The Farm Report: Valdines Silva Pulls Jungle Fight Stunner on Jonas Bilharinho

Meaningful MMA exists beyond the confines of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, Bellator MMA and World Series of Fighting. In this monthly series, Sherdog.com recaps the month that was on the regional circuit in mixed martial arts:Valdines Silva saw the hype surrounding Jonas Bilharinho and shrugged. The Pitbull Brothers representative took out the previously unbeaten Bilharinho with second-round punches and laid claim to the Jungle Fight featherweight championship in the Jungle Fight 86 co-headliner on April 30 in Palmas, Brazil. Silva finished it 3:52 into round two. Silva was the aggressor from the start. He controlled the cage from the center, as he chipped away at the highly touted Team Nogueira prospect with stabbing jabs, winging rights and heavy leg kicks. Silva flurried at times and also executed a takedown late in the first round that kept the momentum in his corner. Bilharinho at one point swept him off his feet after catching a kick, but that was the extent of his early offense. Bilharinho seemed to turn the tide in the second round, where he unloaded with kicks to the leg and body, straight lefts, overhand rights and close-quarters knees. Silva weathered the assault, slowed the 25-year-old’s advances by luring him into the clinch and then reset at a distance. From there, he forced Bilharinho to cover up along the fence with a wild volley of punches and knees to the body and head. Silva floored his fellow Brazilian with a right hook and finished him with a series of hammerfists while the fallen Bilharinho tried desperately to cling to his leg. Meanwhile, the Jungle Fight bantamweight belt changed hands in the main event, as Josenaldo Silva pocketed a unanimous decision over Constrictor Team’s Maike Linhares Galvao Amorim. Silva, 29, has rattled off 16 consecutive …

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