PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Diego Falcao (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Luana Peroba Filgueiras (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Falcao comes to the cage accompanied by Charon - Sorrow Song. Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Falcao
vs
Peroba Filgueiras

163 cm
27
141 lbs
4 - 1 - 1

167 cm
38
140 lbs
17 - 23 - 0

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Granite chin

BJJ Brown Belt
Good kicks
Heavy handed

Sin City Allstars

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the bantamweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 4 - 1 - 1, fighting out of Amsterdam, Diego Falcao!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 17 - 23 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Luana Peroba Filgueiras!
The judges for this bout are Yukihiro Yamamoto, Shigeki Fujiwara and Ren Mimura.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Falcao cracks a nice hook into Filgueiras's ribs.
Falcao thumps Filgueiras with a low kick.
Filgueiras shoots in with a takedown attempt and he has Falcao pinned against the cage. Falcao gets the underhooks and manages to circle away.
Falcao thinks about countering with a body kick.
Filgueiras misses with a takedown attempt
and Falcao counters with a leg kick that reverborates around the arena.
Filgueiras stumbles momentarily as he takes a strong leg kick from Falcao.
Falcao lands with a head kick! That's gotta hurt.

Falcao moves into the clinch.
Falcao lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
A hook to the body from Falcao.
Nice body punch from Falcao - that landed with a thud.
Filgueiras goes for a takedown in the clinch but Falcao prevents it.
Diego Falcao has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Luana Peroba Filgueiras.
Falcao lands a body punch.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Filgueiras jumps guard but his hands slip and he falls flat on his back. Well, he's made himself look a right mug there, as Falcao walks away with a smile on his face. Filgueiras gets slowly back to his feet and shakes his head.
Filgueiras looks for a takedown but Falcao sprawls well.

That's one minute gone in the round.
This fight brought to you by 5M nutrition - it's mmmmm tasty. Nice jab by Falcao.
Falcao scores to the head and body with a nice combination!
Falcao stuffs the takedown.
Falcao throws a couple of head shots and lands with the final one - a decent hook, which struck Filgueiras on the side of the head.
Falcao throws a sloppy head kick and Filgueiras moves out of range easily.
Filgueiras feints the counter takedown.
Falcao ducks low and lands a nice hook to the body of his opponent.

Falcao has closed the distance and engaged Filgueiras in a clinch.
Falcao softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Falcao lands with a short shot to the head.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Falcao lands a right hand that snaps the head of Filgueiras backwards.
Falcao misses with the head strike.
Falcao scores with a shoulder strike.
Falcao lands a nice looking hook to the body, against the cage.
Falcao lands a nice uppercut.
Falcao lands with a right to the head.

Filgueiras pulls Falcao into guard.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

Filgueiras working away from the bottom but not quite defensive enough there because Falcao has passed into half guard!
Falcao looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Filgueiras with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
Falcao sitting and controlling from the half guard.
Filgueiras trying to hold on to Falcao's head to control him but Falcao postures up.
Falcao controlling the action here.
Falcao has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
Falcao working some ground and pound from close in. He's looking to maintain this position and strike for a while by the looks of things... although he'll probably advance to full mount in a minute now I've said that.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Filgueiras tries to strike from the bottom but it doesn't land.
Falcao is looking to advance position but Filgueiras won't allow it.
The referee walks around the fighters to get a better view of the action. Falcao lands a nice short elbow.
Falcao sitting and controlling from the half guard.
Filgueiras trying to control from the bottom.
The fighters are starting to get a bit slippery now, which will make submissions a bit more difficult.
Falcao working some ground and pound from close in. He's looking to maintain this position and strike for a while by the looks of things... although he'll probably advance to full mount in a minute now I've said that.
Falcao lands a big shot. The thud that echoes around the arena is like music to the fans' ears.
Filgueiras throws a strike from the bottom but Falcao passes into side control!
Filgueiras struggling a bit here.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Falcao tries to land with some ground and pound but misses.
Filgueiras tries to bench press Falcao off him but Falcao keeps the position.
Falcao throws an elbow but Filgueiras slips to the side and avoids it well.
Falcao lands a decent elbow from side control.
Falcao landing strikes.
Falcao working the head and body with strikes.
Filgueiras tries to work a leg under to get back to half guard but Falcao wriggles his own leg back out and remains in side control.
Filgueiras can't do much from the bottom here.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Diego Falcao dominated that round.
The referee calls time. The cornermen exit stage left and we're back to business.

Falcao connects with a high kick.

It looks like Luana Peroba Filgueiras has been cut.
Diego Falcao seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Filgueiras shoots in for a takedown - he's clinched up with Falcao but Falcao pushes him off and we're back to square one.
Falcao scores with a jab to the body.
Filgueiras doesn't succeed with the takedown
and Falcao counters with a leg kick.

Falcao moves into range and clinches up with Filgueiras.
Falcao gets underhooks to prevent Filgueiras's takedown attempt.
Diego Falcao has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Luana Peroba Filgueiras.
Nice body punch from Falcao.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Filgueiras tries to circle away but Falcao has him pinned against the cage.
Good body shot from Falcao.
Still in the clinch, Falcao scores with a nice short uppercut.
Filgueiras is breathing heavily.
Falcao scores with an uppercut up the middle.
A nice right hand lands inside from Falcao.
Falcao lands a hook that snaps the head of Filgueiras backwards.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Falcao escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Filgueiras takes a thudding leg kick, right into the meat of the thigh.
Falcao throws a nice inside leg kick.
Falcao with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
Filgueiras avoids the head kick by Falcao.
Filgueiras tries to drive through with a takedown attempt but Falcao defends well and Filgueiras ends up having to push Falcao into the cage where they will battle it out in the clinch.
Falcao comes forward and lands a shot to the body, then darts back out of range.
Good leg kick by Falcao there. It's the ones that make that thud noise that hurt and that was an almighty thud.
Falcao lands with a shot to the body.
Falcao tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Falcao backing away here, and Filgueiras unleashes a leg kick that just misses.

Falcao drives through and clinches with Filgueiras against the cage.
A body shot lands from Falcao.
Filgueiras is trying to pull guard but Falcao has him pressed against the cage.
Falcao working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Filgueiras looking for a takedown.
Falcao working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
A nice left hand lands by Falcao.
Falcao lands with a light punch inside.
Falcao lands with a right to the head.
Falcao lands with a light punch inside.
Falcao is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that Filgueiras can do to turn this around?
A quick uppercut on the inside from Falcao.
Falcao lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Falcao lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of Filgueiras backwards.

Falcao manages to break the clinch.
Filgueiras's leg has a nasty welt from taking a succession of leg kicks. That must be slowing him down.
Falcao jabs Filgueiras right on the nose. Filgueiras blinks but takes it well.
Diego Falcao is winning the standup battle so far.
Falcao throws a nice head kick!
Whack! Falcao lands a heavy head kick that drops Filgueiras. The ref tackles Falcao to stop the fight - a great save by the referee because Filgueiras was done.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:46 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Head Kick). Diego Falcao!
A victorious Diego Falcao thanked his army of followers in his post fight interview, telling people to make sure they follow him on Twitter.