Jean Silva stopped Jose Delgado in the main event of Noche UFC this past weekend in Glendale, Ariz., and revealed he had to overcome a series of hurdles during camp.
Silva was originally scheduled to face former interim UFC featherweight champion Yair Rodriguez in a five-round bout, but Delgado stepped in with less than a month’s notice after the Mexican talent suffered an injury. That coincided with a cut Silva suffered over his right eye in training.
“Four weeks before the fight, I opened [a cut over] my eye,” Silva said on a video posted on his YouTube channel. “The day after I had the cut, I got the news that my opponent had been changed. W
