It may change his fight dynamics though. If he managed to reach 250lbs then I'd imagine his mobility would suffer.
Could he control Lesnar, could he out-box dos santos/Velasquez, could he take a punch from Shane Carwin?
It will be very interesting watching his career, that's for sure!
Snip
If Chael loses again then I'd say the whole MW division is done tbh! I mean who else is there that a) Silva has not fought or b) has improved enough to warrant another crack at the title???
Off the top of my head the only 2 guys that were looking even semi-OK against Anderson are Cote and Hendo! (Is Cote even still in the UFC??? and Hendo is aiming at the LHW belt with his title eliminator against Shogun coming up!)
Silva vs Bones Jones at LHW anyone???*drool....drool...*
![]()
I just don't see who else there is for Silva to face. People say Hendo if he gets past Shogun but lets be frank here, aside from an act of god or Shoguns knees blowing out again he is not going to win that fight.
The Palhares loss to Maquardt was more of a freak accident than anything in my eyes, Palhares was going for a heel hook, Nate slipped out of it very easily... Palhares looked at the ref going 'wtf' and basically got smashed in the face, leading to the stoppage.
Palhares brings something that Silva hasn't faced before, absolute top level BJJ (came second in this years ADCC) with great take downs. Thus Silva wont be able to pull his usual crap that he does against BJJ fighters of dancing around them.
Dunno, maybe I'm on Palhares' sack a bit, but I think he'd stand a good chance. You are right that he probably needs a couple more wins before he'll get a shot though.
No chance, Silva never does anything for the first couple of minutes, but aye, he'd get whooped.
Accidentally recorded TUF on ESPN instead of FX. So I got a Lesnar/JDS repeat.![]()
Do people hate bisping or something? he seems alright to me.
I still could not stop laughing over this when it was posted on sherdog forums![]()
the best thing about that is the bonuses, fighters should get a bonus for putting on exciting fights. it should be in all sports, not just fighting. would make people take more risks.
take GSP for example i bet you he doesn't get any bonuses, well not in a long while anyway, his fights are bore fests.