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Akebono vs Giant Silva

A fight that actually happened — and everything both records say about it.

Meetings on record

0

Akebono and Giant Silva met 0 times, on dates the sources do not establish.

SOURCE·Akebono Tarō and Giant Silva — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·both records name the other·REVIEWED AUG 2026

How this head-to-head is established

  1. This pairing exists only because at least one of the two articles' own results tables names the other fighter. No matchup on this site is speculative and none is a hypothetical.
  2. Every figure in the comparison below comes from that fighter's own page and carries the same source line. A dash means the source states nothing, not that the value is zero.
  3. Common opponents are found by matching linked bout lists, which is only possible because every fight list here is linked to every other. A shared opponent is not a transitive result and this page does not treat it as one.
  4. Nothing on this page predicts an outcome. It is a comparison of what is on record.

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Side by side

What both records stateAUG 2026
AkebonoGiant Silva
—Reach—
79.9″ (203 cm)Height86″ (218.4 cm)
—Reach advantage—
0–4Record2–6
—Finish rate100%
1Longest unbeaten run1
11Recorded bouts8
OrthodoxStance—

A comparison of what is on record. Nothing here predicts a result.

Both records, drawn

The same ledger line on each: wins stamped above the rule, losses below, the mark's shape carrying how it ended.

Akebono

20002010UNFILEDloss v Remy Bonjasky, 2004, koloss v Rick Roufus, 2004, decisionloss v Zhang Qingjun, 2004, decisionloss v Musashi, 2004, decisionloss v Choi Hong-man, 2005, kowin v Nobuaki Kakuda, 2005, decisionloss v Choi Hong-man, 2006, koloss v Bob Sapp, 2015, decisionloss v Submission, no date on recordloss v Decision, no date on recordloss v Bob Sapp, no date on record
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 2004–2015 · 3 UNDATED
2010 loss vs Remy Bonjasky (2004)loss vs Rick Roufus (2004)loss vs Zhang Qingjun (2004)loss vs Musashi (2004)loss vs Choi Hong-man (2005)win vs Nobuaki Kakuda (2005)loss vs Choi Hong-man (2006)loss vs Bob Sapp (2015)
winlossdraw / NC2004–2015

Giant Silva

2000loss v Heath Herring, 2003, submissionloss v Choi Mu-Bae, 2004, submissionloss v Takashi Sugiura, 2004, koloss v Naoya Ogawa, 2004, kowin v Henry Miller, 2004, submissionloss v James Thompson, 2005, kowin v Akebono Taro, 2006, submissionloss v Ikuhisa Minowa, 2006, ko
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 2003–2006
loss vs Heath Herring (2003)loss vs Choi Mu-Bae (2004)loss vs Takashi Sugiura (2004)loss vs Naoya Ogawa (2004)win vs Henry Miller (2004)loss vs James Thompson (2005)win vs Akebono Taro (2006)loss vs Ikuhisa Minowa (2006)
winlossdraw / NC2003–2006

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