Evangelista Santos

As a combat sports follower, I can't help but admire Evangelista Santos. Out of Curitiba, Brazil, he came up through Muay Thai before going pro in MMA in 1997 and fighting until 2016 across PRIDE, Strikeforce, Bellator and a host of other promotions. Nearly two decades in the cage is a brutal tenure, and the Cyborg nickname suggests just how much punishment he absorbed and returned. What I respect most isn't a single title but the sheer endurance, the refusal to leave the ring season after season. For me, that durability is its own kind of greatness in this sport.

Name (English)

Evangelista Santos

Name (Japanese)

エヴァンゲリスタ・サイボーグ

Reading

えゔぁんげりすた・さいぼーぐ

Born

December 12, 1977 (age 48)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Snake

Origin

Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

Height

178 cm

Occupation

mixed martial arts fighter / Thai boxer

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelista%20Santos
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B2%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%82%A4%E3%83%9C%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B0
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5415831

Tags

• Paraná
• mixed martial arts fighter
• Thai boxer

Last updated

2026-06-23

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.