{"id":141148,"date":"2025-09-13T14:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T14:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/141148\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T14:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T14:13:07","slug":"noche-ufc-predictions-can-silva-get-fighting-nerds-back-on-track-vs-lopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/141148\/","title":{"rendered":"Noche UFC predictions: Can Silva get Fighting Nerds back on track vs. Lopes?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UFC has its annual Mexican Independence Day celebration, Noche UFC, this week in Texas with featherweight contenders at the top of the lineup.<\/p>\n

UFC Fight Night 259 (ESPN+) takes place Saturday at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio.<\/p>\n

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Get pick results from our 11 editors, writers, radio hosts and videographers, as well as additional analysis, below.<\/p>\n

Quang Le vs. Santiago Luna<\/p>\n

Records: Le (9-2 MMA, 1-2 UFC), Luna (6-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC)<\/p>\n

Odds (as of 09.12.25): Le +115, Luna -135<\/p>\n

Junkie pick results: Luna 9, Le 2<\/p>\n

Diego Ferreira vs. Alexander Hernandez<\/p>\n

Records: Ferreira (19-6 MMA, 10-6 UFC), Hernandez (17-8 MMA, 9-7 UFC)<\/p>\n

Odds (as of 09.08.25): Ferreira -115, Hernandez -115<\/p>\n

Junkie pick results: Hernandez 9, Ferreira 2<\/p>\n

Kelvin Gastelum vs. Dustin Stoltzfus<\/p>\n

Records: Gastelum (19-10 MMA, 13-10 UFC), Stoltzfus (16-7 MMA, 3-6 UFC)<\/p>\n

Division: Catchweight (Gastelum missed the middleweight limit by 5 pounds)<\/p>\n

Odds (as of 09.08.25): Gastelum -245, Stoltzfus +210<\/p>\n

Junkie pick results: Gastelum 8, Stoltzfus 3<\/p>\n

Rafa Garcia vs. Jared Gordon<\/p>\n

Records: Garcia (17-4 MMA, 5-4 UFC), Gordon (21-7 MMA, 9-6 UFC)<\/p>\n

Odds (as of 09.08.25): Garcia +190, Gordon -230<\/p>\n

Junkie pick results: Gordon 10, Garcia 1<\/p>\n

Rob Font vs. David Martinez<\/p>\n

Records: Font (22-8 MMA, 12-7 UFC), Martinez (12-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC)<\/p>\n

Odds (as of 09.08.25): Font -114, Martinez -105<\/p>\n

Junkie pick results: Font 9, Martinez 2<\/p>\n

Diego Lopes vs. Jean Silva<\/p>\n

Records: Lopes (26-7 MMA, 5-2 UFC), Silva (16-2 MMA, 5-0 UFC)<\/p>\n

Rankings: Lopes No. 5, Silva No. 8<\/p>\n

Odds (as of 09.08.25): Silva -260, Lopes +210<\/p>\n

Junkie pick results: Silva 7, Lopes 4<\/p>\n

Individual staff member picks, main card<\/p>\n

Readers 128-78: Silva 56, Font 69, Gordon 84, Gastelum 74, Hernandez 60, Luna 68<\/p>\n

Mike Bohn 135-71: Silva, Font, Gordon, Gastelum, Ferreira, Luna<\/p>\n

Ken Hathaway 134-72: Silva, Martinez, Gordon, Gastelum, Hernandez, Luna<\/p>\n

Nolan King 133-73: Lopes, Font, Gordon, Stoltzfus, Ferreira, Le<\/p>\n

Abbey Subhan 128-78: Silva, Font, Gordon, Gastelum, Hernandez, Luna<\/p>\n

Farah Hannoun 128-78: Lopes, Font, Gordon, Gastelum, Hernandez, Luna<\/p>\n

Matt Erickson 124-82: Silva, Martinez, Gordon, Stoltzfus, Hernandez, Luna<\/p>\n

Simon Samano 124-82: Silva, Font, Garcia, Stoltzfus, Hernandez, Luna<\/p>\n

Brian Garcia 123-83: Silva, Font, Gordon, Gastelum, Hernandez, Luna<\/p>\n

Danny Segura 122-84: Lopes, Font, Gordon, Gastelum, Hernandez, Luna<\/p>\n

Matthew Wells 120-86: Silva, Font, Gordon, Gastelum, Hernandez, Le<\/p>\n

George Garcia 114-92: Lopes, Font, Gordon, Gastelum, Hernandez, Luna<\/p>\n

Preliminary card picks<\/p>\n

Although they don’t count toward the standings, MMA Junkie staff members still pick the fights on the prelims. Here are the results:<\/p>\n

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Jose Medina vs. Dusko Todorovic: Todorovic 11, Medina 0<\/p>\n

Claudio Puelles vs. Joaquim Silva: Puelles 10, Silva 1<\/p>\n

Amanda Lemos vs. Tatiana Suarez: Suarez 11, Lemos 0<\/p>\n

Jesus Aguilar vs. Luis Gurule: Aguilar 6, Gurule 5<\/p>\n

Sedriques Dumas vs. Zachary Reese: Reese 10, Dumas 1<\/p>\n

Alden Coria vs. Alessandro Costa: Costa 11, Coria 0<\/p>\n

Alice Pereira vs. Montserrat Rendon: Pereira 9, Rendon 2<\/p>\n

Daniil Donchenko vs. Rodrigo Sezinando: Donchenko 10, Sezinando 1<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: Noche UFC predictions: Diego Lopes vs. Jean Silva<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC has its annual Mexican Independence Day celebration, Noche UFC, this week in Texas with featherweight contenders…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[40386,49,48,61063,4128,36995,641,75877,36993,71482,74861,638,82,640],"class_list":{"0":"post-141148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-alexander-hernandez","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-david-martinez","12":"tag-diego-ferreira","13":"tag-diego-lopes","14":"tag-fighting","15":"tag-jared-gordon","16":"tag-jean-silva","17":"tag-joaquim-silva","18":"tag-kelvin-gastelum","19":"tag-mma","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141148","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=141148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}