what happened to silva in the first fight?

He always keeps his hands low but the ribs thing probably made it more so, also to help defend takedowns?

 

1) what happened in the "leadup" to the fight? And he may have had a rib injury but no way can a guy fight with "busted or cracked ribs". I don't buy that excuse.

2) Sonnen will be on TRT again but this time with legal levels.

3)It's def a bad style matchup for Silva he's game is measuring peoples reach,footwork range etc. Sonnen is hard to read because he attacks relentlessly and doesn't give Silva the time to do his thing.

4)Sonnen def fought the fight of his life but he with all the talking he did he certainly had to back it up. How many other times do fighters say they are going to do this and that but once they get in the ring they don't do ****.

5) Chael had just over a minute and half to seal the deal but fell to his achiles heel. He brought in Vinny M a high level BJJ guy to help him with his defense, I'm not sure he has ever done that before......it sure couldn't hurt.

It seems very few people are giving Sonnen a chance this time around....we'll have to see.

 

the fact that sonnen can use test for this fight makes it very interesting imo

 

The first fight was so wierd to see. Silva was letting him hit him at times and getting dropped from Sonnen's punches. It was bizarre. What it seemed to me like, Silva went in there believeing 100% he could do to Sonnen what he did to Forrest. And he paid dearly for it. I also think he may have felt embarassed after Sonnen dropped him the first time, so he wanted to do something spectacular to erase it but couldn't. He just continued to get punched, taken down or dropped, and then grinded out for 23 minutes.

 

I expect Anderson to be more fleet footed in the rematch and move better. But Chael fights with no fear and is a beast with takedowns. so I'm interested in seeing what happens. Anderson may not be able to keep him off him. I definitely don't expect to see Anderson getting out-struck though in this fight on the feet.

 

Thanks man, appreciate it. Need to kill time and watching this will do as I never got the opportunity until now.

Expect the rematch to be thrilling too.

 

A rib injury......clearly showed in the fight.

 

He had his ass handed to him. Believe Chael will win this time.

 

Sonnen will win the rematch .. In same fashion he was winning the first bout . Bad stylistic match up for silva .. Sonnen will take silva down at will again.


Silva is the better all round mma artist and ofcourse will go down as a greater fighter but styles make fights .. Sonnens all wrong for silva

My opinion only ofcourse

 

Styles make fights.

 

In that first fight, Anderson was simply demonstrating MMA's version of the rope-a-dope.

And thanks for that link, I was actually thinking of rewatching that before this weekend.

 

What you saw was probably the best wrestler at 185 taking Silva down and was committed in taking Silva down over and over.

Hendo when He fought Anderson thought that He could stand with Silva and paid for it.

This has always been a weakness in Silvas game (Lutter took him down with one hand) and people with the right gameplan should exploit and stick with it.