Marcus Silveira
Marcus “Conan” Silveira is American Top Team’s Head Coach, a sixth-degree Carlson Gracie black belt, and an early UFC competitor.
Biography
Sources for this profile
American Top Team, ‘Pro Coaches,’ Marcus ‘Conan’ Silveira entry.(opens in a new tab)
American Top Team’s coaches page identifies Marcus ‘Conan’ Silveira and describes him as a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt under Master Carlson Gracie.
Where in the source: Pro Fight Team Coaches — heading ‘Marcus “Conan” Silveira’ and bullet ‘6th Degree BJJ Black Belt under Master Carlson Gracie (1992)’.
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American Top Team lists Marcus ‘Conan’ Silveira as a sixth-degree Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt under Master Carlson Gracie.
Where in the source: Pro Fight Team Coaches — heading ‘Marcus “Conan” Silveira’ and bullet ‘6th Degree BJJ Black Belt under Master Carlson Gracie (1992)’.
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American Top Team’s coaches page identifies Marcus ‘Conan’ Silveira as Head Coach and describes him as an MMA pioneer and veteran of the UFC and PRIDE FC.
Where in the source: Pro Fight Team Coaches — heading ‘Marcus “Conan” Silveira’, role ‘Head Coach’, and bullet ‘MMA Pioneer and Veteran of the UFC and PRIDE FC’.
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BJJ Heroes, ‘Carlson Gracie,’ official black-belt list section.(opens in a new tab)
A BJJ Heroes page reproduces a black-belt list it says Carlson Gracie wrote before his 2006 death and that was released through jiu-jitsu media; the list includes Marcus ‘Conan’ Vinícius Figueiredo da Silveira Júnior.
Where in the source: ‘Official List of Carlson Gracie’s Black Belts’ — note: ‘This list was written by Master Carlson Gracie himself before passing away in 2006’ and ‘released by several BJJ newspapers and other media streams at the time’; entry: ‘Marcus “Conan” Vinícius Figueiredo da Silveira Júnior’.
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Dan Kuhl, ‘LFA’s Joshua Silveira: A Fighter Born,’ Combat Press, 2 July 2021.(opens in a new tab)
A 2021 Combat Press interview says Marcus ‘Conan’ Silveira was an early UFC competitor and was then the head coach of American Top Team in Coconut Creek; his son Joshua calls him an MMA pioneer and a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt under Carlson Gracie.
Where in the source: Joshua Silveira quote beginning ‘My father, [Marcus] ‘Conan’ Silveira, is one of the pioneers of [MMA]’; following paragraph: ‘The elder Silveira was a mixed martial artist who competed in the very early days of the UFC’ and ‘now serves as the head coach of American Top Team in Coconut Creek, Fla.’
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Brian Knapp, ‘Rivalries: Kazushi Sakuraba,’ Sherdog, 1 February 2021.(opens in a new tab)
A 2021 Sherdog account says Marcus Silveira faced Kazushi Sakuraba at UFC Ultimate Japan 1 on 21 December 1997; their initial heavyweight-tournament bout was overturned to a no contest, and Sakuraba later rematched Silveira and won by first-round armbar.
Where in the source: ‘Marcus Silveira’ section — ‘UFC Ultimate Japan 1 on Dec. 21, 1997’; ‘result overturned to a no-contest’; ‘rematched Silveira and submitted the hulking Brazilian with a first-round armbar to win the tournament’.
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