Tonight’s Noche UFC 4 event was headlined by a men’s featherweight bout between Jean Silva and Jose Delgado.

Silva (18-3 MMA) was returning to action for the first time since this past January’s UFC 324 event, where he had scored a unanimous decision victory over Arnold Allen. ‘Lord’ had gone 4-1 over his previous five fights overall, scoring stoppage victories over Drew Dober, Melsik Baghdasaryan and Bryce Mitchell during that stretch.

Meanwhile, Jose Delgado (12-3 MMA) had entered tonight’s contest riding a two-fight winning streak, this after scoring back-to-back decision victories over Austin Bashi and Andre Fili in his most previous efforts. Like his opponent Jean Silva, Delgado had also gone 4-1 over his previous five Octagon appearances, earning stoppage wins over Hyder Amil and Connor Matthews during that time.

Tonight’s Noche UFC 4 main event resulted in an amazing comeback win for Jean Silva. After being badly outpointed and dropped in the opening round, things did not really get a whole lot better for ‘Lord’ in round two. Despite his slow start, Silva stormed back in round three by dropping Jose Delgado with a right hand and then securing a rear-naked choke to ultimately force a tapout just moments later. It was a big comeback win for the Brazilian, and one that puts him into immediate title contention at 145lbs.

Official Noche UFC 4 Results: Jean Silva def. Jose Delgado via submission (rear-naked choke) at 2:57 of Round 3

Check out how the pros reacted to ‘Silva vs. Delgado’ below:

Here. We. Go.#NocheUFC pic.twitter.com/IwFnDbdXlx

— Jed I. Goodman © (@jedigoodman) September 13, 2026

Well whatever Jean Silva was trying to do completely failed

— caposa (@Grabaka_Hitman) September 13, 2026

Jean Silva looks half-asleep in there tonight. This is really weird. #NocheUFC

— Adam Martin (@MMAdamMartin) September 13, 2026

Delgado gotta stick to the plan he’s fighting great don’t get pulled into a slugfest

— Belal Muhammad (@bullyb170) September 13, 2026

Silva reading his own paper clippings. The fight just got real headed into the second

— Josh Thomson (@THEREALPUNK) September 13, 2026

Knees there for Delgado

— Belal Muhammad (@bullyb170) September 13, 2026

Post-fight reactions to Silva defeating Delgado at Noche UFC 4:

Silva subs Delgado in the third.

Very well executed choke

— Aaron Bronsteter (@aaronbronsteter) September 13, 2026

I’m next in line. Or we can fight for it. December. Run it.

— Aljamain Sterling (@funkmasterMMA) September 13, 2026

Yeah Delgado was hurt bad from that right hand, he was not recovering

— caposa (@Grabaka_Hitman) September 13, 2026

"Let the dog bark" – JMD pic.twitter.com/JMDIegwpeA

— Jean "Lord" Silva (@Jeansilvamma96) September 13, 2026

Jean Silva is a fucking psycho

— caposa (@Grabaka_Hitman) September 13, 2026

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