Jake Shields would love a chance to fight Anderson Silva
Posted on December 21, 2011, 04:54 PM by Trent Reinsmith
Former Strikeforce Middleweight champion Jake Shields was on quite a roll when he joined the UFC in October of last year, entering the promotion on a winning streak of 15 fights, while going 25-4-1 over his career.
In his first UFC bout, contested at the Welterweight limit, Shields defeated Martin Kampmann via split decision. That win earned him a shot at UFC Welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre. St. Pierre defeated Shields by unanimous decision, but during the course of the bout Shields did do something that had not been accomplished for some time, he actually won a round against the champion. In his next fight, against Jake Ellenberger, Shields would be TKO’d in a mere 53 seconds.
Shields’ next fight will be against Yoshihiro Akiyama at UFC 144. That fight, to be held on February 26, will be contested at the Welterweight limit. However, that upcoming fight has not stopped Shields from looking ahead a bit to a possible fight with UFC Middleweight champion Anderson Silva, “That’s a fight I’ve wanted for a long time. Anderson’s a phenomenal fighter, one of the best of all time, but I just think stylistically the guys that match up best against him are wrestlers with good jiu-jitsu. Chael did great with him until he got caught in a triangle right at the end. His worst matchup’s against good wrestlers and jiu-jitsu, and it’s just he’s a great matchup. Obviously it wouldn’t be an easy fight because I think he has the best standup in the sport, but that’s a fight I would love an opportunity to do.” – for more see MMAFightCorner.com
What do you think LowKick’ers should Shields move back to Middleweight and face Anderson Silva?
Further Reading: Georges St. Pierre vs. Jake Shields Highlight Video
Photo: Jake Shields, left, spares at a open media workout session to promote a Strikeforce MMA card at the Legends gym on March 17, 2010 in Hollywood, California. Francis Specker
Comments
jake must be on crack...lol
im just sayin, yes a wrestler/jj master would make a good formidable matchup stylistically but jake is missing one key ingredient...ironchin...i know he came back from h-bomb and gsp's improved str8 jab but if you were to create the ultimate spider cryptonite it would be the combine skills and athlethicism of a sonnen and palhares. both these fighters take shots and still go in for the kill..and i just dont see jake getting out of AS clinch. prediction....AS by TKO due to lethal knees and elbows in the clinch..
i agree that a wrestler/bjj master would be the perfect matchup to dethrone silva. but i think it would have to be a combination of sonnen/Maia or Roger Gracie. they would tap Palhares.... relatively easily too lol
I hope so! Cause if not : poor guy! - organic delusional disorder is a serious condition!
but in all seriousness : He could be marinated in Machidas urine for days and still have like zero chance.
well done... well done.
i would enjoy seeing the Spider make fun of jake Shield and humiliate him in the cage ,in front of everyone . Like he humiliated demian Maia who disrespected him . One of the funniest fight in MMA
mannnn if GSP can make him look like a deer in headlights and jab him like he did Anderson will crush him cant believe it was even
brought up must be slow for mma journalists....the round he won was when he was poked,....I know ppl want to tear GSP down but the guy
is a great fighter the last 3 ppl he has beat ppl make excuses for the loser the fighters who make it to fight GSP are great fighter and regardless of how he beat them he won and has built a legacy because he keeps winning
I remember the time Hendo humiliated Fedor and KO'd him face down, ass up.
(Demian Maia is one of the most innocent fighters in MMA, he wouldnt disrespect a fly)
Ya it's funny what Silva calls disrespect, challenging him and wanting to fight him. In what planet was that disrespectful. That fight showed how pathetic Silva can be, the man has great skill but he's an ignorant **** in the cage. He humiliated himself not Maia. Nothing funny about that fight, it was sad, DW wouldn't even give him the belt back, he had to give it to Soares to give to Silva. Pathetic
You guys weaked me to act like if you were all about respect . But Im pretty sure you all laughed and smiled when you were watching Anderson silva doing the clown in the cage and humiliate Maia. But then ,you all accuse anderson silva to be disrespectful etc... but you all laughed at his taunts ,because they were funny
I respect Hendo's right hand power but he didn't humiliate Fedor. Both men came out aggressive, swinging massive power and hopefully try to get lucky enough to connect unexpectedly.
With Fedor's camps, they do intense conscious training (exerciser his body and mind to getting use to being rocked by making himself extremely dizzy).
Sure they fight was stopped quickly but it was a FLASH ko (lights did go off for Fedor) but only for a mere second.
It's not a surprise the referee who ended the fight was Herb Dean... I mean he did do what he thought was right and it's understandable.
But hey, the last emperor is still currently dangerous. I'm sure he would of " KO'd Hendo's face down, ass up" before any point of time he started to fight in North America.
Maybe it was the unbeaten streak of 31 that kept Fedor's candle burning for so long... or perhaps he could at the time successfully juiced up on riods... or maybe his heart for fighting was greater then any of his opponents.
We can't really say, it could of been something totally different. But let's not forget during his era he was the BEST and we've seen him in great wars. Either from coming back after brutally losing back to back rounds and pulling off an unexpected submission, to corking his hands back and letting them go from start to finish.
He's the best P4P in my books, from his prime.
We shouldn't lose respect to ANY fighter who's accomplished this much and used martial arts so successfully.
I like your camp Jake but, no, just no
um..no
jake was joking....? you were joking Jake ?
nowadays whoever is a chael sonnen-like fighter 'loves to fight anderson silva'...but thats a stupid statement unless one is close to title contention
Just go back and check his fight with Hendo.. then you should be allowed to comment on Shields at fighting at middleweight. We haven't seen a lot of Shields' ground game in the ufc because Ellenberger knocked him out very fast and he wasn't able to take gsp down but seriously this guy has beaten a lot of highly ranked fighters in the past 6 years, he deserves respect. Maybe if he wins to Akiyama, then moves to middleweight and wins 2-3 fights I think it would make sense to put him in the title picture.
I respect Jake enough to tell him when he has no business fighting someone I know will hurt him badly. Jakes really a nice guy.
@jdnextchamp That is the first intelligent comment in this thread. I agree 100%
he did no damage what so ever to martin campman...nuff said.
let me re-iterate...Shields has no real takedown ability, he is not GSP or Lesnar. He hopes the fight goes to the ground. That said, A.S. easily shrugs off all but the most explosive take down artists in the game at his weight ( Chael excluded ). Shields stands no chance of getting this to the ground before being executed. IMO.
Maybe he should be in title contention before talking. Also, maybe you should wait until he has been in title contention to make that assumption.
Just because Jake said that he wants to doesn't mean he thinks he'll get to. And no he's not delusional or on drugs, if anything everyone on this forum is for thinking that, honestly I'm glad this is aiming for something, cause all things considered Jake should have stayed at 185, but because GSP was a bigger fight.
Jake came over from StrikeForce as the MW Champ. I don't understand why he dropped to WW to face GSP. He should have kept his momentum going and went after the MW title.
That's what I thought he was gonna do when he made the jump to the UFC. I don't think that he could have beat Silva, but he would have had momentum going into the fight having just beaten Dan Henderson at MW in his last SF title defense.
I don't think that GSP was the bigger fight for Jake- as much as I think he thought he would have a better chance at beating GSP than he would Silva.
i might have been a bigger fight but a chance to beat the king of mma, "spider", has more bragging right and more people will recognize that accomplishment than beating a champion who is unable to finish his opponents since hughes....bj gave up in between rounds...
Jake no longer has this momentum behind him since dropping to WW. He lost that window of opportunity when he fought GSP in a disappointing show of his skills. But he's free to make any bold statement that he wants. This is America after all!!!
No disagreement here Mike but I just wanted to comment on your interesting choice of words / phrases. While Jake lives in America and probably spoke these words there I'm not so sure "this is America...". I for example am in Canada. I think this website is hosted in Northern Europe if I'm not mistaken. I guessing Anton, our fearless leader, is Russian. I think many members are from all over the world.
A better phrase might be "Its a free world" ;-)
Mike: Dana and the Fertita's asked him to move down. He and his manager (RIP to his father), both wanted him to stay at MW for multiple reasons. One of those was he thought he matched up better with Silva.
"sharp" above
Who wouldn't want to fight Anderson Silva. It would be a privilege. It's like fighting Fedor. Heck, I'd fight him. I'd lose but imagine saying I fought him.
Anderson's peak is so high that we have no context within to judge but he may have peaked and be in the early part of his decline. If so, no one would yet know. He's too good. But you can expect people to line up to be Anderson's Werdum (using a Fedor analogy)..
People have been lining up. For about 5 years now. Lol. The only one who didn't drop their balls from from fear the second the cage door closed to chael. I honestly believe there are 4 or 5 fighters that all have MORE than enough skill to beat Anderson. But even though, every fighter talks confidence you can see it stripped from their face in the cage. To me, I think the biggest measure of accomplishment that will make the difference and finally help dethrone the Spider will be confidence. Not striking, not wrestling, not BJJ. But perhaps a little of all of that and enough confidence not to freeze when the fight starts.
me thinks jake just ate one of nick's brownies, when he comes down he'll retract his statement.
well I thought that was pretty funny. 8P imagine the difference 2 hours can make in judgement clarity 8)
I said it when he came over that he should never have moved down to WW. His style matches up very well with Anderson (much better than GSP).
If he would have forced the UFC to let him fight at MW instead of WW, I think he would have beaten Anderson. However, he went to WW instead and the rest is history. He'll never get the shot now. By the time he "earns" the shot at MW (multiple wins after a weight jump) Anderson will most likely be done, or only looking for superfights.
lol funny guy
WTF NO! Dude should go back to Strikeforce.
Yeah yeah yeah, Jake. Way to web troll.
he might pull a chonan on silva? :)