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I didn't see another thread about this but I apologize if there is. Am I the only one who isn't convinced that Andy is a better fighter than Chael? Chael basically dominated him for 4 1/2 rounds in the first fight before he got caught in an arm lock. In the second fight he dominated him the first round and then for some unknown reason, went for a spinning back fist. He has to be kicking himself. Why would you go for a spinning backfist on someone who probably has the quickest reaction time in the UFC. All he had to do was take what he did in round one, rinse and repeat. I'm not taking anything away from Andy, but both of those fights seemed very winnable for Chael. If Andy wasn't towards the end of his career, I'm pretty sure we may have even seen a Silva/Sonnen 3 way down the road. What do you guys think?

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I didn't see another thread about this but I apologize if there is. Am I the only one who isn't convinced that Andy is a better fighter than Chael? Chael basically dominated him for 4 1/2 rounds in the first fight before he got caught in an arm lock. In the second fight he dominated him the first round and then for some unknown reason' date=' went for a spinning back fist. He has to be kicking himself. Why would you go for a spinning backfist on someone who probably has the quickest reaction time in the UFC. All he had to do was take what he did in round one, rinse and repeat. I'm not taking anything away from Andy, but both of those fights seemed very winnable for Chael. If Andy wasn't towards the end of his career, I'm pretty sure we may have even seen a Silva/Sonnen 3 way down the road. What do you guys think?[/quote']

 

If you can lose in convincing fashion after dominating for 4 and a 1/2 rounds. You ain't the better fighter.

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Both of their fights are surrounded by controversy. Anderson finished the first fight with that groin choke which I am 100% sure is illegal and combined with his pink shirts is more than enough to question his heterosexuality.

 

The second fight was plagued with more cheating from Anderson. Short grabbing, cage grabbing, greasing, pre-fight assault and a couple more that I am forgetting right now.

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they fought twice' date=' Anderson won twice. Anderson is better[/quote']

 

You just see some fights and you know that the winner would win 9/10 times or 10/10 times. I don't get that feeling with these guys. Chael gave the fight away twice. He defended the triangle perfectly but left his arm in(Andy was a beast in capitalizing on the arm lock), and the spinning back fist was just weird. I think Chael could just as well have been 2-0 against Silva.

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You just see some fights and you know that the winner would win 9/10 times or 10/10 times. I don't get that feeling with these guys. Chael gave the fight away twice. He defended the triangle perfectly but left his arm in(Andy was a beast in capitalizing on the arm lock)' date=' and the spinning back fist was just weird. I think Chael could just as well have been 2-0 against Silva.[/quote']

 

That's the difference between #2 and #1, the best in the world doesn't make mistakes 2 times.

The best in the world know what they are good at and in Chael's case he threw a spinning back fist against imo the best striker in MMA.

You won't see Anderson try shoot a single, run the pipe then switch it into a high crotch against Chael.

A lot of times people say Chael gave the fight away etc, or we can look at it as Anderson is just a beast.

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That's the difference between #2 and #1' date=' the best in the world doesn't make mistakes 2 times.

The best in the world know what they are good at and in Chael's case he threw a spinning back fist against imo the best striker in MMA.

You won't see Anderson try shoot a single, run the pipe then switch it into a high crotch against Chael.

A lot of times people say Chael gave the fight away etc, or we can look at it as Anderson is just a beast.[/quote']

 

First fight he showed he is a beast with his bjj. Second fight he beat the hell out of someone who fell on his ***. Chael/Hendo/wrestlers are the worst match ups for Andy and he showed he's the best by capitalizing on their mistakes. It's just that when I rewatched those fights, I was thinking "Chael, what the hell are you doing", especially the second fight. Unlike most other fighters, Chael has all the tools to beat Silva whereas a Rich Franklin or Forrest Griffin do not. Those type of fighters would probably lose every single time.

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I didn't see another thread about this but I apologize if there is. Am I the only one who isn't convinced that Andy is a better fighter than Chael? Chael basically dominated him for 4 1/2 rounds in the first fight before he got caught in an arm lock. In the second fight he dominated him the first round and then for some unknown reason' date=' went for a spinning back fist. He has to be kicking himself. Why would you go for a spinning backfist on someone who probably has the quickest reaction time in the UFC. All he had to do was take what he did in round one, rinse and repeat. I'm not taking anything away from Andy, but both of those fights seemed very winnable for Chael. If Andy wasn't towards the end of his career, I'm pretty sure we may have even seen a Silva/Sonnen 3 way down the road. What do you guys think?[/quote']

 

This is pretty funny stuff. Anderson Silva beats chael 10 out of 10 times.

Another thing I saw in a prefight workout vid of chael he was practicing that spinning bacfist. Why the **** would you even think of doing something like that against Anderson.

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No Sonnen was on trt the first fight and Silva had injured ribs...it clearly showed by how much better Silva controlled Sonnen when he was mounted in the second fight. Sonnen has a black belt in motor mouth and good td's...that's about it.

 

Silva is the much better fighter and always will be. Now Sonnen wants Jones who has TDD% of 100%?! LOL where does Sonnen expect to win this fight?

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This is pretty funny stuff. Anderson Silva beats chael 10 out of 10 times.

Another thing I saw in a prefight workout vid of chael he was practicing that spinning bacfist. Why the **** would you even think of doing something like that against Anderson.

 

Idk...Chael's ****iness lost him both of those fights. He got comfortable in the first fight. Andy started pushing Chael's left arm in close to his body and eventually locked the right arm before the triangle. It was pretty obvious he was going for it. I don't know how Chael knew enough BJJ to defend the triangle but not enough to know that it was coming. After he got out of the triangle he got careless and left his arm in. Andy knew enough to capitalize on that mistake but I think Chael lost the fight more than Andy won it. Same with the ridiculous spinning back fist in the second fight. I really don't see how you can look at both of those fights and say Andy would win 10/10 times.

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No Sonnen was on trt the first fight and Silva had injured ribs...it clearly showed by how much better Silva controlled Sonnen when he was mounted in the second fight. Sonnen has a black belt in motor mouth and good td's...that's about it.

 

Silva is the much better fighter and always will be. Now Sonnen wants Jones who has TDD% of 100%?! LOL where does Sonnen expect to win this fight?

 

Andy is better in almost every aspect except Chael can pretty much take him down at will. Once it goes to the ground we all know he can lay on him the whole round whether he's doing damage or not and win the round....and Sonnen wants money so he calls out the fighters that will get him the biggest pay day. I can't be mad at that.

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Andy is better in almost every aspect except Chael can pretty much take him down at will. Once it goes to the ground we all know he can lay on him the whole round whether he's doing damage or not and win the round....and Sonnen wants money so he calls out the fighters that will get him the biggest pay day. I can't be mad at that.

 

Well then what happened in round 2 of the 2nd fight. Silva stuffed like 3 of his take down attemps and it was all over after that. I think if they were to fight again Chael would not take him down once and he would be finished within like the first minute of the first round. He figured out how to stop his takedowns.

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Chael had to take andy down in the second fight in that second round first to rinse and repeat as the OP mentioned. Andy came back with his signature takedown defense and stopped chael.

 

Of course Chael wanted to lnp him all day for a decision, only way chael wins. Andy didn't allow, so chael gets desperate and throws a spinning backfist.

 

I won't say Chael couldn't beat Andy at least once in 10 fights, but Anderson is definitely the better fighter.

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Well then what happened in round 2 of the 2nd fight. Silva stuffed like 3 of his take down attemps and it was all over after that. I think if they were to fight again Chael would not take him down once and he would be finished within like the first minute of the first round. He figured out how to stop his takedowns.

 

That's why I said "pretty much":) being taken down for 6 out of 7 rounds with Sonnen is being taken down at will in my book. 7th times a charm:D

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I still believe that Sonnen has the tools to beat Anderson Silva. If their first fight was only three rounds, he would've taken a 30-27 UD easily (although it would've been turned into a no contest anyway...). It just so happens that Sonnen is strongest where Anderson is weakest, and that's why he's a threat.

 

In the end though, he lost twice. Silva showed he's a true champion by finding a way to win both times. I believe that he proved his true meddle not when he was dominating and making his opponents look like clowns, but when he was getting beat and was able to come from behind and retain his title.

 

After getting dominated by Chael's wrestling for 4.5 rounds, he locked in a triangle for the finish. In the second fight he got dominated in the first (one judge scoring it 10-8 for Chael), but he took advantage of a stupid mistake by Chael in the 2nd round and finished the fight. That's what makes Anderson so dangerous - he can identify a gap in his opponent's defense and capitalize in a split second.

 

Chael could've won both of those fights in my opinion, but he didn't. Time for him to move on (which he is doing).

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I didn't see another thread about this but I apologize if there is. Am I the only one who isn't convinced that Andy is a better fighter than Chael? Chael basically dominated him for 4 1/2 rounds in the first fight before he got caught in an arm lock. In the second fight he dominated him the first round and then for some unknown reason' date=' went for a spinning back fist. He has to be kicking himself. Why would you go for a spinning backfist on someone who probably has the quickest reaction time in the UFC. All he had to do was take what he did in round one, rinse and repeat. I'm not taking anything away from Andy, but both of those fights seemed very winnable for Chael. If Andy wasn't towards the end of his career, I'm pretty sure we may have even seen a Silva/Sonnen 3 way down the road. What do you guys think?[/quote']

 

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I didn't see another thread about this but I apologize if there is. Am I the only one who isn't convinced that Andy is a better fighter than Chael? Chael basically dominated him for 4 1/2 rounds in the first fight before he got caught in an arm lock. In the second fight he dominated him the first round and then for some unknown reason' date=' went for a spinning back fist. He has to be kicking himself. Why would you go for a spinning backfist on someone who probably has the quickest reaction time in the UFC. All he had to do was take what he did in round one, rinse and repeat. I'm not taking anything away from Andy, but both of those fights seemed very winnable for Chael. If Andy wasn't towards the end of his career, I'm pretty sure we may have even seen a Silva/Sonnen 3 way down the road. What do you guys think?[/quote']

 

Well you can tell what happened the way you want, Silva is still 2-0 against Chael.

 

Silva was said to be injured in the 1st fight. I guess some people will always paint this as excuses so I'll just move on from that argument. Then the 2nd fight happened, Sonnen took Silva down in the 1st.. yeah.. We knew he was going to do that. What we also saw is Silva coming in swinging for the fences and paying 0 attention to the takedown in the 1st seconds of the round. He got taken down and never got back up.

 

But then what you seem to forget here is that Sonnen didn't just come on in the 2nd and throw that dumb spinning back fist. He came in trying to "rinse and repeat" but was unable to do so. Silva came in more defensively and avoided the takedown. They separated, exchanged a couple blows, Sonnen then tried AGAIN to take him down, failed again, and then it went downhill from there.

 

What you're saying is based on the false assumption that Sonnen would've been able to take down Silva at will and that all he had to do is just that. Truth isn't that simple. It is true that it is all he had to do.. in the sense that it's basically all he could do. But He WASN'T able to take Silva down at will.. that's the part you're missing in your analysis of this fight.

 

and.. it is possible that Sonnen, having a good style to fight against Silva, might have managed to defeat him if they kept on having rematches.. at some point, he'd get it right. But all in all, Silva has displayed, over time, that he could be matched up with a greater diversity of fighters than Sonnen. Understand that Sonnen is actually the worst kind of fighter for Anderson. On the other hand, Anderson's kinda the best kind of fighters for Sonnen. And the result was the same.. twice.

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He's obviously the dumber fighter ...

 

Silva/Sonnen 1: minutes to go lets Silva get wrist control' date=' doesn't do anything about it

Silva/Sonnen 2: throws idiot spinning backfist and falls down and then instead of scrambling scoots his back to the cage[/quote']

 

Silva/Sonnen 1:

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Silva/Sonnen 2:

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Well you can tell what happened the way you want' date=' Silva is still 2-0 against Chael.

 

Silva was said to be injured in the 1st fight. I guess some people will always paint this as excuses so I'll just move on from that argument. Then the 2nd fight happened, Sonnen took Silva down in the 1st.. yeah.. We knew he was going to do that. What we also saw is Silva coming in swinging for the fences and paying 0 attention to the takedown in the 1st seconds of the round. He got taken down and never got back up.

 

But then what you seem to forget here is that Sonnen didn't just come on in the 2nd and throw that dumb spinning back fist. He came in trying to "rinse and repeat" but was unable to do so. Silva came in more defensively and avoided the takedown. They separated, exchanged a couple blows, [b']Sonnen then tried AGAIN to take him down, failed again, and then it went downhill from there.[/b]

What you're saying is based on the false assumption that Sonnen would've been able to take down Silva at will and that all he had to do is just that. Truth isn't that simple. It is true that it is all he had to do.. in the sense that it's basically all he could do. But He WASN'T able to take Silva down at will.. that's the part you're missing in your analysis of this fight.

 

and.. it is possible that Sonnen, having a good style to fight against Silva, might have managed to defeat him if they kept on having rematches.. at some point, he'd get it right. But all in all, Silva has displayed, over time, that he could be matched up with a greater diversity of fighters than Sonnen. Understand that Sonnen is actually the worst kind of fighter for Anderson. On the other hand, Anderson's kinda the best kind of fighters for Sonnen. And the result was the same.. twice.

 

Andy and Chael fought for 7 rounds total. Chael took him down 6 of those 7 rounds. Are you trying to suggest that one failed take down attempt means that Andy has automatically figured out Chael's wrestling game??? Chael tried the spinning the back hand because he got ****y and thought he could beat Andy at his own game in Brazil. I truly believe Sonnen thought he had the fight in the bag and could end it however he wanted. When Chael got stuffed when fighting Brian Stann once, did he give up and stop trying to take him down? No. He tried again and took him down again. Andy and Chael are the live version of the tortoise and the hare.

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styles make fights

 

Sonnen had the perfect style to beat andy and lost 2ce

 

Silva was also able to keep it standing enough to hurt chael, with or without the spinning backfist

 

Additionally, I do believe Anderson was hurt going into the first fight

 

don't believe everything Sonnen claims

 

Silva is the better fighter

 

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Both of their fights are surrounded by controversy. Anderson finished the first fight with that groin choke which I am 100% sure is illegal and combined with his pink shirts is more than enough to question his heterosexuality.

 

The second fight was plagued with more cheating from Anderson. Short grabbing' date=' cage grabbing, greasing, pre-fight assault and a couple more that I am forgetting right now.[/quote']

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Honestly (ppl will hate me for it) but to thia day I think both fights were somehow set and in fact Sonnens run in UFC was set and has been set for LHW as well (after he beat Marquart).

 

Sonnen could easily ask for a #3 fight based on Silva being cleaned by the referee on the beginning of the fight and a "not so sure" knee.

 

Instead, he just moved on and now is picking a "super fight" with Jones. As it wasnt enough he was given a no-heart Griffin who will most likely lay in there and lose by UD ... then next Sonnen will fight probally a guy with ZERO ground game (Thiago Silva, Rampage or mayve even Gus if he loses to Shogun) and get a title shot !!! Mark my words on it.

 

Im Anderson Silva fan but I personally didnt buy the whole drama between these 2 guys, sorry. I even had a bad impression about that Sonnens "spinning" .. give me a break guys ... then alfter he fell down he just sat in there waiting for that knee ... almost as if they got together time ago and trainned that routine ....

 

Thas was a moment on round 1 when Sonnen clearly let a clear Kimura go !!!

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I am certain Silva is the better fighter. A fighter needs to be adept in all areas, including the mind. Chael was capable of using is aggression and wrestling for a while, but he made a silly mistake that cost him both fights.

Under my own personal definition of a fighter, Silva is better.

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