ugh, Lets back up.
Can we put in in context. You cannot tell me Silva's plan was to be controlled an entire fight, absorb nearly 300 strikes in order to have a chance to submit Sonnen.
Silva did what he had to do and won the fight, but as I said in the post above this one..had he not won, he would have lost that fight...LOL..
No no, I agree that he got his asswhooped the entire time..in fact...It almost looked fake. Sonnen would pass guard, get into side control and then purposely get back into guard.
Silva had a kimura locked in and let go of it to go for a heel hook..then just kind of let go of it too.
He had a billion chances for armbars, jiu-jitsu was there waiting for him but for whatever reason...he didn't trust in it. (Maybe his ribs were really fucked up and it was hard to move on the ground, I don't know)
But yeah, I agree, he was loosing the fight. But then again IMO..sonnen was exhausted and pitter pattering his face most of the time while silva was resting, taking the slaps, and then exploading with elbows from the bottom after landing some heavy shots before he got taken down round after round.
I think Silva did more damage after the first round though, again, it almost looked fake or something...sonnen was either exhausted or doing just enough to look busy.
Exhausting your self using wrestling to wehere you can only pitter patter your opponents face is no more impressive and in fact is less impressive than a good o' triangle that you can use at anytime, regardless of how tired you are to finish the fight.
Sonnen seems like he got ropey-doped, which is actually, good o' classical jiu-jitsu. If a guy is bigger or stronger than you...you use jiu-jitsu to keep yourself safe until your opponent gets tired and either becomes weaker than you OR gets tired and gets sloppy making a mistake. AND THATS exactly what happened....silva never got REALLY hurt from sonnen after the first round, he stayed safe, landed some BIG elbows....and then when sonnen got tired and sloppy..he finished him with a good o' triangle.