How good is Anderson Silva?

knownone · 03-31-10, 09:48 PM

That fight was more technique than anything else; Forrest has very mediocre stand up and telegraphs his punches and Anderson just picked him apart.
Silva is good but that fight is a very bad judge of how good he is; Forrest came in wanting to trade with a guy who is several leagues above him in striking and payed for it.

I'd like to see Silva take on a good fighter at 205, Like a Rashad Evans or Shogun.

JuicedUp · 03-31-10, 10:50 PM

Originally posted by statnerds

saw a couple of highlights of him and then they replayed his fight when he made Griffin look just stupid. was that just Silva's speed taking over in a really bad match-up, or is that guy real fukkin good?

yea you could say he's pretty good.

bogbat · 03-31-10, 11:26 PM

He's largely regarded as the best P4P fighter on the planet...

PingPong · 03-31-10, 11:37 PM

watch his pride fights

MickChunky · 04-01-10, 12:23 AM

He throws the best hammerfists to the feet in the business

Vaughany · 04-01-10, 12:47 AM

HE IS SUPERHUMAN! Nobody will beat him period!

syn^ · 04-01-10, 02:08 AM

It's hard to say really. Anderson Silva is a beast no doubt but to me he still just doesn't seem like the p4p king. All his victories are over quality opponents but never elites besides henderson. His victories over franklin proved that the middleweight divison in the ufc at the time wasn't real deep in talent. Look at ace now.... hes mediocre at best. It will be interesting to see if demian maia can secure a takedown because if he can he has a good chance to win the fight. I mean travis lutter almost finished silva and his bjj is no where near as good as maia's. So to end this Silva is good but a little over hyped imo.

jin2daj · 04-01-10, 02:09 AM

hes ok

Preston09 · 04-01-10, 03:57 AM

He is great so far, but I would like to see him fight some really super star fighters soon to see where he really ranks at.

Preston09 · 04-01-10, 03:58 AM

The question is will Dana ever give him a real big fight or does he fear defeat for Silva?

sundin4prez · 04-01-10, 08:47 AM

Originally posted by Preston09

The question is will Dana ever give him a real big fight or does he fear defeat for Silva?

im on the fence will silva, he is a great fighter without question but i can not but him at 1 p4p.. honestly look at his record, who has he beat that you consider elite or elite in there time... no one... he has beaten alot of decent or good fighters but none elite..... i think its time to test him at lw ie. shogun, rampage, evans etc.

statnerds · 04-01-10, 09:06 AM

good input, thanks guys. i just looked up his record and its 25-4. forgive the ignorance but is that just UFC or all MMA stuff?

so he can be beaten. was the destruction of Griffin his last fight cause i could see that creating all kinds of value on the dog if the dog is at all a good fighter. Griffin just looked way too slow to fight that guy.

tokio · 04-01-10, 09:12 AM

He's lost all his fights to submissions. The guy is skilled and is VERY good at what he does.

JuicedUp · 04-01-10, 10:12 AM

Originally posted by statnerds

good input, thanks guys. i just looked up his record and its 25-4. forgive the ignorance but is that just UFC or all MMA stuff? so he can be beaten. was the destruction of Griffin his last fight cause i could see that creating all kinds of value on the dog if the dog is at all a good fighter. Griffin just looked way too slow to fight that guy.

make a habit of betting against Silva and you will be living in a cardboard box.

phillybadboy · 04-01-10, 02:40 PM

Originally posted by syn^

It's hard to say really. Anderson Silva is a beast no doubt but to me he still just doesn't seem like the p4p king. All his victories are over quality opponents but never elites besides henderson. His victories over franklin proved that the middleweight divison in the ufc at the time wasn't real deep in talent. Look at ace now.... hes mediocre at best. It will be interesting to see if demian maia can secure a takedown because if he can he has a good chance to win the fight. I mean travis lutter almost finished silva and his bjj is no where near as good as maia's. So to end this Silva is good but a little over hyped imo.

so who does he need to beat?

phillybadboy · 04-01-10, 02:42 PM

Originally posted by sundin4prez

im on the fence will silva, he is a great fighter without question but i can not but him at 1 p4p.. honestly look at his record, who has he beat that you consider elite or elite in there time... no one... he has beaten alot of decent or good fighters but none elite..... i think its time to test him at lw ie. shogun, rampage, evans etc.

ufc don't want him to beat up on these guys and these guys are too scared to fight him

playa420 · 04-01-10, 03:45 PM

You gotta give Anderson his props. His the p4p king and has almost cleaned out an entire division.Hes won all his fight in the ufc, and looked flawless doing it.Right now he is untouchable at middleweight, and would beat almost all light-heavyweights as well.

syn^ · 04-01-10, 04:51 PM

Not that any of these matchups are possible but these fights would really determine were silva is on the p4p ladder. Shogun, rampage, mousasi, rashad evans, even a rematch with hendo.

kahnner · 04-01-10, 04:54 PM

I still would love to see a gsp- silva match! This is my dream matchup, and i know a lot of other people would love to see this fight too. They would have to fight at a in between weight. Gsp needs to move up in weight anyways!

1UP · 04-01-10, 10:05 PM

The guy is as close to untouchable in MMA as you can get. Very few fighters P4P are on his level. You can just about forget about beating him at 185. 205 is debatable.

My only concern is his age. The guy's getting up there. I just hope he retires before it's too late. I hate seeing Legends crash hard at the tail end of their career.

Lion4Life · 04-01-10, 10:21 PM

Originally posted by statnerds

saw a couple of highlights of him and then they replayed his fight when he made Griffin look just stupid. was that just Silva's speed taking over in a really bad match-up, or is that guy real fukkin good?

Those highlights are awesome, it's like watching something out of The Matrix.

tokio · 04-02-10, 01:09 AM

He will beat GSP with ease. No middleweight can stand with him. No lightweight will dare trade with him. He will make Rampage look just like Forrest. Anyone that can take him to the ground will have a chance, ie. Maia but not likely.

squallsquall · 04-02-10, 03:45 AM

Originally posted by tokio

He will beat GSP with ease. No middleweight can stand with him. No lightweight will dare trade with him. He will make Rampage look just like Forrest. Anyone that can take him to the ground will have a chance, ie. Maia but not likely.

I'd say Maia pretty much has 0% chance here.

Vrakas · 04-02-10, 09:10 AM

This is what i think will happen.maia will just jump at silvas feet,he will touch one of them and silva will fall.maia will move around on top and use his magic,silva will get submitted in the first round.
tito will be outside the cage making fun of silva,silva will kindly ask tito to enter and then it will be lights out for tito.
the worlds most dangerous man will then enter and continue the beatdown of tito.

NOW THAT WOULD AN INTERESTING DEVELOPEMENT.

sundin4prez · 04-02-10, 09:10 AM

Originally posted by squallsquall

I'd say Maia pretty much has 0% chance here.

i agree there.... the only people in the middleweight that i think have a good chance is hendo if he decides not to slug it out and sonnen because of his wrestling and only his wrestling.....

GoldRush7 · 04-02-10, 09:54 AM

to Anderson Silva

icsky3 · 04-02-10, 10:09 AM

I think I could kick his stupid ass

kahnner · 04-02-10, 01:42 PM

Originally posted by tokio

He will beat GSP with ease. No middleweight can stand with him. No lightweight will dare trade with him. He will make Rampage look just like Forrest. Anyone that can take him to the ground will have a chance, ie. Maia but not likely.

HE WOULDN'T BEAT GSP WITH EASE AT A CATCH WEIGHT. AND HE FOR SURE WOULDN'T BEAT UP RAMPAGE LIKE HE DID FORREST!