Wanderlei Silva made his first public appearance since undergoing facial surgery when he cornered his pupil, Jorge Lopez, at last Saturday's Worlds Collide show in Nevada. Lopez took a unanimous decision over EliteXC veteran and Josh Barnett student Jaime Fletcher.
More photos at Tatame.
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the doctor who did Nick Diaz and Marcus Davis' procedure wasn't the one that did that...
And he’s the pioneer of that groundbreaking procedure so no one else has mastered it except him…
there were also reports that he just had an operation on his deviated septum.. so i don’t know what’s real..
He’s been staying in brazil lately, so if he had that surgery for scar tissue, did he have it there? Cause that isn’t exactly the best place to get that kind of surgery..
Or is it true that he only had his septum worked? if it is, why does his entire face look different?
Im confused…
I had heard he had it all done at once.
- shaved brow ridge
- removed scar tissue and replaced with collagen
- reset nose
yeah, cause that's all the rumors floating around..
but this is the thing that makes it confusing:
Frank Stile, M.D., a Las Vegas-based plastic surgeon who pioneered the surgery and remains its only trained applicator, says he did not have a hand in crafting Silva’s newly smoothed brow.
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“Neither he nor his agents has ever consulted me on his desire to have the procedure done,” Stile told ESPN.com. “My understanding is that he is, and has for some time, been in Brazil. He may be having the procedure done there. This is both very interesting and of great concern to me since I have pioneered this procedure and haven’t trained any other doctors on how to perform it safely.”
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Being that Brazil is not exactly a hotbed of surgical innovation — if indeed Silva had any work done there — Stile is curious about the fighter’s results.
by Anton Tabuena on Aug 25, 2009 12:07 PM EDT up reply actions
if he did have it done in brazil,
i really hope they did it right..
by Anton Tabuena on Aug 25, 2009 12:07 PM EDT up reply actions
Stile mainly wants to protect his reputation I think.
A man should never waste an opportunity to keep his mouth shut.
i read a feature on the procedure
and i think it’s really just him who has done it for fighters.. unless somehow Brazil has learned it quickly and properly, it might be something to worry about..
by Anton Tabuena on Aug 25, 2009 12:09 PM EDT up reply actions
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by Ubernoober on Aug 25, 2009 10:54 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
it looks like
he had some scar tissue around his eyes removed and his broken nose fixed. His nose looked like coutures before, and its way straighter now. He actually looks a lot like he did when he fought in pride, only older. I’m sure theres just some swelling that still needs to go down
by Austin Martin on Aug 25, 2009 11:04 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
gracie mag reported that he had his deviated septum fixed..
but the scar tissue guy (probably the only doctor who does the procedure) said he didn’t do that to wanderlei..
by Anton Tabuena on Aug 25, 2009 11:09 AM EDT up reply actions
yeah actually his eyes look no different
but his nose is fixed. It was completely jacked up before.
by Austin Martin on Aug 25, 2009 11:15 AM EDT up reply actions
He looks like Joan Rivers during his first surgeries. It looks like he pulled back in forehead skin so his eyebrows and eyes kind of rise. Of course, that could be from removing scar tissue in areas.
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I feel like thats just an illusion from his nose looking longer and more narrow, his head looks longer now.
is there any way we can get before/after pics of wanderlei?
and also, how about pics of couture from early in his career to now? because his nose got JACKED up
by Austin Martin on Aug 25, 2009 11:17 AM EDT up reply actions
Wow, such disrespect.
Props to folks who can deal with seeing a picture of someone post-surgery like a grownup.
by Chris Nelson on Aug 25, 2009 11:19 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I'm glad someone made the point.
I hate coming across people commenting on how ugly someone is or weird looking, or how their physique is. Not every fighter looks like Wanderlei in terms of build, or is as polished looking as GSP or something. I really don’t care what someone looks like, theyre an effing fighter… get over it.. Plus he had to get the surgery, so the posts about him looking like sloth or joan rivers who had plastic surgery are just disrespectful.
by Austin Martin on Aug 25, 2009 11:24 AM EDT up reply actions
If I got some facial surgery & looked WORSE, I would appreciate if someone pointed it out. He does have a very Joan Rivers-esque look now & it’s freaky. With the surgeries he was getting, I would think the doctor would make him look LESS LUMPY in the face like he used to be. Not transform him into a cat-faced stranger that I don’t recognize to be The Axe Murderer. It’s kind of sad.
I bet if you had surgery, you would hold the surgeon to a higher standard than this hack job. Stop being so damn sensitive!!
i'm not being sensitive
but you’re implying Wand was a beauty queen before. That pic is from one angle, the others on Tatame don’t look that bad.
And it is absolutely not like he just plastic surgery, he got restorative surgery to fix problems.
by Austin Martin on Aug 25, 2009 12:16 PM EDT up reply actions
He was a beauty queen
I mean, look at that hair….
Walla walla walla I'm an idiot.
by ufc4 on Aug 25, 2009 12:33 PM EDT up reply actions 6 recs
It’s not sensitive versus insensitive. It’s adult vs. juvenile. Commenting candidly about changes to appearance have nothing to do with being a sophomoric raging prick.
by Luke Thomas on Aug 25, 2009 12:17 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
So we can't make fun of people's post-surgery pics?
Walla walla walla I'm an idiot.
by ufc4 on Aug 25, 2009 4:37 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
was looking forward to the Rumble Johnson fight man…. too bad
by cauliflower_ears on Aug 25, 2009 10:41 PM EDT up reply actions
thats what Jake Rosholt looked like after his fight with Nissen Osterneck
by Austin Martin on Aug 25, 2009 12:40 PM EDT up reply actions
hahahahah
awesome
I made a Rocky Dennis joke the first time I saw Rosholt, even before he got lumped up.
Wanderlei always had a prodigious brow ridge
That now appears to be mostly gone.
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come on guys
so mean! could just be a bad picture…. i love wanderlei, michael jackson face or not
by cagefightonacid on Aug 25, 2009 3:11 PM EDT reply actions
He looks fine to me...
I think he looks better… we will get used to it. The eyes really look a lot like Tito’s eyes in terms of shape and brow position now. I just hope it actually does help him out and not work against him somehow… he’s my favorite fighter!
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