With the intrusion of MMA into the psyche of the mainstream media, perhaps no face is more recognizable than that of Canadian mixed martial artist Georges St. Pierre. The welterweight champion of the world has landed endorsement deals with Gatorade, Af…
With the intrusion of MMA into the psyche of the mainstream media, perhaps no face is more recognizable than that of Canadian mixed martial artist Georges St. Pierre.
The welterweight champion of the world has landed endorsement deals with Gatorade, Affliction MMA, and Under Armour.
MMA is the fastest growing sport and St. Pierre’s name recognition is swelling faster than a Mark Hominick hematoma. With that being said, the golden boy of MMA’s appeal will continue to grow exponentially as the UFC expands to Fox and Latin America.
Don’t be surprised within the next couple of years if you see GSP recruited by the likes of Nike, Reebok, and Michael Jordan’s Jumpman brand if his contract with Under Armour ever expires.
Until then, here are 10 products that could use the GSP seal of approval.
I have something to tell you if you’re willing to read closely. The fighter that you know as “The Spider” isn’t human by any stretch of the imagination. He’s a robot created in a top secret lab by Dana White and the Fiertita brothers whose …
I have something to tell you if you’re willing to read closely. The fighter that you know as “The Spider” isn’t human by any stretch of the imagination. He’s a robot created in a top secret lab by Dana White and the Fiertita brothers whose sole purpose is to leave you awe inspired so you’ll fork over your hard earned cash without the slightest hesitation. In other words, Anderson Silva is a pyramid scheme personified and we’re all suckers for buying into it.
Don’t believe me? Dana White touted Yushin Okami as the best Japanese fighter on the face of the planet. He told us that Okami is a fighter who very well could untangle Silva’s web of dominance. Within the blink of an eye, White’s robot took down the Japanese fighter known as “Thunder.” It was a cruel reminder for Okami that at 36 years of age, Silva can still teach you how to say adios, arrivaderci, and sayanora faster than a Rosetta Stone wet dream.
If there was thunder that night it sure as hell didn’t come from Yushin Okami. Once again a world class mixed martial artist was made to look like a fool at the hands of a fighter who may have tapped into something that only Bruce Lee was privy to. “I asked myself, ‘Where was this so called thunder?”
That’s when it dawned on me that the thunder was the sound of Okami’s back hitting the canvas as a sold out Brazilian crowd erupted into a fever pitch. The result couldn’t have been more disastrous for Okami if Silva asked him to commit seppuku (a form of Japanese suicide by disemboweling oneself) in front of a live audience.
After the fight, MMA‘s talking heads took to the airwaves in an attempt to put into words the brilliance they just witnessed at Okami’s expense. Soon the names of Jon “Bones” Jones and Georges St-Pierre were thrown about like exhausted clichés. After what transpired in Rio, how can anyone possibly believe that Anderson Silva can be beaten by mere mortals?
Eventually the radio show I was listening to was drowned out by the sound of a cash register and the maniacal laughter of Dana White. His pyramid scheme was a well oiled machine. We were suckered into believing that Yushin had a fighting chance. We went all in and our proverbial wallets were set ablaze for it.
Do mark my words when I say that no man on Earth can defeat Anderson Silva. Jon Jones can’t beat him nor can Georges St-Pierre. Unless an opponent discovers a way to reverse engineer him, he won’t be beaten by anyone short of a superhero. Our money is being sucked into a vortex of predictability and monotony. The ending has been the same for 14 straight fights. Anderson Silva KO’s a fighter, wishes him so long and farewell, and then starts dancing like he’s starring in the sequel to The Sound of Music. I’m expecting a little more from Dana White the next time around.
I want to see Silva vs the Predator. I don’t care if M-1 Global represents the interstellar extraterrestrial. Just get him in the Octagon against Anderson Silva. If co-promotion is a sticking point, here are 19 other fictional fighters that may give “The Spider” a run for our pay-per-view money.
Benjamin Franklin once said, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” It’s a shame Benjamin Franklin never had the opportunity to see Anderson Silva in action. Should Silva defeat Yushin Okami Saturd…
Benjamin Franklin once said, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
It’s a shame Benjamin Franklin never had the opportunity to see Anderson Silva in action. Should Silva defeat Yushin Okami Saturday night at UFC 134 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Franklin’s quote may need to be revised to read: “In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes and Anderson Silva.”
Anderson Silva and Yushin Okami first crossed paths with one another in January of 2006 at Hawaii’s Rumble on the Rock tournament. Anderson welcomed Okami into the cage that fateful night with a weaponized version of “Aloha” that arrived in the form of an upkick that temporarily put Okami to sleep.
The kick couldn’t have been more perfect if Silva had a sponsor from Tempur-Pedic imprinted on his heel. The only problem was the strike was deemed illegal since Silva landed the upkick from the guard position. Although Okami was given time to recover, he chose to exit the cage with a disqualification victory under his belt. He would be the last fighter to escape “the Spider’s” web.
Since his inclusion into the UFC in 2006, Anderson “the Spider Silva” has woven a web of god-like omnipotence that has spared no one. He’s KO’d Rich Franklin with knees, submitted Dan Henderson with a rear-naked choke and danced around Demian Maia as if Maia were a human/arcade hybrid of the popular music video game Dance Dance Revolution.
With the exception of the Chael Sonnen fight, Silva has looked like a man fighting amongst boys. His tussle with former UFC light heavyweight champion Forrest Griffin resembled an outtake from the movie The Matrix as Silva bobbed, weaved and countered Griffin’s punches with relative ease.
The fight ended with Griffin’s body sprawled out on the canvas. Griffin looked more like a child making a snow angel rather than the former UFC light heavyweight champion of the world.
Silva’s dominance begs the question, “How does one beat Anderson Silva?”
Vitor Belfort thought he had the answer until a brutal Silva front kick made the fighter known as “The Phenom” look like an anxious fanboy trying to land a role as the Headless Horseman in a Sleepy Hallow reboot. Belfort was lucky the kick didn’t leave him decapitated.
Chael Sonnen thoroughly dominated Silva for 24 of 25 minutes. With less than a minute left in the five-round championship fight, Silva turned Sonnen into a piece of human origami. Sonnen tapped but is still convinced that he won the fight.
Chael would even lead you to believe that this spider is as fragile as the Itsy Bitsy spider made famous by the traditional nursery rhyme. But this isn’t the Itsy Bitsy Spider nor is it the spider that scared Little Miss Muffet while eating her curds and whey.
This spider is perhaps the deadliest in the world equipped with Muay Thai, boxing, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Taekwondo, Judo and Capoeira at his disposal. He dictates which way a fight will go, and his opponents have no other choice but to abide. Somewhere, Dana White is thankful that the UFC’s new insurance policy doesn’t cover arachnophobia.
Yushin Okami is being touted as the last man to beat Anderson Silva. Although Okami left with the win in their last meeting, Silva recently went on record saying he didn’t lose the Okami fight. Silva further escalated the war of words when he stated that Okami was the one who was knocked out.
Oh, what a tangled web the Spider weaves!
On Saturday night, Japan’s greatest fighter will attempt to do the impossible. Yushin Okami, your mission shall you choose to accept is to do what no man in the UFC has ever done—take down the man with the longest UFC title reign, the most consecutive wins in the UFC and the most successful title defenses in UFC history.
Did I mention that Anderson Silva is also the greatest mixed martial artist of all time? Simply stated, Yushin Okami is a supporting actor in the latest installment of Mission Impossible, and Anderson Silva is this movie’s star.
Throughout history, humanity has been fascinated with secret weapons. The McGraw-Hill Science and Technology Dictionary defines a secret weapon as a weapon closely guarded or kept under concealment so as to be used before countermeasures can be t…
Throughout history, humanity has been fascinated with secret weapons. The McGraw-Hill Science and Technology Dictionary defines a secret weapon as a weapon closely guarded or kept under concealment so as to be used before countermeasures can be taken against it.
The British government had exploding rats and time bombs made to look like Chianti bottles in World War 2. Nikola Tesla proclaimed to have the technical know-how to invent a secret death ray in the 1930’s.
The United States of America deployed a super secret weapon of nightmarish proportions in Iraq capable of firing concentrated doses of invisible frequencies that could wither opposing soldiers and civilians into a primordial soup of human splatter in milliseconds. So what or who is the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s secret weapon?
Look no further than Charles Oliveira. Assembled on Oct. 17, 1989, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Oliveira may be the UFC’s best-kept secret. With a total of 16 fights under his belt, the 5-foot-10 Brazilian Jiu Jitsu/Muay Thai practitioner has left a trail of destruction in his wake.
If Quentin Tarantino rewrote the American crime classic Pulp Fiction with an MMA twist, he’d probably cast Dana White as Marsellus Wallace, Stephan Bonnar as Vincent Vega, and Jon Bones Jones as Jules Winnfield.
White’s character would send Bonnar and Jones to retrieve the UFC’s secret weapon-a mysterious silver briefcase with a transcendental glimmer that revealed the source of Charles Oliveira’s fighting spirit.
Somewhere in between all of this, chance would have Bonnar and Bones dining in a crowded restaurant where Rashad Evans was staging an outlandish robbery and coupe de grace.
Evans would make his way to Bones and Bonnar’s table, attempt to steal the briefcase along with Bones’s wallet, and live to regret his not so serendipitous showdown with the UFC light heavyweight champion.
The movie would end as the briefcase arrived safely in Milwaukee, Wisc. on the eve of Charles Oliveira’s lightweight showdown with Donald Cerrone.
Is Charles Oliveira really the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s best-kept secret? We’ll let you decide!
Benjamin Franklin once said, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”