PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Olof Bonde (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Vilela Silveira (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Bonde comes to the cage accompanied by Hayden James - Embrace. I'm sure you'll be fascinated to know that I was talking to some pointless Z list celebrity before the fight and he thought that Vilela Silveira was going to win. Let's see if he was right.

Bonde
vs
Silveira

188 cm
20
179 lbs
4 - 2 - 0

198 cm
25
186 lbs
0 - 4 - 0

Good wrestling
Great elbows
Good chin

BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
Good gas tank

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 4 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Olof Bonde!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Vilela Silveira!
The judges for this bout are Ren Mimura, Yukihiro Shimada and Tatsuya Matsuyama.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Silveira scores with a kick to the body.
Silveira pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Silveira goes for a spinning back kick but it misses.
Bonde misses with a low kick.
Silveira throws a head kick that looked like it stung.
Silveira throws a quick head kick that skims the top of Bonde's head.
Silveira misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Wow, both these guys are really going for it!

Bonde scores with a nice takedown into half guard. Let's see what he's got on the ground.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Bonde stalling.
Silveira is looking to regain full guard. Not this time though.
Silveira really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Bonde. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
Silveira wants to get back to full guard but Bonde has passed into side control.
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!
Silveira is trying to get back to half guard.
Check out the look on Bonde's face as he threw that strike - that's one determined fighter!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Bonde wants to control but Silveira is keeping him busy.
Silveira is positioning himself to get back to half guard.
Bonde lands a knee to the body and a forearm to the face.
Bonde cracks Silveira with a big elbow.
Bonde takes advantage of some sloppy striking from Silveira to pass into mount.
Bonde sitting in mount, just looking to control for the moment.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Bonde prevents Silveira from getting the reversal.
The fighters are going at a pretty good pace and they're both starting to sweat now.
Bonde with good strikes from the mount here!
Bonde lands a couple of good shots and Silveira has given up his back, trying to escape the position!
The crowd hopeful of a finish here - Bonde's supporters are on their feet, screaming for him to go for the rear naked choke.
Bonde scores with some strikes to the side of the head there. Good, points scoring shots.
Bonde is hanging on to Silveira's back as he tries to escape.
Silveira is persisting with the attempt to improve his position.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Silveira keeps trying to improve his position.
Bonde scoring with big shots to the body. Silveira is looking for a way out. A despairing look towards the ref and the official steps in to stop the fight. Silveira was obviously done but didn't want to tap out.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:30 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Olof Bonde!
Olof Bonde decided to go for the less than humble approach in his post fight interview, telling everyone how he is going to conquer the world. The crowd seemed to like it when really that sort of approach could have gone either way.