Anderson Silva

For me, Anderson Silva is the closest mixed martial arts has come to producing a genuine artist. The São Paulo native blended boxing, judo, taekwondo and Muay Thai into a style that looked less like fighting than choreography, and his 2,457-day UFC middleweight reign remains a record that feels almost untouchable. What I love is the audacity: the slipped punches, the hands-down counters, the way he seemed to enjoy the danger. Even his later pivot to professional boxing, long past his prime, spoke to a refusal to stop testing himself. Plenty of fighters have been dominant, but few have made dominance look this beautiful.

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Name (English)

Anderson Silva

Name (Japanese)

アンデウソン・シウバ

Reading

あんでうそん・しうば

Born

April 14, 1975 (age 51)

Origin

São Paulo, Brazil

Height

188 cm

Occupation

boxer / judoka / mixed martial arts fighter / taekwondo athlete / Thai boxer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Rabbit

• Official sitehttps://www.spidersilva.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/spiderandersonsilva/
• Xhttps://x.com/spideranderson
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson%20Silva
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%82%A6%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A6%E3%83%90
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q356871

Tags

• São Paulo
• boxer
• judoka
• mixed martial arts fighter

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.