If Weidman retired tomorrow, what would be his legacy?

A very good champion, but not one of the greats.
 
He would be remembered as the average looking white american that beat Anderson Silva twice in unusual fashion

He will also be remembered for getting injured often, defeating deflated brazilians, getting the shit kicked out of him by Rockhold and Romero and somehow his fans claiming he was winning those fights before dumb mistakes lol lol lol

weidman fanboys on sherdog are so cute
 
a talented fighter who had everything go his way until nothing went his way
 
A good fighter who was toppled when he faced the fresher, younger, more well rounded talent.

His wins against Anderson will always have huge asterisks over them, like it or not.

Also, very suspect T levels...

Will never forget him crying and bitching about every loss lol.
 
Oj21 said:
A guy that bragged about beating silva twice when he never actually got a clean win against him and then absolutely collapsed under usada.
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? Deluded hater...

And btw he beat Gastelum post USADA, a guy that may very well be getting a title shot after mauling Bisping.

Not to mention, he lost to the top 3 guys at middleweight and beat the GOAT twice... And if you don't think what he did to Silva the first time (dropping him and then KO'ing him) is as clean as it gets, you are even dumber than I suspect. Silva fought Weidman the exact same way he did everyone else, Weidman was simply better.

The second fight, he dropped him again and then I agree the leg injury was not the best way to win a fight but there were no indications in the second fight that it would go any different than the first.
 
The Natural Born Runner said:
A good fighter who was toppled when he faced the fresher, younger, more well rounded talent.

His wins against Anderson will always have huge asterisks over them, like it or not.

Also, very suspect T levels...

Will never forget him crying and bitching about every loss lol.
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Weidman is the same age as Rockhold, 1 year older than Mousasi and quite a bit younger than Romero.

That said, how can anyone actually sit back and discredit his first win over Silva? He nearly finished him before actually finishing him and was in control of every moment of the fight up until it was over. The second fight was going the same way until the freak leg injury.

Anyone that can defend Silva at this point is either a mindless Silva fan... or Brazilian.
 
Kassitus said:
He beat Andy twice, once before USADA via leg destruction. Defended against Machida and Belfort. Then goes on to get massacred by Rocksalt. Tried to bend the rules against Moose and got punished for it. Never tested positive but did have unusual T:E ratios when USADA was first coming into effect (not an accusation, just trivia).

How would he be remembered among the other middleweights? The best ever? The guy with the funny dad? Something else?
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He's the man who beat THE MAN. No one can take that from him. But he's far more of an Antonio Tarver than a Larry Holmes... and he sure as hell isn't a Roy Jones Jr or a Muhammad Ali.

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Frozen Sea said:
>Beat up washed up fighters out of their prime in Silva, Machida, and Belfort.

>Went on a 3 fight losing streak(in which he was finished all 3 times) as soon as he fought top middleweights still in their prime.

>Had to break his losing streak against a welterweight who nearly finished him and was forced to take him down and use his size advantage to win.

Not to mention he tried getting Gegard Mousasi DQ'd by acting like he couldn't continue up until the knees were announced legal and he hopped up and was fine all of a sudden.

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trt vitor machida and andy were washed up? lol what
 
He beat Anderson Silva while he was Anderson Silva

I wouldn’t really count the second as a win. I doubt he is as proud of that one either. A getting his leg broken isn’t exactly how you expect to win ever
 
Gambit MMA said:
trt vitor machida and andy were washed up? lol what
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That wasn't TRT Vitor, funny enough he was forced to pull out of his first scheduled fight with Weidman due to the TRT ban being initialized by Usada.

Since the 2 Weidman fights Silva has gone 1-2-1 along with 2 failed usada test. He didn't look good at all in either Weidman fight as well. I think it's safe to say Silva was far out of his prime in both fights.

Machida is also 1-4 since then as well lol. All 3 of those guys have looked awful since fighting Weidman. They had a foot halfway out the door when they fought him. I would favor a prime version of all 3 of those guys against Weidman.
 
Weidman didn't win the 2nd fight. Silva lost.
 
A couple of title defenses, a lot of concussions and zero fans.
 
Oj21 said:
A guy that bragged about beating silva twice when he never actually got a clean win against him and then absolutely collapsed under usada.
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Can't get much more clean than a KO victory
 
The guy that sonned Silva only to get sonned by Rockhold.
 
Hid out in his moms basement until the trt monster Vitor Belfort got his Jesus juice taken away
 
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