PRIDE middleweight champion whose pressure and knockouts made him one of the most feared fighters of his era before his UFC run.
Wanderlei César da Silva is a Brazilian former mixed martial artist who competed in Japan's Pride Fighting Championships and the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). He holds the record for the most wins, knockouts, title defenses and longest winning streak in PRIDE history. He is the former PRIDE Middleweight Champion and the 2003 PRIDE Middleweight Grand Prix Tournament Champion. He most recently competed for Bellator MMA in the light heavyweight and heavyweight divisions. In February 2024, Silva was announced as the next inductee in the "pioneer wing" of the UFC Hall of Fame.
Fighters whose careers began before the Unified Rules era (debut before November 17, 2000).
PRIDE middleweight champion whose pressure and knockouts made him one of the most feared fighters of his era before his UFC run.
Portrait: LeeBrimelow, derivative work Lämpel · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons · file page ↗
This inductee does not yet have a canonical row in the PropBetEdge fighter archive, so no archive profile is linked. Recorded as a backfill candidate; no fighter record was created.
Independent PropBetEdge tribute. Hall of Fame membership, wing assignment and induction class are credited to the UFC Hall of Fame; fields without a confident source are left blank rather than guessed. PropBetEdge is not affiliated with or endorsed by UFC.
