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Craterloads · 7 Jul 2013 at 03:25

Never seen wiedman fight before, hope he's half decent so we get a competitive fight.

^TANK^ · 7 Jul 2013 at 05:32

Yesssssssssssssss got the show boating mother ****er <3.

Craterloads · 7 Jul 2013 at 05:33

Hahaha wat a dumbass, deserves that

Xinn · 7 Jul 2013 at 05:34

That's what happens when you showboat like a little *****

^TANK^ · 7 Jul 2013 at 05:39

I'll bet my testicles Anderson Silva will win in a rematch though given the chance. Saying that I think he has just retired.

Craterloads · 7 Jul 2013 at 05:42

What a moron, can't believe what I'm seeing. How about loosing your belt in that fashion...

tbh · 7 Jul 2013 at 05:43

Silva believed his own hype, went in there acting like a clown and ended up getting clowned himself.

Amnesia · 7 Jul 2013 at 05:44

Gutted he lost but wtf was he thinking.

dante6491 · 7 Jul 2013 at 06:00

Best £4.62 I've ever spent

Sherdogs forums have collapsed as well. Same as when Fedor lost to Werdum.

Xordium · 7 Jul 2013 at 08:02

Why did I go for submission

The IPB · 7 Jul 2013 at 08:35

Finally the MW division won't be stale any more, fair play to Weidman he didn't fall for all the antics and just kept pushing forward on him.

In a way it's almost like he deliberately gave the belt up from his post fight speech.

Kenai · 7 Jul 2013 at 09:02

The IPB said:
In a way it's almost like he deliberately gave the belt up from his post fight speech.

That was odd but i'm torn between whether that was really what had happened or whether it's to try and save face having been completely embarrassed whilst being a bit too cocky.

Gunni Parker · 7 Jul 2013 at 10:03

Humm... I am very sceptical about this one. It all seems a bit too; how can I put it...

Xordium · 7 Jul 2013 at 11:12

See Bisping already wants a crack at it.

I'm not sceptical about the result he has always fought like this ... just this time he came up against someone who hit quick, hit accurate and was well prepared. He always drops his guard more against grapplers Chael caught him a few times too in exactly the same fashion.

FeFiDoh · 7 Jul 2013 at 12:14

Fair play to Weidman tbh I can't even remember a fight of his before this so had no idea what he was like. Silva doing his show boating when he is bored and doesn't feel like it is a fight that should happen. However he doesn't seem to bothered part of me believe he is a little fed up of it. Having seen the documentary with him he really hates so much about the whole fight game and seemed to be fed up of it a while back. Not saying he lost on purpose because he was definitely trying to avoid those shots but he certainly isn't going to want to fight his way back to the title. If he doesn't want the belt now and he has 10 fights left not sure what hevplans on doing. Maybe now he is free of title defenses he will toy with other weight divisions?

nemtizz · 7 Jul 2013 at 12:25

So when he showboats and wins he's in the matrix but when he does it and gets clipped he wanted to lose?

Amnesia · 7 Jul 2013 at 13:12

The show boating would have been fine had he dominated a couple of rounds.
Doing it after being dominated in the first made zero sense.

Xordium · 7 Jul 2013 at 14:23

He ended up being a victim of his own success. I don't think moving to the states and having his own personal gym for training helped. He probably never really had that guidance saying ffs stop the showboating and concentrate on xyz.

I do find it amusing how many times we see these great grappler against great striker matchups and yet it is the grapplers who tend to finish the fight by strikes.

Fair play to Silva though - he just got completely KTFO + head bounced off the canvas and he still tried to lay a knee bar on Herb Dean.

Oh and forgot about this post but:

McBain said:
People cream over Fedor, but in my eyes he has one of the most padded records in all of MMA. Scratch the surface, and it's really not overly impressive.

Name one other fighter who has outgrappled ADCC openweight champions, taken down olympic medalist wrestlers, reversed olympic medalist judokas throws and then armbarred them, and outstriked future K1 grand prix champions. I can't.

willems · 7 Jul 2013 at 14:46

i think anderson was fooling around to keep the fight standing where he thought he was the better fighter. he didnt want to be on the bottom

tbh · 7 Jul 2013 at 15:06

Amnesia said:
The show boating would have been fine had he dominated a couple of rounds.
Doing it after being dominated in the first made zero sense.

It makes sense if he had an adrenalin dump near the end of the first round and wanted to goad Weidman into a striking exchange; getting taken down in the first 30 seconds and being dominated on the ground for most of the round definitely wasn't part of the game-plan.

Remember how Silva didn't sit on his stool at the end of the first? The most common reason fighters do this is because they're tired and don't want to risk their legs locking up.

We've seen this behaviour from Silva before, most infamously against Damian Maia where Silva was so tired that the ref had to warn him that he was about to take points off for refusing to engage; Weidman is no Maia though, he's an explosive wrestler with dynamite in his hands.

nemtizz said:
So when he showboats and wins he's in the matrix but when he does it and gets clipped he wanted to lose?

A lot of people bought into the hype; just a few weeks ago a friend of mine at work told me that Silva is "literally unbeatable" and wouldn't listen to any argument to the contrary.

Whenever ones established beliefs are challenged it's very common to look for alternative explanations rather than accept that those beliefs were flawed.

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