Has anderson silva ever faced a good striker?

He fought the tips guys there that he could fight. A lot of them were over rated and never great or top guys. At that time the ufc pool was not very strong. Lots of Tuff1 fighters for instance. Nate the great back then didnt have as good of striking that he got towards the last few years of his career. Anderson was also like jon, long reach and big for the division. He has advantage in reach on most if not all his opponents.
 
Trt-tor made Anthony Johnson panic wrestle..... think about it
 
Outside of an Israel that went easy on him, no

He fought pre trt belfort as well
 
i remember when he faced Greco Roman specialist Vitor Belfort, and Olympic wrestler Israel Adesanya and Pirate ship Captain Michael Bisping.
 
Stop it TS, people aren't ready to be honest about Anderson's competition. They still list Franklin as a "great striker". Rich is awesome my intention isn't to trash him, but the man famously trained himself in his garage for year's, stop lying to yourselves.

He didn't get Trtor like Bisping, Luke, Jones, and Hendo did. Izzy respected Anderson and at points carried him. Which he has denied in interviews, yet in other interviews he admits to telling Silva to put his hands up. Make of that what you will.

Like TS, I don't doubt Anderson is an amazing striker, we just aren't honest about how good the guys he fought actually where.

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Thats the truth.
 
I dont doubt he's a very good striker himself but who has he faced that was also a good striker? at current mw we have guys like israel, whittaker, gastelum and even darren till who are very good strikers ( at least mma level ) anderson never faced anyone similar to this guys

And won
Was going to lambast you until I saw your join date.

I'm sure I'm late to the party. Listen to the ones telling you that yes, over all those defenses, somehow a striker made their way in there.
 
The most dangerous fighters Anderson faced were TRT Vitor and Hendo, whom he demolished. That's 2, arguments can be made for Nate and Franklin. The truth is that after Anderson demolished Leben and Franklin twice, no one wanted anything to do with the MW division. The evidence for this observation is that once Anderson lost the belt, the MW division became incredibly deep with guys from the LHW division dropping down like Lyoto and Bisping who both went on to have great careers.

He fought non-trt vitor btw.
 
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The thing is: he is a fucking genius and only another genius would beat him. So... If another genius had been existed, he would reign the same as the Spider.

No one could strike better than Spider until now, he is the ultimate striker until now and will be for a long time. Accept the reality.
 
He avoided the stand up with Murray for a good while until he was gassed some.

Was pretty funny.

Adesanya, he was tooling until he got cocky and started letting him hit him. Then he lost a step and got wrecked.

got wrecked... to a decision
do yourself a favor and STFU already
 
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