PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Eduardo Silva (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Alastair Stirling (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Alastair Stirling has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Silva
vs
Stirling

190 cm
20
180 lbs
3 - 1 - 0

187 cm
20
175 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Dangerous knees
Cardio machine

Good wrestler
Excellent boxer
Good gas tank

Fury Nutrition Inc.

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Eduardo Silva!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Alastair Stirling!
The judges for this bout are Matheus Silva, Luis Engracia and Thiago Cunha.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Silva fails in his attempt to clinch.
Silva tries to clinch but Stirling is having none of it.

Stirling gets tackled into the cage by Silva. Silva maintains the clinch.
Stirling misses with a punch on the inside.
Stirling lands a body shot.
Stirling tries a body shot but Silva blocks it.
Stirling working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Stirling tries to work over Silva's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Silva lands a knee to the head.

It looks like Alastair Stirling has been cut.
Stirling taking a break, stalling in the clinch.
Stirling tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Silva's elbow.
Silva scores with an uppercut up the middle.
Silva tries to land a knee to the head but Stirling blocks with his arms.
Silva throws a knee to the head but misses.
Silva using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Stirling has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Stirling tries to throw a body punch but Silva avoids it by throwing Stirling back against the cage.
Silva blocks a body shot from Stirling.
Stirling softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Stirling tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Stirling lands a left hand.
Silva lands a knee to the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Silva prevents a body shot from Stirling.
Silva with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.

Stirling is rocked!
Stirling tries to throw a body punch but Silva avoids it by throwing Stirling back against the cage.

Stirling breaks the clinch.
Silva wants to clinch
and Stirling makes him pay by landing a nice hook to the body before moving out of range.

Silva moves into range and clinches up with Stirling.
Silva tries a knee to the head but Stirling blocks it.
Silva misses with a knee strike.
Silva misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Stirling.
Stirling lands a hook to the body. It's hard to tell if that hurt Silva or not.
Stirling can't break the clinch.
Silva using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Stirling has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Stirling tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Silva's elbow.
Silva blocks a body shot from Stirling.
Stirling tries to throw a body punch but Silva avoids it by throwing Stirling back against the cage.
Stirling managing to block the knees to the body from Silva.
Stirling can't find room to land a body shot as Silva controls the action.
Silva tries to land a knee to the head but Stirling blocks with his arms.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Stirling misses with a punch to the body.
Silva tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Stirling lands a body shot in the clinch.
Silva landing knees to the body.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Silva putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has Stirling in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body.
Silva tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Stirling managing to block the knees to the body from Silva.
Silva with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Stirling struggles to land a body shot inside as Silva controls his hands.
Silva with a knee to the head.
Silva connects with a knee to the head.
Silva tries to land knees in the clinch but Stirling avoids the damage to the body.
Stirling lands a shoulder strike.
Stirling blocks a body shot from Silva.
Silva misses with a knee strike.
Silva tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Stirling lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of Silva backwards.
Silva landing some nice looking knees to the body.
Stirling wants to break free but Silva has control.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Silva with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Stirling avoiding damage as Silva throws knees to the body.
Silva missing with knees to the body.
Silva missing with knees to the body.
Stirling can't find room to land a body shot as Silva controls the action.
Silva tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Stirling avoids it.
Stirling pushes Silva back against the cage and unloads with a body punch.
Silva is breathing heavily.
Stirling lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
Stirling scores with an uppercut up the middle.
Stirling tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Silva's elbow.
Stirling digs a right hand underneath Silva's ribcage. Silva let out a lung full of air as it connected.
Nice body punch from Stirling.
Stirling lands a body punch in the clinch.
Silva misses with a knee to the head.
Silva misses with a knee strike.
Silva prevents a body shot from Stirling.
Silva tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Stirling avoids it.
Stirling managing to block the knees to the body from Silva.
Stirling tries to work over Silva's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Stirling wants to break the clinch but can't.
Stirling lands a body punch in the clinch.
Stirling tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Silva's elbow.
Stirling blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Silva with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Stirling tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Silva's elbow.
A short right from Stirling.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Silva prevents a body shot from Stirling.
Stirling goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Silva goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
The fighters are going at a pretty good pace and they're both starting to sweat now.
Silva throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Stirling blocks it with crossed arms.
Stirling throws a hook to the body. More of an arm punch but it's all scoring with the judges.
Stirling stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.
Silva misses with a knee strike.
A right handed body shot lands from Stirling.
A hook to the body from Stirling.
Stirling lands a body punch in the clinch.
Stirling tries to work over Silva's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Stirling avoiding damage as Silva throws knees to the body.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

That was a close round but I would say that Eduardo Silva will probably get the nod.
The cut man is working on Alastair Stirling's cut.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action.

Some wild striking there from Stirling.
Stirling steps in with a hook that catches Silva right on the chin and knocks him to the floor! Stirling follows him down with more strikes and that's all she wrote! Silva looks absolutely devastated.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:09 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Alastair Stirling!