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His ability (or lack thereof) to lead, mostly. He neglected learning how to lead with frequent success, mainly with his boxing, and to have it setup his counter punching. His combination punching was never fantastic either, and he specialized with throwing mostly single shot, straight punches almost exclusively. He also isn't real diverse when it comes to changing levels and targeting the body, he's very much a head hunter.
These are the main things that come to mind at the moment. He's always been a master of distance, timing and accuracy though.
Your spot on. He fought more offensively in Pride(like most Chute Boxe fighters) & he didn't do nearly as well. He would start backing his opponent up, then get taken down or eat a shot. I read this before & watched him & it definitely is accurate.
Ryo Chonan was actually out striking him for part of their fight. People make it seem like Chonan was getting hs ass kicked(he did definitely lose the 1st 5 mins), but he was winning the fight before the flying leg lock.
It probably helped him to train with Lyoto to get used to guys who didn't fight the way he wanted. Considering Lyoto was a counterfghter, it makes me wonder if how their match would go? Silva backing up & dancing around the whole fight trying to frustrate Lyoto into charging like Bader?