Beep-beep! Tim Sylvia leaves for UFC 68

I knew tim sylvia was a gangly looking dork, but this just takes the cake.

This is exactly why I AM a fan of Sylvia…talk about walking to the beat of your own drum…

I really have no problem with the guy….I just think that when the heavyweight division gets some more depth hes going to be in serious trouble. Theoretically if he and Arlovski fought 50 times who would come out the victor more? IMO Andrei is the better man and would take at least 75% if not more of the fights.Therefore if there were more “a” level fighters in heavyweight he would be hard pressed to keep that belt.Monson is not a good example.

i’m a big fan of the champ, all he does is win, anybody who talks bad about him is just a hater, who cares what he looks like and acts like, he’s a bad mother fucker and he’s huge, maybe he’ll get some love when he beats cro cop…

hey wild bill, didn’t arlovski lose 2 out of 3 to slyvia, where do you get your opinions buddy, watch those fights again, the champ got progressively better as a fighter and he is as hard to beat as any fighter in the world in any division

tim is a fag easy as that and i dont care what anyone says hes not that good of a fighter and he is boring to watch after he got the title back he doesnt fight to win he fights to not lose and thats crap

I dont even like myself

I dont have any problem with the guy in the ring, other than he isnt exciting anymore.

But outside the ring, well, I’d rather go to Seaworld with Danny “the Beast” Abaddi than ride around on a Vespa with Poopie.

“I AM A PHENOMENAL STRIKER!!!!!!”=) WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Hey spida your correct but i think overall Andrei is better.Remember who was on there back first in the last fight…I think when Tim’s head hit the mat it woke him up and also that last fight was stopped too soon but Andrei took it like a man and didn’t complain. So if you rule in favor of the last fight being a draw as i am they are even.

Tim Sylvia, I am officially challenging you for your title. I’m gonna smash your face in, mate. Y’know what I mean?

You’re one of the best, but so am I.

I’m a fighter, man, I’m here to fight. I’m a Gladiator.

Bring the pain!

Sylvia is a good guy but goofy. He is not that good of a fighter but he is so big that gives him a huge advantage. I’m an Arlovski guy and believe he can beat Tim S again. He proved he can drop Tim S with a single punch more than once, just wasn’t sure what his fighting plan was the third time they fought.

AA has a confidence problem, not a hands problem, guys. That is VERY hard to fix, and KOing Pe De Pano and gonna fix it. I truly believe AA will shit himself if he is in the same cage as Mirko or Werdum.
Hey, now thats a fight, Werdum vs AA. I have a feeling Herring is gonna get AA, though. Dana cant be none to pleased with a guy like Heath showing up to his first UFC fight looking like a biker at a bbq.

“aint gonna fix it”, how’d I miss that?

i really want to see cro cop fight sylvia and see if sylvia can try to sit back and try to get a decition

Wow Tim!! Now that I actually believe! Fix it.

AA will pound Heath, no question….Nothin’ more I dislike then an excuse maker and thats all Heath did after getting the blanket treatment fom o’brien. He should have apologized to us all for a poor showing and let it go.Damn i’m off the subject. Oh and by the way i will be the first to rally around the champ if he starts pounding the crap out of people. I give credit were credit is due, come on Tim show us a good gameplan that includes a fight ending, be it submission or knock out!

Hey guys, Tim is enjoying life. He’s not waiting around for us to give him permission.

If he kicks Randy butt – I will become a Tim fan.

tim does not get the respect he deserves he only has two losses and has two wins over the pitbull an beast of a man saying all that i will be rooting for randy from my seats at nation wide

Reminds me of an old joke. What do fat chicks and mopeds have in common? They are both fun to ride until your friends find out.

Me too, GO RANDY :)
To Tim’s credit, he’s never been KO’d properly and he fought a clever (but bloody boring) 3rd fight with AA.

To his DIScredit though he’s just NOT exciting to watch aka Liddell/CroCop/George StPierre etc. And SURELY CroCop will rip him to shreds. I just can’t see Tim taking his high kicks and if you look at CC training on youtube, you’ll see he has NO probs kicking at least as high as Tim’s temple :)

I hope BRandon Vera re-signs with UFC as he’s talking about dropping down to LHW once he’s tried to win the HW title (can’t see him tackling CC but would be a good fight) I think Vera/Liddell would be a cracking fight. Vera’s got decent skills AND hits harder than he looks like he could.

Tim is in a no-win situation. If he looses to Couture then all you will hear is “I told you so” from everybody and if he wins he will have beaten a beloved 43yr old guy. Yeah, he’s boring to watch but a win is a win and he can’t help it if the HW division is down. Cut him some slack. After all, like it or not he is the Champ and has defended his title. Just my opinion.

it doesent mean mutch cro cop will soon own the belt

He is part of the “down” of the HW division.
If he wasnt he would have a lot more 1st round KO’s.

You can’t judge a fighter just because they don’t have 1st round KO’s. I don’t care how long it takes, fighting is about as as close to justice as you get. A win is a win. Whoever wins was the better fighter at that time. Right now, Tim is the best, he’s beaten fighters, including AA, who is a great fighter, so we can’t say that Tim hasn’t beat anyone of merit, and he has defended his title. Maybe he’s not as exciting as some of the other strikers, but the reason we think that is because we expect a huge man like him to get in there and pound on people instead of actually implementing any kind of strategy like he does. Cro Cop on the other hand, has only fought one person in the UFC, and it was a guy who didn’t have even 10 fights underneath his belt. I don’t care what he’s done in pride, you can’t try and compare the two organizations. You just can’t. Unless they are consistently fighting each othe you cannot compare them. So for me, IN THE UFC, cro cop is unproven, and tim is established. That being said ufc heavyweight doesn’t have a whole lot of depth, hopefully something that will change with all these new fighters. Until then, I withold judgement of either sylvia or cro cop.

Timmy, Timmy that guy is fucked up likes. Imagine walking through town and seeing the big shite on that funky vespa. Wearing what i can only discribe as an Elton john hand me down.

What a dork. He look’s like shit on every level to his sluggish ring performance to his fat body. Holes is cro cop’s game….. LOL his game is swiss cheese! He only has his height going for him and I have no idea how he beat arlovski but people win the lottery all the time. I hope to god courture kicks his hillbilly ass.

Give me break. Sylvia may act like a big kid, but he’s the real deal in the octagon, and his record speaks for itself. Yes, he’s had a few fights where he’s played it safe (I prefer smart), but lets not forget he’s the Champion and he’s supposed to “defend” his title, not go out and take a bunch of stupid chances and end up getting caught. Judging by the grammar and spelling in this thread, Sylvia is smarter than most of you.

Iam surprized he dosent have his belt on

Actually look at all the posts here, people love to hate him.
He is a very successful “HEEL”.

The thing is someone out there has to beat him senseless, I bet alot of people would pay for that….

See where I am going.

Is he canadian??? Please say no.

If he is than, listen guys we are not like him…

Really!!!

i guess the reason i hate tim sylvia is because he’s a cocky ass stain…and he wonders why people dont like him. maybe it would mean sumthing if he was cocky in a division where there was talent, then he’d have a legitimate reason to act like a bad ass and i wouldn’t think less of him, but the fact is, up until now there hasnt been any real talent in the heavy weight division. the fact that he’s a dufus has no bearing on my opinion of him, the fact that he walks around and claims to be the best ever in a division where his only challenge is NO ONE, including arlovski (not a rip on AA but he did lose twice and i like the guy)…it just makes him a bully. SHIT it’d be cocky 2 if were fighting midgets all day.

raise the checkered flag, ring the bell, tim’s time is up…

“the winner of this match and NEW HEAVY WEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD…not tim sylvia!!!”

Hey Tim, just let it loose a little more and you will gain more fans, people love to watch knock outs not descisions. And to all the coments… who ever doesnt like hunting is not american!

Man, I dont know why everyone is so hard on Tim. It reminds me of being in school and picking on the fat kid, everyone makes a game of it. The trueth is no one knows Sylvia personally, and if they did I bet hes a pretty good shit. I think maybe they should have him help announce a few fights on spike. Let him joke around a bit and show some of his personallity to the public. Help him out, let him know the “kiss my ass” attitude makes people want to make fun more, not less. Learn to take a joke, and the jokes will stop. Loose some weight, stop being so lame and ugly, and people will start to like you.

Anyone ever see Tim on Blind date? Great episode. They hooked him up with a total and complete lush. It was taped three weeks after he broke his arm.

I do not think Tim is that great of fighter as much as it is his size is overwheelming in the ring. Although he proved he had a decent ground game with Munson, i do no think he will be a hang with a heavy weight like Crop Cop. Those kicks that Crop Cop rains wil close up the reach gap. He also needs to watch for Gonzaga. That is a big man on the mat to roll with; he has quick transitions and take downs, he is strong, and has great BJJ skills. He is also lightning quick.

I really don’t think you guys should continue to bash tim sylvia. Even though he is cocky, selfish, overbearing, lanky, deformed, and misshapen doesn’t mean you have to take advantage of him. How do you think he feels about this? Certainly not great, I know that.

He looks Ricky from Trailer Park Boyz

When you think of UFC who comes to mind?? Chuck, Tito, GSP, Franklin. There’s a reason why major sponsors back these individuals because they’re marketable. Chuck’s a fucking rockstar. Sick cars, a sweet house and a bad ass attitude. Tito’s controversial, the biggest mouth in the Octagon, and he sticks his penis inside one of the most recongnizable adult film stars. GSP has a great attitude, he’s young, and well respected. Rich also holds alot of marketable properties which include the fact that he’s an intelligent guy, strong work ethic, and chicks think he’s smoking.

You see the Xyence commercials where a dramatization of UFC fighters sharing they’re insecurities, more or less exposing a weird sensitive side. Well I think honestly Tim’s skit was an extention of his life.

Ask anyone who works in media and they’ll tell you that even bad publicity is good publicity, because obviously you’re still getting exposure. Tim may be a weird guy, but he’s got everybody on this blogs attention.

Don Frye comes to mind.

It’s obvious that don frye comes to mind.

I like Sylviat…
If he is aggressive, Its like watching a bigger Chuck Liddell.. But then you have the laid back trying not to lose Sylvia (like vs. Monson and Arlovski3) that is just boring MMA that should be on Bodog instead of the UFC.

Don Frye doesn’t fight anymore. But his fights in UFC 8 were incredible. I wish the fights were still like that. The matches where there were a few rules.

Kyle, than just watch Vale Tudo on YT or DM. Those fights in Brazil and Colombia are just great. I love watching guys get their fingers snapped, have fingers jabbed into cuts, struck with elbows to their spine or rear of the neck, where eye-gouging, yes pulling out another man’s eye, is legal. I feel like I’m watching… taped delayed murder. \

Kyle, thank God for the fighters and the fans that Dana White came along to clean this sport up. Do you realize that at some of those UFC shows the “Dr” at ringside wasnt a doctor at all? That that there wasnt always enough $$$ to buy medical coverage for the fighters?

I liked the Tim Sylvia that destroyed Cabbage and Ricco Rodriguez. I don’t like the Tim Sylvia of today that much but I don’t really hate him like everyone else. I think he’s kind of a goofball and that picture is awesome.

Anyway, whoever said he is a bigger version of Chuck Liddell is crazy, if Chuck Liddell ever hobbles aroudn that awkward then its time for him to retire and if he ever lets a fight go five round then same thing!

Finally, the if you don’t love hunting you ain’t american red neck comment isn’t necessary. I like fighting people who can fight back don’t need to shoot something that doesn’t know what’s going on.

Timmy’s shite and thats that.

Oh yeah the IVC. Thanks for reminding me MoreThanUFC.

We met Tim at the MGM prior to UFC 56, we were expecting him to be an asshole, he wasn’t!!! He is a very nice guy!! Give him a break, he’s human.

Just a comment on Ross Pointin’s comment above: were you the guy that got the shit kicked out of him by MMichael Bisping in TUF 3? What’d you say you were? A Gladiator? Ha, ha.

His personality in public was to say he was injured coming into the fight. Never mind Tim you can’t fix it now. You will never have a fan again. Well at least an educated one. The best of your life has already happened Tim. How does that make you feel?

This is exactly why I AM a fan of Sylvia…talk about walking to the beat of your own drum…

Shut up