Champion vs Champion: a study in contrasts

Longest TRUE post ever. True is spelled T-R-U-E, not t-r-o-l-l. It’s okay, man, you’re from Canada….brain freeze, mice in your beer, stray hockey pucks to the noggin…We’ve seen the McKenzie brothers, we understand. We feel your pain.

‘Franklin is the better champion despite the fact that Anderson brutalized him twice, and has achieved more as champion. He’s ducking Chael, the guy he beat and faking an injury. It’s not even like the UFC check their fighters with their Doctors’.

It’s not “moving up” if you weigh 230 and only cut to 205 instead of 185…it’s called being a little less of a coward. And Forrest was hand-picked to make Silva look good after he was booed out of the arena in his previous two fights. Forrest is a stand-n-banger with no KO power and half Silva’s speed. Stylistically it was a “gimme” match for Silva and Forrest made it clear before the fight that he knew he was being sacrificed on the alter of Dana’s pet spider.

Four of GSP’s last six opponents have had a significant size advantage over him. He doesn’t have to “move up”, he’s already fighting bigger guys than himself. Silva has only fought 1 guy bigger than him, and a lot of guys were 20-30 lbs smaller.

And how can you say “humiliating the best competition” when Silva won’t even go near the best competition and has spent his whole career beating up the UFC’s weakest division.

you know, I might too….and I HATE Rashad!

I have some of the same beef with Bones that I have with Silva, about not fighting guys his own size, but at least Bones is fighting the most talented guys in the world, not a 2nd rate division. I still wish he’d man up and move to HW (he’s bigger than JDS) but I think biology won’t give him a choice much longer. He’s said himself that he’s still growing and he doesn’t think the weight cut will be possible much longer.

But Silva’s attempts to tell the UFC who should have to fight who before they fight him are just unprecedented and he’s got a laundry list of guys he refuses to fight because he says they’re his friends, (though several of them have said they’d fight him). Add that to his disrespectful behavior and the way he clowns on guys like Forrest and Maia and I just can’t stomach him as a champion. He may well be the most talented guy to ever step in the cage, but I’m not gonna give him that title until he proves it against the stack of legends his own size at 205.

If Sonnen beats Bisping, this is who Anderson is planning on calling out next! You can see “The Beeb” is already practicing his MMA moves, like the Rashadian Sack Grab!

finely selected, gently marinated, and seasoned to perfection! I call it Spider Flambe’.

He didn’t notice me at all cause he was too distracted by you giving him a lap dance dressed up in your Village People costume singing Justin Bieber karaoke!

Oh, and I’m not the one with blinders on…you are, you and all your Ed Soares kool-aid drinkin’ cohorts.

Nope, can’t stand Leben, and I didn’t start hatin’ on Silva till he started clowning on chumps and trying to duck every legit Top 3 that they tried to match him with, also when I heard him & other fighters say that he walks around between 220-230 lbs …and yet was calling out GSP while refusing to fight Shogun or Machida. That’s when I lost all respect for him…guess it was around 2009.

…this is his best fanpost in quite some time.

But then, I suspect that was your point and you meant that in sarcasm.

However, we can learn a lot about his weaknesses from the Sonnen fight.

IMO, Silva’s biggest asset BY FAR is his impecable timing…his ability to instinctively measure an opponent’s range, timing, and habits and know what they’re going to do and how they’re going to move before they know themselves. It functions very much like Jedi foresight, but there’s nothing supernatural about it. He simply has an amazing ability to subconsciously perceive patterns in his opponents movements and instinctively predict and respond to them. I doubt it’s ever even going through his conscious mind, he just feels it. People think he’s really fast, but that’s not it. Both his speed and his precision come from sensing what the opponent is about to do before the opponent starts to do it. This is what makes him look like Neo in the Matrix. Have you ever seen Silva’s imitation of other fighters’ styles. It’s uncanny. Turn off the audio and you’ll still know exactly who he’s doing in each impersonation. That comes from the same place, that subconsious perceptiveness of all the minute details and patterns in his opponents’ movements.

People think I hate Silva for his skills, or that I hate him for his success or hate him because he beat up fighters that I like or whatever. Not true. I hate him because he may very likely be the single most gifted fighter in the history of MMA and yet he behaves like a diva and a coward, avoiding anyone who might present a real challenge to him, showing blatant disregard for the fans, his opponents, and the honor of the belt he wears.

Bones fought 3 of the sports’ biggest legends in his first year as champion. GSP has fought bigger guys, faster guys, “better wrestlers”, better strikers, everybody they could throw at him even champions from divisions above and below him…with never a single complaint. And we don’t even need to mention Frankie’s heart. In the whole history of the UFC I’ve only ever heard one other fighter besides Silva try to avoid a top challenger and that was when Tito was ducking Chuck, claiming they were friends. Silva has gone WAY WAY WAY beyond that, listing half of Brazil as his “friends” and claiming every Top3 ranked guy was unworthy of a title shot, and then acting like a total jackass. The way he disrespected Maia was unforgivable. I was never a Maia fan till that night. Maia got the shit kicked out of him and just kept coming forward till the final bell, while Andy acted like a jackass for 3 rounds and then rode out the clock and ran away from Maia for the last 10 minutes. Total disgrace! And then he had the arrogance to say that the reason he clowned on Maia was that Maia disrespected him by claiming to have better BJJ. Maia is like a 5 time WORLD BJJ champion! Silva is so full of shit! If he wanted to prove Maia wrong, why did he spend 25 minutes at arms reach (or further) instead of taking Maia to the ground? I’m not recommending that as a wise fight strategy, just saying that if Silva is so arrogant that he gets insulted if a world champion claims to have better jitz, why didn’t he try to prove him wrong? Answer, because his cowardice exceeds even his arrogance!

A troll is someone who says things they don’t really believe just to get a response out of people. I’ve been on this site for years, long before it came to SBNation, and you can ask any of the long-timers and they’ll tell you that I’m no troll. I may say controversial things, but I not only believe them, I back them up with reason and facts. Now, you may not like the fact that your idol is a ducking diva coward, but facts are still facts…and if you could manage to dislodge your head from your sphincter for a few minutes, you’d be able to see the plain truth in the facts I listed above.