Cain Velasquez: I will beat Antonio Silva no matter where the fight goes
Posted on May 22, 2012, 05:08 PM by Mike Drahota
This weekend's UFC 146 will no doubt bring a star-studded lineup to the table. One of the major stars featured on Saturday will be former UFC Heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez, who will face Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva in the co-main event. Having only fought twice since October of 2010, the AKA fighter will have much to prove in Las Vegas on May 26th. Coming off of a devastating 64 second loss to Junior dos Santos at the very first UFC on Fox card, Velasquez knows this a make-or-break fight in the ultra-competitive UFC, one in which he must make a statement. Velasquez commented on the current state of the UFC Heavyweight division:
"I think the talent has never been this high, as far as Heavyweights. The UFC did a great job of getting a lot of top-level Heavyweights into the UFC. And now having the guys from Strikeforce come in, we're definitely going to have the best guys here, for sure. It's going to be great. Everyone's so competitive and everyone's always getting better, so it's a good thing." - courtesy of Foxsports.com
Cain Velasquez knows the talent he is up against, and realized the type of mistake he made in his last title bout. He described it with the following:
"Just the game plan. There was no sense of urgency on my part to execute it. I stood on the outside too long and ended up paying the price for it. I just had to look at the fight and see what I did wrong. I had to go back into training and just kind of correct those things. The biggest thing you can do is take the things you learned from that and just move forward. That's all you can do."
Velasquez appears to be focusing on learning from his mistakes and using his training to correct them. It will be interesting to see just how he responds to his first-ever loss on Saturday when he fights Silva, who himself is making his Octagon debut. Velasquez's training partner Daniel Cormier put a vicious TKO on Antonio Silva in the semifinals of the Strikeforce World Heavyweight Grand Prix, so he has a leg up in terms of training:
"I've been watching what happened between Silva and Daniel Cormier. I train with Daniel a lot. I have to try to be quicker than him. I think that fighting style with him will do well. I have to be good on the ground with my wrestling and jiu-jitsu. I think I can beat him with that, too. I think whether we fight on our feet or on the ground, I'm winning this fight."
Velasquez heads into UFC 146 with the utmost confidence in his skills. He has the talent, tools, and cardio to beat any Heavyweight on any given day. How will he respond to adversity on Saturday night in Las Vegas?
Further Reading: Cain Velasquez: Fedor Emelianenko is the greatest fighter of all time
Comments
I agree with him. I think the only place there is real danger is if Bigfoot ever gets top control and rains down gnp.
The problem with that theory is that Silva has not beat anyone who has a elite wrestling background....He beat the tar out of Fedor who is not a high level wrestler...never has...Sambo is different.
Aloth of guys are great but put them up against an elite level wrestler with a good set of hands and you will prety much lose. Look at Josh Barnett,,,, He fought guys who are not wrestlers at all...He killed them...but then he goes up against Cormier and he cant take damiel down at all... That tells us everything...Josh is great but he cant stand a chance against a wrestler with good hands.... That is what Cain is all about... He should destroy Silva
how old are you?
Bigfoot was even cornered by Fedor with wild swinging punches. With Cain's striking and pace, he'll most certainly beat Bigfoot early, in all areas. Cain TKO RD1.
Yes Cain. I think you will take this one....I wish Pezao had an easier debut...
Lock of the night - Kain TKO in the first
wow i meant Cain lol
Don't be so certain. Cain can get a KO here and he is definitely the better wrestler but Cain is no where near as good a boxer as Arlovski and BF out boxed him. BF is also a very good BJJ practitioner and while Cain will have a definite wrestling advantage, BF has a clear BJJ advantage. On the feat I see Cain's speed being the decisive factor but I could easily be wrong. On the ground I think it comes down to whether Cain's wrestling is dominant enough to cancel out BF's BJJ or the reverse. This fight may be closer than you think. There is no outcome that will surprise me.
I doubt cormier has better hands than Cain. And you saw what he did to bigfoot
Yeah but honestly that was too quick to tell much. DC rocked him with one of the first punches and then it was over. To me it was reminiscent of Matt Serra's TKO of GSP. The other thing to consider is that BF was just coming off of a win against Fedor. He may have just underestimated DC. Like I said, I think Cain's speed will make up for BF's possibly better boxing. BF can't even come close to Cain's speed. My point is just that this is in no way an assured victory for Cain.
Not only that, they are team mates at AKA. That's an advantage for Cain already.
Wana see cain walk threw big foot then dana set up a fight with cormier....
VIVA LA MEXICOOOOOOO!
Dont you mean USA? I still to this day wonder why the Mexican guys that came to the US for success always sport the Mexico thing. Theres a reason they came to the USA. I wont elaborate on that. I would try to represent the country that made my life possible in the first place.
You wouldn't understand. We come from nothing and we are proud of our heritage. In the end we were all immigrants starting out so stop trying to be a smartass narrow minded gringo
Yes I do understand perfectly well. Mexico is over run by corrupt police, govt and drug cartels own Mexico and have infiltrated all their walks of life
My ancestors came from Whales England 400 years ago, yet I dont run around yelling VIVA ENGLAND. please evolve and give credit were it is due. I live in Texas where there are currently 12 million illegal immigrants, yet Mexico extradites any illegal who enters their country. You need to be educated and quit living like a fool.
texas used to be mexico...so much for education.
Mexicans are Native Indians bred with Spaniards, whats your point
X Dork?
my point is that the world is one and that borders only exist on the "maps". patriotism and national pride is plain stupid, cause nobody is in charge of where they are born. us-american are a mix of all kinds of europeans, native indians, africans, asians and so on.
have you ever left your the states? or your state? wouldn't surprise me if not.
Also you need to quit acing like a narrow minded mojado.
My point as Jose said, they came with nothing and reaped the benefits of every hard working taxpaying citizen, they paid for nothing and its an insult for them to continue touting their nothing country when they should be kissing America's asssss!
Let's go Cain!!
I want to see Cormier fight Roy Nelson in his UFC debut. Cain should be in title contention if he beats this big foot.
Roy and Daniel seems like a good test.