Heath Herring vs. Giant Silva was fake as hell!

[ReDiCuLouS]

Giant Silva played basketball for the Brazilian Olympic team...not quite Shaq calibur.

I think it's real.

Coleman vs. Takada is more of a work than anything I can think of, not involving Bob Sapp.

 

[Rex Kwon Do]

WHO punches that bad though? I've never seen a professional fighter of any discipline throw a "punch" like that. Hulk Hogan's fake punches look much more dangerous than those real ones. Seriously....

I think you have to throw out whatever ideas you have about Giant Silva being a professional fighters. He's a guy who has fought for money, which true, usually means you're a professional fighter. But it also usually implies you are gifted to some extent, and you've surpassed the amateurs in order to be able to do it as a profession.

That definition does not fit Giant Silva. He is a very big human being who hates getting hit but likes getting paid. I'd be surprised if he even practiced hitting a heavy bag once a week.

 

[Ninja Elf]

Occasionally clobbering him? I'm gonna see if there's a fight metric on that thing, but I wouldn't be surprised if the number of significant strikes Silva landed was in single digits.

Giant Silva didn't know shit about fighting, he was there for the freak show.

 

[saugeye killah]

Sure, if he could hit me with it...But I'm not sure he has much chance of hitting anyone or anything the way he was going in that fight..

Guarantee Giant Silva would sleep you with one of those meat hammers

 

[AFewDollarsMore]

That was Giant Silva's first mma fight. Herring had nothing to go on. dude was 7'3 and near 400 lbs. I'd be careful too. Silva obviously had very limited skills.

 

[CageSage]

This thread is embarrassing, people are really asking why a giant freakshow athlete who played basketball throws terrible punches and had trouble hitting a professional fighter with tons of experience? Giant Silva would have given up in the first round had that been a work, do you know how bad it would hurt for someone so big to get his legs battered like that?

 

[saugeye killah]

lol...Fair enough. Makes sense I guess.

That avatar is badass too! Very current..

I think you have to throw out whatever ideas you have about Giant Silva being a professional fighters. He's a guy who has fought for money, which true, usually means you're a professional fighter. But it also usually implies you are gifted to some extent, and you've surpassed the amateurs in order to be able to do it as a profession.

That definition does not fit Giant Silva. He is a very big human being who hates getting hit but likes getting paid. I'd be surprised if he even practiced hitting a heavy bag once a week.

 

[AFewDollarsMore]

Goodridge did say 90% of early pride fights were fixed.

 

[Westbrick]

PRIDE = freak show.

 

[Ninja Elf]

PRIDE = freak show.

Was still more fun to watch than the UFC of the past and most of the UFC today (Give or take a few epic fights the UFC has had over the past 7 years).

 

[Scythe]

WHO punches that bad though? I've never seen a professional fighter of any discipline throw a "punch" like that. Hulk Hogan's fake punches look much more dangerous than those real ones. Seriously....

Ever seen Nick Diaz vs. Koji Oishi in the UFC?

Silva's fights were real. He's just not a fighter. Herring gave the size a lot of respect in that fight.

 

[Magnum1978]

Ahh those were the days!

There'll never be a show like Pride again, that's for sure

 

[XRaided]

Goodridge did say 90% of early pride fights were fixed.

goodridge also has dementia.

 

[Diet Otsuka]

Watch Otsuka vs Takada. Not bad, you might enjoy it.

Can I help yah?

 

[Tooth and Nail]

MAYBE Herring was asked to make the fight go longer than he needed to...but I doubt it.

 

[Ozymandias]

your talking about Giant Silva here.

 

[zzung]

your talking about Giant Silva here.

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[Redhawks100]

But brah...

Pride!

 

[I Hate You]

So was Minowaman vs Giant Silva. That fight was total bullshit.

 

[MilesAbove]

I'm going to play devil's advocate to TS' opinion. Heath Herring new absolutely nothing about a 7'2 Monster man. As with many Pride FC bouts, he likely had no specific training camp FOR such a man. So he likely was more miffed than anything in that fight.

Worked fight? Maybe. But its also likely Herring was just playing a bit more safe than others did. Also we have zero idea if he came in with injuries or concerns.

Point being, it's not like a Coleman vs Takada