I Have A Lot Of Respect For Anderson Silva

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I truly respect Silva for accepting last night's fight on only 48 hours notice. He knew he would be far from in top physical condition with no camp and virtually no advance notice. He was also fighting the top Light Heavyweight in The UFC - a man who was 13-0 as a heavyweight in MMA before moving to Light Heavyweight! So for all practical purposes we saw an old (for MMA) former 185 pound champion fighting a man who is a natural heavyweight and only moved down to LHW to avoid having to fight his best friend and training partner, Cain Velasquez, for the title.

I wish other legends of the past such as GSP would have been willing to fight one weight class higher for a super fight with Anderson Silva in a battle between the welterweight and middleweight champions. There was a time when there was tremendous demand for that and it would have made a ton of money. Another great super fight would have been Anderson Silva while he was still middleweight champion vs. Jon Jones. I understand the reason f0r weight divisions, but men such as Dan "Hollywood"henderson have shown it is possible to fight at more than one weight class and still be successful. He used to hold 2 separate belts in PRIDE. Henderson was their 183 pound (welterweight) champion at the time he took a title shot vs Wanderlei Silva for the PRIDE middleweight title. He knocked out Wanderlei to become the simultaneous 183 pound and 205 pound champions for PRIDE!
 
Anderson Silva will always be my favorite fighter.
 
if you no hespect Anderson, you no hespect MMA
 
he deserves all the respect for stepping up. His stock went up before he even got in the cage. I just cant stand the post fight melodrama,it seems so goddamned fake. Cut it out.
 
HHJ said:
he deserves all the respect for stepping up. His stock went up before he even got in the cage. I just cant stand the post fight melodrama,it seems so goddamned fake. Cut it out.
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meh he's been weird like that his whole career lol.
 
Hideo said:
meh he's been weird like that his whole career lol.
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Thats the one thing that i have a problem embracing him,is the fake humility. One minute he's acting like his opponent is a complete piece of shit who shouldnt be in the ring with him,and giving him jabs to the thigh,and the next minute hes crying on his back in the cage. Weirdo.

Still one of the Goats of the sport no doubt,but the guy is so 50-50 with his plus and minuses,and his arrogance is beyond belief lol
 
HHJ said:
Thats the one thing that i have a problem embracing him,is the fake humility. One minute he's acting like his opponent is a complete piece of shit who shouldnt be in the ring with him,and giving him jabs to the thigh,and the next minute hes crying on his back in the cage. Weirdo.

Still one of the Goats of the sport no doubt,but the guy is so 50-50 with his plus and minuses,and his arrogance is beyond belief lol
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yeah he's an odd one. I think he sees the tactical value of in-ring mind games, and perhaps genuinely has respect for them once it's over. But showing that in the ring may be detrimental to his style, which seems to rely at least partly on unhinging his opponent's spirit. I remember Forrest talking about throwing a strike at Anderson and the Spider made a face at him like "lol are you kidding me" and we saw what happened there.
 
Blackjack said:
I truly respect Silva for accepting last night's fight on only 48 hours notice. He knew he would be far from in top physical condition with no camp and virtually no advance notice. He was also fighting the top Light Heavyweight in The UFC - a man who was 13-0 as a heavyweight in MMA before moving to Light Heavyweight! So for all practical purposes we saw an old (for MMA) former 185 pound champion fighting a man who is a natural heavyweight and only moved down to LHW to avoid having to fight his best friend and training partner, Cain Velasquez, for the title.

I wish other legends of the past such as GSP would have been willing to fight one weight class higher for a super fight with Anderson Silva in a battle between the welterweight and middleweight champions. There was a time when there was tremendous demand for that and it would have made a ton of money. Another great super fight would have been Anderson Silva while he was still middleweight champion vs. Jon Jones. I understand the reason f0r weight divisions, but men such as Dan "Hollywood"henderson have shown it is possible to fight at more than one weight class and still be successful. He used to hold 2 separate belts in PRIDE. Henderson was their 183 pound (welterweight) champion at the time he took a title shot vs Wanderlei Silva for the PRIDE middleweight title. He knocked out Wanderlei to become the simultaneous 183 pound and 205 pound champions for PRIDE!
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Anderson proved why his goat. dc woud of finished fedor and or gsp.. With out a doubt. This fight orob cemented him as the true goat. 2 days notice , surgery a month ago. Short camp and you almost ko. The lhw champ and former he contender.. Not to mention dc took more physical damage. GOAT end of discussion. also lets not act like anderson didnt j.o the curre t middleweight champ either in their last fight That ref was very generous that night. Goat status and its not even close.
 
I agree 110%. Anderson if he was training and didn't have the gaw blatter surgery recently the fight may have gone the same but Silva would have had a better chance. I mean if Anderson trained a bit and the fight was ABLE to go 5 rounds ....idk after all the end of the fight silva kicked DC in the liver and he got hurt.
 
Evertime someone says gsp is goat, my body has this weird reaction causing me to laugh uncontrollably for several minutes. Andy just went up i weight on short notice and almost out down the current lhw champ. Beat a former lhw champ already Anderson silva is the ali of mma.

gsp lay and prayed his divison and got chased out of mma when the division finally caught up to him. His face got smashed and should of lost his last fight and he knows it. Was given a win he didint deserve and then ran away. Never gonna consider gsp goat. Not enough finishes and anderson fought more legends then gsp.
 
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i thought it was great that he stepped up. he did far better than I expected, DC could not really hurt him and a longer fight maybe would have even favored Anderson. That liver kick hurt like fuck, you could tell.
 
You didn't have respect for the GOAT before?
 
TheComebackKid said:
Anderson is GOAT
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No he isn't. Fedor is The GOAT!

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King. said:
i thought it was great that he stepped up. he did far better than I expected, DC could not really hurt him and a longer fight maybe would have even favored Anderson. That liver kick hurt like fuck, you could tell.
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Yes and you could hear the fans cheer loudly when Anderson landed that kick! They obviously enjoyed Silva's fighting style more than DC's fighting style and they wanted Anderson to win.

I saw in another post someone asked why DC got booed for wrestling and ground and pound on Silva while Lesnar got cheered for wrestling and ground and pound on Hunt. The answer is that not everyone's wrestling and GNP loo the same. Lesnar brought much more intensity to his GNP of Hunt than DC did. Lesnar was connecting with some fairly hard shots directly to Hunt's face, over and over again. If this were the old days before time limits, Hunt would have had to tap eventually. He couldn't have continued taking those shots to his face forever. Besides, there is something inherently more exciting about seeing a man who looks like Brock Lesnar delivering a ground and pound attack to a helpless opponent.
 
Anderson is just a man, over his prime, who at one time was the best fighter at his weight class.

Why we gotta idolize, hero-size, or hespect athletes. You don't know nothing about them. They're just regular people with one super talent and flawed like all other people.

Great fighter. Past his prime. Period.

Get ready for Alzheimers/Parkinsons Silva in 20 years. :(
 
He knew he was going to lose, he knew he was going to make a shit ton of money.

In the actual fight, he barely did a thing. (cant blame him, he had no time to prepare)

He sure as hell did not challenge himself when he was in his prime.

Conclusion: Meh, not impressed.

Edit: Anderson has had an amazing career. Not downplaying that one bit. But there was nothing special here, just a lot of money on the table.
 
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