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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Demian Silva (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Rocco Siffredi (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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223 lbs
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205 lbs
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BJJ Blue Belt
Basic striking
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Demian Silva!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Rocco Siffredi!
The judges for this bout are Tarja Halkonen, Ben Zyskovitsi and Marco Blurström.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Siffredi clinches up against the cage.
Silva lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Siffredi is looking to break free of the clinch but Silva has double underhooks.
Siffredi content to slow the pace in the clinch.
Siffredi continues to stall. The referee tells him to work or he's going to break them up.
Siffredi trying to control the position but instead, Silva has worked for underhooks and has pushed Siffredi into the cage.
Siffredi is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Both fighters working to control the clinch.
Siffredi escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
A slapping leg kick lands for Silva.
The fight stays on the outside here - Silva looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Siffredi tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Siffredi closes the distance and presses his opponent up against the cage.
Siffredi content to slow the pace in the clinch.
Siffredi breaks from the clinch.
Silva tries to clinch but Siffredi moves out of range.
Silva tries to clinch up.
Siffredi tries to clinch but Silva moves out of range.
Siffredi tries to clinch there but Silva circles away.
Siffredi circles away from the clinch attempt.
Siffredi clinches up against the cage.
Siffredi's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Siffredi is looking to clinch.
Silva walks straight into an uppercut. Luckily it didn't land flush.
Siffredi tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Silva paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Rocco Siffredi seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Siffredi throws a wild combination but nothing lands.
A punch lands to the side of Silva 's head but he takes it in his stride.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Siffredi tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Silva paws at him with a jab and circles away.
The fight stays on the outside here - Silva looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Silva keeps the fight on the outside.
Siffredi throws a jab when Silva was well out of range.
Siffredi cracks Silva with a nice right hand that draws applause from the crowd.
Siffredi misses with a hook.
Siffredi darts in and clinches Silva up against the cage.
Silva throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Siffredi looking to stall.
Siffredi takes a knee right on the jaw!
Silva using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Siffredi looks gassed!
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Silva lands an elbow that stopped Siffredi in his tracks for a moment.
Silva gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Silva creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Siffredi's defenses.
It looks like Rocco Siffredi has been cut.
Silva lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
A knee to the head by Silva.
Silva gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Silva gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Silva lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Silva gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Both fighters working to control the clinch.
Siffredi looking to slow down the pace here.
Siffredi wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Siffredi is trying to break free.
Silva gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Knees in the clinch landing for Silva.
Silva lands a damaging elbow.
Siffredi is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Both fighters working to control the clinch.
Silva lands an elbow that stopped Siffredi in his tracks for a moment.
Silva is trying to maintain a safe position but Siffredi gets an underhook and turns Silva into the cage.
Silva lands a damaging elbow.
Silva connects with a nasty looking knee right to Siffredi's face.
Siffredi tries to break the clinch but Silva is controlling the position.
Silva looking to throw knees to the head but Siffredi is blocking nicely.
Both fighters working to control the clinch.
Silva landing some nice looking knees to the body.
Siffredi stalling in the clinch but Silva improves position.
Silva lands an elbow just above Siffredi 's eye.
Silva lands a nice knee to the body.
A battle for position here, against the cage.
Siffredi stalling in the clinch.
Siffredi is trying to stall.
Siffredi's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Siffredi misses with a straight left.
Silva darts in and clinches Siffredi up against the cage.
Silva creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Siffredi's defenses.
Both guys are working to get underhooks.
Siffredi can't break the clinch.
Both guys are working to get underhooks.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Siffredi avoids a wild elbow strike from Silva.
Silva unloads a knee to the mid-section. Siffredi lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Siffredi wants to get back to striking at distance but Silva won't allow it.
Siffredi effectively controlling the action here.
Silva crunches a lovely knee into Siffredi's ribcage.
Silva landing knees to the head.
Silva lands a nice knee to the body.
Siffredi is stalling here. The referee will be looking to step in if he doesn't pick up the pace.
Siffredi trying to stall but Silva improves his position.
Silva wants to stall.
Siffredi is looking to control Silva's arms but Silva gets an underhook and turns him. Now Siffredi has his back to the cage.
The ref breaks the fighters up, due to lack of action by Rocco Siffredi.
Silva lands with a kick to the temple. Siffredi shrugs as if to say "is that all you've got?"
Siffredi looks to land a right hand but Silva moved out of range.
Siffredi throws an overhand right that lands on Silva's shoulder, as Silva tries to avoid the shot.
Silva fails in his attempt to clinch.
Siffredi throws a looping overhand right but Silva ducks down to avoid it.
Silva fails in his attempt to clinch.
Siffredi tries to clinch up.
Silva fails in his attempt to clinch.
Siffredi tries to clinch but Silva is having none of it.
Silva is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Siffredi moves in looking to clinch but Silva pushes him off.
Siffredi throws an overhand right that lands on Silva's shoulder, as Silva tries to avoid the shot.
Siffredi throws the left hand but Silva avoids the punch easily.
Silva tries to close the distance and clinch up but Siffredi swats him away and circles back towards the center.
A telegraphed right hand from Siffredi misses the target.
Siffredi will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Silva tries to clinch but Siffredi moves out of range.
Silva fails with an attempt to clinch.
Siffredi on the wrong end of a kick to the body.
Siffredi moves in looking to clinch but Silva pushes him off.
Siffredi moves into the clinch.
Silva gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Siffredi manages to break the clinch.
Silva moves in looking to clinch but Siffredi pushes him off.
Silva tries to clinch there but Siffredi circles away.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Silva is looking to clinch.
Siffredi clinches with his opponent.
Siffredi breaks the clinch.
The fight moves into the clinch position.
Some stalling of biblical proportions here from Siffredi.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Demian Silva dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Rocco Siffredi's cut.
That's time! Back to the action!
Siffredi swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.
Wow, both these guys are really going for it!
Silva slips a jab from Siffredi.
Silva tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Siffredi paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Siffredi tries to clinch up but Silva circles away and keeps his distance.
Siffredi clinches with his opponent.
Demian Silva has scored more points in the clinch so far.
Siffredi dodges an elbow strike from Silva.
Siffredi breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Silva has managed to clinch.
Siffredi is trying to maintain a safe position but Silva gets an underhook and turns Siffredi into the cage.
Siffredi is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
With the fighters up against the cage, Silva throws an elbow but misses.
Silva keeps control of Siffredi as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Silva crunches a lovely knee into Siffredi's ribcage.
Silva lands a knee to the body.
Silva lands a knee to the body.
Silva lands a nice elbow.
Silva lands a nice knee to the body.
Nice elbow from Silva.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Silva landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
Silva lands a damaging elbow.
Silva keeps control of Siffredi as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Silva lands a damaging elbow.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Silva creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Siffredi's defenses.
Both guys are working to get underhooks.
Silva lands an elbow inside.
Silva lands a nice elbow.
Siffredi breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Rocco Siffredi is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Silva moves into range and clinches up with Siffredi.
Siffredi is trying to break the clinch but Silva has him pressed against the cage.
Siffredi is trying to stall.
Silva comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Silva scores a nice knee to the body.
Silva tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Siffredi managing to block the knees to the body from Silva.
Siffredi tries to break the clinch but Silva is controlling the position.
Siffredi stalls.
Siffredi is looking to break free of the clinch but Silva has double underhooks.
Silva with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Silva keeps control of Siffredi as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Siffredi displaying some good clinch control by pressing Silva up against the cage.
Siffredi is trying to stall.
Silva scores a nice knee to the body.
Siffredi tries to stall but Silva uses the opportunity to gain a better position.
Silva misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Siffredi.
Siffredi is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Silva being controlled against the cage.
Siffredi can't break the clinch.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are getting on the fighters' backs, as the pace has dropped off in the last minute or so.
Siffredi looking to stall.
Siffredi breaks the clinch.
Siffredi swats away the attempt to clinch by Silva.
Silva scores with a kick to the midsection.
Silva fails in his attempt to clinch.
Silva tries to clinch but Siffredi moves out of range.
Siffredi waving his hands out infront of him, looking to distract Silva.
The fight stays on the outside here - Siffredi looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Siffredi is looking to clinch.
Silva tries to clinch but Siffredi is having none of it.
Silva pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Jab, jab by Siffredi - just one landing.
Siffredi might want to mix his strikes up a bit more. He's just going for head shots at the moment and that can become a bit predictable.
Siffredi tries to close the distance and clinch up but Silva swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Silva moves away from the strike by Siffredi.
Siffredi tests Silva's chin there with a solid looking shot.
Silva tries to close the distance and clinch but Siffredi swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Siffredi tries to clinch up.
Siffredi fails with an attempt to clinch.
Silva wants to clinch up but Siffredi keeps it at a distance.
Siffredi misses with a looping right.
Silva is looking to clinch.
Siffredi dips to his left and cracks Silva with an uppercut!
Silva tries to clinch but Siffredi moves out of range.
The fight stays on the outside here - Silva looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Siffredi tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Silva paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Siffredi tries to clinch up but Silva circles away and keeps his distance.
Siffredi tries to close the distance and clinch but Silva swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Siffredi connects with a lovely right hand, straight down the pipe.
Siffredi tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Silva on the wrong end of an overhand right that came out of nowhere.
Siffredi lands a jab followed by a nice looking cross.
Siffredi fails in his attempt to clinch.
Silva displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Siffredi throws out the jab.
Siffredi fails with an attempt to clinch.
Siffredi gets a clinch.
Siffredi wants to stall.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Siffredi takes an elbow to the temple.
A knee to the head by Silva.
Silva lands an elbow inside that Siffredi shrugs off.
Silva trying to control the position but instead, Siffredi has worked for underhooks and has pushed Silva into the cage.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Silva.
Siffredi wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Silva lands a nice elbow.
Siffredi holding his opponent close, against the cage.
Siffredi is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Silva lands an elbow just above Siffredi 's eye.
Siffredi breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Silva closes the distance and clinches.
Silva lands a damaging elbow.
Silva scores a nice knee to the body.
Silva looking to throw knees to the head but Siffredi is blocking nicely.
Silva throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Silva misses with an elbow over the top.
Siffredi manages to break the clinch.
Siffredi throws a nice looking combination but Silva bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Silva rushes Siffredi and pushes him back against the cage in a clinch.
Good anti-grappling being displayed by Silva as Siffredi tries to tie him up.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Demian Silva dominated that second round.
The cut man is working on Rocco Siffredi'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. This is the final round!
Silva moves away from the strike by Siffredi.
Silva chopping away at his opponent's legs.
Silva gets cracked with a nice right hand there by Siffredi.
Silva uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Siffredi.
Silva tries to clinch there but Siffredi circles away.
Silva tries to clinch but Siffredi is having none of it.
Siffredi takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Siffredi tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Siffredi tries to close the distance and clinch but Silva swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Siffredi clinches with his opponent.
Silva connects with a knee to the head.
Siffredi takes an elbow to the forehead.
The pace slowing considerably in the clinch, as Silva takes a break from that fighting nonsense to think about the finer things in life.
Siffredi has had enough of the clinch but Silva keeps him there for the moment.
Silva creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Siffredi's defenses.
Siffredi wants to break the clinch but can't.
Silva throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Siffredi blocks it with crossed arms.
Silva scores with a knee to the head.
Siffredi manages to break the clinch.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.
Silva tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Siffredi paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Siffredi lands a jab-cross combination.
Siffredi sizes up Silva with a pawing jab and scores with a straight right down the middle.
Siffredi drives through and clinches with Silva against the cage.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Siffredi breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Silva darts in and clinches Siffredi up against the cage.
Siffredi leaning against his opponent.
Silva gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Siffredi's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Silva tries to clinch but Siffredi is having none of it.
Good exchange - Siffredi coming out on top.
Siffredi tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Silva paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Siffredi throws a right and a left that both miss.
Silva tries to clinch but Siffredi moves out of range.
Silva tries to close the distance and clinch up but Siffredi swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Siffredi is looking to clinch.
Siffredi looks to land a combination but Silva avoids it well.
Silva bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
Silva moves in looking to clinch but Siffredi pushes him off.
Rocco Siffredi seems to be getting the better of the standup.
Silva fails in his attempt to clinch.
Silva tries to clinch up but Siffredi circles away and keeps his distance.
Silva is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Silva moves in looking to clinch but Siffredi pushes him off.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are hurling abuse towards the fighters... You can hardly blame them though because there isn't a lot going on in the fight.
Silva fails with an attempt to clinch.
Siffredi fails with an attempt to clinch.
Siffredi swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.
Siffredi is the aggressor but that punch slipped nicely by Silva.
Siffredi tries to clinch up.
Silva is looking to clinch.
Siffredi throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Silva.
Silva has taken the fight to the clinch.
Silva lands a damaging elbow.
Siffredi wants to break free but Silva has control.
Silva connects with a nasty looking knee right to Siffredi's face.
Siffredi is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Silva landing some nice looking knees to the body.
Silva with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Siffredi stalling here - the referee won't stand for too much of that.
Silva connects with a knee to the head.
Siffredi breaks from the clinch.
Silva fails in his attempt to clinch.
Siffredi rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Silva moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Siffredi throws a combination but comes up with nothing but fresh air.
Siffredi is the aggressor but that punch slipped nicely by Silva.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Silva tries to clinch up but Siffredi circles away and keeps his distance.
Siffredi circles away from the clinch attempt.
Siffredi throws a hook to the side of Silva's head but Silva sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
Siffredi tries to clinch there but Silva circles away.
Siffredi will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Siffredi throws a hook to the side of Silva's head but Silva sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
Silva moves in looking to clinch but Siffredi pushes him off.
Silva fails with an attempt to clinch.
Siffredi darts in and clinches Silva up against the cage.
Silva landing knees to the body.
The pace really dropping off here, momentarily.
Silva gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Silva prevents Siffredi from breaking the clinch.
Silva with a knee to the head.
Siffredi's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Silva with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
The fight stays on the outside here - Silva looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Silva moves away from the strike by Siffredi.
Rocco Siffredi has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Silva tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Silva is looking to clinch but Siffredi is avoiding it.
Silva takes a hook to the side of the head. I wonder if that's got his ears ringing.
Siffredi stalks Silva and leaps in with a furious combination of punches. Uppercuts and crosses smash into Silva's face. Silva staggers backwards, shaken.
Siffredi wants to clinch.
Siffredi lands with a nice combination. Silva backs away looking to recover.
Silva doesn't manage to clinch there - Siffredi circles away.
Silva wants to clinch.
Silva moves out of range of the strikes.
Silva slips a straight right by Siffredi.
Silva is looking to clinch but Siffredi is avoiding it.
Siffredi throws an overhand right that lands on Silva's shoulder, as Silva tries to avoid the shot.
Silva gets in close and instigates a clinch.
Silva with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
Silva tries to stall but Siffredi uses the opportunity to gain a better position.
Demian Silva is fighting for a decision here - he's started to take the cautious approach.
Siffredi stalls.
Good anti-grappling being displayed by Silva as Siffredi tries to tie him up.
And that's the end of the fight!
Rocco Siffredi comfortably won the final round on my scorecard.
I think Silva has won this one but let's see what the judges have to say. Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.
Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Tarja Halkonen scores the fight 29:28
Judge Ben Zyskovitsi scores the fight 29:28
Judge Marco Blurström scores the fight 29:28
In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Demian Silva!
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hype
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