Comments on: Early-retirement for Anderson Silva might not be such a bad thing

By: FEDOR hid this DVD from you!

FEDOR hid this DVD from you! — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:35:39 +0000

Heck, whatever the reasons, I’d still like to see him fight at least for another 5 years. He’s at the top of his game and everyone in his weight division benchmarks their performance based on Silva’s. If he was to go, that might slide everyone’s game down a notch. Besides, it’s always exciting to watch Spider knock people out

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By: FEDOR hid this DVD from you!

FEDOR hid this DVD from you! — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:35:38 +0000

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By: UFC FAN

UFC FAN — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:13:49 +0000

The solution is very simple. I’ve been saying for 1 1/2 years that Silva would be very effective and could enhance his legacy by competing at 205lbs. I was told that he would not be as effective at 205 and is too small. I argued with so many “experts” about this for the past year, and thank God that he moved up and destroyed a decent 205lb fighter and shut them the fuck up. Silva should move up to 205 permanently sometime next year. As another poster stated, it’s not like there’s a dearth of talent at 205. I would make him the favorite over every 205 pound fighter, with the possible exception of Machida (which would be a pick-em fight) He beats one dimensional Chuck easily, Rampage, Griffin, and the others.

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By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 07:30:43 +0000

Silva won’t retire until he avenges that loss to Daiju Takase.

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By: RoughKarpenter

RoughKarpenter — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 06:25:19 +0000

Good article, I didn’t agree with all your opinions, but good none the less. I have to say the commentary was slightly more entertaining.

I have to say, before Silva-Leben I never knew the name Anderson Silva.
He took the sport by storm upon entering the UFC. I fell in love with his talent instantly, But haven’t his fights become monotinous? Now evertime I watch him fight, I pray he gets the crap knocked out of him. Maybe thats just me.

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By: Richie

Richie — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:46:02 +0000

In fairness to Chonan’s “hail marry [sic]” heel hook, Silva was actually losing that fight at the point that move was executed in the third round. Sam you make it sound as if Anderson had that fight in hand but if you go back and watch it Chonan was pretty clearly ahead in the fight and if it had gone to a decision he most likely would have won. That’s not to say Anderson couldn’t have found a way to pull it out in the last few minutes but obviously he didn’t get that chance.

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By: HexRei

HexRei — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:46:41 +0000

Rumblings out of Brazil have suggested in recent days that UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva has discussed in TV interviews emanating from his home country that he isn’t ruling out retirement a year from now.

Most convolutedly noncommittal paragraph ever

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By: Batman

Batman — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:02:35 +0000

In six fights he will be old anyway might as well retire before he ruins his legacy like Ken Shamrock did.

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By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:08:09 +0000

So Sam, are you now saying that Silva should retire to make more money and preserve his legacy? The bottom line is this and I have no idea how you can argue it….

A FAN OF MIXED MARTIAL ARTS…A FAN OF ANDERSON SILVA SHOULD NOT SUGGEST HE SHOULD RETIRE.

There are so many things in life you can not control. You cannot make a strong argument that he will make more money if he retires and comes back to defend his legacy because this is UNKNOWN. What is known is that there are many CHALLENGING and interesting matchups for Silva that he will be very well compensated for.

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By: fightfan

fightfan — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:05:54 +0000

Sorry I didnt read ALL comments to this point. So if this was covered, well . Talking about Bisping and the MW title is absolutely ludicrous. I know he is treated as well as Kimbo is when it comes to marketing. Bisping has fought at BEST all C level fighters with a couple exceptions out of , what 8 or 9 UFC fights. They have handed him 3 or 4 ONE dimensional BJJ grapplers that are at best C fighters, then the rest were mostly wrestlers, NO DECENT STRIKERS!!!??!!. WW’s in Haynes and Pointon that cant win in small shows. He and Hammil were hand picked for ONE of them to win TUF(just go back and look where the other guys are now….NOWHERE)

I know the MW division is weak….But come one there are at least 8 or 10 gus above Bisping, guys that have fought the top guys in the 185.

And talk of Bisping being a coach against Henderson and then those 2 fight for top contender is about as ridiculis as saying KSlice will be top contender if he beats Shamrock.

Let Bisping face the B level fighters in the UFC before we mention his name and titles. There are guys like Leites, Kampmann, Reljic, Franklin, Marquardt, even Grove or MCfedries and the list could go on. This guy runs his mouth about how he never gets beat up…..well, let him actually face a striker and that will change…..Quit hand picking him 1 dim BJJ guys and wrestlers.

The only 2 decent fighters Bisping faced, he lost to. I will give him the respect when he earns it. I said it after 2 or 3 of his fights…..that the UFC will baby him and feed him the easiet wins, in order to give him a title shot and make him even more poplular

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