PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between JR Adams (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Benny Silver (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Adams comes into the arena with Satan Is Real blaring out of the sound system. Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Adams
vs
Silver

185 cm
20
210 lbs
4 - 1 - 0

190 cm
19
203 lbs
5 - 1 - 0

Good wrestling
Counter fighter
Good chin

BJJ White Belt
Great elbows
Determined

Fight Night Nutrition
Backyard Fighting

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the light heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 4 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, JR Adams!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Benny Silver!
The judges for this bout are Timothy Bukovac, Frank Antenori and Don Winkell.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Silver tries to clinch up

and Adams decides to take the opportunity to score a takedown. He's landed in Silver's guard.
Adams content to strike from guard, landing some decent shots.
Adams throwing shots from guard but he's hitting more mat than opponent.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Adams chips away with some ground and pound.
Adams lands a nice shot whilst sitting in his opponent's guard.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Adams advances to half guard.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Silver is not content to let Adams control the position.
Adams drops an elbow to the side of Silver's head.
Adams prevents Silver from improving his position.
Adams throws a strike but Silver avoids it easily and moves to full guard.
Silver really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Adams. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Adams postures up in Silver's guard and throws a big left but Silver blocks it.
Silver preventing the ground and pound from doing any damage.
Adams stands up over Silver, holding his feet. He dives back in and lands a decent shot to the head.
Silver keeping moving, preventing Adams from controlling successfully.
Adams with a flurry of punches that miss.
Silver working the defensive guard well to avoid strikes from Adams.
Adams content to stall in guard here.
Adams loading up with the ground and pound but he's missing more than he's landing in this flurry.
Adams missing there with some ground and pound from the guard.
Adams throwing strikes but missing.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Adams postures up to throw the ground and pound strikes but they don't connect.
Adams trying to control but Silver is working from the bottom.
Adams scoring with some ground and pound.
Adams trying to control but Silver is working from the bottom.
Adams working in close now, lands a nice elbow to the side of Silver's head.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Adams lands a couple of decent looking shots.
Adams with a nice head shot there.
Adams works over Silver with some ground and pound from guard.
Adams is working the ground and pound from guard. He might want to try advancing position though to get more of an impact.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Adams lands a couple of digs.
The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily.
Adams postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
Adams trying to control the position from guard on top but Silver is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Adams has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
Adams missing there with some ground and pound from the guard.
Silver preventing the ground and pound from doing any damage.
Silver working the defensive guard well to avoid strikes from Adams.
Silver is controlling Adams's posture.
Adams tries to free his leg and advance position but Silver is retaining full guard.
Silver working the defensive guard well to avoid strikes from Adams.
Adams stopping the sweep attempt from Silver.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Adams is working the ground and pound from guard. He might want to try advancing position though to get more of an impact.
Silver keeping moving, preventing Adams from controlling successfully.
Adams keeps in close for a moment and lands a decent shot to the side of Silver's head.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Silver can't keep his opponent in guard - Adams advances to half guard, no doubt looking to mount.
Adams throwing shots but they're hitting the canvas more than the man.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Silver blocking the ground and pound attempt from Adams.
Adams seems very keen to just sit and control from half guard but Silver does not like that idea so much and is remaining active off his back.
Silver blocking the ground and pound attempt from Adams.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

JR Adams dominated that round.
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.

Silver stuffs the takedown attempt from Adams. Adams gets slowly back to his feet.
Silver is looking to clinch.
Silver tries to clinch there but Adams circles away.
Silver tries to clinch but Adams moves away

and Adams decides to take the opportunity to score a takedown. He's landed in Silver's guard.
Adams not doing a lot at the moment. He'll have to show some more aggression or the fight will get stood up.
Silver avoiding any damage from the ground and pound.
Adams is looking to work some ground and pound but Silver has wrist control.
Adams postures up and lands a big shot to Silver's brow.
Adams trying to land body shots but he keeps hitting the mat.
Adams with a flurry of punches that miss.
We get told so often about how wrestlers don't like to be on their backs. Let's see if Silver can do anything to dispel that myth.
Adams postures up to throw the ground and pound strikes but they don't connect.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Adams stands and throws Silver's legs to the side, diving into side control.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Adams landing strikes.
Adams scores with a couple of nice shots to the head there. The referee takes a look at Silver to see if he's OK.
Adams lands a knee to the body and a forearm to the face.
Adams scoring with punches from side control.
Silver avoids any damage from the ground and pound of Adams.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Adams lands an elbow.

Adams tries for a kimura. Not really close to a finish though.
Adams misses with the ground and pound.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Adams lands a knee to the body and a forearm to the face.

Adams is looking to finish here, going for an Americana. Silver knows the correct defense though, so he's OK.
Adams misses with an attempted head punch from side control.
Adams trying to control the position but Silver is working away.
Silver tries to work a leg under to get back to half guard but Adams wriggles his own leg back out and remains in side control.
Adams landing with strikes to the head and body from side control.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Adams scores with a couple of short elbows.
Adams looks up at the clock and then as Silver takes his cue and looks up at the clock too, Adams smacks him right in the chops with a big elbow! How rude!
Adams in side control, throwing shots but Silver defends.
Adams wants to lay and pray for a moment but Silver keeps working.
Adams creates a bit of distance and throws down some hard shots.

Silver is rocked!
Silver is breathing heavily.
Adams scores with a couple of short elbows.
Silver is still in real trouble! Can Adams finish him?
Silver taking a bit of punishment here - Adams scoring with strikes.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Adams working the ground and pound but he's contacting the mat, not the fighter.
Silver seems to have recovered his senses.
Adams looking to punish the body of his opponent here but Silver is avoiding damage well.
An elbow from Adams crashes against the mat.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Adams looks up at the clock and then as Silver takes his cue and looks up at the clock too, Adams smacks him right in the chops with a big elbow! How rude!
Adams landing a few strikes.
Adams in side control, trying to ground and pound but not landing this time.
Adams cracks Silver with a big right hand but Silver just smiles back at him and invites him to have another go.
Adams throws an elbow but Silver slips to the side and avoids it well.
Adams lands a knee to the body and follows it up with some ground and pound to the head. That will wear Silver down.
Adams is looking to take a break and control but Silver is keeping him honest, looking to work from the bottom.
Adams is working Silver over with some ground and pound from side control.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Adams in side control lands a decent elbow.
Adams lands a decent elbow from side control.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

JR Adams dominated that second round.
The fighters get back to their feet, the hooter sounds and we're back to the action!

Silver tries to clinch up.
Adams misses the shot to the body.
Adams looks to score with a jab to the body but Silver is just out of range.
Adams closes this distance looking for a takedown but Silver circles away.
Silver tries to close the distance and clinch but Adams swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Adams circles away from the clinch attempt.
Silver tries to clinch up

and Adams counters by moving into the clinch. Good anticipation by Adams.
Adams can't break the clinch.
Adams blocks the elbow strike.
Silver taking a breather.
Silver lands a damaging elbow.

It looks like JR Adams has been cut.
Silver lands an elbow just above Adams 's eye.
Silver taking a breather.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Silver is pressed up against the cage. Adams has hold of a leg and is looking to drag Silver down to the mat. Silver avoids the attempt though and has circled away. We're back to striking at a distance.
Benny Silver is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Silver tries to clinch but Adams moves away

and Adams counters with a takedown into side control.
Adams fails to land a wild elbow strike.
JR Adams overall seems to be getting the better of the ground position in the fight so far.
Adams moves into full mount!
Adams in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.
Silver is in a horrible position here. Adams smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Adams has his opponent pinned against the cage, landing some nasty ground and pound that is really making a bit of a mess out of Silver's face.
Silver takes a big intake of breath there - he's definitely tired.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Adams lands a big shot there that rocks Silver but he's holding on and managing to survive for now.
Adams is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that Silver can do to turn this around?
Adams raining down shots from the mount!
Adams postures up and throws a couple of big shots that have Silver in real trouble here! The ref calls for Silver to improve his position which he doesn't do, so the referee has no choice but to end the fight due to the strikes!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:30 of round 3, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). JR Adams!
JR Adams retains his light heavyweight title!
A victorious JR Adams thanked his army of followers in his post fight interview, telling people to make sure they follow him on Twitter.