If Babalu moved down to 185 would Silva still be MW GOAT?

[Aleksander_Kharitonov]

Renato Sobral is now the favorite in a fantasy matchup against Anderson Silva? Ok dude. Take it.

I didn't say that, I said he had a better chance than some people seem to be giving him.

 

[Magnum1978]

Babalu's never been a 'great' fighter IMO - slightly better than the marquardt, okami, sonnen level but no real threat to prime anderson, potentially if they crossed paths in the 05 era though, there would be a reasonable possibility of a babalu win, but id favour andy

 

[The Natural Born Runner]

Silva would have wrecked Renato.

 

[Congo66]

There's no real overlap with Babalu when he was still good and Anderson getting to the UFC.
Babalu was pretty much done by 2006 so it wouldn't have made any difference.

 

[VanMMA]

There's no real overlap with Babalu when he was still good and Anderson getting to the UFC.
Babalu was pretty much done by 2006 so it wouldn't have made any difference.

The loss to Jason Lambert was bad but Babalu was able to rebound quite well in Strikeforce and Affliction. He still would've been a threat. It's a shame he never made the cut. The lowest he ever fought was 195 against Lawler.

 

[faustian]

So how've you been Babalu? Haven't heard about you in awhile

Seraldo was trying to storm the cage when Werdum besmirched Edmond, some dude was trying to hold the cage door shut for dear life lmao

 

[StraightleftKO]

Did Babalu take roids? Babalu > Anderson

 

[bootsy]

I like Babalu, but his gameplan against Liddell was one of the worst in the history of MMA.

 

[mma_genius]

He's way too big to make 185.

No, he isn't. Compared to other 205rs he is tiny.

 

[Jorge Luis Borges]

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I thin there's a decent argument that Sakuraba is the p4p GOAT let alone MW, but it is hard to figure out how to assess his career especially as compared to guys in the last decade. Much respect to him though.

 

[RaskeDanzig]

No, he isn't. Compared to other 205rs he is tiny.

Not really. He used to fight at heavyweight and was way bigger than Fedor when they fought. I just don't see Babalu at 185 lbs

 

[tenniswhiz]

Seraldo Babalu was one of the greatest light heavyweights of the night but I dunno if he could take on the GOAT MW.

He prob get ko'd pretty bad but could do well on the ground against Andy

Yea, he had such great wrestling and BJJ, but he loved standing and brawling instead.

 

[Choco]

Silva would have murdered him in under a round. He would have done no better than Irvin.

He's way too big to make 185.

I'm relfloating this two years old thread because I feel like it. Sue me.

Babalu fought at 202 Lbs as a LHW in the UFC at some point. Slim, but not starving himself (There was no reason) and cutting ZERO water. Going down to 185 would've been a walk in the park for him.

Babalu fought many openweight valetudos and Ring matches. I remember him fighting a huge 300+ Russian karateka/wrestler right before being eliminated by the most talented of the Overeem brothers, that went to eliminate Randy next only to lose the King of King Final to Minotauro. He fought Maurice Smith at HW in the UFC too, IIRC. I'm sure he tought that moving down to MW was for sissies.

 

[SeattleFightFan]

I'm relfloating this two years old thread because I feel like it. Sue me.

Babalu fought at 202 Lbs as a LHW in the UFC at some point. Slim, but not starving himself (There was no reason) and cutting ZERO water. Going down to 185 would've been a walk in the park for him.

Babalu fought many openweight valetudos and Ring matches. I remember him fighting a huge 300+ Russian karateka/wrestler right before being eliminated by the most talented of the Overeem brothers, that went to eliminate Randy next only to lose the King of King Final to Minotauro. He fought Maurice Smith at HW in the UFC too, IIRC. I'm sure he tought that moving down to MW was for sissies.

I agree that Babalu was all that....in the early 00's.

But by the time Silva whooped Franklin, Babalu's time was mostly past. Oh sure he could still beat the Bobby Southworth's of the world. But not A Silva.

Franklin v Babalu in 2005 or 2006 would have been very, very interesting.

In today's MMA, he would have cut down a division after losing to Chuck and shit would have gotten interesting. But that shit just wasn't done by guys who grew up fighting in the 90's (as @Choco rightfully suggests).

 

[KantoTerror]

I like Babalu, but his gameplan against Liddell was one of the worst in the history of MMA.

 

[Rusko]

There used to be amazing shoops of Babalu's face floating around the internet, can't find em anymore.

 

[Bu11etproof_JBE]

Lol @ all the noobs who dont know who babalu is.

 

[Karelinator]

Babalu fought at 202 Lbs as a LHW in the UFC at some point. Slim, but not starving himself (There was no reason) and cutting ZERO water. Going down to 185 would've been a walk in the park for him.
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He actually fought and beat Lawler at 195 catchweight.

So yeah, MW was very realistic, most probably.

 

[Megatronlee]

Silva would do him like Chuck did babalu

 

[Ace70 V2]

Haha not even