#ufc314

Jean Silva kills nazi sympathizer dead by choking him out in the 2nd round.

Was a bit touch and go there for a while. Mitchell, while a dumbass in ever other aspect of his life, is not a dumb fighter. The game plan seemed to be to eat away at Silva with kicks at the very very end of range. Front kicks up the middle and to the thigh and outside leg kicks to the lead leg while in open stance match up. Force Silva to follow, get frustrated and commit so you can shoot underneath. Problem is Silva is cheat codes. When Mitchell did shoot, he had a guillotine locked and loaded. Used ninja chokes to escape position along the fence and eventually found his home for the big crushing overhand in the 2nd. Sent Mitchell to the floor. Let Mitchell back up and while they were tied up along the fence, he locked up another ninja choke. Mitchell tried to go to his back to defend but just ended up tapping before going out.

First off, best performance of Pimblett's career by a long shot. Took out Chandler's legs with those kicks. Fought off the early td attempt and really wore on Chandler. Was landing almost at will with the straight punches. Was freaking bolo-punching Chandler when he tried to level change. Then when he did decide to tie up with Chandler, he threw him around. Easy. Got him down and bullied him from mount until the ref had to save Chandler.

Secondly, Chandler is cooked. Got beat up in front of his dad and everything. Was just straight up running away at points. When fighters stop trying to counter and don't seem to see punches coming, it's time to hang em up. All the things that made Chandler a competitive fighter seem to have disappeared. It was kind of evident when he fought Oliveira last November but it's especially evident now.

UFC 314 going down in a few hours.