UFC 148: Silva vs. Sonnen II - Page 17

silva is the only person/professional that I will ever front-run for. he's just so fucking nasty

Wow Silva really brought it in the second round there. He manhandled him.

ship it

pure rastlers are the new crocop

i would enter the ring vs crocop

On July 08 2012 00:43 taco wrote: Show nested quote + On July 08 2012 00:38 BILAT_POWER!!! wrote: Fight feels like a fix after watchin slowmos and replays. They stopped it too soon. Yeah because there's no way the most accomplished MMA striker could have that effect. It must have been fixed. I don't think there is a light heavyweight that could take that knee to the solar plexus without the same result. HERE is the fix: People thought all of Silva's skill just went out the window as soon as someone learned how to wrestle. Silva fought injured against a TRT ABUSING opponent who managed to wrestlefuck him. Those were the only reasons we saw that ridiculous fight. . Nothing else.

Look I am for Silva all the way. We only bet Sonnen cos theres value at +295. Ok now that we got that out of the way, I was expecting Silva to kick steroid boy's ass for sure and that this was gonna be an EPIC EPIC match. I was disappointed and I think the ref stopped the fight too soon. And let me put it this way... Would have loved the fight to go all 5 rounds with Silva dominating Sonnen.

Thats all Im saying. The fight sucked cos Silva didnt beat Sonnen's ass enough.

On July 07 2012 23:49 PuertoRican wrote: Early stoppage, not surpriised since Yves Lavine and Steve Mazagatti are the 2 worst referees in the UFC. Would have liked to see Silva actually land some GnP shots before the fight was stopped, he only landed 1 unch out of the 5-6 last punches.

Eeeeexactly. Please give us a reeeaaally good fight after all the hype. Jesus.

It wasn't an early stoppage and I never get the point of these discussions. What good would possibly come from allowing a clearly dazed and helpless opponent from taking a couple more shots to the head? The fight was going to be over right then and there regardless. Sonnen was done and not coming back.

You think I care??? I want Sonnen beat up real good after all that talk!

And I dont think he got enough from Silva.

On July 03 2012 19:07 whamm! wrote: dis will be too funny to watch

LOL yup!

Edit: funny, as in funnyyyy. Its ridiculous. I hope Sonnen says he deserves another rematch. Pllleeeeaaassse one time another rematch.

What do the Sonnen guys think? A rematch is fair, right? Rematch? Anyone want a rematch?

It wasnt an early stoppage but in these kind of very importants fights i think they should take extra time to stop fights

Silva vs. Sonnen 2: Was Anderson's Win Controversial?
By Andrew Barr on July 8, 2012

Long-time UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva has successfully defended his title for the 10th straight time, defeating Chael Sonnen via TKO in the second round at UFC 148 Saturday in Las Vegas.

It was the most highly anticipated rematch in UFC history, given that Sonnen is the only man in UFC history to come close to beating Silva and also due to the tremendous job Sonnen did in hyping the fight.

In the first round, it looked like the champion was in trouble. Sonnen managed to take him down with ease and control the whole round from the top position, even mounting Silva at one point. In the second, Silva managed to stuff several takedown attempts and rock Sonnen standing. Eventually Sonnen dropped and the champion followed up with punches to end the fight.

Without a doubt, it was the biggest win of Silva's career, but the performance left some fans with a bad taste in their mouths.

Why?

A few reasons.

First, before the fight began, Silva took Vaseline from his face and wiped it on his body. The referee saw him do it and wiped him down as a result.

Then in the second round, Silva was warned about holding the shorts while clinching with Sonnen. A few moments later, as Sonnen attempted to disengage from the clinch, it was revealed that Silva was blatantly holding Sonnen's shorts and preventing him from moving away. During that time, Silva landed a couple big punches.

After that, Silva had Sonnen down and against the cage and he threw a knee—the legality of which is still being hotly debated. If you follow the provided link, it looks like the knee hits the body, but also catches a bit of Sonnen's jaw (via Jacob Schmidt, Twitter).

That's three infractions—one of them debatable—inside of two rounds. With all those facts in order, it's difficult to say that Silva's victory isn't at least slightly controversial.

Silva was likely en route to victory either way. In the second round he was stuffing all of Sonnen's takedowns and that means it was just a matter of time. It's just unfortunate that it wasn't a completely clean victory.

Similar to Jose Aldo's title fight with Chad Mendes, in which Aldo knocked Mendes out shortly after holding the cage to prevent a takedown, people will always be left to wonder if Silva would have won, had he fought a totally clean fight.

source: http://m.bleacherreport.com/articles/...nen-2-was-andersons-win-controversial

Opinions?

^1st comment is pretty much on the spot

stoppage was fine.
knee was legal.
anderson is the GOAT

I've watched the knee in question a number of times 1 frame at a time and it looks like it could've hit the chin first before falling into the torso, but you can't really tell.

These knee strikes aren't really knee strikes (or you'd fuck up your knees), Silva's really striking with the bony part of the thigh just above the knee.

At full speed it looks like it's to the body because your first instinct is to watch the knee (not the thigh), and because Silva gave up his footing to put all his bodyweight into it, so his knee pretty much immediately falls into Chael's torso after the strike, because Anderson is falling forward.

Anyone else who's watched it at 1 fps have an opinion?

sonnen chicken out, went on fetal position after a few punches
pretty standard stoppage

On July 08 2012 13:10 Daut wrote: stoppage was fine. knee was legal. anderson is the GOAT

nothing interesting happened at the event's presser?

fk I missed the whole event Q_Q

On July 08 2012 13:54 ch72105 wrote: These knee strikes aren't really knee strikes (or you'd fuck up your knees), Silva's really striking with the bony part of the thigh just above the knee.

Lolwut you need to go watch x-rays of bent knees and explain to me how someone would do that.

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