PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between David Hansen (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Anderson Silva (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Silva's choice of entrance music: run this town. Anderson Silva struggled to make weight for this fight. He only made it down to 186.2lbs at the first attempt and had to take the additional two hours to make the official bout weight. Let's see how much it's taken out of him. Anderson Silva told me before the fight that he's been watching a lot of DVDs so let's see if that helps him in this one! I can't wait to find out!

Hansen
vs
Silva

175 cm
20
190 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

180 cm
23
199 lbs
3 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Cuts easily

BJJ Purple Belt
Brawler
Very confident

Beast Body

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, David Hansen!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Anderson Silva!
The judges for this bout are Reed Andrews, Jonathan Paton and Chad Campbell.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Hansen scores with a jab to the body.
Nice body kick there by Hansen.
Hansen could do with losing a few pounds - he looks very soft around the mid section, to put it politely.
Hansen throws a leg kick but Silva checks it.
Hansen avoids the head kick by Silva.
Silva throws a head kick but Hansen moves out of range.

Hansen looks for a takedown. He's got it. We're now in half guard.
Hansen is trying to control. Silva wants to improve his position but can't escape this time.
Hansen throws a big elbow that misses, also allowing Silva to regain full guard.

Silva looking for subs off his back but Hansen has passed one foot through into half guard.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Silva moves his hips nicely and gets into full guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Silva will have to put a bit more behind his punches if he's going to do any damage from this position.

Silva throwing his legs up looking for a triangle.
Hansen has decided he wants to stand but the closed guard of Silva is proving hard to escape from.
Silva keeping moving, preventing Hansen from controlling successfully.
Hansen has to be careful here, sitting in the guard of a superior BJJ player.

Silva is looking for a guillotine. You can't force these things though and Hansen defends well.
Hansen knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Silva on the ground.

That's two minutes gone in the round.

Silva looking for submissions off his back, moving his hips, looking for an opening.

Silva working from the bottom, still in full guard. He's managed to get a loose triangle. Hansen doesn't seem to be doing much to defend here, obviously he feels comfortable in the position. Oh but Silva is tightening it up a little... Hansen has to be careful here... He's got his foot tucked under now, this looks tight! Hansen reacted too slowly and this one could be over in a matter of seconds! YES! Hansen taps out! Nice BJJ there by Silva!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:48 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Triangle Choke). Anderson Silva!
Anderson Silva tried to hype himself up post fight but didn't word it too well and it ended up with him sounding like a bit of a tool.