Yeah anyone who cheats and then wins shouldn’t be called for cheating…cuz they would have won anyway right?.

As far as the vaseline goes, how the hell GSP got called a cheater for what happened with Penn, and yet White, the UFC and any one else official make no mentions of Anderson repeatedly wiping his face and then his cheated, shoulders and back. It wasn’t even subtle. But, is there an actual rule that says a fighter cannot touch his own face during the fight? If not, then he didn’t break any rules.

This was my thought as well. Cote and Leites are clearly not in Silva’s league… nor was James Irvin. It’s been over a year since his fight with Henderson, and that was his last opponent that really deserved to be billed as a main event attraction. Main events really should have two main-event fighters… not one super star and someone still building their name.

Leites was a horrible choice for this fight. Machida, who fights an even more defensive counterstriking style than Silva, was given Thiago Silva who was known to be one to plod straight forward and try to knock someone out… a perfect opponent to make a counter puncher look good. There aren’t enough Chris Lebens around a middle weight to make Silva look like a brutal killing machine like he did 2 years ago.

P.S. Does Fedor lose before you call him best P4P, whatever that means anyway, He has never really been beaten and has fought about 10 UFC, Pride and K1champs, the 3 biggest martial arts orgs in the world. GSP is a cheat who has beaten 3, 1 of them being Serra, Silva has beaten a Pancrase champ, a Pride champ and a UFC champ. The idea that Fedor isn’t considered the best fighter in the world is a joke. I mean what does he have to do!!!? He just beat Arlovski and Sylvia in the first rd by TKO and KO for crying out loud. Oh thats right he isn’t in the UFC…that’s why and hasn’t beaten fighters in the class of Leben, Cote or Serra. Oh and he only puts “breathing technique” on his face. I mean come on, the officials were warned about it and then caught them doing it!. But people on this forum say ” …he would have won anyway…”. HE CHEATED, or at least his corner man did and more than once. GSP= Greasy Shouldered Person. He will always be tainted in my veiw and his 2nd victory over Penn should be taken from his record.

But how come nobody ever mentions Rashad Evans as one of the top pound for pound fighters. He is about 3 good fights away from being one of the top 3 let alone the top 5. He’s one of the smartest fighters out there. Cocky sure…..but so were a lot of great fighters.

1. Chuck thanks for the memories now retire before you suffer some irriversable brain damage.

2. Can everyone finally take there heads out of there butts and realize that GSP is far and away the top fighter on the planet. In my opinion Silva isnt even in the top 3 anymore because of the last two fights where he seem to afraid to engage anyone even guys he should destroy.

Right now my top five P4P are :

1. GSP
2. Fedor
3. Machida
4. Faber
5. Silva

That didn’t sit well with Zuffa hence the counter programming of their first Showtime card by replaying UFC 94.

Good post, I’m w/ ya.

This really comes down to matchmaking or the lack thereof. If they keep throwing one trick ponies at Silva, we’re going to keep getting bad fights. His last two fights have been against grossly undeserving opponents who have ONE way to win and they build their entire game around it. They beat people who are far better than they are by simply trying one thing over and over until it catches them. What’s Silva to do? He’d have to be a little cautious. One mistake and some scrub takes his belt. He needs real challengers and there just aren’t any left at 185. Every legit contender has resulted in a good fight, but they’re running out. I say, bring in Wandy for a Silva vs Silva title fight, let GSP move up and go for two titles, or make Rua cut to a more natural 185 as soon as possible. Not a lot of options left.

Dana White and Joe Silva are ruining Anderson Silva’s legacy by wasting him in a the weakest division. Either dig up some talent somehow or let him move up a weight class and we’ll see how good he really is.

Tell me, have you EVER seen Nate Marquardt taken out like that? Ever? no.
What about Hendo? no.
and Franklin? definitely not.

Anderson has done what no one else in the world could do to some guys..

So he has one slow fight in his last 10 and he’s overrated now? come on..

Now, Second, it looks like we may have the Rua from PRIDE back now.. which is devistating news for the LHW division..

Silva takes his half of the blame, too. He had just as many chances to take the fight to his opponent, and he blew it. Sure, he won the decision, but you nobody is going to rank you #1 P4P for just doing enough to get the win. With the Cote fight, I disagreed with the criticism; at the time I thought Silva was just being careful and avoiding the KO. This fight was different, Leites doesn’t have the striking power that Cote did, and he was still dancing around the cage like he was scared he might get hit. If this is the way he wants to fight, fine, but it’s not going to earn my cash in the future.

On another side note, watching the Tito Ortiz pathetic performance against Machida. Did anyone hear Ortiz scream “F*ck” on the top of his lungs after the fight? That is really a gem of a memory!

i love chuck, i still think he has good performances left in him. shogun just came to fight, and he looked way better then his last fights. that division is just somewhat stacked now. i know dana put his foot in his mouth and said chuck needs to impress so no choice but to backup his mouth with action and give chuck the boot. but i really hope chuck takes it somewhere else. id still watch him fight. i know thats a lot of losses, but the man takes chances to put on a good show and for that i respect him win or lose. just hit the ab roller and turn it around :p

still an overall boring ufc, and the exact reason im happy to see strikeforce back in the game. not looking so bad now is it. maybe not the best of the best but they still know how to make entertaining matchups.