Claudio Silva: Feeding 600 families during COVID-19 crisis in Rio de Janeiro ‘best thing I’ve ever done in my life’ May 22, 2021, 9:30am EDT
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Claudio Silva found himself stranded in Brazil earlier this year due to travel restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and was shocked by the reality of his home country.
The UFC welterweight, who has lived in London for over a decade and usually does his camps with Florida’s American Top Team, trained at Nova Uniao in Brazil for his UFC Vegas 27 match with Court McGee this Saturday. Spending time there, Silva decided he had to do something to help fight hunger in Rio de Janeiro.
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Four years ago, Cody Garbrandt delivered an all-time classic, five-round performance against Dominick Cruz to capture the UFC s bantamweight championship. Garbrandt hasn t looked the same since.
Going into Saturday s UFC Fight Night main event between Garbrandt (12-3) and Rob Font (18-4) at the Apex in Las Vegas (7 p.m. ET, prelims at 4 p.m. on ESPN+), the question of whether Garbrandt can return to the form that led him to a UFC title is the most pressing one. Is the best still to come for Garbrandt, or did we already witness his peak four years ago?
Action returns to the UFC Apex headlined by two bouts between top-five fighters. Bantamweights Cody Garbrandt and Rob Font vie for position just outside the title picture in the main event, while Carla Esparza and Yan Xiaonan clash in a high-stakes strawweight fight.