The world of mixed martial arts is full of differentoutstanding athletes who represent different countries of the planet. However, along with the Americans, Brazilians are also among the leaders in MMA, who brought their jujitsu to the octagon. Along with wrestling skills among Hispanics, there are many great drummers. Nowadays, more and more true all-rounders possessing equally good wrestling and strike technique. On one of these masters by the name of Antonio ("Bigfoot") Silva and will be discussed in this article.
Biographical information
Гигант из Бразилии появился на свет 14 сентября 1979 The hometown of the fighter is Campina Grande, where he lives to this day. Growth athlete is 193 centimeters. Despite the constant physical exertion, Antonio gradually expands and thickens his hands, feet and skull due to his existing disease, called acromegaly (a violation of the anterior pituitary gland).
Sports career
Bigfoot Silva tried his hand at manyMMA promotions, among which are titans such as: Hero "s, BodogFight and Elite Xtreme Combat (in the latter he was even a heavyweight division champion). He also quite successfully showed himself in Strikeforce and Sengoku. Nowadays, the athlete performs in the world's leading the promotion is the Ultimate Fighting Championship, where his fate is so far unfortunate, because he is on the verge of dismissal.
Strikeforce Performance
The first battle in this already defunct todayorganization "Bigfoot" Silva held in November 2009. Then he was opposed by his compatriot Fabricio Werdum, who won the bout with a judicial decision (all the judges gave him preference with a score of 29-28).
In the second bout of the Grand Prix, Antonio fought with the BelarusianAndrei Orlovsky, who also lost his debut fight in the promotion. Everyone expected their fight to be very entertaining, and one of the fighters would end the fight early, but in reality the confrontation lasted all three rounds, and the Brazilian won.
In the third “Bigfoot” fight, Silva competed with Mac Kyle, whom he was able to beat by technical knockout in the second five-minute period.
Meeting with the Last Emperor
In February 2011, Antonio met withRussian Feodor Emelyanenko. The first round was marked by a fabulous exchange of punches in the rack. Thanks to its enormous advantage in size, the Brazilian was able to break Fedor’s nose. After one of the Bigfoot attacks, the fighters found themselves in the stalls, where the Russian made an attempt to strangle his opponent with a guillotine, but Silva was able to escape strangulation. However, Fedor’s attack did not end, and he tried to carry out the so-called Kimura - a painful hold on the arm, from which the Brazilian was also able to wriggle out successfully.
The second five minutes was marked by the passage in the legsthe Brazilian, after which he was over Emelianenko throughout the whole round, struck him and even tried several times to get into the painful hold. As a result, the Russian had a large hematoma near the right eye, the doctors were forced to ban the continuation of the fight.
Bigfoot Silva vs. Overeem - just suchthe semifinal was planned at the Grand Prix, but the Dutchman was forced to leave the tournament due to a hand injury, the organizers completed the substitution, giving the opportunity for the American Daniel Cormier. In this confrontation, the Brazilian was considered the undisputed favorite, but sensationally lost in the first round.
UFC fights
Debut duel in the world's leading promotion forThe Brazilian turned out to be extremely unfortunate - he lost to Kane Velasquez by knockout. After this fight followed two victories: over Alistair Overeem and Travis Brown. In rematch with Velasquez, once again proved to be stronger than an American of Mexican descent.
Марк Хант – Бигфут Сильва – это противостояние also consisted of two fights. And if in the first fight a draw was recorded, which was later canceled due to the discovery in the Brazilian blood of doping, then in the second fight the representative of New Zealand won an indisputable technical victory.
Последние бои "Бигфута" Сильвы также крайне unsuccessful for himself. In particular, in May 2016, he lost to local star Stefan Shtruwe at a tournament in Holland, and the Dutchman needed only 16 seconds to win. It was during this time that he managed to “beat” the Brazilian with punches and send him to the knockout.
