Comments on: Report: Roy Jones, Jr. interested in boxing match with Anderson Silva

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:33:28 +0000

I dont’ think many of you understand the level of skill that Anderson Silva has. Dana White does not have a choice in this. Anderson Silva has already stipulated that he is willing to quit UFC and retire. He is serious about the boxing business and if Dana White was smart he would support it and not push the issue, if he did a joint venture at least he would see part of the profits. Anderson Silva is a name to himself, if he has to quit, then he will. Dana White knows that.

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By: THORAZINE

THORAZINE — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:51:29 +0000

Seriously, does anyone really think White would let this happen?…

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By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:40:13 +0000

Anderson Silva should fight Jones. If he wins, well he wins. Awesome. If he loses he loses fighting out of his element. So it shows nothing. He cant “lose”. I’d rather him find someone in the ufc to fight but this is interesting too.

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By: willbray

willbray — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:16:19 +0000

Remember after 82 Dana said he has something big planned for Silva, maybe this is it.

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By: bubbafat

bubbafat — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:55:12 +0000

A fight is a fight. Silva has a chance , any body who says otherwise is just spouting ignorance and hasn’t seen the rescent upsets in boxing AND mma.
50/50. I don’t care if one guy is as good as the other is bad it’s 50/50. Anything can happen in MMA or Boxing. Break it down, #1 It’s a fight I’d like to see. #2 It’s a fight that active MMA fighters would like to see. #3 Ten % of the profits from that one fight alone would bring in more money than any full card the UFC has put on in the past. #4 Granted Anderson Silva has taken a big bite, but is it more than he can chew? He has fought far more dangerous guys than Jr. in MMA, so I don’t see intimidation being a factor. Plus he’s got two pro boxing matches under his belt already, so it’s nothing new to him. The one with the pressure on him would be Roy Jones Jr.

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By: King Mah Mah

King Mah Mah — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:45:21 +0000

That would be sweet, but roy will not accept that.

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By: RoB

RoB — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:40:51 +0000

id like to see it if they used mma gloves instead of boxing gloves

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By: King Mah Mah

King Mah Mah — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:39:29 +0000

Hey evan, apparently anderson silva wants to be stripped down to one disipline. We know this is mma, but anderson called out roy it’s that simple.

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By: Dkit

Dkit — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:38:20 +0000

Roy wouldn’t get in the octagon, he’d be a fool to. The difference is Silva said he wants a piece of Roy, not the other way around. So if this were to happen it’d be just a boxing match, or nothing. Boxers may believe they have better hands but only a moron would walk into the octagon with Silva thinking he could get away with only boxing. All that said, I’d love to see this happen. High risk, high reward for Dana White but i think he’ll be happy to just rub his nose at the other MMA orgs than take a chance of having one of his best fighters lose to an over-the-hill boxer.

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By: platypus

platypus — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:45:52 +0000

i dont really like andersons chances in this one. if its a 12 round boxing match, i see it going to a decision, with roy taking it. i think this would only be a good idea if there was a match in the boxing ring and then a match in the octagon, b/c roy will get easily submitted so the boxing loss wont look so bad for anderson.

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