Seattle – UFC featherweight Jean Silva pulled the curtain back into his mindset following his win over Melsik Baghdasaryan at UFC Seattle on Saturday night.
“Damn dude it’s actually very tough to talk about this,” Silva told Cageside Press through a translator at his post-fight presser.
“It’s something that I have to, and I need to, deal with on a regular basis. On a daily basis. My wife knows this because I go to the bathroom every day when I wake up and I just stay there. It could be hours. Just dealing with emotions, and it’s not in a bad sense. A lot of good stuff, but you need to be able to control that. Not to be a problem.”
Silva (15-2) showed quite a bit of emotion during fight week, but he says it comes from a place of gratitude and not sadness. His life has changed dramatically since joining the UFC.
“When I hear Bruce Buffer say my name do you understand the number of people that would like to be in my place? There are many people that do what I do, that been in this game, that dedicate themselves as much as or even more than I do. That put in the work that cannot be here so it’s so much that goes into it,” he said.
“All those emotions just come out at that moment.”
His wife, Carol, is his rock in an ever-changing game that is fighting. He began to get very emotional when speaking about her.
“I do not remember the time in my life and the life that I had before her. I was a problem. I was a problem of a man. I met her and she believed in me, and she got me back into school, to study and to finish my studies,” he said.
“She got me back into that. She was my first teacher. We met training. She was the first person that trained me. I just kept saying, I still keep saying to her, ‘do not give up on me’.”
Watch the entire post-fight scrum with Jean Silva above.
