Anderson Silva fights TONIGHT!!!!

Fitch was able to take down and control Alvez and look what GSP did to him. He had nothing for GSP, sure he's tough and he hung in there but he was way out classed.

GSP will take Alves down and pound him out.


As for Anderson Silva, I blame Leites more than Silva for the fight being boring. Leites is just too one dimentional, he wouldn't engage and he just kept falling on th ground and laying there as if Silva is stupid enough to jump down into his guard. Anderson just outclassed him in every way. Even when he did score the take down, he couldn't do anything with it.

Silva needs to move up to 205. Forget GSP.

 

Did anyone else have the thought that Silva wasn't going to embarass or hurt Leitas no matter what? They constantly touched gloves throughout the fight, Silva complimented Leitas in the postfight interview, and even said they have trained together at their gyms. There were several times Silva could have pushed the fight. He didn't. When he did finally go to the ground with Leitas, his GNP was pathetic compared with what he is known for. No vicious elbows, no knees to the ribs or legs. Everyone wants to blame Leitas, but I lay the blame with both and if I had to give more blame to one or the other it would be Silva. Silva is the UFC's anchorman, the "P4P #1" as Rogan and Dana tell us so much. Yet he made no effort to get Leitas out of there. That fight as well as the Cote fight put him behind Fedor and possibly even GSP IMO for P4P #1.

 

It's Definitely POSSIBLE...Alves can BANG & ISN'T Afraid of Making a COMMITTMENT to Banging...SURELY he Cracks HARDER than Matt Serra Does, who was Good Enough to STOP GSP...If GSP BEATS Alves, he'll Definitely EARN It...

Like Others have Said, it's Alves then NATHAN @ Welter...GSP vs. Silva would B an INCREDIBLE Matchup...


REED:mj:

 

REED Hasn't Seen the Fight but has Watched a TON of Anderson Silva's UFC Shit...As GREAT as Silva Is, he DEFINITELY Has a "Soft" Spot for Fighters that he's Trained w/or has RESPECT For...Dude Seemed to B Almost APOLOGETIC After Whipping Rich Franklin's Ass in his Hometown...

Similar to a PRIME Roy Jones, Anderson Silva is a FIGHTING MACHINE w/a SOFT Spot...He's Capable of Literally DESTROYING just about ANYBODY U Put in Front of Him, but he Doesn't Neccessarily Seem to LIKE Hurting People...STRANGE Dichotomy...



REED:mj:

 

Weird, TFK is picking against GSP.

 

As a rule of thumb, when a fight is boring, always blame the guy on the losing end. It's up to him to change things up.

 

I usually do. Its a great point. I just see this being a tad different. It reminded me a bit of Floyd vs Baldomir. Floyd dominated and pitched a shutout, but we all blamed him for the boring fight and for not closing out a guy like Baldomir. I think Silva COULD'VE closed out Leitas. But he didn't. He was happy with the safe UD. Obviously, Leitas wasn't going to win or go out on his shield neither.:shit:

 

both are to blame for this farce. As I read on another forum, both bluffed. Silva was thinking that since he was ahead and the champion, Leites would bring the fight to him sooner or late and Leites was thinking that since the fight was a bore and all the pression was on Silva and the crowd was getting reckless, Silva would engange him on the ground sooner or later. Both bluffed and when it was time to show their cards they both came up empty handed. Still, I blame Leites more than Silva, sure Silva is way better than him, and in a sense, people paid to see Silva ( well in fact they paid to see the UFC ) so it was up to him to put on a show especially since is last fight was a bore, but this was Leites defining moment, what he is gonna be remembered for. I don't think he will be too proud of himself when he's gonna show to his grandkids how his title shot and chance at fortune turned out to be.

 

I give Alves a very good chance too, in fact, I think he will win even thought I'm not really confident about my pick. It is well known around here that GSP can't handle getting hit, and one thing Alves does very well is hit. In fact, I think it's the first good stiker GSP fights

 

I disagree, Silva was pissed at Leites and a lot of time didn't want to touch gloves with him and was complaining to the ref and trying to humiliate him for alway's dropping to the floor. IMO, he wanted to koed him but Silva got a safety first mindset himself and is very poor on the attack. You don't do sidekicks to the kneecap of an oponenet you don't want to hurt, these type of strikes have the potential to cause far more dammage than good ol fashioned ass whooping can do ( except one in a million case à la Mclellan or Benny Parret )

 

Exactly.Leitas didn't want to fight anymore once the third rd started and gave Silva every excuse to close the show.

 

GSP is one SMART mother. He usually wrestles the striker and strikes the wrestler.He was content with staying on the outside against Hughes until he connected and knocked him out, and immediately took BJ Penn to the ground.Is he a better striker than Silva? A better Jiu Jitsu or Thai fighter than Silva? If no on all counts, he could also very well be in no man's land by the third round...I don't expect any trash talking from these two. None needed to sell this fight. It speaks for itself.I don't see anybody defeating Fedor anytime soon. Barnett and Lesnar are top on the list. I actually want to see a REMATCH with Arlovski. The latter was doing pretty well until he got careless.

 

I blamed Baldomir. ::