Jean Silva joined the unique membership of UFC fighters to win twice in a span of 14 days and desires to remain energetic following his back-to-back finishes of Charles Jourdain and Drew Dober.
Silva displayed his hanging towards the latter in an thrilling battle at UFC Denver, finally opening a ugly minimize over Dober’s eye and forcing the physician to cease the bout, which earned each athletes Battle of the Night time bonuses.
Regardless of the end coming at light-weight — and Silva beforehand lacking weight two weeks earlier for a featherweight battle — the 27-year-old prospect guidelines out staying at 155 kilos.
“I’m a featherweight and all these featherweights are going to get beat up,” Silva informed MMA Preventing. “My group and I do know [Silva] likes problem,s and as quickly as they heard Dober wanted an opponent, they referred to as my supervisor and urged volunteering as a result of they knew Dober is a knockout artist. We knew this was the perfect alternative to ship a message to my division, as a result of there’s nobody knocking individuals out like Dober in my weight class.
“I imply, there may be now — me.”
Silva defined that he missed weight for the Jourdain bout on June 29 at UFC 303 after falling down the steps throughout battle week and hurting his shoulder, however vows to work on his weight minimize to make sure there aren’t any extra hiccups on the dimensions going ahead.
A expertise out of the Preventing Nerds fitness center, Silva stated he solely took the Dober battle on such brief discover as a result of it was at light-weight, however nonetheless plans to battle three extra instances in 2024 to be topped MMA Preventing’s Rookie of the 12 months with a 6-0 run this yr within the promotion.
“I’ll knock out lots of people within the UFC,” Silva stated. “Let’s be trustworthy, based mostly on that battle [with Dober], there’s no featherweight to beat [me]. The featherweights who simply obtained to the UFC gained’t take this battle. They’re sensible. Even when they are saying they may, of their hearts they know they gained’t take it.
“Veterans may take this battle. Josh Emmett would simply take this battle. All I do know is that [my manager] Ivan Jatoba and Sean Shelby can have a tough time discovering individuals to battle me. I really feel like featherweights are in shock proper now. Possibly down the road Max Holloway can be one which accepts to battle me as a result of he’s powerful, however I’d knock him out. If he stops within the center and calls me like he referred to as Justin Gaethje, he’s screwed, brother. I’ll knock him out.”
