{"id":135058,"date":"2025-09-11T01:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T01:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/135058\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T01:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T01:31:07","slug":"diego-lopes-says-jean-silva-is-scared-ahead-of-noche-ufc-3-main-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/135058\/","title":{"rendered":"Diego Lopes says Jean Silva is \u2018scared\u2019 ahead of Noche UFC 3 main event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-mma-rankings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No. 2-ranked<\/a> Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Featherweight Diego Lopes will headline his second straight event when he collides with Brazilian knockout artist Jean Silva in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-cards\/384463\/ufc-noche-3-fight-card-start-time-date-and-location-lopes-vs-silva\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Noche UFC 3<\/a> main event this weekend (Sat., Sept. 13, 2025) inside Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThis guy is a little bit strange, you know?\u201d Lopes told reporters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j0elFwQ9Xp0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">during UFC media day<\/a>. \u201cAt the same time he talks shit on the internet, but also tries to be nice. I don\u2019t understand this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The two Featherweights crossed paths at the fighter hotel earlier this week, with UFC security ensuring things didn\u2019t escalate. Still, Lopes claimed he saw all he needed in that brief encounter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI looked this guy in the eyes yesterday when we crossed paths in the hotel,\u201d Lopes said. \u201cThis guy is a little bit scared. Yeah, he is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI\u2019m going to pressure him until he\u2019s broken and then will finish him \u2014 knockout or submission,\u201d Lopes predicted. \u201cMaybe I knock him down and then finish him. This is my prediction \u2026 I\u2019m different from his other opponents. I\u2019m not scared. I think the difference is this: People are so scared to face Jean because of the power in his hands but I\u2019m not scared. I\u2019ve proved myself against the best guys in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Remember that <a href=\"http:\/\/mmamania.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMAmania.com<\/a> will deliver LIVE round-by-round, blow-by-blow coverage of the entire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-cards\/384463\/ufc-noche-3-fight-card-start-time-date-and-location-lopes-vs-silva\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Noche UFC fight card<\/a>, starting with the <a href=\"https:\/\/go.web.plus.espn.com\/c\/482924\/595608\/9070?subId1=SBNation&amp;subId2=[sb0820awD][383597][][][][][][][][][duckduckgo.com]\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN+<\/a> \u201cPrelims\u201d matches online, which are scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. ET, before the main card start time at 6 p.m. ET (also on <a href=\"https:\/\/go.web.plus.espn.com\/c\/482924\/595608\/9070?subId1=SBNation&amp;subId2=[sb0820awD][383597][][][][][][][][][duckduckgo.com]\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN+<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">To checkout the latest and greatest Noche UFC: \u201cLopes vs. Silva\u201d news and notes be sure to hit up our comprehensive event archive right <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-espn-plus-fight-pass-events-schedule-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No. 2-ranked Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Featherweight Diego Lopes will headline his second straight event when he collides&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,702,3194],"class_list":["post-135058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}