Jay Silva passed away at 45 years old. | Piotr Pedziszewski<\/p>\n
Jay Silva<\/a>, a veteran of 27 professional fights, has died at 45 years old.<\/p>\n Fame MMA, the last organization for which Silva fought, brought word of his passing via social media on Monday. The cause of death was not revealed.<\/p>\n Silva went 12-14-1 over the course of an MMA career that began in 2008. He fought twice in the UFC<\/a> from 2009 to 2010, dropping unanimous decisions against C.B. Dollaway<\/a> and Chris Leben<\/a>. \u201cDa Spyda Killa\u2019 also fought for Bellator MMA<\/a> and challenged for middleweight gold in KSW<\/a>. He squared off against the likes of Hector Lombard<\/a>, Kendall Grove<\/a>, Sam Alvey<\/a> and Mariusz Pudzianowski<\/a> after leaving the UFC. His last bout came under the Fame MMA banner on April 5, 2025, where he fell to Denis Labryga<\/a> via unanimous decision.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Paying Respect<\/p>\n KSW also paid tribute to Silva in a separate social media post on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jay Silva passed away at 45 years old. | Piotr Pedziszewski Jay Silva, a veteran of 27 professional…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,61937,786,345138,785,85],"class_list":["post-709890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bellator-mma","tag-fighting","tag-jay-silva","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}