Comments on: D-Day for Antonio Silva coming up – Sengoku or US MMA career

By: Chuck

Chuck — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:46:49 +0000

“Did he have his surgery in the US? Brazil has public health care. Why have it done in the US?”

Probably because, while Brazil’s is free, the US has BETTER health services. And he probably had the money to get it done right then and there. Many Canadians (rich ones for the most part) get their surgeries and the like in the States

By: dave2

dave2 — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:55:28 +0000

Did he have his surgery in the US? Brazil has public health care. Why have it done in the US?

By: ilostmydog

ilostmydog — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:06:53 +0000

I know that many elective surgeries in the states are pretty expensive and many brain surgeries are as well. Perhaps he is still trying to pay off the costs of having his pituitary tumour removed?

By: dave2

dave2 — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:26:55 +0000

Unfortunately many fighters don’t know anything about financial management. Though I’d tend to think that MMA fighters are smarter about money than boxers considering how educated the MMA fighter base is. I don’t envision Jon Fitch or Josh Koscheck irresponsibly blowing their money like Mike Tyson did. Though I could see a Phil Baroni or Antonio Silva blowing their money.

By: D.Capitated

D.Capitated — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:40:25 +0000

You can say the same things here. What if a fighter is killed as a result of a UFC bout and it brings the sport to its knees? People who make 200,000 in a single night tend to spend money as if that is going to be a long term sum of money they’ll make, and I doubt Silva is any different. He should go to Japan, make his money, and then when he comes back here he can put around fighting in states like Florida, Illinois, and Texas where commissions are weaker and more likely to approve him. Remember that his US debut was in a gulf coast state that didn’t require CT scans or drug testing, allowing him to fight with a tumor in his brain.

By: dave2

dave2 — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:41:57 +0000

Vitor’s NSAC license already expired end of 2006, before he fought at Cage Rage. So he had no license to revoke. That’s why Vitor was allowed to fight in America again. Big Foot needs to suck it up for 6 more months. He can’t afford to jeopardize any chance of an American MMA career. I doubt he’d ever see 100/100 again from another American MMA org again unless Affliction miraculously survives. lol. But the industry is too unstable in Japan to risk blackballing yourself from American MMA. What if WVR folds after losing too much money and FEG gets a Yakuza Scandal? (ok considering that FEG is much, much bigger than DSE ever was, they’d be able to buy out the authorities probably but you never know) Then what?

By: joeblow

joeblow — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:34:53 +0000

Here are a few possible opponents:

Barnett, Nastula, Nakao, Gracie, Fujita

Also, Vitor didn’t seem to have any trouble when he was suspended by NSAC, fought in Cage Rage, and was then licensed in California.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:01:03 +0000

Pontus, he is a fighter. Fighters in the prime of their careers tend to not save money. He probably thought the money would never stop flowing.

By: Pontus

Pontus — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:05:03 +0000

Is Silva really that desperate for cash? You would think that a fighter that earned 100/100 would put some away for a rainy day.

By: Steve Barry

Steve Barry — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:42:38 +0000

The Silva interview Japan-MMA pulled that story from is dated two days before the Sherdog story where the CSAC says they will revoke his license, so it would seem that there’s the possibility he could be reconsidering in light of the CSAC’s threats.