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00:00 of the night, Eddie Hernandez getting this assignment.
00:04 Four rounds in the super welterweight division.
00:07 We see the Brazilian, Khalil Silva,
00:09 take on Peter Gonzalez.
00:11 TJ DeSantis, Doug Fisher, Abel Sanchez,
00:15 appreciate you joining us live here tonight
00:16 on UFC Fight Pass for Tom Lafleur
00:18 and 360 Promotions Hollywood Fight Night.
00:21 - Raul, you ready?
00:22 Raul, Raul.
00:27 - This the second pro fight, Doug, for Khalil Silva.
00:31 I gotta believe the pressure is on him
00:33 just simply for being a Silva,
00:35 being from this family that has produced
00:38 one of the greatest of all time in mixed martial arts.
00:40 - Maybe there's less pressure because he's boxing
00:44 and it's not a mixed martial arts match.
00:47 I did watch his pro debut,
00:49 which took place in Brazil on YouTube,
00:51 and he seemed very composed during those four rounds.
00:56 I saw solid fundamentals.
00:59 I saw a guy who worked off his jab,
01:01 had a nice long straight right hand.
01:05 A boxer who knows how to box tall,
01:07 which is to use his advantages in height and reach,
01:10 which he has tonight.
01:12 - You mentioned that pro bout taking place in Brazil,
01:14 1-0 as a pro, no amateur boxing experience,
01:17 but had four kickboxing bouts.
01:19 And Abel, you're familiar with kickboxing.
01:22 You had a kickboxing run way back in the day.
01:25 What are the trade-offs between kickboxing and boxing?
01:28 Is it one-to-one?
01:30 Can you learn things about boxing from kickboxing?
01:31 - Of course.
01:32 But the pressure that Dougie was talking about,
01:35 I mean, all the rules, is gotta be unclear.
01:38 The kickboxing,
01:40 hopefully he doesn't revert back to that.
01:45 - Well, hopefully he doesn't throw a kick.
01:47 - Yes.
01:48 (laughing)
01:49 But it is a different sport.
01:51 It is a different sport because you're setting up different,
01:53 you're looking for different things.
01:55 You're concentrating on the upper body,
01:56 so not concentrating on the legs.
01:59 So it's a little easier and a little harder.
02:01 - I gotta think the pressure also rests
02:04 on the shoulders of Peter Gonzalez.
02:05 I mean, this is his pro debut.
02:06 This is a big fight night.
02:07 This is a big show.
02:09 And a lot of people here, a lot of eyeballs,
02:10 watching worldwide on UFC Fight Pass.
02:12 - Yeah, he's also zero background in boxing,
02:17 no amateur bouts really to speak of.
02:19 And obviously when you're turning pro at age 30,
02:23 you know, unless, right?
02:25 It's usually a sign that you are an opponent,
02:27 unless you had this incredibly extensive amateur career.
02:30 - Ooh, ooh, nice right hand by Silva.
02:33 (crowd cheering)
02:35 - Technical knockdown because the ropes
02:37 were keeping Gonzalez up.
02:39 - Eddie Hernandez getting in there,
02:41 issuing the count here to Gonzalez.
02:43 (crowd cheering)
02:46 Some big action here.
02:53 45 seconds left in this opening round.
02:55 We'll see if Gonzalez can stay in this fight.
02:59 Ooh, another right hand again finds a home for Silva.
03:02 (crowd cheering)
03:05 Gonzalez marching forward,
03:07 trying to win some punches back,
03:08 but that right hand from Silva has been on point.
03:10 - Yeah, not very good form from Gonzalez,
03:13 but he's showing some spirit
03:15 and we're seeing some variation
03:16 on the right hand from Silva.
03:18 - Work out of it guys, work out of it.
03:20 - What a side clinch here.
03:21 - Stop, step back, go for it.
03:23 - Step back, step back, step back, step back.
03:26 Listen, listen.
03:27 - His only combat experience coming in here
03:29 is sort of like a lower level Lucha Libre type stuff.
03:32 (crowd cheering)
03:34 But he definitely has some spirit.
03:38 - Absolutely, a baptism by fire from Khalil Silva.
03:43 No question about who won that round.
03:45 Silva finding a home for that right hand,
03:47 but again, Gonzalez very game,
03:49 biting down on his mouthpiece
03:50 and marching forward.
03:52 We'll see what sort of adjustments he can make here.
03:56 Gonna have to make him in a hurry as Khalil Silva
03:59 had some solid work turned in there.
04:02 Doug, walk us through some of the action here.
04:03 - Yeah, it was a right cross
04:04 that caught Gonzalez on the temple
04:06 and sent him sprawling into the ropes.
04:09 And while he was caught up in the ropes,
04:11 Silva had time to land two other right hands.
04:16 And they're all different.
04:17 You know, there was a different arc
04:18 that ranged each one of those punches.
04:22 - Inside the corner here of Khalil Silva,
04:25 his legendary father, Anderson "Spider" Silva,
04:28 giving him some direction.
04:30 We are headed into round number two.
04:36 Again, this is a four round affair
04:38 in the Super Welterweight division.
04:41 Round two underway.
04:43 (crowd yelling)
04:46 - Pulling that jab here,
04:51 trying to find that range is Silva.
04:54 A tan.
04:54 - Very composed, Doug.
05:04 - Yeah, but if you recall,
05:07 his brother Gabriel was the same way.
05:09 Good fundamentals, very patient,
05:12 extremely economical with his punches.
05:15 Almost to a fault.
05:16 I thought Gabriel could have let his hands
05:17 go a little bit more against his opponent.
05:20 And I feel the same way with Khalil
05:23 and his opponent right here.
05:24 I think his opponent is open for a variety of shots,
05:28 not just a touching jab and hard right hands.
05:32 - And if there was a nod to give Anderson Silva
05:35 over his years of fighting in mixed martial arts,
05:37 it was that he was sometimes a bit of a counter striker,
05:39 more so than maybe he should have been at points,
05:43 would say some critics in his sense.
05:45 They fight a little bit like that.
05:47 - Yeah, I get the feeling it's sort of a,
05:51 they take pride in that.
05:52 That they're not pressured.
05:54 They're not overcome by the event.
05:55 They don't let the crowd influence them.
05:58 They keep control of their emotions
06:00 and they stay within their style and their technique.
06:03 - Not floored all the way was Gonzalez,
06:06 but Eddie Hernandez issuing the count there.
06:09 Halfway point of round number two.
06:10 - Yeah, if the glove touches canvas,
06:12 it's counted as a knockdown.
06:14 Seemed like a flash knockdown, didn't seem like much, but.
06:18 - Oh, another strike lands for Silva.
06:23 - Well, Gonzalez wasn't buzzing from that flash knockdown.
06:25 He is from those right hands.
06:27 - Gonzalez coming forward.
06:31 - Yeah, I like that.
06:33 And he's crowding him
06:35 and that's where he's gonna do his best work
06:37 because he's not much on technique, Gonzalez is.
06:39 Somebody lost a mouthpiece.
06:41 - The mouthpiece fell out there.
06:43 - And Silva.
06:45 - Other mouthpiece, other mouthpiece.
06:49 Put the other mouthpiece in his mouth.
06:50 - But I like that Gonzalez is going for it
06:52 and making it a rough house type bout
06:54 and I like that Silva is keeping his composure.
06:57 - He's keeping his stance the same,
07:02 whether the pressure room or his palm punches.
07:04 He's got his shoulders forward.
07:05 He's got his weight on his legs.
07:07 I think that's very important for him.
07:09 - Yeah, I think he moves pretty well too.
07:11 His lateral movement's pretty smooth.
07:13 - Goes to the body there,
07:16 does Silva with that right hand.
07:17 - Gonzalez says it was low.
07:19 The ref didn't agree.
07:20 That hook hurt Gonzalez.
07:22 Gonzalez's legs are not under him.
07:24 - He's game.
07:28 - He really is.
07:33 - This is really good experience for Silva.
07:36 - Moving right hand misses for Gonzalez.
07:40 Now up against the ropes goes Silva.
07:41 - Stop, stop, don't punch.
07:48 Don't punch the back.
07:49 - Really a technician here is Silva
07:51 with the aggressive opponent here.
07:53 He's not really taking off his game by any means.
07:55 And two rounds now in the books.
07:58 That's one thing talking to Anderson too,
08:02 he said that both of his sons
08:04 really needed to be in boxing for the right reasons.
08:07 He wasn't gonna allow his family to go into something,
08:11 you know, half-assed if you will.
08:12 You wanna make sure that they were all in on it.
08:14 - That's the word, don't half-ass it.
08:16 I think he said they had to love it.
08:18 You have to love it.
08:20 And Khalil said he does.
08:21 He loves the, he said the art.
08:23 He didn't say he loves boxing.
08:24 He said he loves the art of boxing and he likes striking.
08:27 - Take a look at the replay, Abel, walk us through.
08:31 - Gonzalez is leaning so far forward
08:34 that he gets pushed down.
08:35 It really wasn't a knockdown, but his gloves did touch.
08:38 But Khalil's doing, he's bringing him up,
08:40 bringing him down.
08:41 He's gotta keep his shoulders forward
08:43 when he gets up against ropes.
08:45 They didn't show that, but in the round,
08:47 he had his shoulders back.
08:49 He looked a little winded at the end of the round.
08:52 - He's moving around a lot.
08:53 And I think Gonzalez kind of forced him
08:56 to up his punch output maybe more
09:00 than he was comfortable with.
09:01 But I like that.
09:04 I like a busier Silva than an economical Silva.
09:07 And I like that we saw more than the jab in the right hand.
09:10 We saw left hooks in that second round.
09:12 - Round three underway.
09:14 - I really like his selection of punches that he throws.
09:28 He throws a nice little right hand over the top.
09:31 He leaps a little bit to get by the glove.
09:33 And then he brings a straight one down the middle.
09:36 I think that's important for fighters
09:38 to try different angles with their shots.
09:40 - Yeah.
09:41 - Uppercut.
09:43 - He just slipped.
09:44 - Slipped there.
09:48 - Yeah.
09:49 - By Eddie Hernandez.
09:51 - Silva's, yeah, his leg went out of the ring.
09:54 That happens.
09:55 - It was a good uppercut right before he went up.
09:58 - It did.
10:00 - Sometimes he has a really wide stance
10:03 when he drops his punches on the inside.
10:05 - Knee there.
10:07 Gonzalez hit the mat as he was inside that clinch.
10:11 The separation.
10:13 Ooh, nice right hand.
10:15 Again, right and left finds a home for Silva.
10:23 Gonzalez gets tagged and he just keeps coming forward.
10:27 - Yeah.
10:28 Silva needs to keep his guard up
10:30 when he's backing out,
10:31 especially if he's backing straight back.
10:32 - Let him go, let him go.
10:33 Stop that, stop, stop, stop.
10:35 - I'd love to see Silva just try to target the body
10:39 a little bit on Gonzalez.
10:41 It looks like Gonzalez is open for some body shots.
10:43 - He can keep his hands up.
10:46 I think he needs to keep his legs up.
10:47 - Yes.
10:48 - He's getting too far back.
10:50 - Windmill punches here is Gonzalez.
10:52 - Boy, Gonzalez is wild.
10:54 - Stop, don't punch, don't punch.
10:55 Step back.
10:56 - I guess that's the knee break.
10:57 - Correct.
10:58 - He didn't bring the lucha.
10:59 He brought the knee break.
11:00 (laughing)
11:02 - Inside the final minute here of round number three.
11:06 (crowd cheering)
11:09 - That was a good style for Panel
11:11 to experience in the industry.
11:14 - Stop, don't punch, don't punch.
11:15 Step back.
11:16 - Yeah, I would categorize Gonzalez
11:18 as a rough and tumble opponent.
11:21 - And while it's unorthodox and a bit crazy,
11:23 it's also a bit dangerous.
11:24 You have to respect the insanity, if you will.
11:27 - It's hard to anticipate what a fighter like this
11:29 is gonna do.
11:30 - Right.
11:31 - And Silva is a thinking fighter,
11:32 so he's trying to anticipate what his opponent's
11:35 gonna do at all times.
11:36 - It's left hand by Silva as we go into the clinch here.
11:41 - No knockdown, no knockdown.
11:43 Get up.
11:44 Get up, get up, get up, get up.
11:48 You okay?
11:49 Come here.
11:50 - Dying seconds here of round number three.
11:58 - And the first of three rounds in the books.
12:00 Abel, your thoughts on the performance here
12:04 by Khalil Silva.
12:05 Again, fighting a very aggressive, unorthodox opponent.
12:08 How's he dealing with the pressure?
12:10 - It's a difficult type of style to fight, but yeah.
12:13 - I don't know who's gonna fall out first.
12:17 - But as I said, it's good for Khalil
12:19 to experience this early in his career.
12:21 - Doug, walk us through this action.
12:23 - Yeah, the windmill attack from Gonzalez
12:26 for Silva back as he was loading up with a punch,
12:29 his right leg, his right foot slipped out of the ring.
12:32 - That's right, that's right.
12:33 Touch him up in the center, okay?
12:34 - And there's some nice shots landed by Silva.
12:37 Gonzalez definitely has a beard on him.
12:40 - How you doing, you okay?
12:40 - I'm good.
12:41 - All right, we're gonna touch him up
12:42 in the center.
12:43 - Literally and figuratively.
12:44 - Yes.
12:45 - Yeah.
12:46 - You didn't see my air quotes when I said a beard on him?
12:48 - I was just saying it for the people at home
12:49 that couldn't see the air quotes.
12:51 There you go.
12:51 - Thank you.
12:52 - Final round here.
12:54 We've seen Silva answer this challenge really well.
12:58 What would you like to see him do
12:59 in this final round here in this fight?
13:01 - I would like to see him use his jab a little bit more.
13:03 He's a little bit winded.
13:04 There's no sense in getting into a war in there with him.
13:07 Just use the jab, straight punches,
13:10 but he's gotta move his hands.
13:11 He can't be waiting for Gonzalez.
13:15 He's gotta be moving his hands.
13:16 - Yeah.
13:17 - Not like that.
13:18 - Right.
13:19 Well, what he's doing with his left
13:20 is he's just trying to stiff on him.
13:22 He's actually not jabbing.
13:24 And without that jab, Gonzalez is gonna get inside
13:26 and he's gonna do this kind of stuff,
13:29 which is taking the wind from Silva's sails.
13:32 Now, Gonzalez is just as tired.
13:34 - It's interesting in these clinch exchanges,
13:36 you see Silva, nice right hand there.
13:38 He's almost doing more of a Thai clinch
13:40 than a traditional boxing clinch
13:41 where he grabs the body.
13:42 He's grabbing around the head.
13:44 - Yeah.
13:49 Yeah, yeah.
13:50 - Wind on his feet here, Silva.
13:56 Those are the kind of jabs you're looking for.
14:00 Right, Abel?
14:01 - Yes, absolutely.
14:02 Nice straight jab, though.
14:03 Hold him back.
14:04 - Pop it.
14:05 - Let him go, let him go, let him go.
14:08 - Inside the clinch.
14:09 - Hands are free, hands are free.
14:10 Keep going.
14:11 - Right hand spins Gonzalez around.
14:16 Now back at space.
14:18 Uppercut by Silva.
14:20 Halfway point of round number four.
14:30 - This guy doesn't do anything right.
14:38 It's not by the textbook,
14:40 but it kind of works out for him.
14:41 - Gonzalez's output, I think, has slowed a bit.
14:46 We'll see if Silva can be the aggressor and take over.
14:50 - Yeah, Gonzalez is tired,
14:52 and I think he's got some cobwebs in his head
14:54 from eating all those big right hands from Silva.
14:56 Silva's kind of taking this portion of the round off,
14:59 which you really don't want to see in a four-round bout.
15:04 But I think this fight has been more physical
15:06 than Silva anticipated.
15:08 - Yeah, Gonzalez has definitely winded and spent.
15:14 - Yeah, that's why I want to see what a body shot
15:16 would do to him right now.
15:18 'Cause he's got kind of that, his elbows are high.
15:20 - Stop, stop, step back, step back.
15:26 - 30 seconds left in the fight.
15:27 - You got time.
15:31 - Mouthpiece out, as you mentioned, for Silva.
15:34 - Where's the other mouthpiece?
15:36 Where's the other mouthpiece?
15:38 Coach, here, rinse it out.
15:41 - Referee Eddie Hernandez gonna get it washed off.
15:43 - It's interesting, you know,
15:44 the similarities between boxing and MMA.
15:46 In boxing, they usually rinse the mouthpiece,
15:48 in MMA, they just put it back in.
15:50 - Oh, really?
15:51 Yuck.
15:52 I'm sure the fighters appreciate it being rinsed off.
15:55 - I mean, I'd want to rinse it off.
15:56 - Right?
15:58 Kind of freshen your mouth up a little bit.
15:59 - Right.
16:00 - Two good right hands by Silva here in the last 15 seconds.
16:07 - 10 seconds, Clapper, Gonzalez basically stopped.
16:10 Now Silva, take it over here to end the fight.
16:14 - Stop, step back, time.
16:15 - I don't know if Gonzalez thought that the Clapper
16:19 was the bell itself or what, but.
16:23 - Yeah, he dropped his guard.
16:25 Yeah.
16:27 I think he was confused about that.
16:28 But I liked the way Silva jumped on him in that moment.
16:31 - Four rounds down.
16:39 - Nice little way to start our night here
16:41 inside the Commerce Casino.
16:43 Khalil Silva going to work against Peter Gonzalez.
16:47 Of course, our main event headed your way later tonight.
16:49 King Callum Walsh looks for the seventh win of his career
16:52 and a WBC Silver Championship title later tonight.
16:57 Solid bit of work.
17:00 I think when you look at Khalil Silva
17:01 and what was standing in front of him tonight,
17:04 he managed it well.
17:05 A lot of it was about managing the fight almost more
17:07 than aggressively striking your opponent.
17:12 So what are your thoughts on how Silva answered
17:15 an unorthodox test here in Gonzalez?
17:17 - I thought he handled himself.
17:19 I thought he kept his composure.
17:21 He was, you could tell he was rattled a little bit
17:23 from the rough house stuff,
17:24 but he landed really good punches.
17:26 And I saw a wider variety of offense from Khalil
17:30 than I did from Gabriel.
17:32 Not to compare the brothers like that, you know.
17:34 - You know they're going to compare each other.
17:35 - It's going to happen with siblings, right?
17:37 - Exactly.
17:38 - So I like that.
17:39 And I liked that he was in with an opponent
17:42 that was not just here to go rounds,
17:44 but had that never say die attitude.
17:47 - The ladies are going to take the ring.
17:48 Coming up next, Steffi Cohen faces Esli Cervantes.
17:52 That's going to be a fun fight
17:55 scheduled for four rounds of the flyweight division.
17:57 But the judges have tallied their scorecards
18:04 to make this one official.
18:05 Here is Joe Martinez.
18:07 (bell ringing)
18:08 - Well, ladies and gentlemen, after four rounds,
18:09 we go to the scorecards
18:11 and all three judges see this bout 40-34.
18:14 Your winner by unanimous decision
18:16 and still undefeated, Khalil Silva!
18:19 (bell ringing)
18:25 - No surprise there.
18:27 Unanimous decision goes the way of Khalil Silva.
18:30 Judges see it the same across the board, 40 to 34.