[What Would Kevin Do?]

Originally Posted by NoJabbaNoBogRoll Silva has done more and more outlandish things during fights, over the course of his career. If he became bored with defending the belt against "inferior" fighters, this would be one reason for him to be silly, seeing how far he could push the craziness until somebody caught him. The other possibility is that he is always completely in control, and only gives us the illusion of risk-taking, but in this instance he was hit with something he didn't expect, and/or didn't see coming.

Originally Posted by Volare Just saw the fight and imho I think Silva got caught being cocky. Plain and simple.

He's hard to gage. I don't think he is as cocky as he comes off (although he is really cocky). I think it's a ruse to get guys to come in. This time, he just got caught though.