Speaking publicly for the first time since a Florida judge dropped all charges levied against him stemming from an alleged early-February altercation with his ex-wife, newly re-signed UFC fighter Thiago Silva denied any wrongdoing and suggested that the alleged victim, Thaysa Kamiji, falsified the accusations which ultimately led to his arrest.
“The truth is they didn’t find no proof,” Silva said on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour. “I never pointed any gun at my ex-wife, I never tried to hurt (her). Everything she said was a lie. So that’s the truth. The state, they couldn’t prove another thing, so that’s the truth.
“I’m just glad the truth came out,” Silva added. “[The UFC] trust me, they knew I didn’t do nothing, so they gave me my job back. So I’m very glad for this.”
Silva faced various charges ranging from aggravated assault and battery to sending threatening texts as a result of statements Kamiji made in a police report following the February 6th armed standoff with members of the Broward County Sheriff’s Office that led to Silva’s arrest. Kamiji, Silva’s then-estranged wife, claimed that the UFC fighter had committed several offenses, from placing a revolver inside her mouth, to threatening to shoot up the jiu-jitsu school of Pablo Popovitch.
Silva ultimately served 30 days in jail while awaiting trial, however the charges were abruptly dropped late last week. A representative from the Broward County State Attorney’s Office informed MMAFighting.com that the case was thrown out because “the victim (Kamiji) was uncooperative, and investigators determined that she has likely moved out of the country.”
Following the news, the UFC moved quickly to re-sign Silva, irrespective of UFC President Dana White’s prior statement that the Brazilian would “never fight in the UFC again.”
Silva said on Monday that he has had no contact with Kamiji since his release from jail and is currently unaware of her whereabouts.
“I don’t want to talk about that,” Silva responded when asked to tell his side of the story. “I’m here to talk about my professional fights, my comeback to the UFC. I really don’t want to talk about my [personal] life. I think that’s not good for me. I don’t want to work with this anymore. I’m done with that.
“Here the thing,” Silva continued. “I didn’t do nothing. She said I pointed a gun at her, I tried to hurt her. I didn’t point any gun, I didn’t try to hurt her, you know? I wanted divorce, she wanted money, I didn’t want to give the money, she set me up, that’s the truth.
“I just wanted the divorce. I didn’t want to stay with the girl anymore. She wanted a lot, she asked for a lot of money to sign the divorce. I said no, she set me up. That’s it.”