Jean Silva is an brutal fighter when he’s locked in a cage with one other man within the UFC, and a part of what makes him a ferocious fighter is a aspect he doesn’t talk about a lot publicly.
Set to battle featherweight veteran Bryce Mitchell at UFC 314, which fits down April 12 in Miami, Silva defined to MMA Preventing the emotional which means behind the lock tattoo he has on his chest.
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“The lock has a diamond with mom’s identify proper beneath it, so nobody can contact these feelings,” Silva stated. “Right here’s the guts, my happiness. And the lock symbolizes many issues. And it’s an outdated lock, from a nordic period, earlier than Christ, so perhaps it’s a lock that solely actual feelings can open. It’s principally that. Solely actual individuals by my aspect.”
Silva had a tough childhood as an overweight child, however turned his life round via martial arts. The identical might be stated about his mom, who evokes him to grow to be a greater man and struggle adversities each inside and out of doors the cage.
“So nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing will cease me,” he continued. “Those that practice with me know, those that are by my aspect daily say my head is out of the peculiar. I do know what I’m going to do.”
Silva is 15-2 as an expert MMA fighter with a dozen knockouts to his credit score – 4 of these since becoming a member of the UFC in January 2024.
