You can believe the alleged numbers all you want but he was nowhere near as small as you make him out to be.
He never looked dwarfed, small, weak. You tout his grappling strength so much and then you want to claim he was a 'natural WW' but it doesn't work like that. Meanwhile grappling displays the disparity in size more than anything and he never looked like size was an issue there.
He wasn't small. He was hardly anything special in OW. Sorry to ruin the facade you had about the man.
Dude, when you know so lil about an era, jus´sit down & stay quiet.
This is a report from Dave Melzer: [April 2, 2001]
"Vanderlei Silva (205.7) beat Sakuraba (188.1).
Sakuraba's size disadvantage hurt, but the rules spelled the difference.
As this game has progressed, they really should match fighters who are within ten pounds of each other.
Silva got big enough to where he wasn't risking a point, but still had a substantial weight edge"
Yes, I do know. Vitor broke both hands, and Saku STILL did NOT "destroy" him (let alone your ridiculous use of the word "literally"). It was a pretty uneventful fight after Vitor stopped throwing bombs, honestly.
Good talk though.
Educate yourself, fool:
http://forums.sherdog.com/threads/deconstructing-mma-myths-part-24-carlson´s-silence.3879035/
Meanwhile,
this was UFC´s assessment of that fiasco about your VItor Gracie: they decided to make the contracts more
exclusive, to avoid their main stars bein´destroyed & exposed in other MMA Org.
How´bout dat, Suckah?
By the way... 1st time I see someone editin´his post jus´to add... "kid"...
In the beginning when he was RINGS champ he was probably the best just cause early on who else on that roster was better but later on for sure I agree. Probably borderline top 5 RINGS fighter when it was a major org. But of all those elite guys he was the one who came from the time it wasn't a major org.
Tito Ortiz became a star by proving Pancrase overrated and you're right about a lot of skill sets being underrepresented especially one as important as BJJ. He's underrated now cause that acheivement and it's importance has been lost to modern fans but Pancrase was clearly the number one org and the best fighters from other orgs didn't beat Pancrase's best previously when they went over. While many of the best Pancrase fighters like Kondo, Mezger and DeLucia were exposed in the UFC(and Kondo in Pride), Frank Shamrock and Rutten(probably along with Funaki the best 3 before Barnett) became the early LHW and HW goats in the UFC so it's not like the best Pancrase guys weren't the best in the world the quality dropped further down the roster. Barnett who came from Pancrase at the end of it's days as a major org remained arguably the best HW for years after(and I think the PED asterisk should be removed because he was the only elite HW competing in Japan who came over at that time to be tested for PED's and get his rep thrown in the toilet in the first place even if he gets blame for not changing once he came somewhere with different rules).
ok... Mezger or Kondo were not that exposed in Pride or UFC, tho...
Meanwhile, you´re reachin´bout Pancrase bein´Number one because of those 3 OGs... Frank´s career, for instance... he truly emerged as a legit force by the time he left Pancrase.
Maybe, but it was still one of the examples of Saku taking down the bigger man. I mean, in some ways Frank did better against Goes but he wasn't taking him down like Saku was.
yeah, but in specific Fight Config. like Rings´or Pancrase´s, TDs were less decisive too...
