Thiago Silva :: TATAME

Not everything went as Thiago Silva planed. Promoted to the main fight of UFC 108, he had planned to beat Rashad Evans to win a chance of revenge against Lyoto Machida, his only butcher until then. Although, the favorable decision to the ex champion frustrated the Brazilian, who got farther of a chance to the title. After the defeat, Thiago talked to TATAME about the difficulties on fight, said why he didn’t attacked Rashad on the last round, when he needed to go to all or nothing, and why he decided to fight even not being 100%.

What did you think about the fight?

The fight was good, besides I have lost. It was hard to defend the takedown and I lost by point. I took a lot of takedowns, didn’t I?

Did you expected that he would work that much on takedowns?

I expected, but I didn’t thought that he was going to insist that much on the game. I thought he would exchange a little bit more, but he escaped from the exchanging and he went on takedowns.

How much did the injury muddled you?

At some point, it did muddled a little... I’ve hurt my back four weeks left to the fight and I got almost three weeks and a half without training at all, just doing strengthening and physiotherapy. I lost a little bit of timing and strength, I don’t know if the trust too…

Did you thought that you would have more difficulty on the fight because you lost a month of training?

I thought it would be worst than it was. I could put the rhythm and did what I could. I went to my limit. It’s not right, but I went, I did what I could and tried my best.

On the third round you started to provoke him and almost knocked him out. On that moment, did you think you were winning the fight?

I knew I was losing. I wasn’t that good on the energy and I tried to provoke him to see if he comes over me, but he didn’t bought it. I knew I was losing, I lost the two rounds.

When you hit him, don’t you think that you needed to keep hitting him more?

To be tired make a difference, man… I started to provoke him because he was with the low energy, getting tired… Wanting or not, he has a heavy hand, there’s some time that we don’t know what’s going on anymore… I think the energy made the difference, I was pretty tired.

What did UFC guys told about the fight?

They said it was a good fight, but we have to recover the waist time.

Your aim was to win to have a rematch against Lyoto. How do you see yourself inside UFC now?

Now is to wait... Probably they will match me with a good fight, Dana White told that, and I’m here to fight with the best. I want to fight with the best and I think I’m on the way. I’ll keep training, there’s nothing to do. To lose happens.

Will you stand still now for a while?

Things are bad, man… I’m inside home, lie down, just came back from the doctor, I’m with a strong compression on the muscle, on the vertebra… I’ll have to make a treatment, there’s no scheduled date yet… I’ll pass through three doctors and then I’ll start the physiotherapy again.

Is this injury the same that forced you to postpone the fight against Lyoto?

It’s the same injury, even a little worse, but this time I didn’t wanted to cancel the fight. I don’t think it’s nice you schedule an event and have to cancel the fight, so I went as I were. Now, I’ll stop to take care of myself.

Do you regret to have fought without being 100%?

I don’t regret because I like to fight. To cancel to fight wouldn’t have been good. When was missing a month to the fight I was with a very good training… I wasn’t 100%, but I did what I could. We never fight 100%, it’s very hard.