How would Chris Weidman do against the fighters Anderson Silva defended against?

[StewDogg11]

What do you think Sherdog?


Nate Marquardt - I think Weidman would be a big favorite and win fairly easily.



Rich Franklin - He got out wrestled by Forrest Griffin. I think that’s the path to victory for Weidman here and he wins in similar fashion.



Dan Henderson - Interesting matchup but I think Weidman replicates the strategies used by Jake Shields and Daniel Cormier to cruise to victory.



Patrick Cote - Weidman would be a massive favorite and win easily.



Thales Leites - See above what I wrote about Marquardt.



Demian Maia - Weidman already defeated him by Unanimous Decision.



Chael Sonnen - Weidman either pieces him up on the feet for a KO/TKO or snatches a submission in a scramble.



Vitor Belfort - Weidman already defeated him by 1st Round TKO.



Yushin Okami - Weidman cruises to a decision while keeping it on the feet. Potentially could get a KO/TKO.

 

[oski]

Chris, great post.

thanks

 

[Xoleth]

He beats them all
Seriously
Not a Weidman fan, but he was good in his prime
And Silva's opponents weren't that good, to be honest.
All of them had their flaws.

Edit: don't get me wrong, they were good fighters, but Silva didn't fought a Khabib or a Volkanovski.

 

[HHJ]

#stillmyboy2024

 

[HHJ]

Anyway kinda pointless thread to make.

 

[Chama]

December 28
I Back
Trust Me
I Back

 

[ArtardFiesta]

who cares. he is a fighter from the times of obama

 

[Xoleth]

who cares. he is a fighter from the times of obama

hey, hey.... leave Stipe out of this!

 

[HolmeZy55]

Hard to disagree, we all love Silva but his opponents were, well, flawed to say the least.

The Chris would beat them all, Hendo probably the only questionable one but I would still back him.

 

[generalyum]

Can't forget the Michael Jordan of BJJ in Travis Lutter

 

[StewDogg11]

Can't forget the Michael Jordan of BJJ in Travis Lutter

Wasn’t a title defense but yeah Weidman would smoke him.

 

[Fergelmince]

He had a dramatic downgrade after USADA, then had the nerve to rip on other fighters who got caught for PEDs, so Weidman is dead to me.

 

[Dr Fong]

I used to overrate Weidman too. Until I woke up to the fact that he was a frontrunner without the cardio to sustain it.

The guy went on a Turok dinosaur hunt almost his entire UFC run and never won a unanimous 4th or 5th round in his career (he split one with an elderly Machida, who unanimously beat him in the other championship round).

The only other time he saw a 4th round, he was brutally finished. He also got stopped viciously in round 3 by Romero and Jacare. While still in his relative prime.

Thinking he could have a long championship reign against guys not in their 70s like menopausal post-TRT Vitor, senior citizen Andy and old Machida is contrary to the only available evidence.

Some of those guys probably would have made it past round 3 and then probably fucked him up. Hendo also would have had a good chance of fucking him up in round 1.

 

[ColemanwastheGOAT]

I mean, what are you asking here? Was he better than Anderson? Yeah. He beat him twice.

 

[Harlekin]

He beat the shell of old ass Vitor.
TRT Vitor is a whole different ball game.

But yeah Anderson started nearly 30 years ago.
At middleweight fighters were good at 0 - 2 things, nowadays they are more well rounded and the training is ten times more professional.

How does Weidman beat Bruno Silva without eyepoking him 3 times?

 

[wh4tttt]

who cares. he is a fighter from the times of obama

obama era still going strong.

 

[Dr Fong]

I mean, what are you asking here? Was he better than Anderson? Yeah. He beat him twice.

Brad Tavares is better than Weidman ever was confirmed.

Anderson was 38.

 

[shunyata]

I'm not even sure if peak Chris beats Anderson at the time of the Hendo fight. He got there just as Anderson was slowing down with age.

 

[blaseblase]

Weidman has a worse resume than Hendo, not sure how you could have him over him . The reality is that Chris beat a 38 year old version of Silva and then couldn't defend against any of the contenders who came over from Strikeforce . Honestly a better question is how Romero would have done again Silva's title defenses.

 

[StewDogg11]

He had a dramatic downgrade after USADA, then had the nerve to rip on other fighters who got caught for PEDs, so Weidman is dead to me.

This narrative always is interesting to me. This is post USADA Weidman, he looks exactly the same as he always did.