Kalyl’s victory in his professional boxing debut makes his father Anderson Silva overjoyed with pride. His 23-year-old son won his first professional fight on Saturday in Bahia, Brazil.
The teenage fighter’s cornermen were former UFC middleweight champion Silva and renowned boxing coach Luiz Carloz Dorea. In the fourth and last round of their bout, Kalyl struck Paulo dos Santos in the breadbasket with a powerful blow that rendered him unconscious.
The entire situation had Anderson Silva filled with emotion, and he joined his son in the middle of the boxing ring. The combat sports icon and Kalyl Silva exchanged bows in remembrance of the historic occasion. They then hugged each other to mark the occasion.
Since losing a unanimous decision to Michael Mitchell Jr. earlier this year in an amateur kickboxing contest, Kalyl made his maiden appearance inside the squared circle. He had previously defeated Anthony Reynaga and Melo Palmuk twice in a row.
In the United Premier Soccer League in California, Silva, a former football player, played forward for LA10 FC. At the conclusion of the previous season, he made the decision not to extend his contract so that he might participate in other combat sports.
The defeat of Anderson Silva by Jake Paul, according to Michael Jai White, astonished him
Michael Jai White, a famous actor, and expert in mixed martial arts asserts that he was taken aback by Jake Paul’s performance versus Anderson Silva in their boxing bout earlier in October of this year.
Defeating former UFC middleweight champion, Anderson Silva, on points in front of 14,000 spectators at the Desert Diamond Arena in Phoenix was YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul.
All eight rounds of the fight were fought, and Paul eventually prevailed by unanimous decision after knocking him out in the eighth.
Despite the fact that Anderson, at 47, is in the latter stages of his career and is better known for his accomplishments in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) than for his boxing victories, it was the most significant victory of the 25-year-boxing old’s career thus far.
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