s13driver
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Post by s13driver on Nov 30, 2011 15:13:05 GMT -5
I understand that Sonnen is a better/different fighter than he was the first time he fought Silva. But I'm also looking at this from Silva's POV. No one expected him to get past Marquardt to fight Silva in the first place and probably neither did Silva. He probably underestimated Sonnen and didn't take the fight as seriously as he should have. He assumed Sonnen would be an easy win and he had nothing to worry about, otherwise he probably wouldn't even have risked fighting "injured".
Then lowandbehold....Sonnen surprises the world and almost picks apart the P4P greatest fighter in the world. Since then, he has bashed and shittalked Silva every chance he's had, Silva gets seriously pissed everytime someone even mentions Sonnen's name in his presence and I'm sure Silva's pride/ego won't allow history to repeat himself. Silva is going to try to prove to the world that Sonnen doesn't belong in the octagon with him. (That's not what I think, but I bet this is what Silva thinks), and he is gonna fight Sonnen with emotion and vengeance.
Like I said, I'll be routing for Sonnen to beat Silva, but I'm looking at this from a logical perspective.
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Post by sean™ on Nov 30, 2011 17:02:03 GMT -5
Silva fought Okami with "emotion" and vengence, in front of his home country no less.
I'm not de-valuing your point, as you do make a good point about anyone that fights with emotion could forget their gameplan or simply make mistakes. All I'm saying is if last fight was any indication or Rich Franklin for that matter, rematches against Silva are not exactly a walk in the park.
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Post by s13driver on Nov 30, 2011 19:53:09 GMT -5
Silva fought Okami with "emotion" and vengence, in front of his home country no less. I'm not de-valuing your point, as you do make a good point about anyone that fights with emotion could forget their gameplan or simply make mistakes. All I'm saying is if last fight was any indication or Rich Franklin for that matter, rematches against Silva are not exactly a walk in the park. Yea I know, I wasn't trying to say that Silva will make a mistake if he fights with emotion, I'm saying that he will DESTROY if he fights with emotion. You ever seen Silva when he looks pissed in the octagon? It's freakin' scary, and he goes into sudden beast mode when it happens. He fought with emotion against Okami (who at the time was #3 ranked middleweight) and he freakin' destroyed Okami. And he actually likes Okami, so imagine what he's gonna do to someone that he absolutely hates.
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