Originally Posted by
MD
Silva and Soares have both stated he can make 170. He has made 170 in the past, also. He'd have a harder weight cut these days due to his age, but they have both said he can make the cut.
"When has GSP ever fought a middleweight?" - he made a career out of beating up smaller men, so never.
The size difference between Jones and Silva is much bigger than between Silva and St-Pierre. I'll stand by that vigilantly.
...Did you read what was in the link?
"Both St. Pierre and Anderson Silva are fairly large for their respective weight classes, but when people speak about Silva's weight, they talk about him as though he should be a natural 205-pounder. But somehow squeezes more water out of his body than should be humanly possible.
This is not the case, and the truth is that when they step into the Octagon, the percentage differences between their fighting weights and actual weight classes are nearly the same.
What people don't understand is what the difference in their walking weights actually means.
St. Pierre supposedly walks around in somewhere between 190 and 195 pounds, while Silva is reported to walk around in the neighborhood of 230 pounds.
That weight difference is huge, but is, in fact, far larger than the differences come fight night.
When Silva isn't training for a fight, he'll allow himself to balloon up a bit. He might be retaining a bit more fat, and he might be retaining a bit more water, if he's eating salty foods.
St. Pierre, on the other hand, is in nearly peak physical condition almost all the time, and doesn't allow himself to balloon up in weight.
Before a fight, Silva needs to diet down and lose the excess fat before he begins equilibrium changing. St. Pierre has almost no diet phase in his weight cut, and even his equilibrium changing phase may be shorter than the average, because he probably doesn't retain as much salt.
What Silva does isn't particularly abnormal. It's just more well-documented because of how far he stands above the rest of the division.
When considering it this way, you'll find that Anderson Silva isn't actually the giant middleweight he's made out to be, and that all the fuss over him being a light heavyweight masquerading as middleweight is a simple matter of people complaining about him being too good for his division.
Let us punish him for his excellence and make him go up in weight to fight against guys who can walk around at 250 pounds or more."
It's as if you just took the number "230 lbs", pasted it, and closed the tab without reading anything else. Baffling.