Hey Sam, howzit going? (thats australian for how are you?)
While I agree partially with you, I have to disagree with some of what you say.
The way the Ufc portrayed the fight on tv, was to me a little biased. But I will discuss that in a few moments.
After repeatedly watching the fight and revising my own scores I have to say that Cote won the first round or atleast it could have been called a draw. (One of the judges wasn’t suffering from a case of I love Spider as he gave it to Cote).
Here’s the stats I came up with.
Cote landed 10 un-checked leg kicks to Silva’s 3.
Cote landed 7 punches to Silva’s head/face to Silva’s 4. 2 punches were flush.
Silva got 1 kick to the head and 2 knees to the face and a glancing kick to the body.
The second round I would give to Silva who outscored Cote, however the 2 best blows of that round came from Cote when he elbowed the top of Silva’s head.
Silva scored with 3 leg kicks to the body, 2 unchecked leg kicks, a punch to the body, a punch to the head and a glancing elbow to Cote.
The 3rd round was even with only 1 punch to the face and a leg kick from Cote to Silva’s 2 punches to the head.
What annoyed me were the replay’s after each round. The UFC mainly focused on showing Silva hitting Cote. But Silva also got caught with some good punches in the few times they got to exchanging blows. These however were not shown at the end of the round even though they were some of the highlights of the fight.
And Joe Rogan and whoever the other commentator was were clearly too caught up in Anderson (one hugging each nut) to commentate properly on what was really happening in the fight. When Cote thumped Anderson in the head 2 times in a row they didn’t even say anything! What type of commentators are they?. And then when Anderson threw out a kick that missed they would say “what a great kick by Anderson!” wtf! The commentary was very bias.
Now for you to go and say Cote doesn’t deserve another shot is ridiculous.
Anderson was clearly confused about how to engage with Cote, especially considering he had hit him with his best shots and Cote just ate them up like they were fairy taps. Anderson was very weary and was afraid to engage for fear of being knocked out. When he did engage he (Anderson), was getting caught.
He tasted Cote’s punching power and decided it was better to dance and be evasive rather than risk being knocked out and humiliated.
To me Silva was not a decisive winner and needs to fight Cote again to prove to everyone that he is more dominant than Cote.
I saw Cote as being the more aggressive fighter taking the fight to Anderson.
Anderson for the most part was avoiding getting anywhere near Cote. Anderson has got a lot to lose and for him to lose to Cote would be humiliating.
But this is only because Cote doesn’t get the respect from the mma community that he deserves.

Anyway mate just wanted to share my thoughts.

Take it easy.

Mr Black.

For once, I found myself agreeing with everything Rogan said. Silva was indeed setting up Cote even when he looked like he was doing “nothing”. Would it be more satisfying to see him finish Cote quickly? Perhaps so but it’s very interesting to see his elusiveness and search for openings – when he finds them, it’s still a ballet of violence. “Lyoto Machida with flair” was a good line.

Good card all round yet again, the last 5, I think, have been solidly entertaining.

BTW, whatsup with the all the booing?? what bunch of frickin’ a$$holes.

hope we don’t have to sit thru another event in Chicago any time soon….
or maybe just make Kimbo fight all his sleeping contests there.

I was enormously impressed with Cote last night. I still think he would have gotten killed if the fight had continued, but he did a fantastic job.

A lot of folks are upset, saying that Silva was show-boating, as if it were somehow completely out of character. My response…go back and re-watch ALL of Silva’s fights. He has always behaved the same way in the ring. His style is fluid, energetic, creative. Think: Bruce Lee, Muhammad Ali. Lots of foot work. Lots of mental gymnastics. Lots of attempts to confuse, distract and dishearten their opponents.

Now, maybe that can be considered show-boating. Seems primarily semantic to me. But you cannot make the case that it was unusual. We just happened to be privy to more of it last night than in Silva’s previous fights.

Silva is an intelligent fighter. Cote has proven KO power. And based on pre-fight interviews, Silva was already determined to take this fight into the 5th round if needed. Strategy, folks. Strategy. Make your opponent chase you. Frustrate him. Allow him to make a mistake and then capitalize. It’s a good strategy…the same one that allowed Rashad Evans to gain a brutal KO over Chuck Lidell.

Both men came into the ring with great game plans, which it seems to me were exactly the same. Physical chess. Who will lose patience and make the first mistake? Guess we’ll never know.

After the 5-6 time of being told I was very wrong, I started to think well maybe I missed something. Maybe I was wearing rose colored glasses while watching the Silva/Cote fight.

What a relief! It is early yet, but I wonder if there are others out there that agree? I didn’t see a one last night.

Some people are even defending Anderson offering to help Cote up. WTF is that? That was clearly him just being a smart a*s. He got hit with a couple shots on the ground with cote, stood back up, gave him a couple light FU kicks, and then tried to make a joke out of it.

I thought he came off like a cocky a*s yesterday. He wasn’t sitting back and trying to get his timing on cote..he was being a jacka*s. He’s the one that looks bad tonight, not Cote.

Okay, to what I saw last night. I thought Silva respected Cote’s power, and after testing Cote with a few hard shots, respected his resolve and ability to take punishment. Silva seemed to be trying to frustrate Cote. Cote was doing a good job of engaging and moving at angle’s and making sure he was active – much like his corner was telling him to be.

I think Silva could have been more aggressive, however, unlike seemingly most people on his bandwagon – he knows he is human and seemed like he didn’t want to take necessary risks.

I thought he fought a very “Lyoto Machida”-esque fight – just with more flair