LAS VEGAS – Karine Silva isn’t able to make callouts after her UFC on ESPN 55 victory, however she’s getting nearer to it.
Silva (18-4 MMA, 4-0 UFC) continued the unbeaten begin to her octagon tenure Saturday with a unanimous resolution victory over Ariane da Silva (17-9 MMA, 6-6 UFC) of their girls’s flyweight bout on the UFC Apex. It’s the primary time within the Brazilian’s profession she gained a battle on the scorecards.
“I actually felt like I adopted my recreation plan, that I did every little thing I might to win the battle,” Silva advised MMA Junkie and different reporters by an interpreter post-fight at UFC on ESPN 55. “I did every little thing we educated for, so I’m very completely satisfied and actually excited to look at my battle once more and see every little thing from the surface trying in.”
Silva revealed a minor toe harm stemming from the bout, however doesn’t suppose it’s something that may deter him from getting two extra fights on this 12 months.
There’s hope from Silva she might be ranked within the prime 10 at girls’s flyweight shifting ahead, and if she will be able to get one other win in opposition to ranked competitors, she is going to make a callout that’s been saved in her again pocket.
“The one identify that’s at all times on my thoughts, it’s a bit of bit unreachable for me proper now,” Silva stated. “So I’ll be prepared for whoever the UFC has for me subsequent. Perhaps subsequent time I’ll be capable to name out the one which I need.”
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