When did Anderson Silvas prime end?

[Cowboy Kurt Angle]

I always say Silvas prime ended at the Weidman fight but I’ve heard many say he was already out of his prime by then. So when did Silvas prime end?

 

[DrunkMonkMeth]

When he got knocked out. He was p4p goat till that moment

 

[OneOfOne]

I would argue the Yushin Okami fight. However after the first Weidman fight there could be no doubt.

 

[Dionysian]

The most obvious answer is when he actually looked different in-cage. After the leg break.

Which is also supported by every leg break ever in MMA history.

 

[jooohnmatrix]

He was never the same after the Chris. He should have retired after that loss as he was never really that good anyways.

 

[Crawler89]

when he started to just take it easy/pay around and be silly it started to become a bit questionable.
then the leg kick...

 

[GrantB13]

He tooled Okami, but really Okami never had anything for him. He started to slow down about that time so probably somewhere between then and Bonnar.

 

[Izzysexboyfriend]

After the Weidman fights

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

He clowned and got caught by Weidman. But never looked the same after his leg injury...

His prime well outlasted that of a spiders lifespan, so it was eventually going to happen...

 

[Izzysexboyfriend]

You don’t really even have a prime if your on steroids.

 

[Fioretti]

Between the second fight with Shale and the Bonnar fight he was talking about retirement. His age lines up with the typical male prime. He was 36-38 when he started thinking and talking about retirement.

Fucker should've hung em up then.

 

[jeff7b9]

Chris beat a prime Silva fair and square.

Anderson looked like a God in the Sonnen 2 and Bonnar fights. The Bonnar fight was when he stood with his hands down against the fence and let Bonnar try to hit him. That was 9 months before the Weidman 1 fight.

The sequence at 1:10 of this video is probably the most disregard for an opponent anyone has ever shown in modern MMA.

 

[Goutfather]

the first chael fight imo. he looked good for a few fights after that (including the rematch), but that was the first time i noticed any sort of physical decline from previous outings. and yeah chael was juicing, but still anderson looked slower and weaker than he had in the past. not a good sign for a fighter who relied on speed, timing, and reflexes.

 

[dre quinn]

When he accepted the stephen Bonner fight I’d say.

 

[TrueBias]

When he got knocked out. He was p4p goat till that moment

Honestly, its gotta be this and simply because he expedited it.

Acted like an asshole, getting KOd clean, then making his chin fractured.

Silva maybe the GOAT of all fuckups.

 

[Diamondsareforever47]

Chris beat a prime Silva fair and square.

Anderson looked like a God in the Sonnen 2 and Bonnar fights. The Bonnar fight was when he stood with his hands down against the fence and let Bonnar try to hit him. That was 9 months before the Weidman 1 fight.

The sequence at 1:10 of this video is probably the most disregard for an opponent anyone has ever shown in modern MMA.

Yep Canderoid fans are coping.

Andersons Prime For sure was done in by 2017. By the end of 2016 he lost to Bisping badly despite getting that free cheap shot on Bisping and DC wrecked him.

Also in January of 2015 Anderson fought Diaz and looked super human as well but then failed the drug test for steroids. 2015 onward and under USADA Anderson declined rapidly he also turned 40 in 2015 but it seemed no issue in the Diaz fight.

 

[mmacrisis]

The leg break was the end. The KO happened and it we can blame it all sorts of things but I really wonder where he would have gone had he not broken his leg at that time. Could he have beaten Weidman? Would he have won the tie breaker fight? Who knows but the leg break was the end.

 

[Izzysexboyfriend]

the first chael fight imo. he looked good for a few fights after that (including the rematch), but that was the first time i noticed any sort of physical decline from previous outings. and yeah chael was juicing, but still anderson looked slower and weaker than he had in the past. not a good sign for a fighter who relied on speed, timing, and reflexes.

Andy was juicing too lol. Andy was as fast as ever in the Bonnar fight

 

[Izzysexboyfriend]

Between the second fight with Shale and the Bonnar fight he was talking about retirement. His age lines up with the typical male prime. He was 36-38 when he started thinking and talking about retirement.

Fucker should've hung em up then.

Andy still hasn’t retired so he was likely talking about retirement to pressure the ufc to pay him more. Or he knew he was gonna lose to Weidman

 

[AmbassadorFright]

Honestly as a fan of Anderson, I say post Weidman 2/leg break marks the end of his prime. He was on a massive win streak and had just dispatched a juiced Boner with ease and he never looked as fast, agile or fluid as he did prior as the injury definitely hindered his in cage mobility. USADA also took it's toll as well.