Tag: Rogério Camões

Coach Wants One More Super Fight For Anderson Silva, Prefers Adesanya Rematch

Silva AdesanyaAnderson Silva’s strength and conditioning coach Rogerio Camoes believes “The Spider” has enough left in the tank for one last super fight in the UFC. Silva returns to action for the first time since May 2019 when he faces Uriah Hall in the UFC Vegas 12 headliner on October 31. After that, the former middleweight […]

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Anderson Silva’s strength and conditioning coach Rogerio Camoes believes “The Spider” has enough left in the tank for one last super fight in the UFC.

Silva returns to action for the first time since May 2019 when he faces Uriah Hall in the UFC Vegas 12 headliner on October 31. After that, the former middleweight king has one more fight in his UFC contract, but as far as Camoes is concerned, Silva can keep competing beyond that.

“I’m not aware of the negotiations,” Camoes told MMA Fighting. “But, to me, speaking as Anderson’s coach, Anderson still has plenty of wood to burn, brother. Believe it. From what he’s doing in terms of performance in training, he still has wood to burn.”

While Hall will be a good test for the 45-year-old Silva, Camoes believes many in the combat sports world would prefer to see him face a bigger opponent for one last super fight.

“At least one more – do this one and one more superfight,” Camoes said. “Imagine that, man? Imagine an Anderson super fight in Rio de Janeiro when everything is back to normal, no pandemic, and him fighting someone with a big name or a legend from the past.

“I don’t know about his contract situation. But when we talk, he always says, ‘Master, I still have wood to burn, I still want to fight. I still have the desire to fight, I still feel well.’ I think what matters the most is what the guy feels rather than someone else determining if he will stop or not, you know? I think he can fight anywhere in the world, including a boxing fight, if he wants to.”

As for a dream fight for Camoes? He personally would like to see Silva face Israel Adesanya in a rematch.

The pair competed at UFC 234 back in February last year that saw Adesanya come out on top over three rounds in what was a fun back-and-forth fight.

“I think I’ve seen Anderson fight everybody,” he added. “I think that, in his division, the only fight that I personally would love to see again is him and Israel Adesanya. That fight was fabulous. Three spectacular rounds. Israel had to fight hard. It was one of the most technical fights I’ve ever seen in MMA history. Two talents, they put on a show of martial arts and respect. A second fight would be something spectacular.”

Of course, Adesanya is now middleweight champion and given that Silva has only won once in his last eight outings, a rematch is unlikely. But then again, anything is possible in the UFC.

Who do you think Silva should compete against after Hall?

Anderson Silva’s Team Blames Tainted Supplement For Failed Drug Test

Former middleweight champion and UFC legend Anderson Silva was flagged for the second time in his career for a positive drug test leading into his main event with Kelvin Gastelum in Shanghai last month. Silva was unceremoniously pulled from the fight and is now facing a lengthy suspension given this was his second failed USADA […]

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Former middleweight champion and UFC legend Anderson Silva was flagged for the second time in his career for a positive drug test leading into his main event with Kelvin Gastelum in Shanghai last month.

Silva was unceremoniously pulled from the fight and is now facing a lengthy suspension given this was his second failed USADA test, but his coach has come to his defense using the ever-popular ‘tainted supplement’ excuse.

Silva’s conditioning coach Rogerio Camoes discussed his star pupil’s newest failed drug test on Brazilian television show “Revista Combate” on Tuesday:

“I’m with Anderson for many years and the first thing he said was, ‘Master, I didn’t take anything. I trust his word because Anderson is very mature and experienced, he has the conscience not to take anything that would compromise being suspended or taint his image.

“We believe in some contamination in some supplement. Every product he used, supplements, will be analyzed so we can prove there was a contamination. It’s a slow process, it’s not overnight, and it requires time and money. It’s very expensive.”

Many high profile fighters have used the same excuse when caught using performance-enhancing drugs, but Silva may not receive the benefit of the doubt this time around. Silva attributed his first failed test to some kind of over-the-counter, generic erectile dysfunction pills.

He was punished and suspended for a year regardless, and his team appears to be using a similar defense this time around, despite the fact that it didn’t grant him an appeal after the first failed test following UFC 183.

Camoes admitted to using testosterone replacement therapy himself, but stressed that ‘he never encourage anyone else to do so’.

The former champion, who ruled over the middleweight division for six years, has started looking more and more like an aged fighter in the waning part of his career, however, his conditioning coach believes we haven’t seen the last of “The Spider” in the Octagon:

“I believe he will (come back). In life, when someone is taken away from you, that’s when you want it the most. The thing he wants the most is fighting. I believe he will come back to fighting.

“Before all that happened, I remember saying to (boxing coach Luiz Carlos) Dorea, ‘This guy will fight for more three or four years. This guy will fight until he’s 45, 46 years old.’ He was like a young kid, so happy. Everything will be cleared.

“There will be a penalty, or course, we know the USADA rules, and even with a contamination, it’s the athlete’s responsibility what he takes and you have to be careful with that. We’re waiting for something to know which path we will go after all this.”

Do you believe Camoes tainted supplement defense? Will Anderson Silva ever fight again?

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Anderson Silva’s ‘Doctor’ Says It Would Be ‘A Crime’ for Him to Drop to Welterweight


(The “doctor” in question. No joke, this is seriously the guy we’re talking about. / Props: Blog do Olivar)

In the U.S., a doctor is simply the person you visit when you need more prescription medication. In Brazil, a doctor is a parent, priest, and boss rolled into one — they know what’s best for you, and damned if you’ll try to defy them.

At least that’s how it seems lately. Two weeks after Cris Cyborg explained that she couldn’t possibly cut ten pounds of her freakish muscle mass because DOCTOR’S ORDERS, we have this translated report by Eduardo Cruz at FightersOnly, in which Anderson Silva‘s “personal physician” [Ed. note: referred here only as ‘Camoes,’ but we’ll get to that after the jump] had a lot to say about Silva dropping a weight class to face Georges St. Pierre at 170, which is something that I didn’t think was even being considered by anybody, but nevertheless:

“It would be a crime for Anderson to try and fight at 77kg. He could maybe make the weight but the physical loss that he would suffer would be too much…For me this fight should happen at 80kg, since that would already be a sacrifice for Anderson. It would be his first shot at this weight and we would have to implement a very specific work for him to be able to perform at 100% of his capacity…Anderson losing 3gk and St-Pierre going up 3kg would be more fair for both of them and for the public, who would watch a great fight.”


(The “doctor” in question. No joke, this is seriously the guy we’re talking about. / Props: Blog do Olivar)

In the U.S., a doctor is simply the person you visit when you need more prescription medication. In Brazil, a doctor is a parent, priest, and boss rolled into one — they know what’s best for you, and damned if you’ll try to defy them.

At least that’s how it seems lately. Two weeks after Cris Cyborg explained that she couldn’t possibly cut ten pounds of her freakish muscle mass because DOCTOR’S ORDERS, we have this translated report by Eduardo Cruz at FightersOnly, in which Anderson Silva‘s “personal physician” [Ed. note: referred here only as ‘Camoes,’ but we’ll get to that after the jump] had a lot to say about Silva dropping a weight class to face Georges St. Pierre at 170, which is something that I didn’t think was even being considered by anybody, but nevertheless:

“It would be a crime for Anderson to try and fight at 77kg. He could maybe make the weight but the physical loss that he would suffer would be too much…For me this fight should happen at 80kg, since that would already be a sacrifice for Anderson. It would be his first shot at this weight and we would have to implement a very specific work for him to be able to perform at 100% of his capacity…Anderson losing 3gk and St-Pierre going up 3kg would be more fair for both of them and for the public, who would watch a great fight.”

It turns out that those quotes were sourced from this TerraMagazine interview with Rogério Camões, who is referred to as the “preparador físico de Anderson Silva.” (He’s simply called a “strength and conditioning coach” here.) Plus, in photos like this and this, he looks less like a doctor, and more like the guy who hangs around the gym trying to sell imported human growth hormone out of his briefcase. Doctor Feelgood? Sure. “Doctor, I need you to look at this rash?” No. Although he’s clearly trained in ice-clump therapy.

Even if Camões walked around in O.R. scrubs rather than a Throwdown t-shirt and aviators, the point remains the same: A doctor (or “doctor”) is there to give advice to his patient, not act as a mouthpiece to Brazilian media. Look, nobody really expects Anderson to cut to welterweight in order to fight GSP, except perhaps Firas Zahabi. But it’s up to Anderson to take the responsibility for that decision. We don’t really need the S&C coach telling us what’s “criminal,” in his professional opinion — or, “professional” opinion, whichever the case may be.