Thiago Silva’s Loss To Machida Hurt His “Soul”

With an impressive victory over Keith Jardine at UFC 102, light-heavyweight fighter Thiago Silva (14-1) is looking to return to the octagon with another victory in his hunt for the UFC title.

Silva faces Rashad Evans as part of the UFC 108 event on Jan. 2 in Las Vegas and talked to Tatame.com.br about his hunt for the light-heavyweight title and his only loss to the champion Lyoto Machida.

Tatame: How is your expectation for the fight against Rashad?
Thiago Silva: You are good, I am well trained, gas, almost the weight and still missing two months. I’m working hard conditioning first, then begin to enter the technical part of the strategy.

Tatame: You are an aggressive guy and he plays more on the counter attack. How do you think this fight will be?
Thiago Silva: Everyone can expect a lively fight. Everyone knows that I’m an aggressive guy, but also reaches a certain point that we have to be aggressive, but smart. I study his game here and the easiest way I find to reach a victory is what will be done.

Tatame: Any desire for revenge against Machida?
Thiago Silva: It was the first defeat of my career, it hurt the soul, I made several mistakes and unfortunately had to learn from defeat, but I’m here and I want my revenge.

Tatame: What you changed for you after this fight?
Thiago Silva: The strategic part … I went a lot to fight, but it reaches a level that has, for more comfortable that we have to fight, the technical strategy and count. I think the strategy is 50% of the way and should be well done.

Silva also talks about training with season ten “TUF” competitor Kimbo Slice.

Tatame: How are training at ATT?
Thiago Silva: Training is as strong as ever, especially now with the arrival of new galley, like Kimbo (Slice), Denis Kang is back, training is even stronger and we are there on the run. The training is a total mess, I had never seen the academy as it is now. The drills are being more difficult than a fight … We have some 15 partners tops the Lard is training with me here, is one of the best tracks for me, is parceirão, is helping me to train … Is excellent, I have no complaints.

Tatame: How is training with Kimbo Slice?
Thiago Silva: Kimbo is a fighter and is hard to mesh with the gang. He is an athlete’s level, will fight in December and the guys are giving a strength. I think he will fight to 93kg, amid heavy.

The interview is translated from Portuguese.

With an impressive victory over Keith Jardine at UFC 102, light-heavyweight fighter Thiago Silva (14-1) is looking to return to the octagon with another victory in his hunt for the UFC title. Silva faces Rashad Evans as part of the UFC 108 event on Jan. 2 in Las Vegas and talked to Tatame.com.br about his [...]

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