Anderson Silva’s teammate Eliezer Silva has confirmed ‘there was no knockout’ of Silva in sparring and that ‘The Spider’ was just trying to promote his sparring partner ahead of his boxing match with Anthony Hannah on tonight’s Paul-Silva undercard in Arizona.
Silva previously stated that he had been KO’d twice by Eliezer in sparring but later retracted that statement after the Arizona Boxing Commission almost canceled his fight with Paul due to concerns about the Brazilian’s health.
Training partner Eliezier cleared things up during a recent interview with MMA Fighting, stating that he did not KO Silva in training but that the two had a very technical sparring session in which both fighters learned a lot ahead of their respective bouts on Saturday.