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Coming into the third Noche UFC setting, aka UFC Fight Night 259, the random animosity had fired up like never before. Diego Lopes and Jean Silva were both stern warriors who wanted a crack at the gold, and both teams were of the opinion that the opposing camps were talking too much. But ‘Lord’ Silva, unlike usual, barked up the wrong pole with this one.
There was no personal animosity but Jean Silva mickeyed the fact that he was fighting a guy who did not know if he was Mexican (holds camp out of Puebla, Mexico) or Brazilian. The duo mouthed off once in the UFC host hotel and another time in the parking lot.
Diego Lopes sent the surging contender out of Team Fighting Nerd packing into being a prospect again in way of second-round TKO (spinning elbow, punches) – 4:48 mark, at UFC Fight Night 259. Post-fight, tensions eventually simmered down, and Silva and Lopes called truce, as seen in new backstage footage.
Silva has now slumped to 5-1 after his TKO stoppage to Lopes, which is voraciously protested in the stem of being too early a stoppage, or so it seemed. Lopes, a Team Lobo Gym MMA striker/boxer, caught him with a fenceside spinning elbow after adjusting to a few from Silva.
Lord bled through the head, and the match was stopped. Meanwhile, Lopes went over to his team and flipped them for ‘talking too much‘ all through fight week. Turns out, it was quite a driver for the opponent to retaliate.
Jean Silva wasn’t happy with the stoppage and punched Diego Lopes after the fight 😳#UFCNoche pic.twitter.com/OAy11go5ys
— Hollywood Huego (@ScottHuego) September 14, 2025
In the immediate aftermath, he was sour and flipped his stool and pushed through the security personnel/camp entourage to angrily tag the rival in a sort of a post-fight attack. Silva had not lost in more than half a decade and had big plans if he was to win. However, with veteran voice Bruce Buffer announcing the winner, they later shook on it.
A video posted on Lopes’s YT handle even showed Silva congratulating his former rival backstage shortly after the match ended.
🫡🇧🇷 Jean Silva approached Diego Lopes to congratulate him with a victory and to tell that he's going to become a champion.
— Home of Fight (@Home_of_Fight) September 16, 2025
"Keep working. We'll meet each other again."
Diego said that Silva's team talked too much, but he doesn't have a problem with Jean.
🎥 @AgFight pic.twitter.com/fZTzOM1mFU
After the fight at Noche UFC, Lopes perches as the No.2 middleweight on the athletes’ listings, followed by Yair Rodriguez and others; Jean Silva is #10. He might soon fight for the UFC featherweight title again, and it’s a long time coming. Subsequently, this isn’t the only backstage tidbit to come out after the fight.
Diego Lopes shows receipts that Noche UFC spinning-elbow TKO was no mere fluke
It’s not often that bad blood and fight camp trash-talking come in the form of top matchups, but this one did. Up until it ended the way it did, Jean Silva vs. Diego Lopes was thrilling, to say the least. Silva, the other part of the Noche UFC headliner at Frost Bank Arena, found quite early success with his salvos of kicks to the mid-timber and whiffing out strikes. He even had quite a number of spinning attacks.
All through R1, Diego Lopes also answered in short, guarded bursts of jabs and did a number with calf slicers. Round two, Silva wanted to avoid the 12-6 elbows and instead kept it strictly to standup combos that found their targets. But Lopes avoided yet another swirling right hand from Lord while he was chasing him down, and caught him with a spinning elbow of his own.
It might have seemed like a lucky shot, but it wasn’t. Snaps were posted by Lopes of him honing the technique in the locker room before the fight with his coach and his training partner, UFC featherweight Austin Bashi. Spinning elbows/backfists as a form of a strike have made for some virulent and jaw-dropping KOs. Now, Lopes joins the ranks.
Lopes already had picture-perfect uppercuts vs. Sodiq Yusuff and title challenger Brian Ortega. Now, he expands his arsenal with quite the move that bagged him a $100,000 double-bonus and a very clear FOTY contender. He thus made $300,000 in performance bonuses in the all-out, all-action fights so far.
Lived up to the hype 🗣️@DiegoLopesMMA & @JeanSilvaMMA96 earn the #NocheUFC FOTN! 👏
— UFC (@ufc) September 14, 2025
[ B2YB: @ToyoTires ] pic.twitter.com/FQXEpKF6ee
Silva also pocketed $50,000 FOTN bonus for his “Fight of the Year” contender. Before this, Justin Gaethje twice pocketed $100,000 as a double-bonus over Tony Ferguson in a five-round domination at UFC 249. The X9 post-fight bonus earner also got one against Michael Johnson in his debut outing. Meanwhile, Max Holloway in turn earned a double-bonus for his KO over Gaethje.
While not thematic as Holloway’s $600,000 double-bonus after the milestone UFC 300 PPV card. Lopes now strides forward into another possible title shot. His last one was as recent as the UFC 314: Volkanovski vs. Lopes PPV event at the Kaseya Center.
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