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Heavyweight MMA · 1980s

Giant Silva

2–6 · 8 recorded bouts · 2003–2006

Giant Silva finished 100% of 2 wins inside the distance — the 72nd percentile for heavyweight MMA, where the median is 85%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

What is on record

Measurements
Reachnot recorded
Height86″ (218.4 cm)
Stance
DivisionHeavyweight MMA
inferred from the listed weight, not stated as a class
Peak era1980s
CountryBrazil

Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Giant Silva, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.

loss vs Heath Herring (2003)loss vs Choi Mu-Bae (2004)loss vs Takashi Sugiura (2004)loss vs Naoya Ogawa (2004)win vs Henry Miller (2004)loss vs James Thompson (2005)win vs Akebono Taro (2006)loss vs Ikuhisa Minowa (2006)
winlossdraw / NC2003–2006

Record

MMA record

2–6

8 bouts counted from the fight table

Finish rate

100%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 72nd percentile

Submission: 2 (100%)
  • Submission 100%

The career, bout by bout

8 recorded bouts from 2003 to 2006. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

4y

2003–2006

Longest unbeaten run

1

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2004

4 bouts

Recorded bouts

8

8 with a date

Fights

YearResultOpponentMethodRd
2006 W Akebono Taro Submission1
2006 L Ikuhisa Minowa KO/TKO1
2005 L James Thompson KO/TKO1
2004 L Choi Mu-Bae Submission1
2004 L Takashi Sugiura KO/TKO1
2004 L Naoya Ogawa KO/TKO1
2004 W Henry Miller Submission1
2003 L Heath Herring Submission3

7 of these opponents have their own page here.

How this is worked out

  1. Measurements and records are read from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the fight list is parsed from the article's own results table.
  2. Reach advantage is (reach − height) ÷ height as a percentage, so fighters of different sizes compare directly.
  3. Percentiles rank this fighter among the 324 heavyweight MMA fighters in the dataset — chosen because it is the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
Reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100

Full methodology →

Source: Giant Silva on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-26. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.

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