Bottom line: Thiago Silva is the number 3 or 4 contender in the world.
A "No Contest" implies that nothing happened.
Clearly, we saw Thiago kick the living shit out of Vera and undefeated at the time Nedkov.
Rashad Thiago?
http://blog.fightmetric.com/2010/08/evans-vs-silva-fightmetric-report.html
Thiago wrecked Rashad 30-27 or at least, 30-28. No way Rashad won that fight.
His only solid losses are to best Machida we've ever seen and Gus, who arguably beat Jones.
Any "No contest" that tries to convince me those fights didn't go down are right on par with Nick Diaz didn't Gogo Takanori Gomi.