Weidman never proved he's better than Silva.

[StewDogg11]

That first picture is post USADA you buffoon. It was literally his last fight. It’s truly amazing how you constantly own yourself with your lack of knowledge.

 

[Batjester]

 

[Senzo Tanaka]

He was Silva's kryptonite. A big stronger wrestler with decent striking. I think he beats Anderson 8-10 times. He was dominating the 1st and 2nd fights. I like Anderson but wrestlers were his weakness.

 

[Paul E Gensinger]

Silva was past his prime in their first fight.
Silva lost the first fight due to showboating and not taking the fight seriously.
Silva lost the second fight due to a freak leg kick.

These three factors make Weidman's wins against Silva dubious at best.
I still contend that a focused, prime Silva circa 2010 destroys Weidman.

Love,
Oris79

You're darn right. Two fluke wins.
Silva was never the same after the leg break.
Silva was better than Adyesana.
I put him at the same level as GSP, Khabib, and Jon Jones.

 

[TempleoftheDog]

When you are 2-0 against somebody that generally means you ARE better than them. Losing once is one thing. Losing twice is something else. There was nothing lucky about how Weidman performed in those fights.

But that doesn’t mean you can beat everybody that fighter beat. Those are different things and pure mmath.

So yes, Weidman proved he was better than Silva. He dominated pretty much every second of both fights. Silva wasn’t going to win the rematch if his leg didn’t break. We all know that.

And beating a GOAT doesn’t make you the GOAT either. But getting popped for peds means you aren’t the GOAT anyway.

 

[Chalky White]

That first picture is post USADA you buffoon. It was literally his last fight. It’s truly amazing how you constantly own yourself with your lack of knowledge.

June 2015, the month that changed everything…it all went downhill from there.

Weidman looked great in May 2015 against Vitor. Who knew that it would be the last time he would look like an above average MMA fighter?

 

[textwarrior]

Silva was past his prime in their first fight.
Silva lost the first fight due to showboating and not taking the fight seriously.
Silva lost the second fight due to a freak leg kick.

These three factors make Weidman's wins against Silva dubious at best.
I still contend that a focused, prime Silva circa 2010 destroys Weidman.

Love,
Oris79

Thanks, losing to a white boy would be hard bro....your not a racist but if the same message was done by some white guy giving his white champ the same protection...he sucks bro.

Now as a white man, guess what? I have people I root for that are black. AS is probably my favorite Champ of all time. His set of skills and everything, and when Chris beat AS...he said his win over AS would do nothing to his legacy. Get over yourself Dude...Blacks and Whites get along and we root for each other...its not about race Dude. Give it up Dude...stop watching the racist people or you will be like them.

 

[StewDogg11]

June 2015, the month that changed everything…it all went downhill from there.

Weidman looked great in May 2015 against Vitor. Who knew that it would be the last time he would look like an above average MMA fighter?

But the picture was from April 2021. Which was post USADA. Are you slow?

 

[Chalky White]

But the picture was from April 2021. Which was post USADA. Are you slow?

The picture has Jim Carrey in it lol you’re trying really hard to avoid discussing the purpose of the picture…

As I’ve told you before, I like seeing the fans be happy, I hope we get another American Dream champ like Weidman in the future. Hopefully your man Bo Nickal is the guy.

 

[StewDogg11]

The picture has Jim Carrey in it lol you’re trying really hard to avoid discussing the purpose of the picture…

As I’ve told you before, I like seeing the fans be happy, I hope we get another American Dream champ like Weidman in the future. Hopefully your man Bo Nickal is the guy.

The first picture dipshit. The one that’s supposed to show him in peak physical form pre-USADA but it’s actually from only two years ago which ruins the entire point it was trying to make. Jesus you’re more mentally challenged than I thought.

 

[BowserJr]

Also nobody prefight was saying Silva was past his prime. He looked the exact same as he always did. Lackluster TDD, dancing around like a moron, throwing naked leg kicks, etc. All three finally bit him in the ass in the Weidman fights.

Nah some of us were saying the age was showing after the 1st chael fight. He went from eating bombs from 1 punch KO guys to getting dropped by pillow fist chael

 

[StewDogg11]

Nah some of us were saying the age was showing after the 1st chael fight. He went from eating bombs from 1 punch KO guys to getting dropped by pillow fist chael

Okay but the odds sure didn’t reflect that.

 

[StonedLemur]

Sorry, OP.

But Weidman did exactly that.

Anderson Silva became too "in love with himself" by the time he met Weidman.
Silva's "self-love" was his downfall — as it was again.

I understand what your point is, that a fully-concentrated, young, humble, Anderson Silva would have likely prevailed. But that is just pure speculation.

The reality is, Anderson Silva had the exact same time to prepare and train for BOTH events, and he failed in both.

It's not Weidman's fault; Weidman did what he needed to do.

All of the deficits you perceive, are the result of Anderson Silva's failure to take this fight as seriously as he should have. And the next one.

See it's these types of posts that I really like from you sir.
Spoken to perfection.

 

[StonedLemur]

Over time, no one will remember Weidman, they will only remember his overbearing father:

And then you post this smh.

 

[cade187]

He started clowning because he was too old to enter the matrix. He slowed down and couldn’t just outmaneuver people, so he clowned to get them to make a mistake that he could capitalize on (see Stephan Bonnar). It didn’t work against Weidman.

 

[StewDogg11]

The picture has Jim Carrey in it lol you’re trying really hard to avoid discussing the purpose of the picture…

As I’ve told you before, I like seeing the fans be happy, I hope we get another American Dream champ like Weidman in the future. Hopefully your man Bo Nickal is the guy.

It’s now crystal clear why people like you have to wear Velcro sneakers.

 

[markantony20]

Silva was past his prime in their first fight

Prime is such a stupid cope you can say a fighter is past his prime whenever he loses a fight.

 

[TeenageMutantLesnarTurtle]

In his prime he was better than a Silva who was pushing 40 and 38 fights into his career, thats about it.

 

[HavokHarmon]

Huge Silva fan but honestly….prime Weidman was a tough stylistic matchup for Silva, even at his best. Overall I rate Silva a better fighter but head to head I think that’s a rough night out for the spider.

Having said all that, witnessing Silva’s run of dominance it is difficult to imagine him losing at mw during that period. Gun to my head? I’d say pull the trigger. I have no idea who wins.

 

[Xoleth]

People will argue that "Anderson clowned all the time" but it was absolutely never on this level when fighting someone with actual power; he sure as shit didn't try that against Vitor or Henderson.

Good post.
But what actual power did Weidman have?
He had that KO vs Munoz before Silva, but that was an elbow.
In Silva's eyes, he was just another good wrestler and Silva thought he would beat him easily.
Silva clowned a lot because he because more and more confident.
Vitor fight - there wasn't much clowning because Vitor just stood there and the fight ended fast.
In the Weidman fight, probably Silva got a little upset that Weidman took him down fast. Also, Weidman was an All American fighter, the fight was in USA, the crowd was cheering for Weidman and he felt the need to do the clowning. Also, Weidman's striking was pretty slow, unlike Vitor's or Hendo's. Silva probably thought Weidman is another Rich Franklin. But Weidman actually had good striking defense in that fight and stayed out of Silva's range, except some leg kicks.