Well I appreciate you not calling me a troll. That was the closest Iv ever been to being accused of being one lol. Also Iv been called a silva hater, which I'm not so its quite comical that you said that I'm a silva nut hugger. How can I be both hahah, I love sherdog. Truth be told I'm neither and if I was then I would say I was. For example I'm a big mousasi fan (look at my avatar) and I'm biased toward him. I'm not a huge fan of silva just a non biased set of eyes watching. If you disagree with this then believe what you want to make yourself feel better.
Ill have to rematch the fight to see this counter striking vitor landed cleanly. The strikes silva landed were the face kick and the follow up GNP. Also what factual assertation was proven wrong? All I said was vitor wasn't in control of the fight which he wasn't and you still haven't proven that he was.
Also you seem to be taking this light hearted discussion way too seriously. Happy new year.
Actually no. I've just found you annoying so far.
Let me take this apart for you one at a time.
If you aren't a Silva nut-hugger (you don't seem to be) and you aren't a troll (you don't seem to be) then we are down to 2 options. Belfort hater or dumb. My money is still on the latter.
You were factually incorrect that no blows were landed. Verified by rewatching and fightmetric. Own up to it like a grownup. You were wrong.
So far you have mischaracterized what I've said three times in three posts. (Reading comprehension issue? Poor reasoning skills? We've ruled out trolling, maybe that should go back on the table?) The latest mischaracterization was saying I asserted that Belfort was in control of the fight. I said no such thing. Just so you'll know here's what happened in the fight and we'll see how you want to mischaracterize what I say here. Both guys wanted to counter punch so there was a lot of feinting and waiting for the first minute. No one was in control. There were a couple of leg kicks. Belfort threw some flurries. Silva swings and misses a couple times. They went down and there was a scramble, they ended up back on the feet pretty quickly. All very even, only a couple glancing blows. Belfort chased Anderson on a break and landed a quick 1-2 cleanly. More misses from both guys, I think one more counter lands for Vitor, then when they get in range again the front kick lands. The stand up, what little there was of it, was very even up till then, and you could see Vitor's speed advantage was going to serve him well.
Anderson is a true fighting genius. To pull out an unused technique nobody trains to defend in this fight was brilliant and worked perfectly - beautiful technique. But it is one thing to catch a guy by surprise and another thing to be better than him. Anybody can get caught. Case in point:
Belfort is the only guy at 185 or below I can see beating Anderson Silva, or even staying even with him, in the striking department. And odds are near even he could be the one to get caught again, Silva might pull something else out of the bag of tricks. But Belfort has greater handspeed and equal reflexes, two things maybe no one else in the world has.
Question mark is will he gas. He's shown a tendency to blow his wad early, particularly when he doesn't get a full camp. If he hadn't gassed in the Jones fight on a short camp - we might have seen him win at 205. He very nearly did, and if he wasn't too nice to keep cranking on Jones arm when he instinctively let off expecting the tap, we might have seen the end of Bones career. JBJ has several holes in his game that get covered up by his pterodactyl limbs and incredible top control that were very nearly exploited to take the title by Belfort.
As far as Bisping, Bisping is formidable for sure. If the fight goes into the third round Bisping will have a big advantage and could get the KO via cardio. But can he avoid getting highlight reel KTFO before then? I don't think so.
