Is It Ever Too Late To Stage a Hype Comeback for Erick Silva?

Erick Silva has been on the trail for a long time hoping to get in that hype that he was initially supposed to have from the beginning of his career.  But for some reason or another this fighter seems to miss his own train that fans say that he had the potential to get since many still consider him to be the future of Brazil MMA. Still moving along with a series of wins and losses in a row. Eric Silva has had one point in his UFC career where he has had a win streak, which is definitely weird for a fighter who essentially has all the skills necessary to be in the top 5 of his division? Or at least rank high enough to fight somebody like Matt Brown who currently fish in the top 5 position of the division. He was recently quoted saying :



"Since I have to stay out for a while because of the injury, I was cleared from my physical therapy in Brazil and decided to come here to train my ground game," Silva told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour, explaining why he flew to New York to train at Renzo Gracie’s gym.

"I’m here at Renzo’s for three weeks, and I will stay one more week here before going to California. Rafael Cordeiro is waiting for me there. I will stay there the rest of the year, and I plan on also working a technical evolution with Rafael."

"I plan on coming to New York all the time," he said. "I don’t know if I will be doing the same in California yet. I plan on staying more and training in the United States next year, at Kings MMA and here with John Danaher. He’s being very important, strategy-wise and on my ground game. I will return to New York in January and stay two more weeks here, and I will go from New York to California and come back."

"I don’t have anything set, but I would like to fight Jake Ellenberger or get a rematch with Dong Hyun Kim," he said, "because I’m is more mature now, more focused, going for new challenges, and the result would be completely different."

"The difference is that I’m more mature now," Silva said. "When I entered the UFC I was a kid getting excited, a lot of new things going on in my life. It’s not like that now. I’ve been through good and bad moments, so I’m aware of what can and can’t happen, of what I want, and that makes me more responsible for the things I want and where I want to go."

"It doesn’t affect me in a negative way. I don’t care much about it. But it bothers you because you end up getting an attention you don’t want," Silva said. "I don’t like when people talk about things I don’t want them to, instead of fighting. When you see yourself in a situation like this, you get scared, you think ‘why are they gossiping about me?’

"If I tell you it doesn’t affect me, I would be lying, because you get attention you don’t want, and even if you try to ignore it, you know it’s there. It’s complicated. Like you said, people see me as a celebrity. I don’t like that. I like doing my job as a good fighter. I know I have to do things outside the Octagon to get sponsors, but when your life gets that kind of attention you get a little upset."


"In my head, I don’t see this as me running away. It’s not. I see this as me going for a technical evolution and new challenges. I’m not running away from Brazil. But that helps, of course," Silva said. "I walk around and I don’t need to worry about all of that."


 Is there a cut off where hype can never match up with the amount of skill It takes to fight a fighter of Matt Brown or a higher caliber? And will Erick Silva ever make it to that level before  fighters like Sage Northcutt and Thomas Almeida in 2 different divisions show MMA fans what real hype is about?
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