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Saw it coming. I just knew Silva was going to get clipped with his guard down like that. So embarrassing for UFC and Dana White to have Silva acting like a clown. Dana goes out of his way to call Silva the best fighter in the world then he does that.

I would be tearing down walls in frustration if I was Dana.

I'd like to see a rematch with a focused Silva but that ain't going to happen now.

Silva vs. Jones is the only fight in UFC I would want to see now. Saying that, Dana white had this to say before the fight....

“If he lost, the super fight doesn’t happen. We’d do the rematch. If he lost two in a row, he’d probably look at retiring.”
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Super fight being Silva vs. Jones/Pierre.
 
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This loss has possibly ruined the Jones vs Silva superfight.

Jones is an even worse matchup for him than Weidman was anyway.

I cant wait for Lyoto to go down to middleweight if Silva is not bothering chasing the title anymore.
 
Single, greates moment in MMA history bar none.

Clowning, disrespecting your opponent, and then get knocked out. Really doesn't get any better than that.

Xordium said:
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.
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So because he took someone down, who was in the olympics, or out struck a future K1 grand prix champion, that means his record isn't padded?

He also got his ass handed to him by arguably a 185'er.
 
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Serves him right for showboating.

USA Today said "As a result, MMA's pound-for-pound kingpin and arguably the greatest fighter in the sport's history gave away the fight as much as Weidman won it."

Are they talking about greatest ever middleweight or greatest MMA fighter regardless of weight? I'd have put Fedor as the greatest ever.
 
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You know what's cool? Jack Slack on "Killing the King" called out Silva exactly on the weakness which Wideman used to get the KO.
When fighting Silva, opponents struggle to hit him, and when they connect, he takes the power away by rolling with strikes. Rolling with a punch means to move in the same direction in order to reduce its impact. In MMA, this should be easier than in boxing because almost all MMA fighters attack by alternating their hands—left-right-left or vice versa.

Boxers often double or even triple up the same hand mid-combination, which makes it difficult for the defender to turn side to side as Silva does.Very few opponents have doubled up punches from one hand against Silva. I am not saying that doubling up would allow a fighter to knock Silva out—there isn't a simple answer to an iron chin. However, there is a reason why elite boxers rarely roll with every punch as effectively as Silva does; boxers are not as predictable and one-note in their offence.

If you watch Weidman, he throws a left , right, right backfist, and left. The right backfist completely throws silva off and the left connects beautifully! The thing with rolling with the punches is that if you roll the wrong way you are going to get ****ed up! Wiedman definitely practiced that combination a bunch of times.

Also this: https://vine.co/v/h7uVQn30pXq
 
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Finally someone showed up and took it to him.

Too many of Anderson's previous opponents have been like rabbits caught in headlights, too afraid to make a move.

I suspect the rematch will be a much better fight, we might see the Anderson of old turn up.
 
its a finish straight out of prowrestling!

Anderson comes to the ring as the face, and the crowd treat weidman as the heel.

silva then acts like a full blown heel, enacting a double turn, to where he is the heel and weidman the face, and then after all the taunting, wiedman ends up turning silvas cockyness in on itself!

you couldnt have written it better
 
Gutted to see the GOAT defeated, had to happen eventually but can't believe it happened like that!

Wonder what the odds were for Silva to lose by taunts in the second round??
 
Seems to me he had silva hurt a few times which made him act more hurt than he was but instead of rushing in or falling for his tricks he waited and unloaded at the right time.

Shame so many are being mugs about his win
 
If you play with fire, you're going to get burnt.

If Silva wasn't show boating there is no way that he'd have got knocked out by Weidman - I still think he'd lose to him though by being out grappled / wrestled for 5 rounds.
 
The way I see it is Silva was trying to lose. You can just see it throughout the fight that he had no desire to win. The post-fight interview made this even clearer. HOWEVER, I don't believe Silva wanted to go out the way he did. I imagine he was trying to lose on points rather than being knocked out. I'm not taking anything away from Weidman, he obviously had Silva sussed before he even stepped off the plane and I'd like to think he would have won either way.
 
NinetyOne said:
The way I see it is Silva was trying to lose.
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Why would any fighter possibly go out to intentionally lose!?!?! (with the exception of being bribed to take a dive - which I can't imagine Silva would do but I guess you never know!)

The way I saw it was that Silva went back to the tactic that has served him well for the last 7 or 8 fights (with the exception of the first Sonnen fight) - he ducked and dodged with a view to making the opponent lose focus and pick him off with his striking but he got caught!

To undermine the new champion with his post-fight comments is out of order imo - you got caught, you lost, stop believing your own hype and deal with it!

That said, I'd love to see a rematch and I think it would be a different fight altogether!
 
I'm pretty sure that Anderson didn't want the belt anymore. I'm not saying that he threw the fight, but I think he was bored and decided to see how far he could push his showboating. It looked a bit like he'd watched The Matrix last night and thought he'd try out some of Keanu Reeves' moves for the lols.

Weidman is a decent fighter and one of the best in the division, but Anderson is still on another level. Hopefully they can get some interesting match-ups for Anderson and he will regain some interest now that it's not all about the belt anymore. I'd like to see him fight people like Jon Jones or GSP even if it's just as catchweight fights.
 
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I'm pretty sure that Anderson didn't want the belt anymore.
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Again, how on earth have you come to that conclusion!?!?!

If he legitimately didn't want the "burden" of being the champion, he could have simply vacated the title and say he wanted to concentrate on the LHW division (or the "super-fights" for that matter!)

For someone that is rightly going to be remembered as possibly the best ever, a loss on his UFC record is the last thing he'd want!

Why can't people accept that this is a sport where literally anyone can get caught!

Silva was, and still is, one of the best mixed martial artists of all time but he is still human!!
 
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Again, how on earth have you come to that conclusion!?!?!

If he legitimately didn't want the "burden" of being the champion, he could have simply vacated the title and say he wanted to concentrate on the LHW division (or the "super-fights" for that matter!)

For someone that is rightly going to be remembered as possibly the best ever, a loss on his UFC record is the last thing he'd want!

Why can't people accept that this is a sport where literally anyone can get caught!

Silva was, and still is, one of the best mixed martial artists of all time but he is still human!!
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It's a bit like when you're playing a video game for so long you get bored of it and start doing crazy things to keep the interest going. Take for example the GTA games. After a while you don't care anymore and start trying to do backflips on motorbikes.
 
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It's a bit like when you're playing a video game for so long you get bored of it and start doing crazy things to keep the interest going.
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He's a professional, and should act accordingly.

I sometimes get bored at work, but I don't "start doing crazy things" like throwing items at customers or giving them the wrong change on purpose to "keep the interest going".

He's fighting in a cage in front of thousands of screaming fans for a maximum of 25 minutes, how boring can it get? It's not exactly like he's pulling 16 hour shifts in a sweatshop six days a week.

If he wants to act like a clown for kicks then do it whilst sparring with some other top level fighters; when he does it in the cage he makes a mockery of not only himself, his opponent and the UFC but also and most importantly the fans of the sport who paid big money to watch in the arena or on pay-per-view.
 
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