Nostalgia aside,all top 5 Mw would beat prime silva(rockhold,whittaker,gastelum,romero and jacare)

[3sumrock]

Romero, Jacare, and Rockhold
Romero:

this gif prove exactly why romero would ko silva.sonnen is probably the worst striker in mw history.but he was able to catch and nearly drop silva because of the wrestling threat.now imagine a dangerous-fast-athletic striker and one of the best wrestler in ufc history could do to Silva.

and his gnp is way more brutal than sonnen

jacare
Jacare like Romero is basically a better version of Sonnen.
better takedown(able to take romero down)
way better bjj
and better striking/puncher.can actually strike and is a hard puncher

Rockhold
sure Rockhold takedown is not on Romero or jacare level but he you don't need great td to take "prime" silva down because his TDD actually improve when he gets older.and prime strikeforce Rockhold can hit pretty hard too.

and once rockhold get him down, it would all over for Silva(zero chance of surviving)

Gastelum and Whittaker

Whittaker:
1:Whittaker got better hands(faster,heavier, and better technique),better striking defense(63%) and better footwork.whittaker could ko or decisions silva

"but silva in his prime was unhittable"
that's far from the truth.prime the only reason why silva fan think that is because of the griffin/silva fight where silva dodge 3 strikes from a slow, decent technical striker like Griffin
but once silva fought good technical striker like Weidman and franklin

and prime silva striking defense was 62%
https://web.archive.org/web/20131229050733/http://www.ufc.com/fighter/Anderson-Silva?id=
Whittaker also fought way better striker than Franklin and one-dimensional dan Henderson(vitor doesnt count because of one year lay off and no trt)
whittaker fought Romero,Uriah hall, Brunson, Stephen Thompson and yet his striking defense is still higher than prime silva
2: Whittaker beat better striker than one-dimensional Hendo and Franklin
Whitaker beat Uriah hall, Brunson, Romero. all three of them is better than franklin and hendo.
3: Whittaker is a national wrestling champion

Gastelum
gastelum is still unproven so i would say he "can" beat silva or atleast give him some problem
1:Gastelum got faster,more fluid and way heavier hand.
2: Gastelum also got faster reaction time, head movement and betters striking defense(63% vs 62.gastelum also fought and beat better strikers: Woodley(robbery), Bisping, more experience vitor(better than 1 year lay off no trt vitor), and uriah hall)
sure Silva can do this

but gastelum can do it better

slip all 3 punch(watch it in slow mo)

slip all 4 punch

3: Gastelum offensive wrestling(and the wrestling threat)
if gastelum can take down a wrestler like Ellenberger then he should have no problem doing it to silva

 

[DarkneT]

Shut
The
Fuck
Up

Prime Anderson would end all those guys
You obviously weren't around

 

[3sumrock]

Shut
The
Fuck
Up

Prime Anderson would end all those guys
You obviously weren't around

>no explanation for why silva would win = typical silva fan response
i dont expect a good counter argument but at least do better.

 

[Affenschädel]

Yep. Competition was pretty weak back then. In the UFC at least. We've seen plenty of former PRIDE fighters become champions and contenders until very recently though. That's how far ahead their talent pool was.

 

[Source]

Did you just come to the realization, that the 5 top MWs in the world would beat a old shot 42 year old fighter?

 

[DarkneT]

>no explanation for why silva would win = typical silva fan response
i dont expect a good counter argument but at least do better.

KG?

Did you miss when he tooled dan Henderson who is like a much better version of KG?

 

[blah_blah619]

>no explanation for why silva would win = typical silva fan response

He's right. If you were around and watched his fights live you'd know Silva would have KO'd all those guys. Silva was already like 38 when his downhill start began. Lol Silva toyed with MW's AND LHW's. His aura of invincibility was second to only Fedor and that was enough to fuck with guys and make them timid and scared. There's a reason GSP kept his ass at WW and didn't go for that huge payday. His name was fucking Anderson Silva.

 

[3sumrock]

Did you just come to the realization, that the 5 top MWs in the world would beat a old shot 42 year old fighter?

"Prime silva"

KG?

Did you miss when he tooled dan Henderson who is like a much better version of KG?

Lol you cannot be serious.kelvin gastelum footwork,striking defense and boxing is way better than one dimensional hendo
Hendo is the definition of one dimensional.only rely on his hbomb,nothing else

 

[3sumrock]

He's right. If you were around and watched his fights live you'd know Silva would have KO'd all those guys. Silva was already like 38 when his downhill start began. Lol Silva toyed with MW's AND LHW's. His aura of invincibility was second to only Fedor and that was enough to fuck with guys and make them timid and scared. There's a reason GSP kept his ass at WW and didn't go for that huge payday. His name was fucking Anderson Silva.

silva never fought elite wrestler,grappler like jacare,Romero and rockhold
Silva never fought strikers like kg and Whittaker
Read the thread before you comment.i go in depth on why they would beat silva

 

[Gangstub]

Prime Andy with the jucie beats all of them

Without it, beats all of them except Rockhold

 

[Jarvan]

>no explanation for why silva would win = typical silva fan response
i dont expect a good counter argument but at least do better.

Just because you wrote a lot about ignorant assumptions, doesn't mean you're right.

 

[3sumrock]

Just because you wrote a lot about ignorant assumptions, doesn't mean you're right.

Just becuase you say my assumption is bad doesn't mean is bad.
>cannot say why my assumption is bad

 

[AminoAcid]

Prime Anderson KO's chinny Rockhold, imo.


The rest would be very interesting..


Here's a question for each one of those match ups:

Gastelum has a lighting fast 1-2, but would his boxing be simply too basic to dethrone Silva in a 5 rounder?

Will Jacare's gas tank hold?

Will Whittaker be hesitant to throw?

Will Romero stick to the basics? Getting too wild agains the Spider can cost you.

 

[blah_blah619]

silva never fought elite wrestler,grappler like jacare,Romero and rockhold
Silva never fought strikers like kg and Whittaker
Read the thread before you comment.i go in depth on why they would beat silva

He fought and beat Hendo wtf are you talking about? Hendo came from one of the most elite wrestling teams in the world. Don't blame me you wasted your time writing a garbage ass "anayalsis". I read your dumbass analysis and question how long have you been watching MMA. If you really think you can summarize a legend like AS in a few gifs and claim you can stop him by x,y, or even Z you're more than ignorant, you flat out incompetent to understand the legacy that was.

 

[Redhawks100]

More Silva hate threads from this tool

 

[Azure]

Join date says it all

 

[Guile]

Prime Anderson KO's chinny Rockhold, imo.


The rest would be very interesting..


Here's a question for each one of those match ups:

Gastelum has a lighting fast 1-2, but would his boxing be simply too basic to dethrone Silva in a 5 rounder?

Will Jacare's gas tank hold?

Will Whittaker be hesitant to throw?

Will Romero stick to the basics? Getting too wild agains the Spider can cost you.

Rocksalt gets Silva to the ground rather easily.

 

[3sumrock]

He fought and beat Hendo wtf are you talking about? Hendo came from one of the most elite wrestling teams in the world. Don't blame me you wasted your time writing a garbage ass "anayalsis". I read your dumbass analysis and question how long have you been watching MMA. If you really think you can summarize a legend like AS in a few gifs and claim you can stop him by x,y, or even Z you're more than ignorant, you flat out incompetent to understand the legacy that was.

Hendo? Hendo rarely use his wrestling in UFC.and his gnp,grappling and bjj is not even close to Romero,rockhold and jacare
Romero is a Olympic silver medalist and beat Cael Anderson twice and his gnp is more brutal than hendo
Jacare bjj is one of the best in UFC history.
Rockhold grappling and top control and gnp is light years ahead of hendo.

 

[blah_blah619]

Hendo? Hendo rarely use his wrestling in UFC.and his gnp,grappling and bjj is not even close to Romero,rockhold and jacare
Romero is a Olympic silver medalist and beat Cael Anderson twice
Jacare bjj is one of the best in UFC history.
Rockhold grappling and top control and gnp is light years ahead of hendo.

Omfg go watch the Hendo-Silva fight. Hendo's whole game plan was TD, GnP etc. He won the first rd and then Silva proved how well he can do against wrestlers. It was the fight everyone was saying a wrestler was gonna bully Silva etc. Again, I question how long have you been watching MMA.

 

[3sumrock]

Omfg go watch the Hendo-Silva fight. Hendo's whole game plan was TD, GnP etc. He won the first rd and then Silva proved how well he can do against wrestlers. It was the fight everyone was saying a wrestler was gonna bully Silva etc. Again, I question how long have you been watching MMA.

That's not my point.