PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Lucian Silvestre (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Abubakar Shekau (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Shekau is bobbing his head along to his entrance song: P-Square - Personally(I blow you up now). Both fighters look pumped up here. Let's hope this is a good fight!

Silvestre
vs
Shekau

182 cm
22
265 lbs
4 - 0 - 0

185 cm
20
270 lbs
4 - 4 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Cardio machine

Decent wrestler
Excellent boxer
Granite chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 4 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Lucian Silvestre!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Abubakar Shekau!
The judges for this bout are Chris Downing, Tiny Johnson and Daniel Franklin.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Shekau fails with an attempt to clinch.
Silvestre throwing a counter right hand but Shekau manages to avoid it.
Shekau lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Silvestre circles away quickly and effectively.
Shekau misses with an uppercut
and Silvestre counters with a nice uppercut.

It looks like Abubakar Shekau has been cut.
Silvestre bobbing and weaving, closes the distance and lands a hook to the side of Shekau's head.
Shekau looks to land a right hand but Silvestre moved out of range.
Silvestre fakes low and throws an overhand right that catches Shekau on the side of the head.
We've been informed that Shekau has been sparring a lot of Muay Thai in the buildup to this fight so let's see if that has an impact on the result.
Shekau just misses with a punch to the body.
Shekau throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Shekau fails to land with a series of punches.
Shekau misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
A little feinted left hand from Silvestre on the counter but he doesn't commit to it.

A momentary lapse in concentration from Shekau enables Silvestre to shoot in and score with a neat double leg. Shekau manages to secure a closed guard as the fighters hit the mat.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Shekau looking to sweep here. No luck so far.
Silvestre trying to stand up but can't free himself from Shekau's guard.
Shekau manages to sweep nicely, so he's now on top. Silvestre manages to get himself to full guard.

Shekau controlling from the guard. I say controlling but really, he's stalling.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Silvestre can't keep his opponent in guard - Shekau advances to half guard, no doubt looking to mount.
Shekau slows the pace down in half guard.
Shekau works his foot free and advances to mount.
Shekau throwing strikes here but Silvestre is writhing around nicely and avoiding any serious damage.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Shekau throwing shots from mount but they're not landing.
Silvestre has improved his flexibility recently so we will have to see if he can use that to his advantage.
Shekau throws an elbow from mount that misses. Lucky escape for Silvestre because Shekau loaded up on that one.
Poor strikes thrown by Shekau there. More accuracy and less frantic strikes would help!
Shekau pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.

It looks like Lucian Silvestre has been cut.
Shekau controlling the pace for now.
Shekau throws an elbow from mount that misses. Lucky escape for Silvestre because Shekau loaded up on that one.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Shekau landing strikes from the mount and Silvestre is in trouble!
Shekau throwing sloppy strikes here. Perhaps if he tightened up his striking from such a dominant position, he'd be able to finish easier.
Shekau controlling from mount.
Let's hope that Shekau has the urge to step up the pace any second now because for the last 15 or 20 seconds he's just been holding on tight.
Shekau working away from the top, dropping strikes.
Shekau unloads with some shots from mount but Silvestre bucks and avoids them well.
The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily.
Shekau lands a big elbow.

Silvestre is rocked!

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Silvestre takes a big shot to the dome and his eyes have rolled back in his head! Shekau's killer instinct has kicked in as he finishes the fight with more strikes. Impressive finish.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:21 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Abubakar Shekau!
Abubakar Shekau tried to hype himself up post fight but didn't word it too well and it ended up with him sounding like a bit of a tool.