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Wanderlei Cesar Silva,(born July 3, 1976 in Curitiba, Brazil) is a Brazilian mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter, who has competed in Japan's PRIDE Fighting Championships and the American based Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). He trained under Rudimar Fedrigo at the Chute Boxe Academy in Curitiba, Brazil. He specializes in Muay Thai and has received a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. He holds notable wins over Kazushi Sakuraba, Ricardo Arona, Dan Henderson, Quinton "Rampage" Jackson and Yuki Kondo. He is the former PRIDE middleweight (205 lb) champion and the PRIDE 2003 Middleweight Grand Prix champion, among others.

Silva earned the nickname "The Axe Murderer" for his extremely aggressive fighting style; the majority of his fights have either ended in a knockout or referee stoppage due to his strikes. In the ring, he is known for engaging opponents with punches and utilizing knees in the Muay Thai clinch. He is also known for kicking and stomping downed opponents as well as his looping punches.

Silva's nickname in Brazil is "Cachorro Louco", which translates to "Mad Dog", again due to his aggressive fighting style, but also because of the vicious way he stares down opponents just before the beginning of his fights

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• Wanderlei
• Silva
• Chuck
• Liddell
• Quinton
• Jackson
• Dan
• Henderson
• PRIDE
• UFC

[goldfinger123]

Silva = legend

[chabz01]

WHERE IS PART 2???!!!???

[WhiteWidowRider]

LOL AT DANA MONEY MADE HIM FAT

[kaylinds1]

Pride was an outstanding show, the pride theme music always gave me chills and hyped me up to train to be a fighter. Most of Ufcs champions consisted of former pride fighters and pride champions such as vanderlei silva, rampage jackson, allistair overeem, mauricio shogun rua, too name a few. It was sad to see pride fold and get bought out by ufc, probably the owner just got tired of the stress of promotion and Dana WHite offered him money he couldn't refuse. anywayz pride lives on forever.

[alfonzodivito23]

i missed this part in pride documentary

[jozsefkacsa]

Wanderlei silva the pride of pride and the punching bag of the UFC LMAO

[tokionakano]

this video's so nice! where's the second!?

[seucoelho]

wow... that was cool that the ufc took chuck to japan... kind of like mortal kombat or street fighter... it would be good if pride still existed and all the promotions took their best fighters to fight each other on a single tournament to see who is the best!!!

[Zerospy]

the japanese pride was the epic and the best event of the history , dana white should try to copy a little of the programs . he is very american nationalist , how the americans and the american football.

the same kind of propagand.

[milksnake82]

you cant compare chucks speech with nowadays. sad.

[garrrrity]

holy shit!! Alister is so damn small!