Rewatched Sonnen vs Silva I

Steely said:
Chael won that fight 50-40, under any common sense scoring criteria.
Sonnen rocked Silva on the feet repeatedly, and absolutely dominated him on the ground for five rounds.
The pressure, wrestling, relentless control, and punishment from Chael would easily grant 10-8 rounds, every round.
In round five, Chael did not tap, contrary to what casuals believe. He adjusted position and touched Anderson's leg once, and only once, which does not constitute a tap. As we all know, tapping is a process, it requires multiple signals of submission, of which Chael clearly was not guilty.
Anderson's aura was on the line, and Dana, the judges, the commission, and the UFC found the easy way out to maintain their Hollywood Hero, through a corrupt atmosphere designed to deny Sonnen the throne.
At the time, USA-Brazil relations were in rocky territory, before Dana could reestablish America's world alpha dominance under Trump, and so the fix was in. The second Chael scratched Silva's leg, the fight was called, and the ensuing confusion proves my point.
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You must have forgot Cheal said he lost by tapping out, so you have no legs to stand on.
 
13Seconds said:
Chael didn't even bother to defend that fifth round triangle. Fight was a work imo.
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The shadyness of Sonnen and how perfectly that triangle ended that fight at the last second I have also suspected it is a work. And also how easily Silva disposed Sonnen in the rematch, showed how a legit fight would've went.

You should make a thread about it. Would love to hear the collective intelligence of Sherdog weigh in on it.
 
Spath said:
Sherdog in a nutshell.
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Are you kidding me? Conor still runs the MMA game despite his loss and just look at how big his penis is:




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Sosua said:
Sonnen tested positive for elevated testosterone levels anyway?

Did seem a bit confusing at the end, perhaps they should have rematched to settle it.
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one where Anderson doesn’t blatantly grease on camera?
 
So he lost the fight ?

You’re basically saying he was winning until he lost. Who cares, Silva finished him.
 
I consider myself a fan.... but who gives a shit about this fight at the moment.
 
It's almost as if Chael didn't protest the stoppage and then spent half an hour in the post-fight press conference telling everyone how Anderson won and how he came up second best and didn't win the fight... Crazy...
 
Steely said:
Chael won that fight 50-40, under any common sense scoring criteria.
Sonnen rocked Silva on the feet repeatedly, and absolutely dominated him on the ground for five rounds.
The pressure, wrestling, relentless control, and punishment from Chael would easily grant 10-8 rounds, every round.
In round five, Chael did not tap, contrary to what casuals believe. He adjusted position and touched Anderson's leg once, and only once, which does not constitute a tap. As we all know, tapping is a process, it requires multiple signals of submission, of which Chael clearly was not guilty.
Anderson's aura was on the line, and Dana, the judges, the commission, and the UFC found the easy way out to maintain their Hollywood Hero, through a corrupt atmosphere designed to deny Sonnen the throne.
At the time, USA-Brazil relations were in rocky territory, before Dana could reestablish America's world alpha dominance under Trump, and so the fix was in. The second Chael scratched Silva's leg, the fight was called, and the ensuing confusion proves my point.
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The fight ended before the final bell. Score is irrelevant.Anderson vanquished his foe,and Chael was pharmaceutically enhanced anyway,and the decision would have been reversed once it was revealed,and the belt probably given back to Anderson Silva,or put on the line in a new fight with Silva and someone not named Chael.
 
^ see post above me.

also, even if Silva didn’t submit Chael, Sonnen was on every steroid known to man and pissed hot after anyways.

Awesome come from behind victory and IMO, the best one ever. A hurt, old Silva made history. Deal with it, salty haters
 
KeyboardFighter said:
The shadyness of Sonnen and how perfectly that triangle ended that fight at the last second I have also suspected it is a work. And also how easily Silva disposed Sonnen in the rematch, showed how a legit fight would've went.
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You should rematch the rematch. Silva didn't beat him easily at all. Chael won the first round handedly, then was doing well in the second round until he threw a spinning backfist and fell. Then he got finished because of that.

The whole fight was really weird though. At the weigh-ins, Anderson struck Chael in the face with his shoulder. Then on fight night, Anderson took the vaseline from his own face and rubbed it onto his body. The referee had to get a towel and wiped it all off before they continued. Then in the second round, Anderson stuffed all of Chael's takedowns by blatantly holding the shorts. Chael's shorts were outstretched from his body because Anderson wouldn't let go, and he managed to land some good punches because Chael couldn't back up due to his shorts being held. The referee was repeatedly yelling at him to not hold the shorts. Then there was the bizarre finish, where Chael didn't even get knocked down, but rather, he fell down after attempting a spinning backfist; a move he had never before attempted in MMA. Then Anderson hit him with a knee that at the time, was thought to be an illegal knee to the head of a downed opponent. Upon looking at the replay, yes it hit the body and was legal, but it seemed to only hit the body because Chael's arms deflected it from his face.

Anderson acted very unusual during the whole event. It was as though he was purposely trying to get himself disqualified imo.
 
I wasn't on here in 2010, but something tells me that you're not the first one to make a thread about this.
 
Perhaps more telling than the fight is the post-fight interview and post-fight press conference where Sonnen says NOTHING to dispute the tap and rather says he came in second.

If Chael didn't argue "no tap" at the time nor since, who the hell are you to make the argument for him?
 
Lol most epic stfu and tap ya ass out moment.

can’t believe he lost to TITO
 
Chael realized his 17:1 TE ratio would've overturned his win anyway so he decided to tap at the soonest convenience to spare himself
 
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