PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Willy Hicks (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Pablo Silva (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Silva has chosen Amazing by Kanye West ft. Young Jeezy as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. Pablo Silva has the power to score a knockout today if he connects clean with Willy Hicks's chin.

Hicks
vs
Silva

199 cm
23
135 lbs
4 - 2 - 0

172 cm
20
130 lbs
7 - 0 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Counter fighter
Self confident

TWGC Champion
Counter fighter
Granite chin

Alpha-Male Nutritional Supplements (q160)

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the bantamweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 4 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Willy Hicks!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 7 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Pablo Silva!
The judges for this bout are , Timothy Bukovac and Don Winkell.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Silva drives through and clinches with Hicks against the cage.

Silva has Hicks pressed up against the cage. He's trying to work for a single leg takedown. Silva pulls back from the cage and twists to the side, sending Hicks tumbling to the mat - Silva dives into Hicks's guard.
Silva engaging in some classic timewasting tactics.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Silva sneaks a leg through and gets to half guard. That was like a knife through butter how easily he passed Hicks's guard.

Silva is looking for a kimura but he's never going to get it from there.
Neither fighter is being very active at the moment, with Silva in particular looking to stall.

Silva is sneakily working for an arm triangle but Hicks sees it coming and defends easily.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Hicks is looking to improve his position.
Hicks really does look like a pencil wearing a pair of gloves. Let's hope he has a gameplan to suit that ridiculous body shape.

Silva seems to be looking for submissions.
Silva looks over to his corner - he wants some instructions but his corner are not responding.

Silva is working for a submission here. He's got hold of the far side arm and he's looking for a kimura. He's cranking on the arm and he's got it! Hicks is tapping out! Ouch, that looked like it hurt!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:47 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Pablo Silva!
Pablo Silva decided to go for the less than humble approach in his post fight interview, telling everyone how he is going to conquer the world. The crowd seemed to like it when really that sort of approach could have gone either way.