PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Dan Diego (ranked 4692 p4p, 3084 weight class) and Silvio Berluscrawny (ranked 352 p4p, 276 weight class). Silvio Berluscrawny will no doubt be looking to use his reach advantage to good effect.

Diego
vs
Berluscrawny

170 cm
25
152
6 - 11 - 0

200 cm
24
145
3 - 7 - 0

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Cardio machine

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent MT
Powerful

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 6 - 11 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Dan Diego!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 7 - 0, fighting out of New York, Silvio Berluscrawny!
The judges for this bout are Ian Loll, Gregory Folan and William Peck.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Berluscrawny takes a jab on the nose. He smiles like he loves it and keeps coming.
Diego throws out a loose jab but Berluscrawny uses good head movement to avoid it.
Berluscrawny tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Diego was well out of range. Poor timing from Berluscrawny.
Berluscrawny dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
Diego has been working on his boxing with his coaches at MMAH League and Warrior Nation in the buildup to the fight.
Berluscrawny misses with a body punch
and Diego cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.

Berluscrawny is rocked!
Berluscrawny throws a body shot but no joy.
Berluscrawny takes a body punch but keeps moving.
Diego throws the left hand but Berluscrawny avoids the punch easily.
Diego on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Diego cracks a nice hook into Berluscrawny's ribs.
Berluscrawny moves away from the strike by Diego.
Diego throws a lazy right hand but Berluscrawny sees it coming a mile off and sidesteps it easily.
Diego stuns Berluscrawny with a nice body shot, before stepping back out of range.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Berluscrawny lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Diego circles away quickly and effectively.
Diego swung with a counter punch to the body but it didn't connect.
Berluscrawny throws a nice head kick!
Diego avoids a punch combination nicely.
Berluscrawny pulls out of a head kick attempt.

Diego lands a left and a right that send Berluscrawny crashing to the mat, dazed. Diego thinks about following him to the mat but decides to wave him back up to his feet!
Berluscrawny is still on wobbly legs! Can Diego finish him?

It looks like Silvio Berluscrawny has been cut.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Berluscrawny slips under a jab from Diego.
Berluscrawny throws a head kick that misses
and Diego counters with a right hand to the body.
Berluscrawny does a little shimmy and throws a leg kick. The leg kick missed by a considerable margin though, making him look a little bit silly for doing the shimmy.
Berluscrawny explodes with a nice body kick and back out of range. Nice work.
Diego avoids a punch combination nicely.
Berluscrawny looks winded!

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Diego lands with a nice body punch.
Diego takes a punch to the jaw and another one to the bread basket.
Berluscrawny seems to have recovered his senses.
Berluscrawny looks more muscular than last time we saw him. He must have been on the weights.
Diego ducks low and lands a nice hook to the body of his opponent.
Diego throws a hook to the side of Berluscrawny's head but Berluscrawny sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
Diego swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Diego's corner calls for a 1-2. Diego obliges with the 1 part as he scores the single shot and moves back out of range.
A head kick by Berluscrawny misses

and Diego counters with a nice right hand that sends Berluscrawny toppling to the canvas! Berluscrawny scrambles and gets back to his feet - can Diego finish him?!
Silvio Berluscrawny seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
A punch combination from Diego misses.
Berluscrawny tries a head kick but it misses.
Berluscrawny moves out of range as Diego strikes.
Diego throws a right hand that Berluscrawny ducks under and follows up with a left that Berluscrawny also avoids with ease.
It seemed like Berluscrawny was going to counter with the hook but didn't fully commit to it.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Berluscrawny avoids the body shot from Diego.
Berluscrawny is a painfully thin specimen of a man. You do wonder whether a good body kick would snap him clean in two.
Diego will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Berluscrawny connects with a solid leg kick.
Berluscrawny throws a sloppy head kick and Diego moves out of range easily.
Berluscrawny misses with a leg kick
and Diego counters with a lovely straight right hand!
Diego looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.
Nice defenses there by Berluscrawny.
Berluscrawny throws a counter combo.
Berluscrawny throws a lazy head kick
and Diego counters with a straight right hand.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Berluscrawny works the jab nicely.
Diego thows a left - swing and a miss!
Diego misses with a hook.
Berluscrawny swings widly with a right hand
and Diego counters with a huge left! Berluscrawny is in big trouble! He's backing up but Diego isn't giving him chance to recover. Under a barage of punches the ref has to step in to save Berluscrawny from any more damage. A dominating finish by Diego!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:23 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Dan Diego!