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Alex Silva (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Chris Weidman looks tired to me. Hopefully he has got enough gas left in the tank to put in a good performance.

Weidman
vs
Silva

184 cm
25
185 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

185 cm
24
194 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

Good wrestling
Brawler
KO power

BJJ Purple Belt
Counter fighter
Likes musicals

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 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Chris Weidman!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Alex Silva!
The judges for this bout are Daniel Cesar, Paulo Santos and Mauricio Rocha.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Weidman drives through with a really nice takedown into side control.
Weidman looks exhausted already! Oh dear, he should have come in in better shape than this!
We've had a lack of effective grappling in the last minute or so, which could well see a referee standup.
Silva gets back to half guard.
Silva is doing well to control the position and prevent Weidman from advancing to side control.
Silva is pressing down on Weidman's left leg trying to get back to full guard. He's managed it.
Weidman has to be careful here, sitting in the guard of a superior BJJ player.
Silva controlling Weidman's posture.

Silva is looking to cinch up a triangle. Weidman throws the leg off to one side though and gets in tight to Silva's body to avoid the submission. Silva has instead reached around Weidman's neck and now has a guillotine! Oh, this is biiiig trouble! Silva arches his back and squeezes and forces the tap from his hapless opponent.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:49 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Guillotine). Alex Silva!