For Jean Silva, it has been a rollercoaster ride ever since he debuted on Dana White’s Contender Series in 2023. The 28-year-old featherweight has been one of the prominent stars of 2024 and is riding high as he prepares for his first fight in 2025 against Melsik Baghdasaryan this Saturday in Seattle.‘Lord’ already has an 11-fight winning streak that includes 3 UFC victories. He is a member of one of the fastest-growing MMA teams today and has a unique take on fighting combined with intelligence. This team is none other than The Fighting Nerds. With them, he has gained more confidence and can be his authentic self. Who coaches Jean Silva?Silva’s Brazilian origins assured that he was pretty good in the art form of jiu-jitsu and capoeira. The featherweight juggernaut is coached by Caio Borralho who is the torch bearer of The Fighting Nerds and their philosophy. His head coaches include Flavio Alvaro and Pablo Sucupira. So what is The Fight Nerds? Let’s wind back the clock a little bit. Enter Caio Borralho, a math and chemistry whiz who realized his grappling skills were excellent but striking needed a little more polish. Since he was a math ‘nerd’, problem-solving was the way to go rather than procrastinating. He sought out an expert Pablo Sucupira, a Muay Thai specialist who had traded his 9 to 5 copywriting job for boxing gloves. This duo created a magnificent team called The Fighting Nerds. Now there is a team for the geeks and nerds of MMA are the stars who can throw punches while naming all your 206 bones in the body. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Full Violence (@fullviolence)The team has a signature look of black-rimmed glasses that Jean Silva wears as well. Borralho started the trend by wearing these glasses with thick frames and putting tape on his nose bridge during media appearances. Seeing him, his teammates adopted the same style. As per MMA Junkie, Sucupira said, “The Fighting Nerds are the most intelligent guys in the world because they think when they are throwing kicks, throwing punches inside the cage.” Here the fighters think of about as a problem needing to be solved just like math. So, what is their motto? —fight smart not tough. Where does Jean Silva train? Gym and teammatesSilva always credits The Fighting Nerds as a crucial part of his MMA career. He credited the team for his success and said that they played an important role in his transition from Muay Thai to MMA. He also credited his wife for his success in MMA and UFC. While speaking to the UFC he said, “Carol was the one who got me into MMA, so when we talk about the UFC, we’re talking about her.”He truly loves his team, which was also visible when he got emotional speaking about living his dream alongside the Fighting Nerds teammates. Wearing The Fighting Nerds jacket, he sat down for a presser before his fight against Melsik Baghdasaryan and spoke about his experience being under the UFC banner with an amazing team. After the reporter asked him about how he felt, he said with tears in his eyes. An emotional Silva expressed, “What I feel when all of this happens is just being here at the greatest event in the world living a dream is that the dream is nothing if you don’t compare to doing it, to being here, to see everyone wearing this jacket to see everyone behind me.” Before that, a reporter asked him about his team and he said, “It adds up now to what is the best team in the world. We won an award. It’s amazing to be a part of this. The journey’s been amazing. It’s pretty amazing to be a part of this.”Silva achieved this dream with his amazing teammates aka family at The Fighting Nerds, including Carlos Prates, Denis Silva, Caio Borralho, Bruna Brasil, Natalia Alves, and many more fighters. What do you think about his rise along with his team? Share your thoughts in the comments below. The post Jean Silva’s Gym- The Fighting Nerds: Coaches, Teammates, & more appeared first on EssentiallySports.