ANTÔNIO SILVA

The Brazilian heavyweight, Antônio Silva, utilizes a striking-heavy approach and ground-based attacks to compete. A product of American Top Team, he previously established himself as the EliteXC champion before moving to the UFC. Throughout his long career, the orthodox fighter earned significant victories against elite opponents like Alistair Overeem, Andrei Arlovski, and Fedor Emelianenko.

Heading into this event, Silva carries a career record of 17-17-1 with one no-contest result. His recent activity shows a string of five consecutive defeats. He dropped a unanimous decision to Salaiman Ahmadyar in his most recent appearance. Prior to that, he fell to Oleg Popov via knockout, suffered a decision loss against Vitaly Minakov, and endured technical knockout setbacks against Quentin Domingos and Rico Verhoeven.