Jean Silva reveals he has no memory of UFC main event loss to Diego Lopes

Jean Silva won the main event of Noche UFC in Glendale, Arizona on Saturday, stopping Jose Miguel Delgado — then revealed at the post-fight press conference that he has no memory of his TKO loss to Diego Lopes at the same event twelve months ago.

Silva, who earned a Performance of the Night bonus for the Delgado finish, said the amnesia surrounding his first UFC main event had weighed on him throughout the year but that he had kept it hidden from his teammates until moments before his walkout.

“I actually pulled them aside in a corner before the fight tonight and told them, I don’t have any memories of what happened at Noche UFC last year,” Silva said through a translator. “It did take something away from me, and those were the memories.”

The Brazilian featherweight described the loss of those recollections as a source of genuine grief, not just a sporting setback. “I wanted to have the memory of my first main event, and I do not have any of that,” he said. “I know that in world history, the books are going to say this was my second main event, but to me, it was the first.”

He framed the Delgado win as a chance to reclaim something personal. “We want to be able to tell our kids, we want to be able to tell our friends, to share the experience, to say, first-person perspective, ‘I was there, and I did this.’ And unfortunately on that night I did not have that.”

The victory carries significant weight beyond the emotional dimension. Silva’s win moves him firmly back into the featherweight title picture at 145 pounds, and a title eliminator against former bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling has already been floated. Sterling publicly called for that matchup after Silva’s win at UFC 334 at Madison Square Garden in November, and Silva was characteristically unbothered by the attention.

“As we like to say in Brazil, it’s talk me up, talk me down, talk shit, hype me up, but talk about me,” Silva said of Sterling’s comments. “Go ahead.”