It didn’t come in the spectacular fashion mixed-martial-arts followers have grown accustomed to, but Ultimate Fighting Championship superstar Anderson Silva entered the record books on Saturday night at UFC 97: Redemption at the Bell Centre in Montreal.
By defending his middleweight championship with a unanimous decision over Thales Leites (14-2), Silva (24-4) posted his ninth-straight victory in UFC’s Octagon, breaking the tie he held with legend Royce Gracie and Jon Fitch for consecutive wins. It came in one of the most uneventful main events in UFC history, however.
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Anderson Silva enters record books at UFC 97
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