https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ__DPA5p3A
awesome fight they just put up on youtube
Anyone else stoked for silva to come back? Sat Jan 31 2015! Should be a good fight, unless he snaps another leg.
I’m actually not stoked
We discussed it here, but before the leg break, he was pretty much on the downhill side of his career. Either he was doing his usual bullshit, where he dances and runs around and hams it up all night…or he was losing.
The first weidman fight he was completely dominated. He got caught showboating and got knocked out, but it didn’t matter. He was going to lose the fight either way.
Second fight with weidman was the same thing…Weidman dominated, and then silva broke his leg. Didn’t matter…he would have lost again anyway.
Before this it was Chael Sonnen who completely dominated him for 24 minutes before being a dummy and getting caught in a triangle that Silva telegraphed and somehow Sonnen missed it.
All around, I say he was a great champion, but greatness in this sport is fleeting. All of the greats burn brightly for a short period, and then flame out. Silva managed to do well for a long time, as did GSP, but there comes a time where you need to hang them up before you start embarrassing yourself. Think of how many of the greats now have mush for brains because of those last 5 fights of their career where they got knocked to shit 5 times in a row, and the lasting memory of them is tainted by visions of them losing over and over. Liddell, Shamrock, Couture, Wanderlei, Coleman, Rampage, Franklin, Hughes etc
I will definitely be ordering the Silva fight. Anything else good coming up in the meantime? I don’t follow as closely as some of the others on here.
UFC 181 will be worth ordering, Melendez’s fights are always exciting and Lawler Hendricks 2 is an awesome matchup. Browne vs Schaub should a better than avg HW fight, hope Browne crushes schaub.
The FS1 Boston card is gonna be a killer free card (basically Dublin round 2)
I’m not excited to see Silva still pushing for the title etc. I wanna see him fight Diaz, Bisping, GSP and then box RJJ and call it. Him vs the current MW top 5 isn’t appetizing. Maybe a fight against TRTitor but that’s not an option, he won’t fight machida or jacare, Romero would probably just flatten him and rockhold would dominate like Weidman did. And the super fight against Jones would be sad.
Word. I’ll mark 181 down on the calendar.
Man that is brutal!
mm mmm, noting like a little aural afternoon delight, amirite?
Man that is brutal!
mm mmm, noting like a little aural afternoon delight, amirite?
Is he decent?
yikes, that’s one of those career changing mistakes.
That was pretty poor by fedor
Verdum looks like a bigger version of that guy from a few years ago. Always disappointing, always out of shape. Can’t remember his name for the life of me. Brandon something?
Anyway werdum is interesting. His fight against overeem in strike force was piss poor. Kept falling to his back and had nothing going. Lost. Surprised to see him winning in the ufc. That fight with fatso looked funny.
Is he decent?
yikes, that’s one of those career changing mistakes.
That was pretty poor by fedor
Verdum looks like a bigger version of that guy from a few years ago. Always disappointing, always out of shape. Can’t remember his name for the life of me. Brandon something?
Anyway werdum is interesting. His fight against overeem in strike force was piss poor. Kept falling to his back and had nothing going. Lost. Surprised to see him winning in the ufc. That fight with fatso looked funny.
got my tickets, should be a good one. And with it being a Sunday event, the weigh-ins etc should be pretty wild.
http://cdn3.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/2464404/fn59-sched.0.jpg
^^ Nice! I’d love to see a UFC fight in person.
That’s the one on Fox Sports, right?
yup, FS1. card so far
Weight class
Featherweight Conor McGregor vs. Dennis Siver
Lightweight Benson Henderson vs. Eddie Alvarez
Middleweight Costas Philippou vs. Uriah Hall
Lightweight Jorge Masvidal vs. Norman Parke
Welterweight John Howard vs. Lorenz Larkin
Flyweight Patrick Holohan vs. Shane Howell
Welterweight Sean Spencer vs. Cathal Pendred
Lightweight Paul Felder vs. Johnny Case
Lightweight Zhang Lipeng vs. Chris Wade
Light Heavyweight Matt Van Buren vs. Sean O’Connell
Flyweight bout Tateki Matsuda vs. Joby Sanchez
McGregor, Parke, Holohan & Pendred are all Irish, and Howard, Pendred and Matsuda are all from Boston. They’re definitely piling in the hometown guys.