To be completely honest and I’m not biased at all on this one, Spider never faced a great MT...

[true_fan]

Practitioner or a high caliber kickboxer until Izzy. After rewatching his fight with him I realized that he got owned and tried to make it look as if he let Izzy win, the key word “let”. I know he was out of his prime, but it wouldn’t make that much difference since Izzy had way more experience in professional KB fights.
I mean Dan has that right hand and Vitor also has quick hands but very inconsistent fighter and not MT or KB based fighter! I truly believe that Anderson is lucky he didn’t meet a high caliber MT or kickboxer? What do u think?

 

[Herwald]

Andy was never that good and should retire.

 

[mma fighter]

Silva was good, but got the best hype job ever in the UFC.

 

[TempleoftheDog]

As it is and always will be. Once you become the champion, you can only fight whom they put in front of you. If there are no elite specialists of any MA. What can you do about it? As long as you fought the next guy in line, and never cherry picked your defences (Usman, Cejudo). Then I have no complaints on this topic.

 

[hohner]

If we're being totally honest, there has never been a good fighter in MMA. Just a bunch of hype jobs. It's sad.

 

[mjfan23]

So he wasn’t good at MT or against Japanese fighters?

 

[Sweater of AV]

What do u think?

Anderson destroyed Vitor and let's be honest, Vitor is a better boxer than Evander Holyfield. Kickboxing or not, Anderson is the GOAT.



I think you should stop making threads.

 

[Deleted member 585708]

Practitioner or a high caliber kickboxer until Izzy. After rewatching his fight with him I realized that he got owned and tried to make it look as if he let Izzy win, the key word “let”. I know he was out of his prime, but it wouldn’t make that much difference since Izzy had way more experience in professional KB fights.
I mean Dan has that right hand and Vitor also has quick hands but very inconsistent fighter and not MT or KB based fighter! I truly believe that Anderson is lucky he didn’t meet a high caliber MT or kickboxer? What do u think?

GSP never fought a single Olympic gold medal winning Judoka either.

 

[mma fighter]

If we're being totally honest, there has never been a good fighter in MMA. Just a bunch of hype jobs. It's sad.

Got to disagree with you bud. Lots of warriors in MMA. I guess you're trolling?

 

[gondo]

That was fight was intended to build Izzy as Silvas replacement and he shit the bed hard. He won but it wasn’t the least bit impressive.
I don’t know how you can rewatch the fight and think less of an ancient Silva than you do about a young Izzy.

 

[Pierced7681]

Bisping? Lmaooo

 

[hohner]

Got to disagree with you bud. Lots of warriors in MMA. I guess you're trolling?

I am using exaggeration to point out the absurdity of the argument made in the first post of this thread.

 

[Choco]

Anderson destroyed Vitor and let's be honest, Vitor is a better boxer than Evander Holyfield.

This really follows the same logic that the OP. Nicely done.

Ando just to be smacked aound in the gym by the true MMA's MT OG, José "Pelé" Landi. This is how he became so good.

 

[mma fighter]

I am using exaggeration to point out the absurdity of the argument made in the first post of this thread.

Figured. Post on Bro!

 

[MRT]

Practitioner or a high caliber kickboxer until Izzy. After rewatching his fight with him I realized that he got owned and tried to make it look as if he let Izzy win, the key word “let”. I know he was out of his prime, but it wouldn’t make that much difference since Izzy had way more experience in professional KB fights.
I mean Dan has that right hand and Vitor also has quick hands but very inconsistent fighter and not MT or KB based fighter! I truly believe that Anderson is lucky he didn’t meet a high caliber MT or kickboxer? What do u think?

We could just as easily claim that a high caliber MT specialist is lucky they didn't meet Anderson Silva in an MMA fight...

 

[Karl_Hungus]

Sorry, but he faught Rich Franklin, who said that the MT clinch was his "sweet spot," so you're clearly wrong.

 

[Pierced7681]

We could just as easily claim that a high caliber MT specialist is lucky they didn't meet Anderson Silva in an MMA fight...

I don’t know about Muay Thai, but Bisping was a British kickboxing champ, and he beat Anderson.

 

[Substance Abuse]

As it is and always will be. Once you become the champion, you can only fight whom they put in front of you. If there are no elite specialists of any MA. What can you do about it? As long as you fought the next guy in line, and never cherry picked your defences (Usman, Cejudo). Then I have no complaints on this topic.

/thread

 

[FIghtxIQ]

This really follows the same logic that the OP. Nicely done.

Ando just to be smacked aound in the gym by the true MMA's MT OG, José "Pelé" Landi. This is how he became so good.

Yeah that's how people usually get better. You're forced to improve or you just keep getting beat up lol.

 

[PeterGriffin]

Practitioner or a high caliber kickboxer until Izzy. After rewatching his fight with him I realized that he got owned and tried to make it look as if he let Izzy win, the key word “let”. I know he was out of his prime, but it wouldn’t make that much difference since Izzy had way more experience in professional KB fights.
I mean Dan has that right hand and Vitor also has quick hands but very inconsistent fighter and not MT or KB based fighter! I truly believe that Anderson is lucky he didn’t meet a high caliber MT or kickboxer? What do u think?

Wouldn't make that much of a difference???

Prime Silva would have beat seven shades of shit out of Izzy. Christ, when they fought, Silva was 43 and I think Izzy was 29. Silva had not lost just a step at that point, he was a shell of his former self. In my own personal opinion, I don't think any kind of striker was prime-Silva's kryptonite. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that he UFC used Silva's name to put Izzy over.