About Thiago Silva
Brazilian kickboxer and mixed martial artist Thiago Anderson Ramos da Silva was born on November 12, 1982, and his estimated net worth is $1 million. Since 2005, Thiago Silva has competed for the World Series of Fighting, Pancrase, Absolute Championship, and UFC.
There are numerous categories by which MMA fighters can be divided. For instance, those who appear to be capable of utterly destroying you and those that aren’t. Kenny Florian is a very dangerous man, no doubt about it, but he doesn’t quite look the part, does he? On the other hand, Wanderlei Silva appears to be the kind of person you would never, I mean never, want to meet in a shady alley.
Therefore, if we’re classifying MMA fighters in this manner, it would be wise to include Thiago Silva in Wanderlei’s group. He certainly appears the part. The good news is that he also does an excellent job acting the part, incidentally.
Silva was a longtime member of Chute Boxe Academy in Brazil. However, he now trains with American Top Team.
Silva fights for the UFC in their light heavyweight (205 pound) division.
Silva, like every other student who has attended the Chute Boxe Academy in Brazil, has mastered Muay Thai. In addition, he holds a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
Silva has a diverse set of skills. He is a very aggressive striker who can inflict harm with punches and kicks in the Muay Thai style from a distance as well as with knees and elbows in the clinch. He has demonstrated throughout his MMA career that he is a knockout waiting to happen. In addition, Silva is incredibly strong and underappreciated in the submission game, possibly since the majority of his fights end in (T)KO.
Interestingly, Thiago names Wanderlei Silva as one of his heroes and compares his extremely aggressive style to that of Silva.
In his first 13 MMA matches, Silva prevailed via stoppage (mainly (T)KO), winning all but one of those matches. Before losing his first fight to Lyoto Machida via first-round KO, he had won four straight in the UFC.
It should be noted that Silva’s first eight matches all took place in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the city of his birth.
Silva and his wife Thaysa reside in Coconut Creek, Florida.
Silva began to train in mixed martial arts at 18 years old as a means of making a living for himself. As of 2023, MMA fighter Thiago Silva’s net worth is estimated to be $1 million.
