PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Juninho silva (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Carter Johnson (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Johnson comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Enter Sandman by Metallica kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! We have two fighters making their debuts here, so let's see who comes out of this one with their first professional victory.

silva
vs
Johnson

222 cm
19
221 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

195 cm
19
269 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Basic striking
Self confident

BJJ Blue Belt
Decent boxing
Determined

JOKER FIGHTGEAR
JOKER FIGHTGEAR

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, Juninho silva!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, Carter Johnson!
The judges for this bout are Steve Montenegro, Franklyn Lucas and Joseph Jones.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Johnson throws a right and a left that silva avoids nicely.
Johnson checks a leg kick nicely.
silva is looking to clinch but Johnson is avoiding it.
silva swinging wilding here.
silva tries to clinch up.
Johnson throws a combination but comes up with nothing but fresh air.
silva throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Johnson.

Johnson scores with a nice takedown into half guard. Let's see what he's got on the ground.

silva looking for submissions from an awkward position here.
Johnson is looking to take a break and control but silva is keeping him honest, looking to work from the bottom.
Johnson is looking to pass silva's guard but actually silva recovers to full guard.
Johnson sitting in guard here, content to control.
silva really does look like a pencil wearing a pair of gloves. Let's hope he has a gameplan to suit that ridiculous body shape.

That's one minute gone in the round.
silva is working an open guard here, looking to improve his position. No doubt that will leave him open to counters but at least he's being more offensive.
silva is trying to stand up but he's not managed so far.
silva not looking particularly offensive just at the moment.

Well, the referee has seen enough. Neither fighter is active enough on the ground so he's stood them back up.
Johnson throws a combination but comes up with nothing but fresh air.
silva throws a nice looking combination but Johnson bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
The fight stays on the outside here - Johnson looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
silva swings and misses with a hook to the body.
silva slips a straight right by Johnson.
silva tries a head kick but it misses.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Well. There's a bit of a lull in the action here and the crowd are starting to get restless.
Johnson throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Johnson jabbing away but nothing is landing.
Johnson missing with a left hand there. silva was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
Johnson misses with a two punch combination.
silva misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
silva shoots in but doesn't get the takedown
and Johnson counters with a good right hand that lands right on the jaw.
Johnson throws a sloppy head kick

and silva counters into the clinch. Nicely done.
silva has had enough of the clinch but Johnson keeps him there for the moment.
silva wants to break the clinch but can't.
silva wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Johnson has him pressed against the cage.

Johnson breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
silva tries a head kick but it misses.
Johnson misses with a wild body shot.
Johnson tries to close the distance and clinch but silva swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Johnson cracks a nice hook into silva's ribs.
silva is breathing heavily.
Johnson wings a very wild body shot but it does the job and lands to the midsection.
Johnson connects with a solid leg kick.
Johnson stuns silva with a nice body shot, before stepping back out of range.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Johnson lands with a thumping leg kick.
Johnson throws a jab, cross combination which is slipped
and silva counters with a nice low kick that buckles Johnson's knee momentarily.
Johnson wants to clinch.
Johnson looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.
silva on the wrong end of a decent looking cross there.
silva looks up at the clock. Bad move! Johnson lands a right hand from hell, dropping silva. Johnson pounces and finishes the fight with a flurry of punches and elbows.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:31 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Carter Johnson!