The largest win of Jean Silva’s profession was much more troublesome that the majority thought.
At UFC Denver, Silva confronted Drew Dober in one of many easiest fights of 2024, successful through third-round TKO after opening a grotesque reduce over Dober’s eye. And he did all of it along with his greatest weapons compromised.
On Thursday, Silva revealed through social media that he broke each fingers within the first spherical of. his combat with Dober, and nonetheless went on to win the bout.
“Think about being in a match towards a tricky, prime weight opponent in his city, and all of a sudden realizing you broke each fingers within the first spherical… This occurred to Jean Silva. He got here again and knocked [him out with] elbows.”
“What’s up guys,” Silva stated. “The following picture you’ll see is about my hand fractures. Sadly, the combat towards Drew Dober was fairly arduous. I broke each my fingers within the first spherical. I instructed my nook they usually instructed me to maintain preventing, utilizing knees and elbows that we’ve got educated earlier than. So, no method we have been going to lose that combat and I’m not going to lose to anybody.”
The win was Silva’s third within the UFC and second in as many weeks, as “Lord” knocked out Charles Jourdain two weeks’ prior at UFC 303. Now it seems Silva is in for a little bit of a break as he recovers from his accidents.
