I’m a huge UFC fan so I was excited to find out that Claudio Silva, the head coach at the local training facility Combat Athletics will be fighting on the UFC 201 card this coming July. Claudio is currently on an 11 fight win streak with the last two wins taking place in the UFC. Due to a bit of bad luck last year (he broke both his feet), he had to take a break from fighting so that he could recover. Now that he’s healed up he’s heading back to the UFC and will be facing off against the tough Siyar Bahadurzada.
Claudio is currently in London until the end of the month before he heads to Miami for his 8 week fight camp with American Top Team. ATT is one of the top MMA camps that currently trains a bunch of popular fighters like current UFC Welterweight Champion Robbie Lawler as well as UFC fighters Hector Lombard, Junior Dos Santos and Glover Teixeira amongst a ton of others.
Now the cool part about all of this is that Claudio will be carrying the Kuwaiti flag with him at the weigh-ins and during his walkout to the cage on fight night. If he wins I’m assuming he’ll also have it on him during the winners announcement. Should be a great fight and I’m looking forward to seeing Claudio walkout with the Kuwaiti flag while Joe Rogan tries to guess which country it’s from. UFC 201 will be held on July 30th and I’ll be posting a reminder a day or two before. If you’d like to support Claudio you can do so by following him on instagram where he’ll be sharing pictures and videos from his fight camp @claudiohannibalsilva
12 replies on “Claudio “Hannibal” Silva Will Represent Kuwait at UFC 201”
Wow this Claudio guy seem have a lot of appreciation and loyalty towards Kuwait! But it’s little odd for him not carrying the Brazilian flag, don’t you think? It is maybe a common thing fighters do in I don’t know haha xD I would love to know the reason behind this much love thu
He’ll probably have both flags similarly to how Frankie Edgar had both the Bahraini and American flag in his corner https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CWDHikZWwAERCTU.jpg
Wow never noticed that! Does he do this for all fights, or just that one?
Just on his last one since he and khabib just recently teamed up with a Bahraini prince who is into MMA and has a training facility which they keep visiting
How long has he been in Kuwait?
He is Brazilian. Training in Miami. Representing Kuwait for a fight in Atlanta. Seems authentic.
Who is teaching at the gym while he is gone the next 3 months?
3:30am response on a weekday.
You’re either a student or unemployed then eh Jesse?
Explains why your comment was so stupid.
If you’re curious who’s managing the gym, go pass by.
One of the partners of Combat Athletics who passed away last year (Khaled Al-Saleh may he RIP) was the reason why Claudio is in Kuwait.
Khaled was the first GCC citizen to become an offcially recognized referee, and he was also on member of Kuwait’s Olympic Juijitsu committee.
Claudio has enormous respect for Khaled (May he rip)his authentic love of MMA and he has a lot of love for Kuwait.
So please make sure you do well on your finals and refrain from misleading readers, everything about Combat Athletics is 100% authentic.
+1
RIP KGS
He’s with us at ATT in Florida
you guys managing him?
was talking about you earlier tonight btw!
No we don’t manage him but he trains with us at ATT
No one manages Claudio I personally know the owner, and a member at combat athletics.