UFC Quick Quote: 'Oh (bleep), Joe Silva is calling...'

my first line of business….McArthur/Carano I, II, and III

It would definitely be pretty fun to have Silva’s job but you would have to deal with a lot of different personalities from the fighters to their managers to Dana to the Fertitas. The article talks about the stress and pressure that Silva gets out of his job especially when injuries come about at the last minute. I wonder if Dana overrides Silva much when it comes to putting a match/card together. Dana is concerned with growing the UFC brand and I’m sure Silva is more interested in building up certain fighters and putting together matches the fans want to see…that can be a fine line sometimes I’m sure. As much as we’d all love to throw a promising new comer into a fight with someone from the top 10…it’s just not always that good of an idea from a business standpoint.

as far as matchups go, i think he’s had as many dud’s as he’s had huge successes. for the most part though his matchups deliver somewhere in between. but really, what fight isn’t entertaining, especially when it’s between a couple of pro’s.

you realize thats a screenshot from the wizard of oz right? man behind the curtain… get it?

good post have to slightly disagree about gsp/alves.ok fitch beat alves,but hes improved drastically and beat hughes/koschek and karo in better fashion than gsp did.bisping/hendo makes sense for the ufc.if hendo wins everyone would see a rematch with the spider which will sell.if bisping wins which i think he will,we get our first superfight in england!!

If you hate 100 that much then don’t buy it, personally I don’t see any problem with 2 title fights, a TUF coach v coach no 1 MW contenders match and a WW contender eliminator (including avenging a teammates defeat) and the debut of a top 10 MW. I don’t know what more you could want from a card, if it was anymore stacked then we wouldn’t get as good cards as 101 and 102, both of which I’m looking forward to more by the way.

Alves is the only WW who deserves a title shot right now, he has beaten Karo, Hughes and Kos in successive fights, the former two by TKO. He is a huge WW with excellent takedown defence and brutal muay thai so if any WW can make a fight with GSP competitive then it’s him. Sure he lost to Fitch, he’s also lost to Spencer Fisher, that doesn’t mean that he can’t win this fight.

As for Lesnar-Mir II, whatever you think about them both this is a huge match, all of Lesnar’s fights have been big draws and this unification match is easily the biggest HW fight in the UFC. Big Nog is a legend and the toughest guy in the history of the sport, but he looked awful against Mir and to be honest hasn’t looked that good in the UFC, sure he beat Herring and Sylvia but they both wasted great opportunities to beat him and you can’t do that against Nog. Right now, Mir is a better fighter than Nog and it pains me to say that because I can’t stand Mir.

Bisping-Hendo should also be a great fight, Bisping is a big draw in Europe and has looked excellent at MW, beating all of his opponents soundly, whilst Hendo has had a mixed time but is coming off wins over Palhares and Franklin so is still a top fighter. I think this will be the closest fight on the card, Bisping is going to prove a lot of doubters wrong. He gave Rashad a very close fight, which he could have arguably won, and we all know what Rashad did in his next two fights.

I think Silva does a great job at putting cards together, other than the European cards most of them are pretty well rounded and have fights that appeal to the hardcore fans as well as the mainstream. He does an excellent job at building up rivalries and putting on exciting fights. Sure he’s made some shocking decisions, most notably giving Leites a title fight based on an illegal knee, but his job is pretty difficult and he does well under the circumstances. Without Joe Silva, the UFC would not be anywhere near as big as it is today.