Anderson Silva says he’s left MMA behind because it’s too hard for him to train
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This then raised a question as to whether another one of Jake Paul’s former opponents, Anderson Silva, could also make his return to the sport on the same night.
Silva’s pursuit of a new career as a police officer led to him turning down an approach that was made by MVP co-founder Nakisa Bidarian, as he recently confirmed.
“Nakisa invited me to come, to fight MMA or kickboxing,” Silva revealed on The Ariel Helwani Show. “But because I’m in this process [of becoming a police officer] now to study, to keep my mind working on one thing, I just said, ‘Oh, I can’t this time.’
“But, when I finish the whole thing, probably I have one more or two more fights,” he continued. “Only boxing. I don’t have the mind anymore to train in MMA, it’s too hard for me to go back to train in MMA.”
Wonder what opponents were considered for him.