PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Raydric Long (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Royce Silva (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Well, the cameraman is lingering on a pretty young lady for a bit too long there. Keep your eyes on the fighters buddy or you'll miss the fighter intros!

Long
vs
Silva

180 cm
19
190 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

180 cm
20
205 lbs
3 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Brawler
Intelligent

BJJ Purple Belt
Basic striking
Tends to cut

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 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Raydric Long!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Royce Silva!
The judges for this bout are Daniel Franklin, Tiny Johnson and Chris Downing.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
No luck with that takedown attempt from Silva.
Silva shoots in for a takedown. He's persisting with it as Long sprawls well. Long wins this battle and keeps the fight standing. Silva gets slowly back to his feet.
Wow, both these guys are really going for it!
Long stuffs the takedown attempt from Silva. Silva gets slowly back to his feet.
Raydric Long has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Royce Silva.
Silva shoots for a takedown but Long saw that one coming a mile off and avoided it easily.
Silva shoots in for a takedown but Long shows good takedown defense there and keeps this one on the feet.
Silva looks frustrated there after his takedown attempt is stuffed easily.

Long shoots in from a long way out. He's driving through with the takedown attempt and he eventually gets it, landing in Silva's guard.
Long trying to control but Silva is working from the bottom.
Silva is working from a closed guard but he's struggling to control his opponent.
A big thud reverberates around the arena there as Long accidentally thumps the mat. Hopefully he's not broken his hand.
Long throwing elbows and punches but not connecting, as Silva works some decent striking defense from the bottom.
Long postures up in Silva's guard and throws a big left but Silva blocks it.
Long trying to land body shots but he keeps hitting the mat.
Long distracts Silva with his right hand and drops a big elbow with his other arm.
Long controls from within his opponent's guard.
Silva manages to land a sweep and now he's in mount on top!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Silva trying to control but he's not successful this time.
Silva should think about turning a few of those tyres round his middle into muscle if he wants people to take him seriously as an athlete.
Long throwing hammer fists to the chest of Silva. What's that going to do exactly?
Long is in all sorts of trouble here.

Silva is thinking about an arm triangle here, looking to tighten it up before moving to side control. Long can see it coming though and defends well with a couple of strikes to the head and some good arm positioning.
Both fighters really going for it on the ground here!
Silva can't quite control the action as he would like just now, as Long is looking to escape.
Long is trying to stand.
Long is squirming around, avoiding Silva's attempts to control the action.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are starting to boo a lack of action.
You get the feeling that Long really doesn't like being in this position too much.
Long is working to get back to half guard.
Long is breathing heavily.

Silva working for a submission here. He's tucked his head under his opponent's arm, looking for an arm triangle. He's hopped off into side control, looking to tighten the submission... is it going to work? He's given up a good position looking for it. Long looks OK. Oh, I spoke too soon, he's out! That must have been tighter than I thought! Excellent work there by Silva! Submission of the night perhaps?

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:29 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Arm Triangle). Royce Silva!