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Yeah...maybe. But was he willing to fight for the championship before Machida was the champ? Silva did not want to go to LHW to fight Shogun and does not want to do the same to fight Jones. I'd say if Forrest Griffin was the champ at the time Silva fought him, he still would have gone along with the fight.
wrong.
Silva refused to fight Rua at 205 for that exact reason.
And he fought Forrest right AFTER FG lost his belt.
At that time, Forrest was supposedly to be a huge test for Silva.
remember: he had just beaten Rua AND Rampage!
Now it is easy to pick and claim Forrest was overrated. At that time? No way!