Duh. I never said that he did. But feel free to keep putting words in my mouth.
You said that Anderson Silva won fights in abnormal ways. By abnormal I mean not a KO, Submission or Decision. I'm not talking about front kicks to the face or last minute triangles or anything like that. Those are rare finishes not abnormal finishes.
Abnormal would be something like a fighter knocking themselves out, breaking their arm after getting taken down, getting poked in the eye, twisting their ankle or any way in which a fighter loses a fight that is not based on the fighting skill of their opponent. Obviously rare and spectacular finishes do not qualify.
Ryo Chonan beating Anderson Silva with a Flying Scissor Heel Hook is rare not abnormal. What happened to Patrick Cote against Anderson Silva was abnormal. What happened to Anderson Silva against Chris Weidman in the rematch was abnormal.
Just off the top of my head the front kick to Vitor wasn't exactly normal, nor was his hail mary triangle on Chael after Chael pounded him for five rounds. But Silva won those legitimately, I don't need to see a "normal" win to know that he is better. I could argue that Chael was "screwing around" when he threw that spinning back fist that set him up for defeat. But I won't because thats lame.
You shouldn't because Chael wasn't screwing around when he threw that Spinning Back Fist. That was a legit technique. Anderson Silva was screwing around when he closed his eyes and wobbled around like he was rocked after Weidman hit him. It's not lame to state facts.
Of course if a fighter had a choice he would choose to get a TKO, KO, or submission over a guy breaking his leg. That doesn't mean that he doesn't feel that the fight was legitimate and that he was better than Silva. Once you accept that Weidman was better than Silva in that fight then its easier to move on with your life. Check my Sig for what Weidman said right after the fight.
Wouldn't bother Silva much since he has a legion of fans like you ready to make excuses for him.
Anderson cried on National TV over Brazilian fans accusing him of throwing the fight against Weidman. He does care what people think. And I'm not making excuses.
Your basically saying that Silva didn't want to win. Ask yourself when Silva has ever fought like everyone else? He has used different forms of goading people into throwing wildly. Part of the time he just does that by keeping his hands at his sides and making small gestures for the other guy to throw at him but that obviously evolved into more elaborate means to tick of his opponents. Its the same basic plan of counter punching every time. I think he did it because it worked for him. He fought Weidman without doing that in the second fight. Did he do any better? He was basically as ineffective against Weidman in the second more serious fight.
I'm not saying that he didn't want to win I'm saying that he goofed off and got KO'd as a result. I know that he has taunted opponents before but he took it way too far and made a careless error that led to him getting knocked out. In the second fight he did NONE of that because he knew that's what cost him the last fight. The outcome of the second fight isn't the point. The point is that he lost the first fight because he left himself open to get hit and his opponent capitalized.
Which is completely typical of him.
No, it's not. Anderson doesn't clown around like that unless he doesn't think his opponent is much of a threat to him. He clowned Maia as badly as he did Weidman to get him to commit to striking but also because he wasn't taking him seriously.
Go watch his fight with Vitor Belfort or any number of fights where he doesn't fool around. At most you will see him drop his hands like Muhammad Ali or Roy Jones Jr but you will not see him blatantly fooling around in most of his fights. He got arrogant. He lost the fight because of his arrogance and he fought seriously the second time because he knew he was going to have to take his opponent seriously to win.
So his typical style didn't work on Weidman? I guess Weidman is better then eh? But you can tell yourself that he lost because "he was clowning" if that helps you sleep better at night. Then you can justify the second fight as well. I'm sure there's numerous excuses for why Silva did poorly in both fights before losing.
He didn't really do poorly. The worst that happened to him in either fight before the finishes were that he almost got caught with a heel hook and got rocked in the clinch. Otherwise the rest of both fights were standup exchanges which saw Anderson landing a lot of leg kicks on Weidman. The second fight he broke his leg (abnormal finish). Again I'm not making any excuses here I'm telling you exactly what happened in these fights and how I feel about it and you're just whining because you think I'm not giving Weidman for credit for his victories. He won fair and square but the finishes to both fights were abnormal.
He did what no one else ever could do twice, uh ya I think he should have full credit for those wins. I think that wins shouldn't be based on whether or not people like you think they are "normal wins". This is MMA, fights don't always end normally, get over it.
All wins are equal in the record books but they are not equal in the court of public opinion. Whether you like it or not both of Weidman's wins were abnormal. Even he acknowledges it. Why can't you?
Watching MMA would be more boring if they ended in the ways that we wanted all of the time. I prefer it to be unpredictable like it is.
Since I've explained to you what I mean by an abnormal outcome vs. a rare outcome perhaps you'll re-evaluate your stance on this issue. Do you really want to see fights end abnormally the way I mentioned in my examples? I love rare outcomes. Give me elbow knockouts, jumping front kicks to the face, capoeira kick knockouts and the most unbelievable submissions imaginable any day.
I don't want to see fights end with freak injuries and careless mistakes. When they do I don't feel that the outcome is conclusive. If you disagree fine but I'm not making excuses. The outcome of fights matters to me. That's all.