LOS ANGELES – You’re Anderson Silva. You’re in the twilight of your career, many would say even beyond it. You’re a former UFC middleweight champion and one of the greatest mixed martial artists of all time. A lot of people have you on their MMA Mount Rushmore.
So why, at 47, would you choose to fight a 25-year-old YouTuber and social media influencer who barely started creating a buzz in boxing?
“This is a good challenge,” Silva told MMA Junkie of his upcoming boxing match with Jake Paul.