Өнгөрсөн бямба гарагт болсон Noche UFC тэмцээнд ялалт байгуулсан Жан Силва өөрийн карьерын анхны гол тулааны талаар ямар ч дурсамж үлдээгүй гэдгээ хүлээн зөвшөөрөв.
Жан Силва өнгөрсөн жил Аризона мужийн Глендейл хотноо болсон Noche UFC тэмцээний үеэр Диего Лопестой тулалдахдаа хүнд цохилтод орж ялагдсан билээ. Тэрээр тулааны дараах хэвлэлийн бага хурлын үеэр өнгөрсөн жил болсон тухайн тулааны талаар ямар ч дурсамжгүй явдгаа багийнхандаа тулааны өмнө анх удаа илчилсэн байна. Силва өөрийн анхны гол тулааныг түүхэнд хоёр дахь нь хэмээн тэмдэглэгдсэн ч өөрийн хувьд энэ удаагийн тулааныг жинхэнэ анхны томоохон туршлага гэж үзэж байгаагаа илэрхийлжээ.
Энэ удаагийн тэмцээнд Силва өрсөлдөгч Хосе Мигель Дельгадог буулган авснаар өөрийн карьертаа шинэ дурсамж бүтээж чадсан юм. Түүний энэхүү ялалт нь хагас хөнгөн жингийн чансааг ахиулж, аваргын бүсийн төлөөх өрсөлдөөнд эргэн ирэх боломжийг олгож байна.
Силвагийн ялалтын дараа хагас хөнгөн жингийн өрсөлдөгч Алжамейн Стерлинг түүнтэй тулалдах хүсэлтэй байгаагаа илэрхийлсэн юм. Силва өөрийн нэр хүндийг өсгөж, томоохон тулаануудад оролцох сонирхолтой байгаагаа илэрхийлж, Стерлингээс ирсэн дуудлагыг хүлээн авахад бэлэн гэдгээ мэдэгдэв.
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Jean Silva | (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)
Jean Silva can’t remember anything about his first foray at Noche UFC.
Last year, Silva had the first headlining event of his UFC career when he took on Diego Lopes at Noche UFC. Unfortunately for Silva, things didn’t go his way as he got brutally finished in a Fight of the Year contender.
This past Saturday, Silva got some form of redemption, stopping Jose Miguel Delgado in the main event of Noche UFC in Glendale, Arizona. It was an important win for Silva, not just because of where it puts him in the featherweight division, but also because he had no recollection of his first UFC main event.
“Now I can open up and tell you what happened, because throughout this year, and throughout camp, and throughout fight week, even before the fight, as fight week progressed, I couldn’t find myself to say this to my teammate,” Silva said through the translator at the Noche UFC post-fight press conference. “I actually pulled them aside in a corner before the fight tonight and told them, I don’t have any memories of what happened at Noche UFC last year. It did take something away from me, and those were the memories.
“I told to people that it’s sad, because I wanted the have the memory of my first main event, and I do not have any of that. I know that in world history, the books are going to say this was my second main event, but to me, it was the first. So I’m very happy that tonight I was able to make good memories, and I will remember.
“I know that we do things for the reward, for the victory, for history, but we also want to be able to tell stories. We want to be able to tell our kids, we want to be able to tell our friends, to share the experience, to say, first-person perspective, ‘I was there, and I did this, and I was part of that.’ And unfortunately on that night I did not have that, and I have no memories of that day.”
Silva certainly has much to remember from this Noche UFC. Not only did “Lord” win another Performance of the Night bonus, but the win put him right back in the title mix at 145 pounds, and could lead to another big fight, possibly a title eliminator bout against former bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling, who called for just that after Silva’s win at UFC 334 in Madison Square Garden in November.
“As we like to say in Brazil, it’s talk me up, talk me down, talk shit, hype me up, but talk about me,” Silva said about Sterling’s comments. “Go ahead.”
