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Actually it is your post that is the joke.You are clearly reading things out of context. I am not complaining that they never fought. Perhaps you should read what I replied to.
GSP is doing some revisionist history these days. Simply stating "I was never offered Anderson Silva", while technically true, is an outrageous thing to say. As a matter of fact, I was never offered Anderson Silva either.
GSP never actively campaigned for Anderson Silva, and he was asked many, many times. BJ Penn ACTIVELY campaigned for GSP. Conor Macgregor ACTIVELY campaigned for RDA, and then Alvarez. See the difference?
I have no problem with the two never fighting - weight classes exist for a reason. But GSP might as well say he was never offered Jon Jones, or even Muhammed Ali for that matter. GSP has become a joke. I have no problem with him wanting no part of Anderson Silva. To even hint otherwise now is just incredible.
it is the fight promotions JOB to offer fights to the fighters if they want to see it happen.
we know the UFC was interested in various super fights at the time but the one thing the UFC was NEVER willing to do was offer Super Fight money to make them happen. They wanted the fighters to fight under their usual contract rates despite the much higher risk typically with a super fight. So why would any active champ do that unless they saw it as a way to greatly increase their pay over the long term or they were naturally moving up anyway?
So ya, GSP does not need to campaign for Anderson as Anderson did not need to campaign for Jones. It is perfectly fair for him to point out that the UFC never put pen to paper with a real worth while money offer that would have made him considering signing for a fight with Anderson.
Instead what Dana would always do is try to embarrass Aldo, GSP or Anderson into taking super fights for the normal money by suggesting they were scared to fight the opponent in the hopes they would take it just to shut him up. But the fighters are ALL smart business people at this point. Dana, you want a Super Fight, then put up Super Fight money and put the offer in front of me so I can consider and sign it back.