UFC 162: Silva vs. Weidman

holy ing shit. Craziest moment in MMA I have ever seen. As far as I'm concerned, Silva would have had him no problem round 1 or 2 if he hadn't clowned around. As much of a stupid way it was to let a title change hands, especially from the best in the world, it was funny as hell.

Was really surprised by his post fight interview too. It's as if he didn't even want to acknowledge it.

Rest of the event was alright, nothing amazing as far as I'm concerned. Gotta say I was really impressed by the Cub Swanson finish though.

It's scary to think how Silva will be in his next fight if he turkey learned from this loss

Silva is a tremendous fighter, but most of his fans are the most insane, butt hurt group of people ever with their excuses.

Sooooo, calling names? That's what this board has degenerated to? Get a grip.

Anyway, I'm not butthurt Silva fan, but that pic describes most people's reactions whether they want to admit it or not. Of course it's an unconventional way to fight. But he was so good at it and was able to use it to perfection that people accepted it as the "Anderson Silva" style of fighting. So please, don't sit there and act like people openly felt like Silva was fighting like a jackass when he was toying with Griffin, Bonnar and everyone in between. They didn't look down on it. They thought it was the greatest thing they'd ever seen. I'm not defending that fighting style. I'm just pointing out how incredibly fickle the general fanbase of this sport is. No one called him an idiot or a goof UNTIL he got caught. That's not calling it like it is. That called talking sh** because it's convenient. Had he successfully given Wiedman the Forrest Griffin treatment, NO ONE would be calling him a goof, or an idiot or any of that. They'd still be praising him at the GOAT.

The fact is that there's no idiocy in posting that because it's true. People are acting like he actually went out there and did something completely different. He went out there and was Anderson Silva and he attempted to implement the Anderson Silva game plan. But people are reacting to it like he tried to Pele kick his opponent. People are REALLY going off like this isn't something he's become known for doing.

His USUAL gameplan didn't work this time and he paid for it. People are acting like it's the first time ever he's done crap like this. He's done it so many times and guess what? He's been on the best streak in the UFC. And then he loses to Wiedman (who I think is an amazing fighter and very much deserves to be the champ) and everyone goes off saying how stupid his game plan is when it's been working for him past fights.

Of course it's a bad idea to let your guard down but it's a risk he's willing to take to mentally breakdown his opponents. No one can sit there and tell me that it wasn't working for bit because even Wiedman said that he ditched his game plan of taking Silva down and just kept going stand up. Unfortunately for Silva, Wiedman's got great reach and boxing skills and got caught but it was working, Silva just couldn't capitalize on his opportunity.

and how do you know that he was disrespecting Wiedman's stand up skills?! That's utter bullshit. Both Silva AND Wiedman said that what Silva did wasn't disrespectful. He's probably thinking that he's the BETTER stand up fighter than most guys which he obviously is. Nothing about not respecting other fighter's skills, it's simply to throw fighters off their game which it was starting to work against Wiedman.

I'm taking Silva in the rematch as well. I don't think there's a single person on this earth that can stop a fully 100% motivated Anderson Silva.