That is not necessarily what people are saying. They are saying that if Silva was #1 at the time, and then lost, he would not be #1 after losing,...
He isn't an MMA fighter though, pure kickboxer; hell of a kickboxer though.
Only explanation I could find was that it dislocated or broke his jaw.
Well, no, not in MMA.
In case you haven't seen them all. Next one is November 19 They go newest to oldest. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlCFpsujfCY...
No ground game that I am aware of. I agree though, he is possibly the best technical striker in the game, only problem is he does get knocked...
Well, you can; Aoki.
Again, It was Tom Erickson, a wrestler. He took the fight to get paid because nobody wanted to fight him in MMA. Rampage would be another guy...
He said "never" because of the quality of his opponents, yet he has Overeem #2, despite a lower quality of opponents and arguably a worse loss.
Nice, I like shootboxing, although Ishida is going to have to win with a lot of takedowns I would assume. This going to be televised/streamed?
And Overeem was fighting....
I'm not saying he should be unranked, just switch the 2 and 3 positions.
The inverse is just as true for those fighters who can't compete against Zuffa fighters, plus many of the Zuffa fighters have fought elsewhere....
Not to mention Erickson is basically a pure wrestler; coaches at Purdue now. Coached Fitch and Jake O'Brien, now he helps Matt Mittrione.
Forgot about that fight. Actually if it was Diaz in there that night he likely would have hurt Daley on the feet. I think that was a sub par...