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The dust never settles on Sherdog.
SIlva played with his food and got caught. Second fight was a total nightmare scenario tho. Silva didnt look great up until that point but still. Just an awful stylistic matchup for an aging Silva.
What's even more interesting is how the chris ended up. Holding on for dear life at this point. It was starting to look like chris was the next dominant champ and now he's lucky to be in the UFC. The hot potato the title has done just makes Silvas reign seem more impressive tbh. Dont think we'll see anything like that again.
The Chris beat Anderson out of his "prime". The only thing Anderson had success with in the first fight was leg kicks and we saw how that turned out in the second fight.
Is there an out of "Prime" while one is on roids though?
Debatable but I just followed the Sherdog narrative. He had no trouble going up a weight class and matrix Bonnar but against The Chris he was apparently "out of his prime".
Is there an out of "Prime" while one is on roids though?
It’s pretty obvious both wins were flukes
1st fight Silva was clearly toying with weidman. He was coming off a 1st round ko win vs a lhw who’s not been finished up until that point (2 tko loses were due to doctor stoppages). He clearly went into weidman fight overconfident n felt unstoppable.
After giving weidman 1st round (Silva had the tendency to lose the 1st to “feel out” the opponent) Silva noticed weidman was visibly gassed n that’s went he went into his clowning mode. He didn’t respect the inexperience n gassed weidman n paid the price for it.
when weidman beat anderson, we saw what at the time we thought was a changing of the guard.
both fights are very polarizing.
the first one, you might say weidman tricked silva into slipping into his left, or you might say it was just bad timing on andersons part.
in the second fight, there was a freak accident, or a perfectly times check.
what do u think
Both fights were complete flukes.
First fight - An aging and overconfident Silva dances around, completely outclassing Weidman, until - one stupid overconfident mistake - and Chris capitalized on it. Silva HANDED Chris the victory on a silver platter.
Second fight - Ended early so we never really got to see it - doctor stoppage due to a freak injury.
Prime Silva makes Weidman his bitch.
Oh and by the way, look at what happened when Weidman finally fought someone his own age - Weidman vs Rockhold. LOL
when weidman beat anderson, we saw what at the time we thought was a changing of the guard.
both fights are very polarizing.
the first one, you might say weidman tricked silva into slipping into his left, or you might say it was just bad timing on andersons part.
in the second fight, there was a freak accident, or a perfectly times check.
what do u think