Wanderlei Silva vows to ‘stomp the face’ of his opponents in Rizin’s open-weight tournament

During the heydays of Pride, Wanderlei Silva built a legacy on destroying his opponents with brutal soccer kicks and stomps, techniques he had to relinquish when he moved back to the UFC after Pride’s demise in 2007. Maybe that was part of the reason why the once-feared “Axe Murderer” struggled to keep up the success he had in Japan during his last run in the UFC.

However, when Pride follow-up organization Rizin FF holds its open-weight Grand Prix later this year, Silva will be allowed to use his two favorite weapons again. And he definitely intends to do so and find back to his old dominance, as he revealed during a recent press-conference in Japan.

“I’d like to ask for an open-weight division, to give the chance for every …

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