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Giant Silva vs Naoya Ogawa 小川直也

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

Meetings on record

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Giant Silva and Naoya Ogawa 小川直也 met once (2004). Naoya Ogawa 小川直也 won in 2004 by ko.

SOURCE·Giant Silva and Naoya Ogawa — 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
Giant SilvaNaoya Ogawa 小川直也
—Reach—
86″ (218.4 cm)Height76″ (193 cm)
—Reach advantage—
2–6Record7–2
100%Finish rate100%
1Longest unbeaten run5
8Recorded bouts9
—Stance—

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.

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

Naoya Ogawa 小川直也

19902000win v Rens Vrolijk, 1997, submissionwin v Rob Peters, 1999, submissionwin v Gary Goodridge, 1999, submissionwin v Masaaki Satake, 2000, submissionwin v Matt Ghaffari, 2002, koloss v Fedor Emelianenko, 2004, submissionwin v Paulo Cesar Silva, 2004, kowin v Stefan Leko, 2004, submissionloss v Hidehiko Yoshida, 2005, submission
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1997–2005
2000 win vs Rens Vrolijk (1997)win vs Rob Peters (1999)win vs Gary Goodridge (1999)win vs Masaaki Satake (2000)win vs Matt Ghaffari (2002)loss vs Fedor Emelianenko (2004)win vs Paulo Cesar Silva (2004)win vs Stefan Leko (2004)loss vs Hidehiko Yoshida (2005)
winlossdraw / NC1997–2005

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