PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Donnie Talley (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ricardo Silva (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Ricardo Silva has the eye of the tiger tonight.

Talley
vs
Silva

172 cm
18
150 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

169 cm
19
150 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter fighter
Cuts easily

BJJ Purple Belt
Counter fighter
Inexperienced

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Donnie Talley!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Ricardo Silva!
The judges for this bout are , Frank Antenori and Jack Bonds.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Talley clinches up against the cage.

Silva ties up his opponent against the cage and manages to drag the fight down to the ground. Silva no doubt will be looking to work submissions from his guard.
Talley is taking a break and basically stalling. The referee will not allow him to do that for long.

Silva has a loose triangle. He'll be looking to tighten that up but Talley can see exactly what he's planning and manages to posture up and free himself.
Silva keeping moving, preventing Talley from controlling successfully.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.

Silva working for a triangle but Talley defends it easily.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Talley trying to land body shots but he keeps hitting the mat.
Talley trying to control but Silva is working from the bottom.

Talley avoids a guillotine attempt easily.
Talley has to be careful here, sitting in the guard of a superior BJJ player.

Talley content to sit in guard, stalling... Great. Oh but he could get punished here because Silva has locked up a guillotine! Silva's face is contorted as he sqeezes tight on the submission attempt - will he finish? Talley is holding on here and Silva must be using up a lot of energy. Talley has gone limp! He's out! He's out cold! Silva gets to his feet, tossing aside his stricken foe. Arms raised, he milks the applause from the crowd. Great submission!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:50 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Guillotine). Ricardo Silva!
A relieved looking Ricardo Silva thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.