Jean Silva vs William Gomis Prediction: Survival of the fittest

According to the headline, Alexandre Pantoja and Steve Erceg is the main card title fight between Jean Silva and William Gomis. This ultimate flyweight division fight is for the vacant UFC featherweight title. ESPN will live-stream this fight for MMA fans. The Jeunesse Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will host this promising preliminary card in the early hours of Sunday. The Frenchman William Gomis enters the ring with a professional record of 13 wins in 15 fights, slightly surpassing the Brazilian national champion Jean Silva, who has a record of 12 wins in 14 fights.

As his nickname implies, ‘Lord Assassin’, Jean Silva sets out to set the fire for his opponent in a 3-round martial arts fight. Jean Silva is currently ranked #84 worldwide as an MMA featherweight fighter, with an impressive record of 12 wins in 14 fights, 11 of which were knockouts. His first professional martial arts fight was in 2016 when he won through knockout against Lorenzo Rodriguez in the UFC featherweight championship. He fought three times the following year, winning against Anderson Renan in the bantamweight championship and Lucas Razalkiewicz in the Blackout FC main card, all through knockout. At the same time, he lost to Pedro Henrique in the bantamweight championship by a unanimous decision. Between 2018 and 2021, he fought six times, losing to Gabriel Schlupp through a unanimous decision while winning against Tiago Souza, Adriano Souza, Tamyray Lacerda, Henrique Santos and Muniz Martins, all through knockouts. He fought against Valdemir Cardoso in a featherweight championship main event on February 4, 2023, and won by knockout in Round 1. On March 25, 2023, he fought in the lightweight main event against Shahin Najafi in Round 1 via knockout. His last fight in 2023 took place on September 5, when he fought Kevin Vallejos in a featherweight main event by unanimous decision. As of now, his first and only fight in 2024 was on a featherweight preliminary card, where he won in Round 1 through a knockout against Westin Wilson.

William Gomis has an impressive record of 13 wins in 15 fights, nine of which were knockouts. Presently, Gomis has 11 winning streaks. He is ranked #55 worldwide MMA featherweight fighter and doubles as the #92 greatest MMA striker of all time. William Gomis lost his first-ever professional fight in a featherweight championship main card in 2016 against Salahdine Parnasse by a unanimous decision. In 2016, he suffered one more loss to Morgan Charriere in the featherweight tournament championship at the Max Rousie Gymnasium in Paris, France. He was victorious in his two other fights 2016 against Arouna Kanoute and Sofian Bougamoun, the latter through a unanimous decision. After losing his last game in 2016 against Morgan Charriere, he had two featherweight tournament fights in a single day on January 18, 2018. He won against Guilherme Cadena and Cosmin Tutu, respectively, by knockout. Since then, he has never drawn or lost any game faced and defeated nine professional MMA fighters from 2019 to 2023, including Carlos Eduardo de Azevedo, Hyram Rodriguez, Tobias Harila, Baba Boundjou Nadjombe, Arip Yakubov, José Marcos, Jarno Errens, Francis Marshall, and Yanis Ghemmouri, six of whom won through knockouts.

This could be a very tight game. Silva and Gomis both make the top 100 worldwide ranking for best MMA players, but Gomis doubles by ranking #92 as the greatest MMA striker of all time. However, this does not guarantee Gomis' victory because Silva will likely put his nickname into action by assassinating the Jaguar. Any decision will determine the winner of this tight game.