Danny Silva will be ‘chasing’ Kevin Vallejos after UFC London win

Danny
Silva wants to avenge his loss against Kevin
Vallejos. 

Silva (11-2)) knocked out Kurtis
Campbell in the second round of their featherweight matchup at

UFC London. The win saw Silva rebound from a closely-contested
unanimous decision loss against Vallejos (18-1), who has since
become a highly-touted prospect. 

Silva believes Vallejos’s stardom was partly built on his lone
career loss against Jean Silva,
who is now on the cusp of bursting into the
UFC featherweight title picture. While Silva doesn’t want to
build himself based on his loss against Vallejos, he will continue
chasing the Argentinian. Silva believes his loss to Vallejos was
controversial, with many of his supporters thinking he had done
enough to secure the victory.

Willing to Fight Anybody

“I do want to bounce back,” Silva said in a post-fight interview
with the UFC. “I lost to Vallejos; he kind of built his name off of
Jean
Silva. I don’t want to build my name off of [Vallejos]. But
I’ve been his toughest match. He fought Jean on the Contender
Series, so when I fought Vallejos, I fought a better version of
him. We just saw what he did to a lot of good fighters. He wasn’t
able to do that to me. I thought that was a very controversial
fight. I know a lot of people – at least my fight fans thought that
I had done enough. I’m gonna be chasing him, I’m gonna be chasing
him until we fight again, hopefully in the Top 10 or Top 5. But I’m
willing to fight anybody.”

Silva is 3-1 in the UFC since making his debut in 2023. Meanwhile,
Vallejos came up short in his first
Dana White’s Contender Series opportunity against Silva in
2023. Vallejos rebounded with a couple of wins on the regional
circuit and a knockout win in his second Contender Series
opportunity in 2024 to earn his UFC contract. Vallejos has since
racked up four consecutive wins, only going the distance against
Silva. Vallejos recently knocked out Josh Emmett
in the first round of his first UFC main event earlier this
month.