Radley Da Silva
30 years old – Canada – Battlefield – 8-1
The last spot on my list was a tough decision. Obviously, Radley has already been on DWCS and won without being signed. I was considering guys like the aforementioned Bagley, Holzer, and Simon. Even LFA guys like Gustavo Pintos or Erick Visconde, or Central Asian prospects like Shermurat Kalimov or Nurkhan Zhumagazy.
Ultimately, I decided I can’t really leave Radley off this list. Sure, his CS fight didn’t really entertain anyone, but I think that George Mangos just turned out to be a very tricky guy on bottom, so it was very hard to do damage. Whenever I’ve seen Radley have anyone on the ground in his prior fights, he’s been doing loads of damage and looking for subs.
Radley still has that beautiful spinning back kick KO on his record, and I think we’re not far away from realising how good Mangos is. Hopefully, next time they go to Canada, they consider giving Radley a call because this is an athletic, well-rounded, explosive, and entertaining guy who, unfortunately, wasn’t entertaining the one time it really mattered.