Stylisticly it was a horrible match-up and I didn’t like this fight when it was announced at all, and expected Silva to try and humiliate Maia, but this was a fucking joke. I hope Vitor kicks his ass when he comes back from his injury. Doubt it tho.
Kinda feel bad for Dana, how will he try and sell his “p4p best fighter” now…
I’m praying that Belfort knocks out AS the same way he did to Wandy
If Vitor beat Silva and became champ,the division would be competitive again…only because he wouldn’t hold the belt long.
Also,Vitor is exactly the type of fighter that plays into Silva’s counter-striking.
Sure, but that doesn’t mean we have to enjoy it or continue to pay to watch his bullshit.
[quote] Get some quality competition for the man and maybe he’ll put on a real fight. Roy Jones did the same thing (but punished his opponent) whenever he faced inferior competition.
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And that’s exactly why a lot of people are upset. Silva could have and should have punished Maia, but after two rounds, he turned into some kind of fucking dancing queen. People paid to see a fight, and they didn’t get one from Silva.
It’s ridiculous to think the fans should be happily complacent about his shitty performance.
[quote]PMac wrote:
Definitely not qft. When he’s getting paid good money and the fans are paying top dollar for seats and ppv…we expect him to what he’s paid to do…fight. [/quote]
he did fight and won too
[quote]PMac wrote:
Definitely not qft. When he’s getting paid good money and the fans are paying top dollar for seats and ppv…we expect him to what he’s paid to do…fight. [/quote]
So what part’s not true:
Silva’s not a punk and doesn’t need either a bitch slap to the head or a hole in his wallet to make him dance for your pleasure ?
Dana’s not a fucking twat who cooked this shit up to create something to hold the fans interest when there’s otherwise not much ?
You actually paid to watch this fight ?
[quote]drewh wrote:
[quote]PMac wrote:
Definitely not qft. When he’s getting paid good money and the fans are paying top dollar for seats and ppv…we expect him to what he’s paid to do…fight. [/quote]
he did fight and won too[/quote]
Stop sucking his dick, you know exactly why people are upset over this.
[quote]PMac wrote:
Dana’s not a fucking twat who cooked this shit up to create something to hold the fans interest when there’s otherwise not much ?
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This (qft IMO). Only because I think getting Silva to do that would fuck business up more than it would help it, seeing how MMA is still growing as a sport.
Also, to hang from Dana’s nuts a bit, he did have a fairly large role to play in making the sport this big. But yes, he is a limelight hogging twat (again, seems to work for him).
One more thing
I payed exactly $0 to see this fight, and watched it on Sopcast, but hey I’m in Singapore and would need to take an hour long trip to town to watch the event in a bar… at 10 in the morning- fuck that.
[quote]madman27409 wrote:
In Japan, I’ve heard, fighters get a yellow card whenever they stall or clown around like Silva did yesterday. Part of their prize money goes to their opponent for every yellow card. I think that sounds pretty fair.
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Your referring “Pride FC”. Where the good fighters were and where Anderson had his ass handed to him on a couple occasions.
[quote]rundymc wrote:
[quote]drewh wrote:
[quote]PMac wrote:
Definitely not qft. When he’s getting paid good money and the fans are paying top dollar for seats and ppv…we expect him to what he’s paid to do…fight. [/quote]
he did fight and won too[/quote]
Stop sucking his dick, you know exactly why people are upset over this.[/quote]
I don’t care why people are upset over this to be honest I just think it’s funny how bent out of shape people get over a fucking fight. Some asshole on this thread said he lost respect for me as a person and started talking about war and mercenaries. I mean for Christ’s sake guys it’s just a fight, most of you didn’t pay and it’s only 45 dollars for a fight anyways. It’s not like there weren’t any decent fights on the card.
[quote]Totenkopf wrote:
[quote]madman27409 wrote:
In Japan, I’ve heard, fighters get a yellow card whenever they stall or clown around like Silva did yesterday. Part of their prize money goes to their opponent for every yellow card. I think that sounds pretty fair.
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Your referring “Pride FC”. Where the good fighters were and where Anderson had his ass handed to him on a couple occasions.[/quote]
No he’s talking about the “Pride FC” that doesn’t exist anymore because UFC knows how to promote better.
Would anybody really talk about this fight if he went in and did a normal fight and left? With clearly nobody in his weight class even close to hurting him in the UFC, the only other option would be for them to pay him to lose. What would you do ? Lose or act like a clown?
Money Rules.
[quote]drewh wrote:
[quote]rundymc wrote:
[quote]drewh wrote:
[quote]PMac wrote:
Definitely not qft. When he’s getting paid good money and the fans are paying top dollar for seats and ppv…we expect him to what he’s paid to do…fight. [/quote]
he did fight and won too[/quote]
Stop sucking his dick, you know exactly why people are upset over this.[/quote]
I don’t care why people are upset over this to be honest I just think it’s funny how bent out of shape people get over a fucking fight. Some asshole on this thread said he lost respect for me as a person and started talking about war and mercenaries. I mean for Christ’s sake guys it’s just a fight, most of you didn’t pay and it’s only 45 dollars for a fight anyways. It’s not like there weren’t any decent fights on the card.[/quote]
I completely agree, It’s the past now, all we have to do now is wait for someone to appear and rape AS ass
[quote]rundymc wrote:
[quote]PMac wrote:
Dana’s not a fucking twat who cooked this shit up to create something to hold the fans interest when there’s otherwise not much ?
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This (qft IMO). Only because I think getting Silva to do that would fuck business up more than it would help it, seeing how MMA is still growing as a sport.
Also, to hang from Dana’s nuts a bit, he did have a fairly large role to play in making the sport this big. But yes, he is a limelight hogging twat (again, seems to work for him).
One more thing
I payed exactly $0 to see this fight, and watched it on Sopcast, but hey I’m in Singapore and would need to take an hour long trip to town to watch the event in a bar… at 10 in the morning- fuck that.
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Yes I give Dana credit for bringing the sport this far for sure…and I;m really not saying he should do anything different, it’s his gig and he’s gonna do what he does and Its drama shit like this that gets him a MUCH bigger market and good on him for it. Of course personally I’d like a lot less of the mainstream bullshit and would like to see the fights with the announcers tuned off and the volume in the cage turned up…
It may be a stretch for me to suggest Dana planned for this to happen but i really don’t think that much…i mean it’s defintly not beyond his integrity… Is it that much of a stretch t think He suggested something along these lines and Silva just went over the top with it ?
Like I said before it’s certainly brings a whole lotta interest that wouldn’t be there otherwise…e.g this thread.
[quote]Airtruth wrote:
[quote]Totenkopf wrote:
[quote]madman27409 wrote:
In Japan, I’ve heard, fighters get a yellow card whenever they stall or clown around like Silva did yesterday. Part of their prize money goes to their opponent for every yellow card. I think that sounds pretty fair.
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Your referring “Pride FC”. Where the good fighters were and where Anderson had his ass handed to him on a couple occasions.[/quote]
No he’s talking about the “Pride FC” that doesn’t exist anymore because UFC knows how to promote better.
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You best be trolling.
Pride FC held one of the largest event on Auguest 2002 with Shockwave/Dynamite. The collapse of Pride had NOTHING to do with promotion. If that were the case,Pride would have bought out UFC rather than the other way around. Prides production value were in another orbit compared to UFC. (i know this is merely subjective but I can find plenty of people to agree with me on that) Pride fucked itself when it played with the Yakuza resulting in a termination of a contract by Fuji Tv. No other buissness wanted to touch Pride when ties with Yakuzas were discovered. UFC didnt kill Pride,Pride killed itself.
The way I see it… at least from my perspective… you always go out there to compete and to win… If you make a fool out of the guy or team you do it while still accomplishing something. In lacrosse I can run circles around people all day long but if i don’t score at the end of it… what I’ve done is completely useless and a complete waste of time.
In fighting… if you’re not actively involved in the fight you’re wasting time… Silva wants to be remembered… like rjj or ali… he tried the ali shuffle and got stuffed. He tries to make a mockery of his opponents like rjj but he never actually accomplishes anything in the process.
The only probably I see is that he first of all sucks at showboating… what he does is just not entertaining and looks stupid… and second is that other showboating fighters actually finish the fight in an impressive fashion while showboating… they don’t run around all day long.
[quote]drewh wrote:
[quote]PMac wrote:
Definitely not qft. When he’s getting paid good money and the fans are paying top dollar for seats and ppv…we expect him to what he’s paid to do…fight. [/quote]
he did fight and won too[/quote]
He sort of fought for two rounds…well…maybe a round and a half, but even that’s being generous.
Plenty of people did, and they ALL got ripped off by the main event thanks to Silva’s douchebaggery.
I just hope Silva get beheaded his next fight
[quote]kaisermetal wrote:
I just hope Silva get beheaded his next fight[/quote]
That would call for someone capable of doing so. Sonnen(R) isn’t going to. Vitor might can if he doesn’t mentally “behead” himself.
[quote]Amiright wrote:
The way I see it… at least from my perspective… you always go out there to compete and to win… If you make a fool out of the guy or team you do it while still accomplishing something. In lacrosse I can run circles around people all day long but if i don’t score at the end of it… what I’ve done is completely useless and a complete waste of time.
In fighting… if you’re not actively involved in the fight you’re wasting time… Silva wants to be remembered… like rjj or ali… he tried the ali shuffle and got stuffed. He tries to make a mockery of his opponents like rjj but he never actually accomplishes anything in the process.
The only probably I see is that he first of all sucks at showboating… what he does is just not entertaining and looks stupid… and second is that other showboating fighters actually finish the fight in an impressive fashion while showboating… they don’t run around all day long.
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It’s a tad bit harder in mma when your opponent is desperately trying to get the fight to the ground.