It's hard to rate Anderson Silva's striking skill when his resume as a striker is so thin.

[TJH Exitium]

No it’s not. Who else won a belt and did that to people? Nobody. There has never been a more dominant striker than Anderson in his prime. Period.

Even 10 years past his prime, on the downswing of his career after his reflexes and speed were mostly gone, he could hang with Adesanya. Hell, old man Silva almost folded DC who was the current LHW champ on super short notice without even a training camp.

People have already forgotten how truly amazing he was. Sad

I would even argue that Silva could have beaten Adesanya if he had actually tried.

Silva spend almost half that fight standing in striking range of Adesanya but not throwing any strikes.

Silva attacked with one flurry that had Adesanya worried and backing up, then Silva stopped attacking and went back to just standing there.


I was screaming at my TV "stop standing there do something do ANYTHING"

 

[Paolo Delutis]

I just got a question what does it matter ?ihis striking credentials... if the sport he competed in was MMA and he dominated it for like a decade and has the record for title defenses...


That's like saying we all know Usain bolt is great in the 100 m dash but he never won no marathons so he's not the goat


It's two different sports Anderson Silva is one of the best if not the best MMA striking based fighter...in modern ufc history... There's no other metric needed who cares what is credential is in other striking sports or how many other strikers with a striking pedigree that he beat that doesn't matter in the sport of MMA he was a striking based fighter who dominated ...this can not be denied..

 

[Daniel Henry]

TS is a hater confirmed

 

[Big Tuppy Hole]

And he lost to Jake Paul

How old was he?

 

[JPOMMA]

What a totally normal and civilized response. Totally not cultish


Yeah, i think I will stop responding on this thread. But I hope this salt mine of a thread can stay on top.

Don't worry I won't secretly talk bad about Silva behind my back. So you can sleep easy tonight.

I asked you a genuine question in order to understand your perspective, but didn’t get a response: who in your mind has a better “MMA striker resume” than AS? Give some names, then we can objectively compare their resumes to AS based on that criteria you’ve chosen.

And who should AS have fought in his era to have an elite MMA striker resume? Again, genuine question.

 

[michi972]

TS shits on Vitors’s boxing meanwhile Vitor decimated Evander (who obviously was way past prime but still). Anderson knocked Vitor the fuck out and saying that Vitor isn’t a good boxer is a fucking travesty. The same Vitor that tko’d guys like Rumble. I’m tired of revisionists that try to soil the image of incredible fighters that many of us were lucky enough to see in their original glory.

Victor got juiced af to beat nearly 60 years old Holyfield. Even punches through gloves woobled him, his chin was gone totally. Than Victor celebrated like he won world champion shop, what a POS

 

[fedorthegoat777]

MMA is a rough sport.
You win 10 straight fights and become a champ. And then later find out you suck for various reasons. Happens to lots of guys on here

 

[Nabs]

Recency bias truly is a mufuka!!!

 

[sickness666]

@FraudGoat

Let me ask you a question: why are you portraying an MMA legend in a bad light, whether intentionally or not, just because he has no kickboxing/striking background? An unnecessary and controversial discussion is unfortunately inevitable with such statements. And I say that as someone who didn't necessarily like Silva, but still honors his successes in MMA.
What he did is something that very few have come close to. Only GSP or Mighty Mouse are comparable. He dominated his weight class and beat up a few LHW in his free time to have a different challenge. And at that time it was by no means easy to land in the UFC, he was already 31 when he had his first UFC fight. And he just played with everything they threw at him. He even made it look easy with the champ, twice.
And don't forget: this is still an MMA forum, striking is only a part of it. And should therefore only be of marginal interest. Many strikers who came into the UFC with huge hype mostly lost to real MMA guys at the time. Especially when they only relied on their striking and had zero ground game. That´s totally different to today.

 

[NoStoneUnturned]

TS, and this thread, is so stupid his parents called and apologized.

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

No doubt in my mind Anderson Silva is one of the greatest MMA strikers period. Could very well be the best, but he's not a complete fighter, he had his weaknesses that can be exploited.

But there is no perfect fighter, everyone has some sort of weakness.

 

[ChangeIsComing]

Silva fought Adesanya, he’s not bad at that striking stuff

He fought the future MW champ and he was so far past his prime and went the distance even had great moments in the fight. Anyone who tries to diminish Silva's striking accolades is reaching for attention and IMO and total fucking moron.

 

[ElCasca]

One of the worse threads I ever had the displeasure to read it.

No one ever had a wider gap between their striking ability and their opponents than prime Anderson, heck, Anderson was already out of his prime and way slower post Okami, and still beat Chael and Bonnar right after.

 

[Trabaho]

Nice comming out as noob. If you were old enough to watch it while it hapoened you would know. Lol counting losses after a leg break and +40 years of age.

He beat Hendo Vitor and Forest. All champions or all time greats.

 

[TeenageMutantLesnarTurtle]

Vitor and Hendo were pretty damn dangerous on the feet. It would have been nice to see Anderson against guys like Wand, Shogun, Machida, Rampage, Chuck etc as well though.

Of course this is all relative to MMA. If you judge Andersons striking skills by the measuring stick of pure striking sports its not so impressive.

 

[mkt]

To denounce Vitors striking ability (as TS did) also shits on a friend and ex-training partner of mine that was a fucking savage.

Rip Rumble

Indeed. Here's a thread I made about Rumble awhile back.

Crazy Stat about Rumble at LHW

I posted this elsewhere, but thought it was worth its own thread. Rumble KO'd Glover, prime Gus, Bader and Little Nog (who was coming off wins over Tito and Rashad) in less than 5 minutes if you count all the fights. You could fit all that in a single round. Put another way, that's 4 KO/TKO's...

forums.sherdog.com

 

[witt1021]

Still embarassing

not really. jake paul trains boxing and only boxing...... its only embarrassing to you cause you depise jake paul from being a youtube star... if he was some random no name kid you wouldnt give no shits or thoughts about it. and lets not even bring up the contract that we the general public still cant look over and read due to NDAs

 

[Intermission]

not really. jake paul trains boxing and only boxing...... its only embarrassing to you cause you depise jake paul from being a youtube star... if he was some random no name kid you wouldnt give no shits or thoughts about it. and lets not even bring up the contract that we the general public still cant look over and read due to NDAs

Jake paul lost to a reality tv star.

 

[Trabaho]

It's cause you're a noob to the sport and revisiting his career. Also stupid to not understand athletes aging / end thread

 

[rjmbrd]

Silva fought Adesanya, he’s not bad at that striking stuff

Adesanya casually beat the shit out of him with complete impunity. Granted Silva was over the hill at this point.