PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Rafa Silva (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Dutch Delight (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Silva comes to the cage accompanied by UFC Theme Song. Delight comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Bad Reputation kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Dutch Delight acknowledges the crowd's support as he enters the cage.

Silva
vs
Delight

173 cm
24
142 lbs
16 - 0 - 0

171 cm
30
149 lbs
18 - 8 - 1

Good wrestling
World class MT
Insanely flexible

Decent wrestler
Excellent MT
Good gas tank

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Mango Nutrition (90% Laundry)

Valhalla Q160 Nutrition

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the lightweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 16 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Rafa Silva!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 18 - 8 - 1, fighting out of Tokyo, Dutch Delight!
The judges for this bout are Sosuke Kotani, Kenichi Hosakawa and Yukihiro Shimada.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Well, he's not going to score with shots like that. A lazy body kick attempt from Silva.
Silva uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Delight.
The sound of bone on bone echoes around the arena as Delight checks a leg kick.
Delight thuds a left hand into Silva's body.
Delight blocks the body kick.
Delight fails with an attempt to clinch.
Silva looks to land a right hand but Delight moved out of range.
Silva swats away the attempt to clinch by Delight.
Delight closes the distance but Silva moves to the side
and Silva counters with a straight right hand.
Dutch Delight seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
A slapping leg kick lands for Silva.
Delight ducks under a wild hook from Silva.

Delight darts in and clinches Silva up against the cage.
Delight tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Silva avoids it.
Delight putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has Silva in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Silva wants to break free but Delight has control.
Silva softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Silva tries to break free but Delight pushes him back against the cage.
Delight lands a damaging elbow.
Delight misses with a punch to the body.
Silva blocks an elbow strike from Delight.
Silva avoids a wild elbow strike from Delight.
Silva takes a knee to the side of the body.
Delight trying to land knees to the body.
Silva content to slow the pace in the clinch.
Delight looking to throw knees to the head but Silva is blocking nicely.
Delight pushes Silva back against the cage and unloads with a body punch.
Delight tries a body shot but Silva blocks it.
Delight can't find room to land a body shot as Silva controls the action.
Silva can't break the clinch.
Delight missing with knees to the body.
Delight trying to land knees to the body.

Silva breaks from the clinch.
Delight takes a shot right to the bread basket.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Silva misses with an uppercut.
Silva takes a head kick and shrugs it off.
Silva ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Delight moves away.
Delight keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Silva tries to bum rush Delight with a series of wild strikes but Delight uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Delight looks to clinch
and Silva counters with a lovely straight right hand!
This fight brought to you by 5M nutrition - it's mmmmm tasty. Nice jab by Delight.

Delight clinches up against the cage.
Delight working aggressively here.
Delight tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Silva avoids it.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Delight creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Silva displaying some good clinch control by pressing Delight up against the cage.
Delight misses with a hook to the ribs.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Delight makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Silva lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.

Silva breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Delight lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Silva circles away quickly and effectively.
Delight gets cracked with a nice right hand there by Silva.
Silva blocks a head kick by Delight.
Delight wants to clinch.
Delight fakes a head punch and goes low to the body. Nicely done.
Delight tries to clinch but Silva moves out of range.
Silva defending well as Delight loads up on a big left hand.
Delight blocks a head kick by Silva.
Delight tries to grapple but his opponent circles
and Silva counters with a straight right hand.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Silva fakes the leg kick and cracks Delight in the body.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Silva walks forward, straight into a front kick from Delight.
Silva misses with a looping right.
Delight takes one to the chin there.

Delight clinches up against the cage.

Silva breaks from the clinch.
Delight fails with an attempt to clinch.
Delight wants to clinch.
Delight fails with an attempt to clinch.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Delight tries to clinch but Silva is having none of it.
Delight is looking to clinch.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

A close round but Dutch Delight will probably get the nod.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action!

Delight fails in his attempt to clinch.
Silva cracks Delight with a good jab.
Silva misses with a kick to the body.
Delight tries to clinch there but Silva circles away.
Silva misses with a body shot.
Silva misses with a body kick.
Delight tries to clinch there but Silva circles away.
Silva throws a head kick but Delight moves out of range.
Some bone on bone action there as Silva checks a low kick. Luckily it wasn't a particularly hard one.
Delight pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Like a baseball bat into the meat of his leg there - nice leg kick by Delight.
That kick from Delight tenderised Silva's leg. Silva is trying to keep his angry face on.
Silva keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.

Delight rushes Silva and presses him up against the cage.
Delight tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Silva avoids it.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Delight trying to land knees to the body.
Delight creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Silva's defenses.
Delight with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
Silva works for underhooks and lands a body shot in the process.
Silva scores with a shot to the side of Delight's head.

Silva pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Delight throws a right and a left that Silva avoids nicely.
Silva throws a head kick but Delight moves out of range.
Delight wants to clinch.
The crowd cheers as Delight lands an impressive looking overhand right. Silva doesn't seem phased though.
Delight stuns Silva with a nice body shot, before stepping back out of range.
Silva throws a jab but it's blocked by Delight.
Silva moves out of range as Delight strikes.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Silva throws a lazy right hand but Delight sees it coming a mile off and sidesteps it easily.
Silva keeps the fight on the outside.
Delight tries to clinch but Silva moves out of range.
A head kick from Delight lands but Silva takes it in his stride.
Delight throws a body kick, spinning off balance
and Silva counters with a lovely shot to the body.
Delight lands a nice shot to the body.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Delight tries to clinch but Silva is having none of it.
Silva misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Silva throws the kick towards the body but Delight avoids it.
Delight is throwing a lot of body shots here, looking to wear down Silva rather than just go for the knockout.
A decent looking cross lands there for Silva.

Delight forces Silva back against the cage and clinches.
Silva is working Delight over against the cage.
Dutch Delight seems to be working more effectively in the clinch in the fight so far.
Delight missing with knees to the body.
A short right from Silva.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Silva escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Delight doesn't manage to clinch there - Silva circles away.
Silva keeps the fight on the outside.
Delight throws a sloppy head kick and Silva moves out of range easily.
Silva swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Silva lands with a hook. Delight tried to avoid it but it clipped the top of his head.
Silva fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Delight manages to avoid it.
Silva checks the leg kick nicely there.
Silva connects with a solid leg kick.
Delight lands with a nice body punch.
Delight tries to clinch but fails miserably
letting Silva counter with a right hand.
Silva throws a leg kick that misses.
Delight misses with a wild combination.
Delight tries to clinch but Silva is having none of it.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Delight tries to clinch up against the cage, rushing in the close the distance. Silva manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat.
A thudding body kick lands there by Delight!
Delight takes a body punch but keeps moving.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Delight misses with a low kick.
Silva buckles his opponent's knee momentarily with a nice leg kick.
Rafa Silva is winning the standup battle so far.
Delight darts in trying to clinch
enabling Silva to counter with a crisp jab.
A head kick misses from Delight.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Silva scores with a hook.
Silva throws a looping overhand right but Delight ducks down to avoid it.
Delight defending well as Silva loads up on a big left hand.
Delight ducks under an overhand right and circles away with a smile on his face.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

That was a close second round but I would say that Rafa Silva will probably get the nod.
The minute break is over - no more time for sponges and pep talks - back to the action!

Silva misses with an uppercut
and Delight counters with a flying knee. Nice.
Delight moves to clinch but Silva breaks away
and Silva counters with a stiff right hand.
Silva digs a good hook to Delight's body.
Silva throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Delight.
Silva is looking to slow Delight down with leg kicks.
Delight tries to close the distance and clinch up but Silva swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Silva looks to land a left hand but Delight moved out of range nicely.
Silva circles away from the clinch attempt.
Delight tries to clinch up
and Silva counters with an inside leg kick.
Delight lands a straight punch to the body, keeping Silva at a distance.
Delight moves in looking to clinch but Silva pushes him off.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Silva lands with a kick to the temple. Delight shrugs as if to say "is that all you've got?"
Silva avoids the body shot from Delight.
Delight tries to grapple but his opponent circles
and Silva counters with a right hand to the body.
Silva takes a solid shot to the body. That one hurt him but he's trying not to show it.
Delight takes a punch right to his stomach. That took the wind out of him momentarily.
Delight throws a right and a left that Silva avoids nicely.
Silva looks to score with a jab to the body but Delight is just out of range.
Delight moves away from the strike by Silva.
Delight tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Silva paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Delight pivots, looking for a leg kick but Silva is out of range and Delight settles back down.
Silva throws an overhand right that lands on Delight's shoulder, as Delight tries to avoid the shot.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The fighters circle momentarily. Silva darts into range and connects with a nice straight punch.
Delight slips under a jab.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Delight tries to clinch up against the cage, rushing in the close the distance. Silva manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat.
Delight blocks a jab.
Silva with poor footwork there. He got himself in a bit of a tangle, enabling Delight to score with a decent uppercut.
A slow jab from Silva misses its intended target.
Delight avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Silva thows a body shot but no joy.
Delight scores with a straight right hand, right through his opponent's guard.
Silva swats away the attempt to clinch by Delight.
Silva throws a head kick but Delight moves out of range.
Silva takes one on the button.
Silva scores with the left hand. Delight knows he should have avoided that one.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Delight tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
The fight stays on the outside here - Delight looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Delight misses with the combination.
Delight misses with a straight left.
Silva looks to land a left hand but Delight moved out of range nicely.
Silva looks to score with a jab to the body but Delight is just out of range.
Delight throws a wild body kick that Silva sees coming a mile off.
Delight misses with a hook.
Silva throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Delight lands a high kick!
Delight throws a low kick but it's checked well by Silva.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Donk. Silva catches Delight right on the button with a cross.
Delight tries to grapple but his opponent circles
and Silva counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.
Delight throws a wild body kick that Silva sees coming a mile off.
Delight wants to clinch.
A head kick by Delight misses
enabling Silva to counter with a crisp jab.

Delight pushes Silva up against the cage in a clinch.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Delight throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Delight unloads a knee to the mid-section. Silva lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Delight tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Delight misses with a hook to the ribs.

Silva breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Silva throws a quick inside leg kick.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Rafa Silva clearly takes that round.
That's the end of the round. The referee orders the cornermen out of the cage so we can get back down to business.

Delight keeping at a good range here, avoiding a leg kick.
Silva keeps the fight on the outside.
Delight tries to close the distance and clinch but Silva swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Delight throws a shot from downtown. Silva moves away and avoids it.
Silva loads up on a big right hand but Delight slips the punch.
Silva blocks a jab.
Delight closes the distance but Silva moves to the side
and Silva counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.

Silva gets tackled into the cage by Delight. Delight maintains the clinch.
Delight is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Silva is defending well for now.

Silva's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Delight wants to clinch
and Silva counters with a nice uppercut.
Delight moves out of range of the body kick.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Delight tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Delight is looking to clinch.
Silva loads up on a big right hand but Delight slips the punch.
Delight takes a shot to the nose. Hopefully that hasn't broken it.
Silva misses with a body shot.
Delight moves to clinch but Silva breaks away
and Silva cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.
Delight throws a low kick but his opponent is out of range.
Silva avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Silva lands a nice leg kick that just misses Delight's sensitive parts.
Silva keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Delight.
Silva tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Delight gets cracked there but stands up to it.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Silva throws a decent looking leg kick but it doesn't land clean.
A combination from Delight does no damage.
Silva avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Silva keeps the fight on the outside.
Delight fails in his attempt to clinch.
Delight has a pretty nasty looking mouse under his right eye.
Delight uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Silva.
Delight sizes up Silva with a pawing jab and scores with a straight right down the middle.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Silva scores with a jab. Delight acknowledges it with a nod of the head.
Silva connects with a single shot there.

Delight is rocked!

Silva tries to keep at a distance but Delight has taken the fight into the clinch.
Delight is still on wobbly legs! Can Silva finish him?
Delight throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Silva blocks it with crossed arms.
Delight seems to have recovered his senses.
Delight missing with knees to the body.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Silva throws a hook to the body. More of an arm punch but it's all scoring with the judges.
Silva lands an uppercut.
Silva lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
A right hand to the body from Delight.
Delight tries to land a knee to the head but misses.

Silva breaks the clinch.
Silva throws a right hand that Delight ducks under and follows up with a left that Delight also avoids with ease.
Delight displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Silva throws out the jab.
Silva misses with a looping left.
Silva works his jab well there, keeping his opponent at a distance.
Delight scores with a hook to the body. Silva takes a step back and tries to catch his breath.
Silva throws a solid leg kick but Delight takes the impact on his shin and smiles at Silva.
Silva misses with a body kick.
Delight lands a nice looking body kick.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Silva misses with a shot to the body

and Delight counters into the clinch. Nicely done.
Knees to the body from Delight.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Delight misses with a hook to the ribs.

Silva escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Silva shakes his hands off, looking to compose himself, but takes a jab to the jaw whilst he does it.
Delight tries to close the distance and clinch but Silva swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Delight misses with an uppercut. Silva saw that one coming.
Silva throws a wild body kick that Delight sees coming a mile off.
Silva wings a very wild body shot but it does the job and lands to the midsection.
Delight throws a leg kick which misses Silva's front leg but catches the back leg as Silva tries to avoid it.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Delight chopped to the floor by a nice leg kick but he springs right back up before Silva can pounce on him.
Silva tries to work over Delight's front leg with a kick but Delight checks it.
Delight throws a looping overhand right but Silva ducks down to avoid it.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Rafa Silva had his way with Dutch Delight in that round.
The minute break is over - no more time for sponges and pep talks - back to the action! And we move into the final round!

Silva thows a left - swing and a miss!
Silva misses with a left hand
and Delight counters with a body kick that stops Silva in his tracks momentarily.
Delight misses with a straight right.
Delight scores with a jab to the body.
Silva throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Delight tries to clinch up against the cage, rushing in the close the distance. Silva manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat.
Silva on the wrong end of a kick to the body.
Delight uses good head movement to avoid the hook from Silva.
Delight tries to clinch but fails miserably
and Silva counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.
Delight takes a hook to the side of the head. I wonder if that's got his ears ringing.
Delight tries to close the distance and clinch but Silva swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Delight tries to move into range but Silva moves to the side and lands with a nice right hand.
Delight tries to clinch there but Silva circles away.

That's one minute gone in the round.
A punch combination from Silva misses.
Delight wants to clinch.
Delight wants to clinch up but Silva keeps it at a distance.
Delight tries to clinch up.
The fighters circling - Silva throws out the jab but it was never going to land.
Delight tries to clinch up but Silva circles away and keeps his distance.
Silva throws a big shot that misses.
Delight pivots as if he's going to throw a leg kick but stops half way.
Delight swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Delight wants to clinch.
Silva throws a lazy right hand but Delight sees it coming a mile off and sidesteps it easily.
Dutch Delight has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Delight goes for a spinning back kick but it misses.
Delight tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Silva misses with an uppercut.
Delight tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Silva paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Delight checks a low kick from Silva.
Silva gets his head snapped back by a nice shot there.
Silva scores with a jab to the head.
Delight is looking to clinch.
Silva throws a jab when Delight was well out of range.
Silva connects with a right hand. Delight shakes it off.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Silva connects with a nice looking jab.

Delight gets a clinch.
Silva stalls.
Delight misses with a punch to the body.
Silva blocking some punches.
A frustrated look appears on Silva's face as he tries to break the clinch.

Silva escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Delight tries to clinch up.
The fight stays on the outside here - Delight looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Silva scores with a jab. Delight acknowledges it with a nod of the head.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Silva displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Delight throws out the jab.
Silva looks to score with a jab to the body but Delight is just out of range.
Silva throws a series of punches but Delight moves out of range.
A slapping leg kick lands for Delight.
Delight lands a leg kick that knocks Silva off balance momentarily.
Delight lands a glancing blow to the side of Silva's head.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Nice defenses there by Silva.
Rafa Silva is fighting for a decision here - he's started to take the cautious approach.
Delight throws out a loose jab but Silva uses good head movement to avoid it.
Silva ducks down and throws a hook to the body.
Silva jabs Delight to the body, keeping him at a distance.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Silva lands a body shot.
Delight dips to his left and cracks Silva with an uppercut!
Delight fails with an attempt to clinch.

And that's the end of the fight!
I would just about give that final round to Dutch Delight.
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 5 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Sosuke Kotani scores the fight 47:48
Judge Kenichi Hosakawa scores the fight 48:47
Judge Yukihiro Shimada scores the fight 49:47

In favor of your winner, by split decision... Rafa Silva!
Rafa Silva retains his lightweight title!
Our winner, Rafa Silva, made sure he spent some time buttering up the crowd during his post fight interview, which will no doubt bring him a few more fans.