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no rematch please. He only has 6 fights left if he sticks to his wordof retirement.

If the fight kept going it was gonna be over even if it went 5 rounds Spider was clearly winning. He wanted to put on a show anyway cuz the only thing Cotelanded was leg kicks Spider let him land.
 
Originally Posted by Clutchshooter


silva/cote 2, put it on the hendo/franklin card.

put it there now.
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No Dana needs to know for sure first if he plans to retire after his contract. These last 6 fights need to be huge.
 
I think Anderson Silva's big money fights are all at 205.

Chuck/Silva, Wand/Silva, Rampage/Silva...those are all ridiculous main event draws right there.

And I'm sure we'll see Bisping/Silva sometime too.
 
to be honest, this fight was entertaining as hell to me.

from silva being about as animated as he's ever been to cote refusing to be helped up.

if you look at the leben fight, silva tags leben with a jab and leben, who is supposedly iron headed, gets a look on his face like he's never ever been hitthat hard before.

silva kicked cote in the head and hit him with that vicious flying switch knee (in scenarios that looked eerily familiar to all of silva's ufc bouts) andim thinking 'this fight's over'.

not only does cote grin at him but he actually tagged silva with a left, right after one of them.

those werent glancing shots. silva ended his other fights with moves like that.

cote showed a lot more that i was expecting out of him.
 
Originally Posted by jbone2308

Originally Posted by Clutchshooter


silva/cote 2, put it on the hendo/franklin card.

put it there now.
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No Dana needs to know for sure first if he plans to retire after his contract. These last 6 fights need to be huge.
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yea, silva really should be at 205 right now, no one wants to see franklin fight him a 3rd time, i want to see the rest of andersons fights at205 but if people really feel that cote deserves a rematch (im not one of them), i say u let cote fight okami and the winner fight anderson and have that bethe end of it, neither one of those guys stand a chance against anderson but apparently u have people saying that they still deserve a shot
 
Thing is with Cote he may not be able to fight for some time if the injury is as bad as they say.

Anderson said in a quote he has a while to retire. Hopefully that is true. I want his next fight to be a big matchup.
 
looks like silva was just tired of training so hard to just be in the octagon for 1 or 2 rounds.

ROSEMONT, Ill. - Anderson Silva played the humble act at the prefight news conference prior to his middleweight title defense against Patrick Cote at UFC 90 on Saturday at Allstate Arena.

As everyone attempted to lavish praise upon him as the world's finest mixed martial artist, Silva declined to talk about it in a act of apparent humility.

On Saturday, he delivered another act that was not so becoming of an athlete of his stature.

In a lame attempt at humor, Silva made a mockery of himself, his title and his sport in one of the most bizarre matches in UFC history.

"I think I'm living in an alternate universe," a befuddled UFC president Dana White said, shaking his head. "That was bizarro world."

Silva retained the belt when Cote collapsed in agony 39 seconds into the third round as he went to throw a punch. He later said he aggravated an old knee injury and was heading to the hospital, believing he had damaged the meniscus in his right knee. The near-sellout crowd of 15,359 booed Cote roundly, but it was Silva who really deserved its wrath.

There was no fighting in the match, largely because Silva opted not to fight. On the rare occasions Silva chose to engage, he got far better of the few exchanges.

The fighters met at the center of the cage seconds before it started and bowed to each other, the first of a number of oddities in an odd fight. It was a dreadful ending to a night otherwise filled with good fights, but the man who has made so many electric moments in the UFC instead chose to play a game which no one could understand.

At the end of the first round, Silva's corner was shouting obscenities at him, urging him to fight.

But Silva kept up the antics until the end. He'd periodically engage and rake Cote with a hard shot, but for the most part would circle, dance and slither away.

After the fight, Silva at first was defiant and said he was simply executing his strategy of trying to be elusive. It was only after White admitted that he was upset and said publicly that Silva had apologized to him that Silva changed his tune.

But when Silva first spoke at the postfight news conference, he acted as if nothing unusual had occurred.

"The UFC has once again proven this is the best event in the world," Silva said. "I came in and did my job. My strategy was working."

But on this night, few were buying that weak argument. In the second round, when Cote was down, Silva offered him a hand to help him up, which Cote declined.

White explained that best.

"It was like Cote said, '[Expletive] you, we're fighting,' " White said.

Silva had never been past 4:52 of the second round in seven previous UFC fights, most of which he'd won in brutal and spectacular fashion.

"His track record in the UFC is that he annihilates people," White said.

And it seemed that he could have annihilated Cote at the time of his choosing, but he simply was opting for fun. He didn't throw a punch of consequence for nearly four minutes in the first round, but when he opened up, he rocked Cote with a shot and cut him with a knee to the forehead.

Silva landed several good kicks and a couple of punches in the second round that were clearly bothering Cote, who said he hurt his knee kicking Silva in the second.

Cote said he told his corner between rounds that his knee was bothering him, but trainer Mark DellaGrotte told him to use his hands and fight.

But Cote didn't have much of a chance. He hopped on his left foot and was preparing to throw a punch when he said the knee popped. He collapsed immediately and was shrieking in agony. Referee Herb Dean appeared confused at first, but then halted the fight and awarded Silva the technical knockout victory.

This, though, wasn't the glory-filled victory so many had expected such as the ones that Silva had recorded over the likes of UFC luminaries such as Rich Franklin (twice), Dan Henderson and Nate Marquardt, among others.

There was little glory in winning a fight in which the crowd frequently booed him and once had it laughing at him. That's especially true considering the man standing across from him had lost his first three UFC fights and who is now just a pedestrian 4-4. A guy that White was boasting as the greatest mixed martial artist he'd ever seen should do away with guys with 4-4 UFC records in short order.

That's why, after a little reflection and hearing a few sharp words from White, Silva decided he ought to apologize.

"I apologize," Silva said. "I worked hard in training to go four or five rounds. I dropped from 230 pounds to 205 and then to 185. I worked my butt off. I had a long camp preparing for the fight. I owe you guys in the media, the fans and everyone an apology. I was prepared, but it's unfortunate what happened."
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Silva showed disrespect IMO. You don't dance around like a a fool no matter what. I hope GSP beats Penn and then the UFC makes Silva/GSP happen.
 
It was no disrespect, he did play a little too much but I don't think he would lie when discussing his strategy or fighting.

It would have been over in the 3rd, Silva was about to do work. I think he wanted it to go longer than a round or two. Just get him back in the Octagon ASAP.
 
GSP has the best styles to defeat Silva. The reason Hendo failed was because of his lack of BJJ which GSP can make up for. Silva's weakness would be awrestler and GSP is an excellent wrestler with good BJJ.
 
gsp is the best wrestler in mma right now.

he put fighters on their assess whenever he wants.

3 of his last 4 fights have all been against decorated wrestlers. none of them took him down and they hit the mat whenever gsp wanted. the koscheck fight was awrestling clinic.

they say that no one at the jackson camp has been able to take him down, including Rashad.

on top of that he might be the 2nd best striker in the game today behind silva. certainly nearly as precise and creative.

that being said gsp doesnt want it with silva.

the difference in KO power is HUGE. and if silva got into the mix early, the fight would be over with the quickness and gsp is my favorite fighter.
 
Originally Posted by TheHealthInspector


yea, silva really should be at 205 right now, no one wants to see franklin fight him a 3rd time, i want to see the rest of andersons fights at 205 but if people really feel that cote deserves a rematch (im not one of them), i say u let cote fight okami and the winner fight anderson and have that be the end of it, neither one of those guys stand a chance against anderson but apparently u have people saying that they still deserve a shot
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100% agree. This is exactly what I was tellin my buddies when the fight ended. Cote should definitely not get a 2nd crack at Silva right away. Make him fight Okami and let the winner of that match get KTFO by Silva.

I may be in the minority but I think Silva is just too big for GSP. Clutch, you made the point about even Rashad not being able to take GSP down, but who saysSilva wants to get this on the ground anyways? I'm thinking Silva is going to try and stuff GSP's takedown attempts (no easy feat, as we've seenAnderson get taken down by... well, everyone?) and strike standing.
 
^I can't watch the video due to embedding being blocked here at work, but even without watching it, I will stay with the upmost confidence....




$!@# Matt Hughes.
 
This card is two weeks away. I've had no computer for the past 2 weeks, I'm using the internet at school tonight. I have Lesnar winning this fight...

MAIN CARD (TELEVISED)

Champ Randy Couture vs. Brock Lesnar (for UFC heavyweight title)
Kenny Florian vs. Joe Stevenson
Nick Catone vs. Amir Sadollah
Gabriel Gonzaga vs. Josh Hendricks
Demian Maia vs. Nate Quarry

PRELIMINARY CARD (UN-TELEVISED)

Dustin Hazelett vs. Tamdan McCrory
Jorge Gurgel vs. Aaron Riley
Jeremy Stephens vs. Rafael dos Anjos
Mark Bocek vs. Alvin Robinson
Matt Brown vs. Ryan Thomas
 
This card is two weeks away. I've had no computer for the past 2 weeks, I'm using the internet at school tonight. I have Lesnar winning this fight...

MAIN CARD (TELEVISED)

Champ Randy Couture vs. Brock Lesnar (for UFC heavyweight title)
Kenny Florian vs. Joe Stevenson
Nick Catone vs. Amir Sadollah
Gabriel Gonzaga vs. Josh Hendricks
Demian Maia vs. Nate Quarry

PRELIMINARY CARD (UN-TELEVISED)

Dustin Hazelett vs. Tamdan McCrory
Jorge Gurgel vs. Aaron Riley
Jeremy Stephens vs. Rafael dos Anjos
Mark Bocek vs. Alvin Robinson
Matt Brown vs. Ryan Thomas
 
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