UFC 134 has come to a close and there is many questions for each of the fighters, win or lose. The very successful UFC was one of the most exciting main cards I can think of, which makes the results that much intriguing.I am also going to in…
UFC 134 has come to a close and there is many questions for each of the fighters, win or lose. The very successful UFC was one of the most exciting main cards I can think of, which makes the results that much intriguing.I am also going to include what match-ups look the best for each fighter as they look to continue their careers.
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.
UFC 134 was this past weekend and it was the promotion’s first event held in Brazil in more than a decade.It was clear that Brazil had been dearly missing the UFC, as the event sold out in under an hour.Dana White has since spoken about how great the t…
UFC 134 was this past weekend and it was the promotion’s first event held in Brazil in more than a decade.
It was clear that Brazil had been dearly missing the UFC, as the event sold out in under an hour.
Dana White has since spoken about how great the trip to Brazil was and how great the fans are down there.
It’s probably safe to say that the UFC will be making many more trips back to the Brazil in the coming years.
However, it’s a wonder whether or not these trips to Brazil will be like the UFC’s trips to England, Germany and Australia, by which I mean events held to appease the fans in those countries, but are not necessarily that successful.
The other possible outcome is that events in Brazil end up being very lucrative for the UFC, like most of their events in the USA and Canada.
Here’s six reasons why events in Brazil have just as much potential to make the UFC money as events held in Canada and the US…
There are very few mixed martial artists walking this planet who are considered not only one of the best active fighters in the sport today, but one of the best fighters ever. With so many amazing competitors scattered across the history of MMA, it is …
There are very few mixed martial artists walking this planet who are considered not only one of the best active fighters in the sport today, but one of the best fighters ever.
With so many amazing competitors scattered across the history of MMA, it is quite amazing to consider that two of the best fighters ever are currently active at this present time.
These two fighters are not only considered top pound-for-pound fighters in the world, but history will reflect them as two athletes who clearly changed the course of the sport forever through their quality of hand-to-hand combat.
Georges St-Pierre and Anderson Silva are unique fingerprints that many have and will emulate—but never duplicate. The reason for this emulation and desire to duplicate is simply motivated by the reflection of their tremendous success.
It is not a success that simply implies superiority, it is the kind of success that implies all-time greatness. Over the escalation of their careers, the paths they have followed clearly outline them as unstoppable forces in their respective divisions.
Quite simply, neither man can be touched.
Scores of No. 1 competitors have tried—and every single last one has fallen since the time these two men began their historic runs as UFC champions. It is quite unbelievable given the level of talent roaming the UFC welterweight and middleweight divisions.
With the understanding that they have exercised their domination a mere 15 pounds removed from one another, it is equally astonishing that they have not yet met in a super-fight. They have not avoided one another for lack of interest in that fight by the MMA community; more so that their agendas have led them down different paths.
The idea of a super-fight between “Rush” and “The Spider” is not a new idea. It has been discussed and clamored over for going on three years now. When two men are unbeatable, the only logical answer is to have them fight each other, right?
Not necessarily. A lot of things have happened since the first time this idea came to light. Most notably, the definition of what type of fighters these two men are. It is easy to imagine some type of historic mega-match between two historically untouchable warriors.
What is not so easy is to clearly look at what might actually happen if these two men were locked in a cage together. What it takes to look through the cloud of what if and how, is to once again look at the fighters as individuals—not as a super-fight duo.
Georges St-Pierre, a decent sized welterweight champion who has made a living of perfecting every aspect and angle of MMA that he can possibly define. He has found a way to stop every potential contender flat in their tracks; more often than not beating them so badly that is is quite simply an embarrassment to the losers.
He is a true mosaic of combat arts, and not just a representative of each and every aspect of the fight game. He is an expert, a clinical perfectionist at every turn. If the MMA gods were to handcraft the perfect fighter, the blueprint is without a doubt GSP.
Even with all his success, Rush is a very specific type of fighter. Knowing what type of fighter he is has not been enough to give any opponent an advantage, but he is clearly a cautious, calculated and extremely technical fighter.
There are many things Georges St-Pierre is; one thing he is not is a finisher.
There was a time when he had all the makings of a devastating finisher. There was a time when he cut through opponents like butter. That all changed when he lost his UFC title to a most unexpected TKO at the hands of one of the biggest underdogs this sport has ever known—Matt Serra.
The MMA community saw a change in GSP there after that watched him transform from an aggressive finisher to a more calculated surgeon. He no longer found the fastest way out of a fight more so than he found a way to systematically dismantle his opponents in such a decisive fashion that there could be no doubt as to who the superior fighter may be.
He is an exciting fighter, not a boring decision chaser, but a grinder who stays active and pursues his opponents relentlessly more often than not for 25 minutes. But he is cautious in doing so, and takes few risks when pursuing his victory.
Even by his own admission, it is a desire of his to finish fights, yet the finish remains elusive. This is not an insult to a great champion, it is a clear and present fact about his legacy.
Anderson Silva is a large middleweight champion who has roamed not only his own division but also one 20 pounds north at light heavyweight, with great success. Not simply success but devastating success that left a wake of destroyed fighters in his path.
His frame is large enough to even consider a possible fight at heavyweight given that he walks around at the required weight to compete there. Point being, fighting at middleweight is a tremendous advantage to the Spider, which clearly reflects in the devastation he places on his victims time and time again.
Like GSP, Silva is a calculated and surgical warrior who dissects his opponents with relative ease and leaves them embarrassed and dominated as he raises his hand in victory. Both GSP and Silva share many similar qualities; one clear edge that Silva carries over GSP is the quality of a finisher.
Silva has never suffered that devastating loss that could put a shadow of doubt into his psyche. The closest he came was a 24-minute beating at the hands of a PED-enhanced Chael Sonnen. It ended with Sonnen tapping out to a unsuspected triangle choke, once again leaving Silva a champion after a stunning finish.
Simply put, Silva is a relentless aggressor who taunts and toys with opponents before destroying them.
So getting back to a super-fight between the two top pound-for-pound fighters in the world—is it a fight that anyone really needs to see? Is there any real benefit to watching a tremendous welterweight move up to fight a tremendous middleweight/light heavyweight?
Is there any real benefit to seeing a smaller, more cautious, surgical warrior square off with a significantly larger, equally surgical, but clearly more devastating and aggressive fighter?
For GSP to beat Silva it would more than likely require his survival for 25 minutes inside a cage with a larger, more dangerous opponent, all the while finding a way to penetrate his armor. For Silva to beat GSP it would take nothing more than what he has been doing for years with relative ease against much larger and dangerous opponents than GSP.
Would making this fight even be responsible on the part of the fighters’ camps or the UFC? The romantic aspect of this super-fight is extremely appealing. The idea of two of the sport’s greatest warriors doing battle is an amazing and tantalizing angle to a growing sport that has not seen this opportunity presented as often as it should have been.
At the end of the day though, it is a fight that simply does not need to happen. After seeing very clearly the approach and actions of both the UFC welterweight and middleweight champions are, it is very clear that the outcome of this fight is much easier to diagnose than those calling for it would have us believe.
A back-and-forth battle between GSP and Silva would be an amazing thing. But the sad truth is, what would most likely happen would be more devastation than many would like to admit.
This journalist, for one, has no interest in watching the legacy of an amazing champion like GSP tarnished by squaring off with a destroyer who walks around at least 30 pounds heavier than GSP.
The allure is there, but the math simply does not add up. How about we start focusing on a super-fight that makes much more sense—and that is a fight between Anderson Silva and Jon Jones for the UFC light heavyweight title.
GSP and Silva just does not make sense when diagnosed with a logical approach.
Following UFC 134 this past weekend in Rio de Janeiro, 16 UFC fighters have been issued medical suspensions.Given that the country of Brazil lacks sanctioning for these matters, UFC parent company Zuffa LLC was forced to handle all suspensions and r…
Following UFC 134 this past weekend in Rio de Janeiro, 16 UFC fighters have been issued medical suspensions.
Given that the country of Brazil lacks sanctioning for these matters, UFC parent company Zuffa LLC was forced to handle all suspensions and regulatory processes.
The company has put forth a strict system, using some of the most knowledgeable doctors and regulators in the sport. They feel that their standard of regulation is on par with most major athletic commissions.
Yushin Okami: Suspended 45 days with no contact during training for 30 days for precautionary reasons.
Forrest Griffin: Suspended 180 days due to possible right-foot and jaw injuries, though he can be cleared early by a physician. Regardless, suspended 45 days with no contact for 30 days for precautionary reasons.
Ross Pearson: Suspended 45 days with no contact for 30 days for precautionary reasons.
Brendan Schaub: Suspended 45 days with no contact for 30 days for precautionary reasons.
Luiz Cane: Suspended 30 days with no contact for 21 days for precautionary reasons.
Stanislav Nedkov: Suspended 180 days due to a possible nasal fracture, though he can be cleared early by a physician. Regardless, suspended 45 days with no contact for 30 days for precautionary reasons.
Thiago Tavares: Suspended seven days for precautionary reasons.
Rousimar Palhares: Suspended 45 days with no contact for 30 days for precautionary reasons.
Dan Miller: Suspended 45 days with no contact for 30 days for precautionary reasons.
Raphael Assuncao: Suspended 180 days due to a possible nasal fracture, though he can be cleared early by a physician; regardless, suspended 30 days with no contact for 21 days for precautionary reasons.
Erick Silva: Suspended seven days for precautionary reasons.
Luis Ramos: Suspended 40 days with no contact for 30 days for precautionary reasons.
Yuri Alcantara: Suspended seven days for precautionary reasons.
Felipe Arantes: Suspended 45 days with no contact for 30 days for precautionary reasons.
Yves Jabouin: Suspended 30 days with no contact for 21 days for precautionary reasons.
Ian Loveland: Suspended 180 days due to a possible chest injury, though he can be cleared early by a physician; regardless, suspended 30 days with no contact for 21 days for precautionary reasons.
UFC 134 was the first UFC event held in Brazil in more than a decade and the promotion’s return was wildly successful, completely selling out in under an hour.
Due to the fond reception, Dana White has stated that the UFC will definitely be returning to Brazil in the future and that they’re going to do the event in a bigger stadium next time.
UFC 134 was headlined by Anderson Silva and Yushin Okami, with the UFC middleweight championship on the line. Silva defended the belt successfully in his homeland, TKOing Okami in the second round. In doing so, Silva broke his own records for most consecutive title defenses and most consecutive wins in the UFC.
At UFC 134, MMA fans around the world were treated to an amazing event as the UFC returned to Brazil for the first time since 1998. At the event, fans got to see two highly anticipated rematches, Forrest Griffin vs. Mauricio “Shogun” Rua II…
At UFC 134, MMA fans around the world were treated to an amazing event as the UFC returned to Brazil for the first time since 1998.
At the event, fans got to see two highly anticipated rematches, Forrest Griffin vs. Mauricio “Shogun” Rua II and Anderson Silva vs. Yushin Okami II.
Neither fight disappointed and sent home those in the Brazilian crowd especially happy.
When the demand for it is right, and certain factors are taken into place, a rematch can be just as exciting if not more exciting than the first match.
Here are some fights that fans would love to see again.
There are very few mixed martial artists walking this planet who are considered not only one of the best active fighters in the sport today, but one of the best fighters ever.