In July, following a dominating Elite XC heavyweight championship victory over Justin Eilers, Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva (12-1) tested positive for the steroid Boldenone and was suspended by the California State Athletic Commission (CSAC) for a full year and fined $2,500.
Claiming his innocence, Silva took matters into his own hands and appealed the ruling in October. However, these things have more of a guilty until proven innocent theme to them instead of the other way around.
And the commission’s final decision was to uphold the suspension when Silva’s defense did not appear to sway the initial finding.
With his fight career being his family’s main source of income, sitting out for a full year was not an option for the Brazilian. He decided to disregard the punishment and take a fight in Japan where the CSAC’s suspension would not be recognized.
The big man’s manager Alex Davis released this statement in early December regarding his client’s decision to fight in Japan in spite of the CSAC’s suspension:
“Antonio has decided to fight, he really has no option. He’s innocent, he’s tried to prove it and it fell on unwilling ears, and he has financial commitments that to not meet would have serious consequences for him. In light of these, he has decided to continue his career in Japan until when and if his situation with the CSAC is resolved.”
While “Bigfoot” was victorious in the fight on January 4 against Yoshihiro Nakao, he still may have come away a loser. Apparently, the CSAC didn’t take to kindly to him ignoring its suspension and its decided to take action.
On February 10, the commission will meet to discuss the possibility of revoking Silva’s license to fight in the United States. In addition, team members and trainers who worked his corner in Japan will be dealt with as accomplices and could be punished as well.
Silva knew there would be consequences for his actions if he ignored the suspension. We’ll have to wait until February 10 to find out just how severe those consequences are, but this doesn’t look good for the Brazilian giant right now.
He may just have to get used to fighting in Japan.
Thanks to CombatLifestyle.com for the photo of Antonio Silva.
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Poor dude, but he shoulda stayed away from the thiago alves drinks!
UFC is going “all access” with Rich Franklin for UFC 93.
Didnt they already do an all access with Rich a while back? i would rather have seen all access SHOGUN anyday! I heaR THAT THEY WOULD HAVE BUT THEY COULDNT TRUST RACHELLE LEA around him cause he is such a F’in PIMP!!!!!! WAR SHOGUN!!!!
Did anyone else know that junior dos Santos was fighting at the UFC event in the UK?
also why are they feeding Rude BOy to Paul Kelly or Paul Taylor? I always confuse those two Brits, dont remember which one is fighting rude boy but a step down for either one
Did you guys here about the 12 year old kid who saved a lil girl and her dog from a pitbull using his ju jitsu?
He choked an attacking pitbull out with a rear naked choke!
True story~
Thats awesome, and kinda funny, i think he is fighting the new Dutch kid, Stefan something. And I think Rude boy is fighting Paul Kelly, who just made the trip to Cali to train with rampage.
Kelly is the guy that Kongo kicked and he was supposed to drop to 155 the Rude boy fight will be at WW. Stefan Struve real skinny jits guy, if you saw a pic of the guy you would think you could kick his ass but apparently his is pretty good, i think they are trying to see if Dos Santos is any good on the ground or if he is just Houston Alexander.
Yeah Dos is fighting some stefan dude. If he is Dutch, I will assume that he is a good kickboxer which should make for a good stand up war.
U r right, he is fighting Paul Kelly…tHanks man!
one more thing to get moderated, Gray Maynard vs Jim Miller at UFC 96
i got maynard. he beat clamenti and edgar and i was a fan since he was on tuf. i said it before the clamenti fight and i got trashed but gray reminds me of a young dan henderson. strong wrestler, sick power and great sub defense and top control. hate on.
I sent a link to the pitbull story John, your breaking news tends to get through compared to mine!
maynard is the king of lay and pray
Yeah i can see him winning by UD, but Miller has a lot of heart and pretty slick subs. But like you said I think Gray has this, and he trains with XC so that cant hurt his chances either. I would like to see gray fight sherk at some point, or another strong wrestler (besides edgar, cuz he seemed a lot smaller then gray) just to see where he stands in the LW picture.
Yea john, Santos is fighting Struve. Easy KO. Paul Kelly should easily smash Rudeboy too. Have you heard anything about Hazelett-Saunders for 96?
for sure. i want to see gray fight someone who will negate the wrestling so i can see him land some heavy hands!
lol, graY maynard is the most boring fighter the UFC has!!! hands down!!!
Namenot: NO I havent….I would love to see that fight happen though. That would be a bad ass fight and I thionk Saunders is ready to make a leap in competition. Thanks for the heads up
That little pantie dropper rachelle. She’s got a tight body. I’d hit it, then I’d either throw her shoes out the door and tell her to bounce or I would wake up, turn the shower on and tell her my brother was coming to pick me up because we had plans to do something, and once she got dressed and limped out the door (thats right, LIMPED out the door) I’d go turn the shower off and go back to sleep. Thats how I roll, Son!!!
Thats what he gets for taking roids. He knew what could possibly happen if he went to fight in Japan. Besides, his story didnt add up. The tumor was out a year before he tested positive. You reap what you sew, Son!!!
Gotta do what you gotta do, get that money..
Gotta look at the bigger picture tho. He should have seen this commin and this will (in the long run) stop him from the big pay days.
The bigger picture, imo is feeding/taking care of his family, and he’s doing what he has to to do that. The guy wasn’t exactly rich in the first place, and with the way things are right now I don’t personally know anyone that could be out of work for an entire year and still get by. Big pay days might be lost, but the important thing will be making the $$$ to support the family.
Didn’t he get paid 200k for his last fight in Elite? Plus sponsorship and bonuses? Could you make that last a year? I could!!!
He was banned from fighting for a year. NOT WORKING.
He can still teach classes and seminars etc… Easy Money!
he lives in brazil, no? one paycheck + sponsors could get him by years in brazil if need be! Don’t juice if you don’t want to be punished! I’m sick of these guys saying the test is wrong! you juice, you get caught, you lose money. pretty simple right!!?
Man, fuck the CSAC, they’re all idiotic crooks. I feel bad that guys like JZ, Ouali and Benki will get screwed over for helping their friend though.
They’ll get a small fine and a slap on the wrist. No big deal for the corner guys.
even still, those guys are his teammates and there to support their friend and training partner, they shouldnt get in any trouble… thats just like the bulls**t guilty by association nonsense we have in the states
Exactly!
Thats some bullshit.. First of all if the California commission decides to revoke his ability to fight for purse than that domain should be in California.. What the hell are they trying to regulate a global sanction for? They don’t have that jurisdiction and they are being petty by now trying to further punish a man for trying to get paid and keep his family fed. Fuck them bastards!!!!
Can someone school me on the legalities of how a Cali board dictate another man fighting out of that state or out of the US in general?? Please advise
Curse, curse & curse again = moderation.
I don’t get it either!!! Please someone try to make this make sense to me 2? Why would the CSAC have any control over other states let alone other countries? Everyone knows that the majority of PROFIGHTERS in other countries don’t have any if little drug testing anyway but they allow their fight records to carry over? Just baffles me.
mania why do u always remove my comments. The topic is relevant to this story. I don’t get it?? Do I have to be a regular to post on this blog??? damn
what did you write?
Am I the only one who thinks bigfoot is over rated anyways and not a big loss here in the U.S.?
Normally I would agree with you, but Heavyweights are hard to come by and in my opinion he is top 10-15…so Yes its a big loss! Any other weight class and u would be right, but we cant bo losing Heavyweights in the states!
I would love to see him fight Aleks in Japan!
did you curse or anything?…. because they moderate pretty heavily on this site sometimes for cursing or calling someone an !diot…..stuff like that.
Can’t you even say curse words with *s? or replaced with something like &#%$! - instead this stupid site just makes comments disappear
AJ, if my last purely experimental post ever gets through, well, anything will eventually.
Silva?
Y does he need roids
Lmao
The CSAC is such a mess. If he did use steroids, yes, punish him, but this is taking it to far. They’re trying to mess up not just his life, but change the life of his family as well.
it’s not the CSAC’s fault it’s bigfoots fault — he knew the rules he disobeyed and now doesn’t want to pay the consequences? They should revoke his license. He should of thought of his family when he was cheating…
He’s already been punished, though. This is not part of his punishment for roids. His suspension clearly applied only to fights within the U.S. The CSAC is just trying to extend their influence.
I guess you thought the same about Ben Johnson when he was banned from the track!!
Take the punishment & come back stronger (and clean)
He lives in Fort Lauderdale, not Brazil, he has no insurance and had to pay for knee surgery and rehab, almost 100K, and he speak little to no english. teaching nd seminars are not really an option. Especially whn he is in a camp of world-reknown superstars who speak english, get more TV coverage andare in much higher demand as guest instructors. (Liborio, Marcelo Garcia, Mike Brown, JZ, Santiago, PitBull, 5 TUF alumni, Conan, and the list goes on!)
Sounds like he should get a proper job then? OR learn english and get insured. If he lives in the US you would have thought he’d know the lingo!!
Somebody play the poor guy a violin!
If you plan on living in America, LEARN ENGLISH!!!!!!
CSAC is reaching way beyond its scope of authority.
it’s good to see justice prevail. War CASC!!!
war csac*
“CALIFORNIA STATE ATHLETIC COMMISSION”…
WHEN THE HELL DID JAPAN MOVE TO CALIFORNIA.
CSAC HAS NOW CALLED OUT DANA WHITE FOR THE TITLE OF CONTROL FREAK!!!!!
Yes - CSAC has officially taken over the Douche of MMA title (Dana has been really nice past couple of months - must be show for Santa)
this is LAME! now we are never gonna see kimbo slice vs bigfoot silva! lol
I really feel bad for Antonio. He had to keep fighting to feed his family. Who in here wouldn’t do the same? As far as I know he has gigantism. Gigantism can lead to long term health problems so he needs to keep fighting for as long as he can and make as much money as possible before his fight career comes to an end. More then likely its not gonna be a long career for him. I really don’t understand why the CSAC feels as though they need to make an example out of him like this and the fact they wanna crack down on his corner men is just ridiculous in my opinion. I’m not a bigfoot fan at all but I’m really not understanding this one. They dont wanna let him fight in California fine but how do they think they can control what he does in Japan?
Who is paying for this commission? I live in Cali are my tax dollars going to wage this war?
It’s like the a kid who hurts your feelings instead of asking them not to do it again, you punch them in the balls and hate on them…Juevenile…how far are they going to take this?
CSAC needs to be controlled, and work better with the NSGC.
But, Silva is an idiot for doing this, and the promotion that allowed him to fight isn’t the brightest either, seeing its highly unlikely they will be allowed to promote in the US - at all.
I’ll start by saying I don’t agree with everything the CSAC, NSAC, NYSAC, ETC. says or does! However, these rules are in place for a very good reason! Let’s face it! When preparing for a fight, you’re training really hard and choking down foods and supplements you could barely stand for 6-10 weeks. Doing it right and keeping yourself clean to claim an honest victory. Only to find out after you’ve lost that your opponent cheated you, the promoter and the fans. As well as, bringing dishonor to his family and training camp by by taking steroids! How would you feel if you were the one who lost to this guy? however, I do truly believe that many, if not most, professional athletes(not just fighters!) take or have taken steroids to advance their carreer! I know know I’ll catch hell for that last statement, so fire away! lol
this was definatly not a random drug test… his nick name is big foot…… cmon.. how could he not see this coming
The CSAC is full of a-holes. It’s a guilty until proven innocent process for them. It is rare, but some people do produce higher rate of hormones dependent on various situations (environmental and not).
Bigfoot has a known condition which may alter his hormone levels. The CSAC needs to educate themselves on these issues to avoid penalizing fighters and their families.
Csac shouldnt exist they are a bunch of dipshits they remind me of the FDA bunch of fucken failures that get paid for absolutely nothing.
About an earlier coment on gray maynard
boring?
His last fight some might say, all match was make a wrong move and it could have caused the match for either
MMA!
gray has good fights if I remember the emerson fight was awesome, diaz, and edgar too.
Antonio “Junior” Silva is the missing link!
I want one of those shirts, i’ll just stick a picture of myself over his.
I think everyone is missing the point here. Plain an simple he cheated and got caught. Family or no family, HE made that decision.
If your drivers licence was suspended, and you decided to drive anyway and got caught, whose fault is it? The Governments or yours?
Come on people grow up a little. Don’t get me wrong, I love NASCAR, and you know there’s plenty of cheating going on there, but when they get caught they accept any punishment and get on with their lives.
Stop making excuses for a cheater.
actually, our forefathers never made any laws or constitutional amendments saying you need a license to drive! This has been taken to court and upheld!!