By TALES AZZONI

updated 1:03 a.m. ET Aug. 28, 2011

RIO DE JANEIRO - After added dominating victory, playwright Silva went celebrating around the octagon. His contestant went straightforward to the hospital.

Silva vex Yushin Okami by strong at 2:04 of the ordinal round, success his 15th straightforward fisticuffs and successfully defending his middleweight denomination at UFC 134 on Sat night.

Silva dispatched Okami to the connector with a right-handed effort to the jaw, then pounded him with strikes to the nous to obligate the fisticuffs to be stopped.

After individual hits to the head, it took awhile for Okami to intend up. He mitt the octagon on his possess feet, but organizers after said he had to be condemned to a topical infirmary for preventative reasons and would participate a program of scrutiny exams.

Silva's opponents hit been effort vex up same Okami did more ofttimes than not recently.

The 36-year-old Brazilian, touted as the MMA's prizewinning pound-for-pound fighter, reinforced to 29-4 (14-0 in UFC), patch Okami lapse to 27-6 (10-3).

Silva's terminal expiration had been against Okami in 2006, when the Brazilian submissive the pugilism but was disqualified after an banned kick.

Silva has defended his denomination a achievement figure nowadays and is the longest-reigning endorse in UFC history.

"I'm so happy," Silva said. "I've drilled so hornlike for this.

"It was awing to do this here in Brazil, in face of the Brazilian fans," he said.

The Ultimate Fighting Championship prefabricated a much-anticipated convey to Brazil, the land where integrated military subject came to chronicle in the primeval 1990s. There hadn't been a UFC circumstance in Brasil since 1998, when the climb was not nearly as favourite as it is now.

Silva, a mover famous as "The Spider," struggled to intend to Okami in the prototypal of the five-round fight, but he came discover offensive in the ordinal and dominated.

He struck a right-handed effort with 4:17 mitt to beam Okami to the connector for the prototypal time. The Asian plane recovered, but not after the ordinal calculate by Silva in face of more than 15,000 fans who crowded the HSBC Arena in metropolis de Janeiro.

The 30-year-old Okami had won sextet of his terminal heptad fights.

He wasn't the exclusive digit to retrograde to a Brazilian on Sat as topical fighters won quaternary of the fivesome fights on the important card.

In the reddened heavyweight division, Brazilian Mauricio "Shogun" Rua knocked discover dweller Forrest Griffin in the prototypal ammo with a program of strikes to the head. Rua had forfeited to Griffin in his UFC entry in 2007, and the gathering famous the conclusion by chanting, "Shogun is back, Shogun is back."

In the heavyweights, home-crowd selection Minotauro Nogueira foiled dweller Brendan Schaub by strong despite not having fought in 18 months because of a program of injuries, gift Brasil its prototypal get of the period in the important card. The emotive conclusion gave the 35-year-old Nogueira a 37-6-1 record.

Bulgaria's Stanislav Nedkov prefabricated his UFC entry by defeating Brazil's Luiz Cane by strong in a reddened heavyweight fisticuffs to meliorate his achievement to 12-0, patch Brazil's Edson Barboza reached 9-0 by fighting England's doc Pearson with a separate selection in the lightweight division.

Some of the celebrities at the circumstance Sat included old football grapheme Ronaldo, whose sports marketing authority manages Silva's career.

The fans constantly chanted during the fights, and modify whatever soccer-stadium songs prefabricated their artefact into the fights.

UFC President Dana White has already said he plans to convey to Brasil presently and process the sort of events in the land of 190 meg people. There is modify speech of a doable fisticuffs at a football stadium, which could draw a gathering of nearly 100,000 fans.

"We strength be here every weekend now," White joked after the fights. "This circumstance was flourishing modify before it modify happened.

"I've been doing events every over the concern over the eld and Brasil wins for the loudest gathering ever. The locate was crowded from the prototypal fight. It was incredible."

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