{"id":358269,"date":"2025-12-20T19:52:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T19:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/358269\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T19:52:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T19:52:20","slug":"anderson-silva-age-how-old-is-ufc-legend-turned-boxer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/358269\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Silva age: How old is UFC legend-turned-boxer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anderson Silva steps back into a boxing ring on Friday night. He will take on Tyron Woodley.<\/p>\n<p>Both made names for themselves in a different combat sport: mixed martial arts.<\/p>\n<p>Silva is 3-2 as a boxer, holding wins over Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and former UFC champion Tito Ortiz. He did lose to Jake Paul in his most recent fight.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He lost his first boxing fight against Osmar Luiz Teixeira back in May 1998.<\/p>\n<p>How old is Anderson Silva?<\/p>\n<p>Silva turned 50 years old on April 14. He will take on Tyron Woodley, who is 43 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson Silva UFC results<\/p>\n<p>Silva is highly regarded as a mixed martial artist, boasting a 34-11-0 (1 no contest) record from 2000 to 2020.<\/p>\n<p>He lost his last three MMA fights, including one to <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/israel-adesanya\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Israel Adesanya;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Israel Adesanya<\/a>, before making the move back to boxing in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/boxing\/2025\/12\/19\/anderson-silva-age\/87854404007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:How old is Anderson Silva? Age and other things to know;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">How old is Anderson Silva? Age and other things to know<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anderson Silva steps back into a boxing ring on Friday night. He will take on Tyron Woodley. Both&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[3625,49,48,641,5277,25476,154577,638,154578,82,154576,106355,640],"class_list":{"0":"post-358269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-anderson-silva","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-jake-paul","13":"tag-julio-cesar-chavez-jr","14":"tag-mixed-martial-artist","15":"tag-mma","16":"tag-osmar-luiz-teixeira","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-tito-ortiz","19":"tag-tyron-woodley","20":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358269","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=358269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}