Antonio ‘Bigfoot’ Silva declares March 23 fight with fellow UFC vet Juan Espino
One-time UFC heavyweight title challenger Antonio Silva continues to fight on despite an 11-fight losing bound.
Silva on Tuesday announced a fight with fellow UFC vet Juan Espino for March 23 at an event dubbed, “The Farewell.” The event takes assign at Gran Canaria Arena in Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain. The bout’s rule assign and nerve-racking components weren’t incorporated.
“I am very cheerful to fight towards [someone I look up to] in my profession, anyone who motivates me to be the next fighter and I esteem, a fight plump of appreciate where victory or defeat is no longer sought, but to thank your whole followers who bag supported us with a broad show,” Silva wrote on Instagram (by translate).
Espino, the winner of The Closing Fighter Season 28, announced his retirement from MMA this past June, announcing his injuries forced him to retire from opponents. He most no longer too prolonged ago competed in 2021, losing a technical resolution to Alexandr Romanov at UFC Vegas 24.
“Deep in my coronary heart I became left with a prickly thorn,” Espino wrote on his Instagram internet page (by translate). “It has nothing to fabricate with a hit or losing… . I couldn’t enable injuries to protect up me from announcing goodbye the style I love ideally suited.”
Silva has been knocked out in nine of his 11 straight losses. After his most up to date setback, a resolution loss this past June to Salim El Ouassaidi, he announced he would return because of he felt he had won the fight.
Abruptly after the loss, Silva acknowledged “all the pieces has a initiating build and an halt, and I’m very cheerful and cheerful. We never wish to quit, no official athlete wants to quit, even in volleyball or soccer, but all the pieces has a time, and I did this for 19 years.”
Silva hasn’t won within the cage since a 2015 get over Soa Palelei at UFC 190.
MMA Struggling with’s Guilherme Cruz contributed to this file.
