Not necessarily. But rather than admit Chris had him in a fight he chose to act like an asshole and in doing so was successfully able to diminish both Chris’s win and himself. He disrespected a lot of fighters in his prime when he could have showed respect and beat them without making people look stupid. Ultimately he took himself out of the Goat conversation forever to it worked out well lol
Oh Jesus Christ
It was working you could see it on Chris face "wtf is he doing??" All the fans were thinking it too. Almost worked out for him
I mean...it was disrespectful but not for the sake of it. He was trying to use that to turn the fight around.
He tried. I'm the second angle he tried to catch him coming in but he missed and had to abandon that idea and go back to dodging. Andersons amazing just to adjust so fast.more like he was letting weidman tag him cause he underestimated his striking/power and at the same time overestimated his own ability to take shots/avoid them
look at this:
look how weidman overextents with that right hand.
if silva wasnt fooling around he would drop him there.
and keep in mind this is at the point where weidman is gassed, no longer able to take anderson down and is missing majority of his strikes while silva is goofing around
Anderson missed. That's the first thing. He missed the punch meant to counter weidman. Secondly,he is fast enough to dodge the punches,it's just when weidman threw the backhand it caused Silva to over extend,and he never thought weidman was going to land the punch that kod him. Never saw that even coming.obviously by that time anderson chin and speed werent what they ised to be, but this is how it looks like when opponents overextend and he actually fights back
you gonna tell me if weidman threw that sloppy combo against this silva he wouldn't be on the floor seeing stars?
That makes no sense at all. He wasnt goofin off in the second rd vs Hendo,he took that fight seriously,like all of them.
He was clowning to the point where it was plain stupid and reckless.
Much worse than any of the clowning he had done previously aside for Thales Leites, but even that was not as reckless.
He would have won that fight easily and extended the streak longer if he had his head together, but he seemed to lose it at times in his career. By the time he fought Weidman the second time he looked a little broken psychologically and broke himself physically as well, and was too old to come back from an injury that serious, not to mention those losses.
I agree with this. Silva as well up to that fight, fought against guys who had 5 or 6 inches of less reach than Weidman. Guys like Maia and Sonnen had reaches of 72-73 inches. Weidman had a longer reach than Silva (78 inches vs. 77.5 inches for Silva). So Weidman surprised Silva, since he was used to people not connecting from that range.
