The son of one of MMA's greatest ever fighters suffered a brutal knockout loss in a kickboxing bout

• Anderson Silva's 24-year-old son Gabriel got battered in a kickboxing bout last week.
• Silva was hit so hard he was left hanging off of the top rope, before collapsing to the floor.

Gabriel Silva, the 24-year-old son of MMA all-timer Anderson Silva, suffered a brutal knockout loss in a kickboxing bout that took place on November 5.

In an IKF light middleweight championship match, Vincent Familari swung a merciless amount of strikes at Silva as he beat him across the ring, and eventually left him hanging across the top rope.

The sequence of shots was enough to secure a first-round finish in devastating fashion.

The loss should not derail Silva's plans in the combat sport, though, as he had otherwise shown a relatively decent amount of promise, yet came unstuck because of a lackadaisical defense.

"I knew that I had to stay on him, I couldn't let him recover," Familari said after the fight, according to MMA Fighting.

"I mean, the guy's good. He could easily beat me, but God was with us on this victory, He blessed us. Much respect to my opponent, his camp and everybody else, but we did it. We pulled through."

Watch close-up footage of the finish right here:

Gabriel Silva's younger brother Kalyl, 22, also competed at the same event and returned a decision win over Melo Pamuk, three months after recording an eight-second knockout win in his debut.

Their father, Anderson, is a 46-year-old combat sports veteran who holds the record for the longest title reign in UFC history when he reigned over the middleweight division between 2006 and 2013.

Since bowing out from the UFC in 2020, Silva returned to the boxing ring where he rejuvenated his career with victories over Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., and a stunning knockout over Tito Ortiz, two months ago.