Anderson Silva: I've injured my knee, but Chael Sonnen fight is still on

and the plot thickens.

I agree. This is interesting...

Silva douche move. He did this so he can say he won even injured. If he loses he can say thats why he lost. A 2 purpose excuse. Typical Silva douchery.

Its tempting to think otherwise but I don't think Anderson is dishonest. It sounds like he is building a case for when he loses because he know Sonnen is his biggest risk but I think this he is legit. The thing is why bother saying it. It generates negative discussion AND now Sonnen is going to double right through the knees.



He's nervous.

Yeh thats what i don't understand, why tell a wrestler you have a bad knee, they gonna be going for the leg all night long....its like telling a boxer you have a bad rib, they just gonna work the body.

Ya I'm sure he really is hurt but fighters are hurt before fights all the time and you don't hear them talking (or whining if you'd like). I love Silva but his reputation for complaining/making excuses certainly isn't undeserved. It'll be interesting to see if we hear about this after the fight, that's when we'll find out if he's really trying to make an excuse or just being unnecessarily honest.

Or



maybe he wants to give Sonnen false injury so Sonnen will be more reckless with takedowns due to confidence and Silva throws a timed knee.



Silva could be trolling

yeah,,,,and Chael people arent already thinking of the set up...

Chael is not stupid....He will do everything the same...If Silva knee is hurt, it will make the takedowns all the easier...

Silvas probablytrolling,getting the chael nuthuggers something to be excited about before he breaks your hearts and tempts you to suicide....again.



In a match against a young mike tyson:Yea buddy,careful about the jaw,i injured it last week,think it's broken. *wink*

cuz he wants sonnen to go for the takedown. he's brainstorming a gameplan just for when the double comes. Hes baiting Chael. Tell a wrestler ur knee his hurt.... hes coming for the takedown. Well timed knee vs double leg takedown = KOTN. So just as you can say hes spinning it as an excuse to lose, it could also be a move in the mental battlefield.

I have a feeling Chaels arrogance will allow Silva to play with this one. ALTHOUGH that being said, if the injury is legit, then I have no idea why Silva would come public with it.

yea this doesent look good for AS but last fight we didnt find out about any injuries until later soo maybe this time hes just stating before either way its gona be used as an excuse not by silva but by all his nuthuggers if he does lose

He may not be dishonest, however, I always thought that you keep any injuries hidden from your opponents. There has to be an ulterior motive to such a disclosure.



Are we dealing with a bruised knee or a torn ACL ?



I think Anderson may have injured his knee from all the guys in his camp running up to him and hugging him. There must have been a clash of knees.



I've never seen so much man love for this guy after watching TUF Brazil.



I agree though he is appearing nervous. It would be hard to forget 24 minutes of punches to your head and body.

2things....



1) Everybody lies and one point or another....EVERYONE



2) There is no way on Gods earth anyone can trin for 6-12months and develope great wrestling techniques or takedown defense. There is nothing Silva can train for to take advantage of Chael. Silva should be nervous. Chael is one tuff dude.

I agree - he was man-handled by Chael last time, and this time will probably no different. He's getting his excuses ready in case he loses this time.

Douche This & douche That douche, douche & douchery douche!!!!

He already won while being injured against the Roided version of Mr cheater

Excuses???? Chael da Fail went in front of the NSAC with an EXCUSE to use the same shit he abused in the first fight & lied about & they granted his wish. Did you Ray Charles blind 2 the fact dudes forget?

anderson silva iron chin video!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCgsNKKti7o

That video is impressive dude....that guy was GnP'ing the shit out of silva, it makes me less nervous for the fight, sonnens pillow hands wnt hurt him. Bader caught him pretty hard aswell, n bader is a big 205'er. On topic of this post though, i think silva is just playing mind games, i say why the hell not sonnen been doing it for the past 2 years

where are the clips of Sonnen dropping Silva twice in his fight

on the video? hu?

He heard that Chael asked to train with Palhares and is trying to lure him inot a heel hook attempt so he lands on top this time for a change.

Better get close to 100% Silva, despite winning last time with an injury I'd rather you be in your usual dominate form for the rematch and really embarrass Chael.

You prove my point by bringing up his last excuse of an injured rib. It worked last time obviously by reading your post, so Im sure you'll take that bait again with his knee.

Ed Scoarse apologize school, "today lesson what Silva should say before losing a fight". Really I am sick of that. Black house had been saying this shit after every fight and now they started to say that before fights!!!!

JDS doesnt make any excuses, he is from BH, just saying

after Cain fight he did.

He didn't. People did for him. (about Cain)

JDS is no longer managed by Soares

No Dos Santos is not from Black House he fire that snake Ed Sores

and for good reason, that's why JDS is one of the best

Champions the UFC has , no excuses , no dancing on the cage

no ducking fighters , always delivers .

BlackHouse is the training camp/team not the management... fire ed soares does not equal not training at blackhouse as far as i know anyway

Well the UFC protected JDS from an over elevated testosterone chump, why Silva not getting the same love huh?

If his levels are too high for the fight, they'll rock him to sleep dont worry.

Because Alistair is black and they didn't want to risk him beating Dos Santos for the belt. Anderson is black and has the belt. The Ufc wants a white dude to take it from him. It's so obvious Hate. They're hating on the brothers. I'm surprised you didn't see this. I'm disappointed in you sir.

In response to Hateocracy.

Even though your bitch ass is trying to be funny there is no need to tell me something i already know. It is what it is Patna

I don't get this. Why share injuries with your opponent before a fight? And why say you're good to fight before even getting it tested?

Because he's probably got a different injury and is trying to divert focus from that. I seriously doubt his knee is actually hurt.

TBH, it sounds like it's excuse making before the fact.

I think its an ego injury.

He's just setting up an excuse now as a contingency for if he loses. So lame.

Even if he is he won't.

that, and to lure chael into thinking he can go for takedowns but silva's gonna whip him in the head as his last 2 fights.



hope chael destroys him this time but after winning (or loseing) shows a portion of respect for anderson as he does deserve if anything, respect.

i like anderson, not the biggest of fans but hes been a beast for the past 10 yrs.

thats not right! 10 years was fedors number... AS has been great for the last 6 years

not to piss on your fire, but anderson had a career before the UFC and he's been a beast since the beginning...i rounded it off to 10 years but if you want to get anal about it:



http://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Anderson-Silva-1356



he's knocking 14 yrs pro, but he was proberbly fighting 3 yrs prior to that...



jus' saying s'all xxx

Igor Vovchanchyn has more consecutive wins they Fedor, and Torres has a better record than Fedor, who cares about these number honestly, stop clinging to them.

And GSP, has a better career win % against top tier competition than both...

Except since he has more trouble than anderson finishing a fight we can never know if he would be the last one standing in a real fight with some of his opponents.

We'll never know if Anderson would be the last one standing in a real fight either with opponents. There are know head butts, biting, groin shots, or ability to use anything as a weapon around you. MMA is a sport competed in a controlled environment, and GSP has defeated every man he's ever faced.

But we do know GSP has no killer instinct and that counts for a lot out there. We also know Anderson is head and shoulders above GSP in skill and that wrestling is about the least effective ability in a knife fight or any other street fight where anything goes and so Anderson again will have a major advantage having elite striking.

Snap his leg off Chael!

So if Silva ends up losing to Chael now, we can all here dear ole Uncle Ed Soares say it was this injury that lost it for Silva great. Only good thing about this is if Chael does win im sure Anderson gets an automatic rematch and hopefully that time he'll be "healthy"

Weird thing to say 6 weeks before a fight . It's either not that serious, so why mention it, or it is a problem, so why mention it?



Sonnen fans will think this is a pre-fight excuse, Silva fans will hope it's just some good old fashion minds games.



In a recent interview, Silva admitted that first Sonnen fight was difficult, which I don't recall him saying before.

Actually the Silva fans are eating it up like candy.

Hehe. Fear is contagious.

It is O.K for Chael Sonnen to go through a testerone therapy and it is not O.K for Silva to say that he is a little bit injured. AS bit him before and he is going to do that again and this time just brutally.

There's no reason Anderson cant get TR therapy. If hes that worried about it, he can also. Quit crying and let them fight. Its just good entertainment, who really cares who wins that lame division.

Seems pretty obvious a loss for Silva is high on your demand list. He could get it yes and everyone could but many don't feel it is right. It takes away from a fighters achievements in my opinion as it is not a true showing of a mans performance which is important to me. Just like most would cry foul if two cars raced and one had a supercharger bolted to the same cubic inch of block. One is NATURAL aspiration and the other is FORCED aspiration.

...and that's an insane problem MMA has. No fighter should just be able to get TRT. It's supposed to be a rare need for men with low testosterone levels (which by the numbers aren't that high to begin with). The fact that Testosterone can now be prescribed for things out side of that is deplorable at best.



If Anderson has legitimate injuries, he should not just be allowed to use Testosterone. It's not an end all be all medication.

We know your leading the world charge against TRT, its obvious when you hate a legend like Dan Henderson, no need to keep harping bro.

Yea, there's a reason to hate on a practice that's poorly regulated and used by many to cheat a system that holds no accountability for the competitors using it. There's a reason TRT use isn't allowed in any of the major sports in the U.S. or international competitions like the Olympics.



I hate Dan Henderson for an entirely different reason.



Bro.

Same could be said, for your thoughts on a Silva win against Chael.



The fact is Anderson is making a big excuse about an injury way before a fight with a guy, who dominated him for over 2 minutes the last time they fought. He could very easily still win since he is rightfully referred to as the best MMA fighter to come around thus far. However, this action is puzzling to say the least.

Falcon, on that same note its high on your list that Chael loses, no better no worse. Many see A.S. as arrogant. I've always seen him as someone who looks down at everyone but his Brazilian bros. I dont respect that.

Theres times Chael gives respect to Brazilians and we know hes clowning to hype.

It certainly do have it high on my list for a cheater in all walks of his life to lose. Anderson may be a jerk for all I know but for now he is lookin legit and that counts for more to me. Chael with his swindling ways is more likely hiding his true feelings than Anderson anyway.

If Chael even get's near that knee it's going to be with his face & by that time all the testosterone replacement therapy will be proven to be a complete waste of time. Silva WILL demolish average Sonnen!

Silva is putting himself in a win-win situation. Now even if Sonnen wins, he will whine and bitch and retire saying his only UFC loss was due to injury. No one's buying it buddy

Fight hasnt even started and Silva is already making excuses.

all these phuckin silva haters with there accusations. u dont know sh!t if he's lying or not! and who cares? let him lie about an injury, as long hes still fighting and beat everybody since 2006!!



at least, he's not cheating...

Some dont hate him, they just dont like him.

Silva: "I'm claiming injury now, just in case I can't pull another victory over Sonnen out of my a$$ like I did last time".

ye an intersetin move by silva..if his knee was injured i would imagine dat he would rather keep it quiet so as chael doesnt target it.. i know chael doesn throw knee bucklin leg kicks but he sur as hell can shoot the double leg better dan any mw in d ufc nd knowin dat silvas knee is hurt id imagine that he would attack the legs from underhooks on d cage whether double or single..if i was anderson id much rather hav chael not know about my injury and fight than hav him know and fight with an excuse if i lose..it could also b a strategy for d champ who knows