Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) is recruiting any big name not under contract with Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)
. And in terms of legacy, they don’t get much bigger than former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva.It also helps that Silva previously worked with MVP.
“Nakisa [Bidarian] invited me to come to fight MMA or kickboxing,” Silva told Ariel Helwani. “But because I’m in this process now [of becoming a police officer] to study, to keep my mind work on the one thing, I just say, ‘Oh,
I can’t this time.’ But when I finish the whole thing, probably I have one or two more fights, only boxing.”
Silva is 4-2 as a pugilist with three knockouts.
“I’m not have a mind anymore to train in MMA, it’s just too hard for me to [come] back to train MMA,” Silva added. “Of course, I train jiu jitsu every day. I train in boxing two days a week. But MMA no, not anymore.”
Silva, 51, is currently training to become a police officer.
“The Spider” was being recruited for the upcoming “Rousey vs. Carano” fight card on May 16 in Los Angeles. The event will stream exclusively on Netflix and run head-to-head with the UFC Vegas 117: “Costa vs. Allen” lineup at Meta Apex in Las Vegas.
