Coach: Wand doesn’t want to fight any more
“I think he doesn’t wanna fight anymore. I think he wants to stay out for a while, just do seminars all over the world. I think his career is… he doesn’t wanna fight anymore.”
Fighting legend Wanderlei Silva has a re-hearing with the Nevada Athletic Commission on Nov. 30. At a previous hearing Silva was fined $70,000 and suspended indefinitely. A court ordered that the re-hearing was in order.
The hearing and re-hearing are over a PED test that the fighter literally ran from. Avoiding a test is considered a failure, and worse, as it indicates the fighter knew he or she was taking an illegal supplement (as opposed to inadvertently taking it in the form of a blue sex supplement in Thailand).
However, a suspension may have little relevance. Silva’s longtime MMA coach Rafael Cordeiro appeared recently on Ariel Helwani’s The MMA Hour, and said “The Axe Murderer” no longer wants to fight, at least for now.
“I think he doesn’t wanna fight anymore,” said Cordeiro as transcribed by Guilherme Cruz for MMAFighting. “I think he wants to stay out for a while, just do seminars all over the world. I think his career is… he doesn’t wanna fight anymore.
“It’s just my opinion. I don’t know the future. But, to be honest with you, when I look Wanderlei now, he wants to spread the word about martial arts. I think that’s what he’s looking for now.”
If Silva never fights again, he leaves an extraordinary record, and went out with a tremendous KO victory over Brian Stann.