Innnnn!
Lol Anderson Silva challenged himself.
Went to weight class above his couple of times, while he completely destroyed the opposition in his own weight class.
So yes he did
Anderson Silva was fighting TUF contestants with a career of favorable match ups, holding up his short list of MWs he could actually beat. An incredibly intelligent match maker.
When you're that good that you make other pro fighters n elite athletes look like amateurs, of course it's gonna look like "favourable matchups"
It's too bad him and JJ were such good buddies, he probably could have called him out, instead of calling out a smaller fighter.
Both him n jones said they were friends n didn't want to fight each other.
But it would be a no win situation for Anderson regardless. If he lost to jones (at that time) then he just got exposed, if he beat him, then he beat an inexperienced fighter.
On the other Anderson n gsp were defacto no.1 n no.2 p4p fighters at that time. They pretty much cleared their divisions n made it look easy. It only made sense for them to fight. N since gsp was too much of a chicken to call out the champ from the weight class above, Anderson had to do it. He was even ready to drop to 170, but gsp was nowhere to be found.
Also, who do you think more steps backwards to get away from their opponent. Anderson or GSP? Someone pulls guard on air and Anderson Silva is lost. GSP attacks and punishes.
Nobody wanted to stand n trade with Anderson. They were dropping like flies before any contact was made.
On the other hand, gsp was just happy jabbing wrestlers n taking down strikers to decisions.
Anderson is glorified sucker puncher. GSP is a complete mixed martial artist.
Anderson actually fights, while gsp avoids fighting as much as possible
Once after suffering a potentially career ending injury.
Nice try
