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#heelheat

I blame Mario Yamasaki.

Seen the Silva injury in kick boxing matches here and there. Brutal.

I don't keep up with MMA that much anymore, and the fact that more and more of the guys I actually do know are leaving, makes me even less interested. So many different fighters and classes now, it can be daunting to try and get back into it.

Already hard enough for me to keep track of what's going on in the world of soccer, with all their leagues and tourneys.

I'll still probably follow the Light Heavyweight division as it's always been my favorite, and the women's division is great, but with Silva and potentially St. Pierre gone...fuck

fighters get old and retire

just watch fights, i dont understand what you mean about it being hard to get back into

jfc

I really hope Silva can grab one last fight, at least. What an awful end that would be for probably the greatest MMA fighter ever.

UFC is no different than boxing or pro wrestling. The average viewer watches for specific fighters/personalities moreso than for the sport itself.

Miesha/Ronda was pulling for tate but Ronda is a Bad Bitch.

Silva/Weidman wish his 2 wins didn't have question marks (i want Silva to have one last fight)

You are such a fucking d bag

you need somebody to watch? Google Anthony Showtime Pettis. He's all you need to believe in MMA.

You're welcome.

I would have marked out if Weidman said "If he dies, he dies" in the post fight interview.

I'll admit I am not a fan of Silva. But, fuck that had to be a terrible injury.

three to six months...that's an awfully kind assesment.

This is such high level Jiu Jitsu. Dude went for a Gogoplata, lost that, switched his hips and went for the armbar/sweep combination(which is one of the reasons he trapped the leg). Gorgeous application.

He'll be out of a cast and walking in 6 months but wouldn't be able to train or fight for over a year I'm sure. If we see him again, it will be in 2015 or beyond.

he baited him with the gogoplata

miller is a legit contender at 155. kiknda want to see him vs tj grant

Dana is over it. Otherwise he would just put them on free tv like he did Henderson during his 155 title reign. Or at the very least it wouldn't be their 2nd time main eventing a PPV. He also wouldn't be adding a 115 pound women's division.

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man, this is a very ugly conversation amongst Silva and Weidman fans

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those fans make me sick

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basically the short version:


Silva fans: Chris Weidman beating Silva twice is a fluke and Vitor Belfort is gonna kick his ass. or Machida, or (insert other MW contender here).

Weidman fans: Silva fans are all butthurt that their hero lost.

when did Machida change weight classes anyway?

He has had one fight where he ko'ed Munoz at 185

Here is the deal about Weidman's wins over Silva. The first fight he specifically train to gain distance and to charge in when Silva was dropping his hands. For people to say it was lucky is absolutely ridiculous. It was a technique that Weidman trained because it was a trait that Silva had shown for years. Weidmans team figured out a counter and he executed it perfectly, KO'ing Silva, dethroning him, and taking his title.

No more luck involved than say, Silva fainting push kicks to Belforts midsection then when Belfort dropped his hands, Silva went high and KO'ed him. It was something Silva trained for and executed.

Now onto last night, same deal. Silva tore up Weidman in July with brutal leg kicks so Weidman worked on that hole in his game, used perfect technique, and caught the shin with his knee. It was a picture perfect check and cause a serious injury, ending the fight.

Again, a trained MMA technique was used, cause damage, and ended the fight. Silva didn't break his own leg, Weidman broke it.

I'm sure all those Silva fans were saying the exact same thing after the Patrick Cote fight. (look it up)

No, they count that as a win for Silva just and they should count last night as a win for Weidman. The only difference is, Cote's was a "freak injury" where, kick boxers break their shins all the time.

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Well Weidman/Belfort should be interesting. I'd give Vitor a chance in Brazil because he would go trt crazy.

Ronda/Mcmann is a better matchup than Rousey/Zingano. Can't see Rousey losing either one though

I thin McMann will be a great matchup for Rousey and the first time where she'll be facing an opponent who you could argue matches her athletic background.

Seems like a hella quick turnaround though. After a full training camp seems like she's only getting a couple weeks rest before she has to start grinding again.

She got hit a few times but looked fine in the post fight presser.

It is kinda fucked up IMO that they already had the booked with a poster and everything

i put this in tags because people dont want to see the injury and it is unfunny and horrible

thought about deleting it but i like dronepool

-krispy

FOTN: Tate vs Rousey
SOTN: Rousey (Miller got robbed IMO)
KOOTN: Browne

Rousey got $150,000 in bonues, while Tate and Browne got $75,000

Man I always thought Browne would get lucky with his ko's but he's for real. Dude can put serious damage

That is fucking stupid, and I hated it when Rogan mentioned it too.

Also hate that injuries like that get called a TKO rather than a no contest. How is throwing offence resulting in a freak injury "getting knocked out".

I can't agree with that at all. Silva tried to clown Weidman and got caught with a solid punch. Weidman isn't the first guy to try to throw at Silva, he's the first to connect. He didn't train for shit like that because up until that point, he was whiffing like every other Silva opponent.

Yes Weidman checked the leg kick. That's just good fundamental technique that most coaches should tell their fighters to do. Fabre got fucked up off of leg kicks and Diaz would have beat Condit if he checked his. Don't try to tell me he did it with the intent or knowledge that it would break Silvas leg.

Weidman's wins weren't luck, but they damn sure weren't the result of some kind of magical gameplay that predicted those outcomes either.

Weidman found distance and KO'ed him. The clowning is something Silva does every fight. I just dont see how KOing a guy is "lucky". Or how checking a leg kick perfectly where it breaks yr opponents leg is "lucky".

Total bullshit

I can't disagree with you more sir. If a leg kicks can stop a fight, then so can a kick check. Rogan pointed it out before the fight to demonstrate the focus and the commitment to being great that Wideman's camp has. For it to be a prophetic monolouge makes Rogan even more epic.

Dude, there is only one way to make a man stop kicking you: Check that fucking Kick. Bone on Bone hurts both people, If Wideman broke his leg checking that kick how would you respond? and fuck that no contest shit. Nobody wants to win like that but if you can't continue, you lose.


I think people are really really missing the point of this entire fight because of the injury. Anderson Silva was never, AT ANY POINT, in control of that fight. he was getting hammered all night. He was almost finished in the first, and the leg kicks he was throwing was to keep wideman away from him.

Weidman talked about it in the presser that checking kicks is supposed to hurt the kicker not jut nullify the leg kick.

He said Longo has broken a guy's leg in the gym using the same technique