Dana White goes beserk after Anderson Silva's "Main Event disgrace" (updated)
Posted on April 10, 2010, 05:08 PM by Anton GurevichAccording to Yahoo Sports' Kevin Iole, UFC President Dana White was outrageous after Anderson Silva's bizarre performance at the UFC 112: Invincible main event. Kevin Iole reports that White left the arena after the fourth round of the fight, throwing Silva's belt away, before telling of his feelings about Silva's "performance":
"Believe me, I'll answer the questions of what a disgrace the main event was. To end it the way that we did was an embarrassment for me, the UFC, the Fertittas and the UAE. If you're that talented, be Mike Tyson. Go in there and finish.”
Meanwhile, Ariel Helwani quotes Dana White on his Twitter saying: "I don't want to see GSP vs. Silva after tonight. Silva might be the first champion fighting on a prelim. I don't want to see that shit."
Anderson Silva's performance, or to be precise, Anderso Silva's lack of performance against Demian Maia could lead the UFC President to make serious decision about who will be his next opponent. "The Spider" broke the record for the most consecutive title defenses, after defending his title for the sixth time against Demian Maia.

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As much as I'd like to see Anderson Silva actually do some thing for more than the first 2 rounds in a fight, if Dana doesnt quit doing crap like that we're gonna see him in Strikeforce when his contract expires (and doesnt he only have one or two more fights left on it?).
There's no way Dana will let Anderson go. I believe Anderson will be forced to move to LHW permanently. That's three fights now that Silva hasn't taken seriously and they have all been at 185. We can only hope.
Screw Anderson Silva, if he goes to strikeforce then whatever. There aint much to fight for over there anyway. Just like Fedor...he's going to loose money in strikeforce.
They just need to start taking points of when Silva refuses to fight, Silva lost that fight and had it been in Pride he would have lost 20% of his purse and 2 points.
This once again proves that Fedor IS the number 1 pound for pound king. Fedor doesn't clown around in fights, he finishes. Anderson's pretty massive too but just needs harder opponents.
Wow, what a dork!! Why are u talking about that on this thread?
Look this is getting ridiculous. Im tired of people talking about how Anderson isnt the pound for pound champ. Weither he is or not doesnt matter. The point is he DOMINATED Maia the first 2.5 rounds. did he circle maia? Yea he did but he also ****ed up his face. Should he have finished the fight in the second round? Definitly. But he did what he wanted to do which was dominate the fight and not give Maia the oppertunity to get comfortable. Silva shouldnt have show boated as much but if maia wanted to win he should have tried to exchange with silva (not the best idea) or take it to the ground. Silva stopped pretty much every take down. He dominated the fight therfore he won. What really pisses me off tho is that Edgar beat Penn and no one is talking about it because everyone is to busy complaining about Anderson.
bobamam theres a ****ing reason why everybody is complaining about Anderson. He's supposed to be the best of the best, he's constantly hyped up in media.
So when he performs like someone who doesn't even care about the crowd or the fans watching on PPV, the very same people who pay his cheques, of course, people feel robbed.
And you can emphasise his so called "domination" of the first two rounds all you want, he still spent more then 10 looong minutes running backwards in that fight.
He's a selfish douchebag who really needs a reality check. Its clear that he's lying through his teeth when he's being humble in interviews, cos he's anything but humble. Cocky lying selfish and overrated is what he is!
No wonder the american fans are hesitant to show him love, he doesn't ever give back....
Pitiful...
That's cause Edgar won.
your smart.....only person on here that is ....gsp sucks....machida has to prove him self.....anderson will dog both of them.....brock sucks edgar is ok
Well, what he was trying to say is nobody is giving Edgar his due recognition because of this incident......But yea strong counter post....I gues
Yeah, it pisses me off that I love MMA and I saw people leaving the bar and saying "this fight sucks" when Silva was running around. It is shameful to hear people talk like that about something you love so much.
but u will never see a boring fight in Fedor..
Fall Down.
Must say I am a huge Anderson Silva fan, even tho I dont really like all that show boating from ANY fighter. Must admit tho he some how makes me smile when he does it.......But THEN WTF HAPPENED?!? I am looking like, is this a fixed fight? If I am not mistaken, I forget what its called but when your placing bets, u can bet on how it is finished as well right? So I am curious......that just didnt make any type of sense. Where is the explanation for that? He says at the end that Maia caught him with a couple unexpected punches?? WHAT? You didnt expect to be punched in a MMA match?? I am just DUMB-FOUNDED!!
Now im really glad i did not waste 50-60bucks on these fights after seeing all these comments.
Ima going to use that money on the next event. Its soposed to be awsomes :)
You can't bet on the way a fight is finished. Only on who wins. I think it would be really could if you could, but every betting site I've been on doesn't have that option. So that can't be the case. Not a bad idea though.
Actually u can. I just went and looked. I bought the newest issue of the UFC magazine and they had an article called "How to Play the Odds" about betting in Las Vegas. Thats in Vegas tho, so maybe the sites dont do it. The article says it started at UFC 106 and it is called proposition bets or "Prop Bets." So, again I am really starting to wonder. I appreciate your input tho. Not trying to like prove you wrong to be a ass like some of the kids on here.
HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA clik weak
I JUST WANNA BRING UP ONE POINT, CHAEL SONNEN TALKED ABOUT HOW ANDERSON DOESN'T SPEAK ENGLISH CAUSE HE DOESNT WANT TO CAUSE HE DOESNT LIKE THE MEDIA AND DOESNT CARE ABOUT THE FANS ETC ETC, AND HE JUST PROVED IT ONCE AGAIN, HE ACTUALLY SPOKE ENGLISH IN THE PRE-FIGHT PRESSER AND IN THE HYPE UP PREFIGHT VIDEO... THEN THE PRICK DOESN'T EVEN SAY ANYTHING IN ENGLISH AT THE END...
NOT TO MENTION HE SHOWBOATS AND MAKES FUN OF MAIA ALL FIGHT PRACTICALLY.. THEN PRETENDS TO GIVE HIM ALL THIS RESPECT AT THE END OF THE FIGHT..
FEDOR LIKES BEATING PEOPLE AT THEIR OWN GAME, AND HE FINISHES PEOPLE, IF LEITES WAS ON HIS BACK FEDOR WOULD JUMP IN THERE IN G&P HIS ASS, **** ANDERSON HE'S GARBAGE, ALL THE TALENT IN THE WORLD DOESNT MEAN SHIT IF YOU WONT FIGHT
i hoppe one day people agree with me becose i now wath im talking about pound 4 pound Chicken run
Seriously man damn!! Shut up already!! Stop making every thread a P4P argument!! This thread is about Anderson Silva's "so-called" fight, and Dana Whites actions surrounding it.....Thats ALL!
hard not to have the P4P conversation when the fighter we are talking about is anderson silva the famed P4P best.
not to mention that this fight was a terrible performance by the famed P4P best.
if fedor or GSP ran around in circles acting like a fool for nearly 3 rounds in any of their fights, people who dislike them would be out saying the same. i mean really, he was literally circling away from Mia as tho he was in fear of exchanging with him. this is a guy who by all evidence Silva should crumbled up, instead he avoided him, wouldn't engage with strikes and was afraid to fight with on the ground.
Why not just cut him, Dana? Do Strikeforce that favor...Since you have no respect for your own Champion. I didn't see him go beserk when GSP pulled that nasty performance back in UFC 111. One man's trash is another man's treasure. I'm sure Strikeforce would love to have him.
I agree Underdog, even in a poor performance he was totally dominate. He totally controlled the fight and whatever he wanted to happen is what happened.....Just unfortunately wasnt much! I agree entirely, GSP did the same thing just on the ground, as he is a ground fighter. Silva stalled just the same but on his feet as he is a striker. Lets do remember tho, if Silva wasnt so great, we wouldnt have such high expectations and in turn this wouldnt have been such a let down....
youre a fool and so is anyone who defends silva what he did was a disgrace he could of finished that fight any time he wanted instead he danced around and made a mockery of the sport and his opponent. gsp tried very hard to finnish the fight maybe he should of switched gameplans when hardy refused to tap the first time but never did slouch off and run away from his opponent. in my mind maia won that fight
Ok lets start by saying dont name call, are u 12? Did u not get hugged enough as a child? Do u feel its necessary to insult by name calling in order for your opinion to be taken serious? Are u impotent? Pay attention my friend.....I never said what he did was ok for one, but if you say he wasnt totally dominate then maybe you should watch the fight.
GSP was clearly trying to finish that fight, that armbar and kimura were as close as you can come to tapping a guy without actually doing so. Even though he didnt want to stand with Hardy, St. Pierre was still active on the ground as opposed to Silva who had the fight in his world but refused to partake in it.
Thats true. Although he had alot more open opportunities then that, that he didnt take advantage of is all. Again tho remember that although it was a terrible outing, dont get me wrong, if our expectations were so high because he is usually amazing in there, it wouldnt have been so disappointing. Maia damn sure wasnt attacking him either. In the end he had nothing to lose so he came at him a bit. He probably felt bad for him. I mean Maia was looking like a 3 legged alley cat in front of a pit-bull by the third round!
GSP fought all 5 rounds without showboating and acting like a total ****head, he made 2 near successful attempts to fisnh the fight too.
Dana White has no respect for his champion? How about Anderson Silva has no respect for the UFC, Fans and MMA for doing what he did today.
GSP didnt taunt and act like an ass when he cant finish.
Silva has some brain damage I suppose.
It was a f.u.c.k.i.n.g. joke how can Anderson Silva hold his head up after that shit...He embarrassed himself and the UFC...That card was a special one being in the middle east and outdoors and he ruined it with that showboating crap and I dont give a f.u.c.k what you say but he was gassed after the 3rd round...as a fan I am Furious
No matter Anderson how hard Silva tries, He will NEVER be able to please everyone. Why can't we just appreciate how great he is while he is still fighting. Muhammad Ali had bad fights, Michael Jordan had bad games, Tiger Woods still has bad days, therefore, Anderson Silva should be allowed to have bad days as well no matter how high our expectations are when it comes to him. Yes, he did some crazy things today..So what..he still dominated and won the fight.
Your an ok guy Underdog, but thats some serious Silva nuthugging in your replies, everyone deserved more than Silva brought.
your point would be valid if Silva didn't spend the entire first 2 round wasting energy goofing off. he seemed to feel just fine when he was literally dancing around. i wouldn't call that a domination, he didn't finish Mia, you can say he could have but the fact is he didn't, domination is like when he fought Franklin those were dominate fights. he simply showed what we all knew to be true, that he has better stand up, he also showed that he is afraid of Mia on the ground.
this is almost like living in a twilight zone episode, i submit to you a champion who doesn't fight challengers, but instead scores some quick points and then runs away the rest of the fight.
let get Silva into LHW or HW were he will be pushed to give us more great matches.
the diffrence is that anderson did this on purpose if it was just a bad day then yes by all means let it slide but he went out there and intentionally made a mockery of the sport and his opponent not to mention his legacy
I didn't really like some of things Silva did to Maia, but i just think Dana can be a little unfair when it comes to him sometimes. I agree with you he didn't give his best performance today, however, he is still human.
I believe that Anderson play favorites when he fight against his fellow coutryman. Just look at his last fights with them...he has thrown them all away by playing around, Its bull. Dana and the Ferttitas should do something....
I didnt want to post anything before but I thought this might happen again in this fight with Anderson....
People didnt get their moneys worh....
Sonnen was better mach up wuld of smashed Silva on the ground.Nate took Silva to the ground easely. Sonnen won't have any problem with that and Sonnen can take punches
Dana White vs Anderson Silva for the belt.
GSP blankets the winner!!
I want to see the post fight conference!
oh yeah,
Dana is going to be hot and rightfully so...
Not the way you want your main event to or go or your champion to act when you are putting on a card internationaly in a new territory. Im sure thats what DW was most embarrased about.
I know, thats the most negative aspect of the entire situation in my opinion.
Anderson holds first and secon place for pound 4 pound most boring and most BOOOED fights ever
i said it lots of time this gona be stund up comedy just like Tales vs Anderson
actually the referee dan miragliotta stop silva in the 5 round and said to him this is not a comedy ! dont keep running! i was shock when he did that!
Very interesting fight arranged by Dana White,
The challenger was way too passive and "the best p4p fighter in the world" didnt found a way to finish the fight and satisfy the fans
he was scared of the ground game?
he was acting smart?
Dana White hype your wife next time
i will enjoy watching Fedor destroying your UFC champions and your pathetic business
Yea we will all hold our breath!
thats what she said
White even said he may even become the first UFC champion to have his fights put onto the non-televised preliminary match-ups in the future
No matter how bad the event was today, I'm still thankful for the UFC for putting up so many events all year round. Silva is and was overrated, Brock should be fighting 3 times a year (according to Dana - champ should fight 3 times a year, he was talking about Fedor), to prove he is a legit champ, otherwise he is just Dana's money making brand, and that's it, until he can prove himself with at least 10-15 serious fights. UFC, Strickeforce - M1, should have at least once a year a championship fight between they champs to determine the true and only one champion of the world with a unified UFC/Strickeforce/M1 belt! Everyone would win, because that fight no one would wanna miss! I mean NO ONE!!!
That would be great for the sport....Unfortunately, we all know that is not what concerns the powers that be.
If enough fans say it, it could happen. Lowkick could make a poll of how many people would love this to happen, and I'm sure we gonna have great numbers!
Ha ha it says Kevin Lole (should be Lol) said Dana was "Outrageous" after the fight. Hmm. Dana is always Outrageous. Perhaps this time he was "Outraged"??? Lol Kevin.
let Anderson fight Jon Jones and get killed
Another reason Dana White is pissed.....many people like me are texting/calling friends telling them DO NOT RENT THIS PPV at 10pm
Notice how Dana mentions the Fertittas specifically - that's because those brothers will get medieval om Anderson's ass if he's screwed up their ME business contracts. You don't get to own 2 casinos and the ufc by playing nice (I can just about hear the news broadcast of Silva's corpse found in barrel with balls stuck in mouth :P )
Its true tho, do what the fans wanna see and what will make you a legend in the future, finish the fight, just like dana white said, be like a Prime Tyson
The truth is, Anderson Silva has huge holes in his game. He just exposed every single one. Not to mention, validating certain fighters complaint about him being the biggest D-bag in MMA.
I bet Chael is laughing his ass off somewhere..
I dont understand...Other then acting like an ass and maybe having holes in his entertainment game....How did this expose "Huge holes in his game?"
Anderson fights can's and stil get BOOED every fight poun 4 pound most BOOED.Maia suposed to get KO'd in the first round Nate KO'd him esely Anderson's punching is not that great i like his running style and he is very faast on his feet
Dude.. Anderson Silva just bumped Rashad Evan's wife as the most obnoxious person in the UFC.. They Boo'ed him because that s*** was epically terrible..
No excuses...
i think anderson is the type of dude to rise to the challange and mia i dont think scared him enough for him to have to have that killer instinct like he had before his last few fights have been aganst questionable compitish. i think they need to put him up agianst another dominant fighter with a solid win streak in the ufc and hell get back to his ko'in ways
That is bullshit, Silva's manger only lets him fight hand picked fighters.
Where did you get your information from? How do you know so much about how the fights are selected? You're the same type of douche that creates stupid conspiracy pipe dreams.
I know. Last time I checked Joe Silva did most of the match making in general.....
but if silvas that good...why didnt he finish the fight like it looked like he could.
he had the 1st 2 rounds but 3-5 in my opinion went to maia so maia should'a taken the belt.
as a champ,your s'posed to defend your title,not run for 3 rounds because your gassed and are ahead on points.
as a champ,he was disgraceful to the sport and the ufc brand tonite.
i think the judges should'a gave the fight to maia as he didnt give up and eventually found his way and chased the fight.he looked the most damaged from the 1st 2 rounds but as an athelete and fighter,maia had the most heart in this fight.
This is one of the dumbest posts I have ever seen. **** you for being you. lol
Is an emotional bitch. I respect him because he's done a lot, but he lets his "feelings" get the best of him many times. I suppose that since he's been so successful, plus just the way he is, he expects everything to go how he wants it. Big surprise, douche bag, if everything goes the way you want it, it's professional wrestling and not a sport. Let the best fighter that has ever been do his thing and maybe feed him some better fighters and then SHUT THE **** UP.
What a terrible night for the UFC. Penn was crap but I still believe he did enough in the 1st 3 rounds to take a decision. But Edgar deserved it in the end. Some crazy scores though.
Silva!!!! WTF??? Just plain disrespectful. He was rubbish. He danced around like a kid with a new toy. He could have finished the fight at any time but he pissed about. I don't give a crap what his excuse was, he was just a fookin' cock & I've lost huge amounts of respect for him.
This UFC was a disaster based on the title defenses alone. Dana is rightly pissed off as I am too.
Fook you Silva, you're a cock!
I'm sorry, but the word rubbish is ****ing stupid. It's one of those "trite but you think you're cute" words that British people use all the time. I'd rather hear you say brilliant every other sentence. If you didn't laugh at that fight, you have problems.
Silva isn't half as good as people think, it was quite clear here that he gassed after 12min and couldn't finish the fight. I mean you saw that Maia actually got a hold of Silva there imagine what Sonnen would do to him?
I also scored Maia as winner in that fight due to that Silva should have had 2 points taken off.
WRONG
You mean if Sonnen would actually survive the first 2 rounds? I didn't like the whole act but did you by any chance see Silva moving lightning fast, hitting and kicking Maia whenever and wherever he wanted without any opposition at all? Silva's proven again and again that when he's sharp he's deadly. It's only these one-sided match-ups where he goes overboard and throws a Lesnar.
And if you realy think Maia won that fight you need to go back to watching wwe.
Also I would love it if Silva's next fight was on a prelim, and what use is Silva as a fighter when he turns people off from buying PPV?
i think people should look at it from the perspective that a win is a win. For anderson to lose the belt, someone needs to come TAKE it from him. hes not gonna give it away. No one screams at quarterbacks for taking a knee at the end of the game. if you have the lead, hold the lead and take the win. If you're up on the scorecard, why risk getting submitted? if he had lost cause he wanted the finish people would be saying he's a dumb*ss for going for the finish. If you are that far ahead of your opponent, the only way you will lose is by your mistake.
I say keep the lead and take the win. I understand its not what people want to see, but his concerns are not what people want to see. his concern is keeping his belt
I know. The show boating wasnt necessary tho. Maybe he just didnt see the need to murder that guy. Ya know?
If fighter is not fighting running away the ref shuld take points away
the main event would have been better if Vitor Belfor didn't rape his shoulder during training
If him and Kimbo were in the same weight class in that fight, Kimbo would eat him.
In PRIDE Maia wuld of won this fight Silva wuld go home with bag full of yelow cards.It was no danger of loosing for Maia in any round
No danger of Maia losing in any round? ARE YOU EFFING SERIOUS KID? Just stop posting PLEASE!!
Well since Anderson wants to be in a circus match, I believe he would be a great match against James Toney. This matchup would somehow negate any loss on the PPV buys from watching Silva since I'm sure James Toney will bring his own fans who would watch him fight in the UFC. With James Toney's ego, he would not allow himself to be on the receiving end of such acts by Silva and at least make a fight out of it.
Dana should be mad at himself, you can't put a 1 dimensional fighter against a fighter as well rounded as Silva, Maia is a beast on the ground but nothing else. I think Dana just want's to see people get maimed in the ring, like its not about martial arts anymore...He's only had two decisions in his UFC career, both against 1 dimensional BJJ specialists.
What part of that fight was about Martial Arts?
Do tell.
Meaning... I don't see how you can roll this one on Dana.
What part of your post isn't gay?
U stole that line from me.
one point dana doesnt have to fire silva if he wants to punish him he still has him on contract he can just not have him fight for 2 years wait for the contract to expire and because the ufc has the right to meet any offers from other companys and retain fighters that have expired contracts sing him again and have him fight once every 9 months on the undercard
I stopped reading after the writing/editing error. The word should be outraged. You don't have much credibility with readers if you publish an error that a ninth grader should be able to correct. Never-the-less, Anderson Silva is a bad ass. I thought what he did for the first three rounds was funny and proved his point (his opponent was severely outclassed), and I think that Silva just didn't want to injure his opponent any more than necessary. Think about it and get over it.
that's what I was trying to convey with my previous post...
Silva has turned into a man more afraid to lose than one who wants to win.
His strategy was to pound the hell out of Maia's front leg and when he couldn't move properly, dance around just out of his reach.
What made it even more annoying was how he acted all frustrated, as if it was Maia doing the running. Shameful.
I'd laugh in Dana really did put him on the undercard. It's about what he deserves.
You people really come up with interesting interpretations lmfao. However, it's more like Silva beat the **** out of Maia then didn't see the need in doing any more: he had already won the fight. Is this a hard concept? Wake the **** up.
Can't win a 5 round fight in two rounds, and that when Silva stopped fighting. Or maybe you think sticking your neck out or clowning around wins you points. Go back to sleep.
Is an emotional bitch. I respect him for what he has done, but at the same time, he cries and has tantrums. If he wants to exclude the Micheal Jordan of MMA because Silva didn't want to permanently injure his opponent, then he's a rich, stupid, douche bag.
He should be more concerned that the results were online before the PPV. IDIOT
benweck, ultra weak dude!!!
Wow! Don't you think Dana's over reacting? I mean all in all it was entertaining. Anderson was showing off all the things he could do early on then god knows what happened but Maia had a nice go at Silva in the last round. It certainly wasn't done in the true sportsmanship of MMA but it's not as bad as Dana's making out.
I look at it like this. You know when you've got a kid who's a genius but he's completely understimulated so he behaves in obscure ways to entertain himself well Silva seemed like that to me. Griffin was goin in to take Silvas head off and we saw the result but in Maia (no disrespect to him cuz I think he's fantastic) but Silva felt like the whole thing was pointless so why try? This is a bad way to think but F%$k if someone brings it to him he'll deliver.
These people are investing in the company. No he is not over reacting at all.
Belfort vs Silva, Silva can circle around Belfort as much as he want but as soon as Belfort gets a few hits, Silva's gonna drop... and when he's lost, just throw him out of UFC...
Silva was searching for things to complain about. He disrespected me? C-mon then knock his ass out because it was beyond obvious he didnt want to go to the ground. Force him to go to 205 where he should be. And sonnen was right I think. He spoke perfect English at the beginning of the event.
The first round nothung hapened how you guys giwing it to Anderson
In PRIDE Maia won this fight easey
Dana is becoming a little BBBIIIAAATTTCCCHHH!
Quit your crying and make the GSP vs. Silva happen so Silva can KO GSP in devastating fashion!
Dana is just using this as an escape goat. He knows Anderson Silva lost some fans (the many of you who arent educated enough about MMA), but Dana doesnt want these fans to go away, so he's feeding them to GSP now. He's inflating GSP status a bit.
But now he cant put Anderson Silva to fight GSP, because aftter GSP loses this fight, the UFC might lose many more fans as well.
So just wait a bit longer, till Anderson earns some more respect again, and this fight might happen,
Well said.
@ Nickpeyon
Lost some fans!? I beg the differ but he GAINED some fans! He become 10x more popular last night!
dana is pissed now give him til machida vs shogun and he will forget this shit,i wanted to see silva vs gsp that would of been the shit,i dont want to see him in strikeforce he would destroy everyone over there,theres no tests for him over there he needs to be tested somewhere
If you think about it, it's Dana's FAULT. Maia was never close to being a title contender. We all knew what the outcome was going to be. Even on this website, fans were dissapointed with the matchup. When you're a fighter as talented as Anderson, and you have been the champion for years, it hard to motivate yourself. In all sports, champions need motivation to keep winning. Even though Anderson dominated the fight, he still fought about 60% to his potential. He could of finished the fight in the first round if he wanted to. Dana should STOP BLAMING everything on his best fighter, instead he should find a way to motivate him. He is the one that made the matchup...
The idiot Anderson who was losing from worst fighters in Japan in UFC they treat him like the best in the world.I said it 1000 times that was trhe reson he is running around one point he was behind the ref in the 5 round. He got no balls to fight fighters his own sise HW if you walk 225 lb that is you sise not loosing 50 lb and he is truying to do to move to WWD.
Fall Down.
yeah and he beat some of the best in japan too. he was subbed twice in japan but look how hard it has been for bjj fighters to beat him since then, not going to happen
this is all money talk anderson is asking for more money .if you want me to finish the fight pay more the money they wold pay for FEDOR
Ahh Fedor nuthuggers coming out in glory now that they get a chance to hate their biggest competition.
Anderson silva is moving up and down weights trying to get a challenge in the UFC, and even outside of the UFC trying to fight the best he can. Fedor is chillin in strikeforce where fights are constantly cancelled against him and when they happen it's no real challenge, and that's at one weight.
Why hate so hard? You think noone besides maybe John fitch knows what kind of sellout, parroting, fair-weather fans there are in MMA? If anderson knows that most of these clowns would sell him out the second they thought it was cool, why should he do what they want as a risk to himself? He's disrespecting the fans? The same fans who said he was trash before he fought forrest and jumped on his sack afterwards?
Same fans who hated machida, then jumped on him, then hate him again after the shogun fight? Have some freakin dignity for a change.
MMA fans are disgraceful,wouldn't happen in another sport. If Michael jordan taunted someone who talked smack about him while putting on a dominating performance, fans would go wild. If they were like MMA fans they'd completely ignore that part and bitch about how he didn't score 60+ points.
"To be the champion, you have to beat the champion". In my opinion I think Anderson Silva follows this philosophy but goes over bored with it. Most champions feel that since they are champion they have nothing left to prove to the other contenders. It seems as though Anderson thinks that since he's the champion, that it shouldn't be him trying to defeat the challenger but that the challenger needs to out right defeat him as a champion.
On one hand he deserves that right because he is the champ. On the other hand it leaves him open to great criticism, because if your are going to accept the label of the number one best pound for pound fighter in the world, well then you need to prove it. People got so used to seeing him dominate fights, and now he's going to decisions and not putting his full potential in his fights.
Anderson talks about leaving his legacy in the UFC and MMA. If your the best pound for pound fighter, you need to prove it. Just because you hold the belt, doesn't mean you have nothing else to prove. If Anderson wants to cement his legacy in this sport, he needs to finish fights and with devastating results like he did when he was striving for the belt.
What is Dana White talking about Anderson Silva didnt apologize to the fans? Thats the FIRST thing he did at the end of the fight? Maybe if he wasnt running around like a little hoe throwing the belt around he would of heard it.
I think he's talking about afterwards, once Soares got the spin machine working, when Silva said "I have nothing to apologize for".
still no one is talking about Maia throwing 3 punches in 2 rounds.
**** all haters on anderson, maia didnt even want to fight him like cote and thales. Give him vitor or nobody in middleweight and light heavyweight is the answer to everybodys craving for a finish. I also want to see GSP and anderson, if dana wants to make up for that fight then give us this fight for free on spike bitch
Japanese fighters don't train BJJ. Jiu jitsu comes from Japan any way
Maia's reson trowing 3 punches in two rounds is Anderson running like Chicken for two rounds one poind he was behind the ref and the ref pushed him towords Maia that was funny actualy