Nogueira on Sonnen: Anderson will beat him like a child
Posted on July 8, 2010, 02:03 AM by Joey SantosusOn August 7th in Oakland, California, UFC 117 will be headlined by the middleweight championship bout between current division champion Anderson "The Spider" Silva and number one contender Chael Sonnen. While a little pre-fight banter has come to be expected, never before has it remained such a one-sided affair.
During a June UFC Fight Club Q&A it became apparent that not even "The Spider's" Black House training partners would be spared:
“He’s got a black belt under the Nogueiras,” Sonnen said of Silva. “I think a black belt under the Nogueiras is saying, like, ‘I got a free toy in my Happy Meal.’ I don’t really understand what the big deal is. One of ’em’s a punching bag, and the other one I just ignore; he’s really irrelevant.”
The Nogueira brothers are generally held in high regard within the mixed martial arts community. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira is a former UFC and Pride heavyweight champion, while the younger of the two brothers Antonio Rogerio Nogueira, is currently one of the top-ten ranked light-heavyweights in the world.
While Silva has remained mostly silent, Rogerio has recently spoke out in regards to Sonnen's comments: “I think he's just talking nonsense,” Rogerio said. “He is not even a real challenger to Anderson. I think other fighters have done much more in the division, such as Dan Henderson, Nate Marquardt, whom he won against, Demian Maia, who played with him like a child, and Vitor Belfort. He is enjoying his 15 minutes of fame. He will take a beating from Anderson, who will beat him like a child, will beat his ass and will shut his mouth.”
Rogerio believes that Sonnen has resorted to mind games, but feels Sonnen knows his place:
“He knows Anderson will beat him and he is enjoying his 15 minutes of fame, knowing that it will end,” Rogerio said. “He has no qualifications to compete for the belt -- that's the truth. He doesn’t have good boxing or ground, only good wrestling.”
While some suspect Silva's silence is due to his UFC 112 outing that resulted in a displeased Dana White, Rogerio attributes it to confidence:
“Anderson is on another level,” Rogerio said. “He is not worried. He knows that the guy is doing it for attention. He hopes that Anderson will lose his control and blow up. It’s the only chance he has since Anderson is technically much better than him.”
Source: Sherdog
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Lol, I can see this prediction coming true, but who knows Fedor lost Mousasi lost and Penn lost so Silva could lose too but I really hope he shuts Sonnen up, I think Silva can handle Sonnen's wrestling seeing that he trains his ground wit Munoz, and the Nog brothers
Agreed. Sonnen is known to be weak to submissions, and Anderson is better at BJJ than he lets on. Just because he doesnt go to the ground with BJJ experts doesnt mean hes not a great grappler - he his displayed great grappling skills in the past.
Takedowns are not going to get Sonnen anywhere when he does not have the best GnP. It would just bring him in to Silvas game.
Sonnens comments on the Nogueiras shows his ignorance. They have been practicing BJJ since they were teens, training with and receiving their black belts training under 5th degree black belt Ricardo De La Riva. Saying they mean nothing and are just punching bags/irrelevant displays Sonnens desperation to BE relevant.
Its time for Silva to move on an into retirement. Im tired of his face and overrated'ness...thats right, its a word now :P
Anderson has to be the champ with the lowest amount of fans. People can respect his style all they want, but would you want to spend a whole day with this guy, with that kind of crappy personality, and the chance that ed soares might be there too and talk like Dana White??? PFFT I wouldn't....
Im not a Sonnen fan, but i like his guts. So by all means. Take that belt Sonnen!!!! free the mma world from people like Anderson.
Does Nogueira have any children...?
After Dana White's bullshit threat to cut Anderson, I hope Silva just taps at the sound of the bell, quits UFC and goes to Strikeforce.
Fedor and mousasi hadn't been fighting real competitors, and BJ penn fell victim to a good gameplan revolving around current rules....even though penn is the better fighter. Chael has no such luxury
I agree Silva is a bit overrated myself, but attacking his persona like that is unnecessary. He is generally a respectful fighter like GSP is, and jusr because he doesn't speak much English does not make him have a crappy personality.
Have you seen him taking off other fighters, copying their moves? Priceless, or getting trained by Steven Seagal?
As overrated as I think Silva is, he is still an outstanding fighter, and Sonnen will be wishing he'd kept his mouth shut When them Knees are breaking his face.
How is he overrated?
Who's gay? People just want to see him fight and you're talking about spending a day with him
I dont think u are very well versed in what you are talking about.... Silva is funny and is generally an easy going guy.... What are u basing your ideas on?? Oh yea and Silva has a ton of fans...
Its based on a couple of things. For one, in my opinion, a Champion should be humble, genuine and a good role model. Especially the role model part because they get to be on a huge worldwide stage. Silva's humor is a matter of taste so thats just a bad argument. I got tons of humor but I just don't laugh at Silvas impersonations or jokes. However you cant argue that Silva was humble and a good role model in his last fight against Maya. What he did was show his true colors. He enjoyed making a fool of Maya humiliating him with the kind of taunts that kids use in the schoolyard. Watch the fight again... A champion, that unmotivated to fight, running backwards, only juuuust taking enough points to win, not going for the finish and to top it off, the afore mentioned kiddy taunts.
Well versed?? what about "Silva is funny and is generally an easy going guy" is well versed Stick?
I say Silva is overrated not because of his lack of ability to fight, but of his lack of will to fight to the top of his ability. People talk about the best A.Silva can be when they talk about him as a p4p king. But you have to be in luck to see the best Silva nowadays. Its if he wants on the given night, your never sure to see a good fight in fact. I think most of his fights have bin really boring, with some seconds of brilliance. If he's really that good, it shouldn't be so hard to finish people and fight to the top of his ability.
And last but not least. Every fighter especially the champions do lots of QnA's or at least show up for the press before the fights and talk mindset, strategy and so on...open workouts. Silva has never done any of that blaming has bad english...Ive seen him do whole interviews about other fighters fights talking english well enough to be able to do the interviews. He's LYING!!
Was that well versed enough for your acquired taste stick? ;-P
omg if michael jordan was so good, he'd score 60 points every night or i'm gonna bitch at him! he's overrated cos he doesn't do that, as well as acting how i want him to act 100% of the time!
Who cares about the press and QnA's? What's that have to do with anything really? that entire thing was sorta retarded, you go out and complain that he's overrated cos he's not doing what YOU want him to do, then introduce nonsense about basically how he doesn't talk enough to service people who really aren't intelligent enough to understand his plan anyways.
people still saying "omg y do silva not jump into guard lyke fedor!?!?" And wonder why he's not going to discuss strategy for you.
a mear example to get simpletons like you to understand that his personality sucks.
You know its like with little kids, you gotta get down to their level and come up with examples they can relate to.
Oh and Silva is overrated. how can a dancing prancing sissy schoolgirl, with nuthugger gay avatar using fans like you, be the p4p king?? only in your simple mind!!
Sonnen is going to look silly after this fight. I just have a feeling about this one. Then.... bye bye political career.
His political career is already gone xD
What Rogerio says is so true the part where he says he has bad boxing and a bad ground game is so true - His wrestling is top class but when he gets people down there he doesnt do too much damage and he has been submitted 7 times in his career which aint good considering Anderson is a black belt in BJJ and has submitted people before including a top class wrestler in Dan Henderson...
...Sonnen needs to be careful about the ground game just cause you have him down doesnt mean he aint dangerous...
... R.I.P CHAEL SONNEN...
Yeah, Anderson got Lutter in a triangle too. I think he can grapple well enough to for Sonnen =D
he sound pissed,ahahah
A lot of people are being proven wrong lately.
I think The Spider is is one of the best P4P fighters ever and has got all the right tools to distroy this fool, but....
I've got a feeling about this one. I don't know why but I think Sonnen might come good in this one.
Like ston3pony said, there have been a lot of unexpected outcomes lately and I feel this could be another.
Unexpected depending on who you ask......
Nogueira is no one to be predicting fights because he is garbage
and if Sonnen wins what he going to say then
everybody who saying that sonnen is going to loose is on andersons D**K
i hope he brakes his neck while slamming him
na what am i talking about andersons GOD in his division
but i hope sonnen wins
Right on dude. Nice to hear im not the only one who wants Sonnen to win on this site. Maaaan if Sonnen KO'ed Silva with a slam, that would be the nicest gift to the mma world. I would laugh my shorts off...
All these recent upsets call for a new champ in the middleweight division as well.
Nice to see the little girls take a vacation from hating Brock to hate on another champion, it was getting quite repetitive
lols. Guy has the gayest avatar ever and calls us girls.
Dude, get a job, **** off and learn to hate Anderson. Or keep being the gaylord that adored Anderson even when he lost to a wrestler who intimidated him....Madnessucker!
Why is that gay, it's only gay if you're attracted. I have a job, that's why i'm not on here posting all da. keep nuthugging cos your king lost, all the fake accounts in the world won't change that you cowardly little princess.
HAHAHA WOAW!!! you have a job REALLY??? Im so impressed, and now, your not gay and have my respect. Is that what you where hoping to hear bitch? Your the nuthugger, get Andersons ballsack out of your throat and open your eyes. Andersons latest competition, and Im talking the last 5 years, has bin 90 percent losers. Fedor might not have fought top competition for a while either but hey, he's only lost once really. Anderson cant brag about that. He can however dance around the ring like the sissy schoolgirl he is (maybe you wanna join him in a dance?) and humiliate himself and the sport. What a pathetic champion he is. And yet, ballsuckers like you just cant get enough, and like to show gay avatars to send the message: "were here and were queer, get used to it" Good for you madnessux, good for you. Go choke on a ****
90% losers? Who SHOULD he fight retard? Should he venture outside the division AGAIN to find competition? outside the sport? Outside the UFC? Shut the hell up, if you have the balls then get back on your real account and i promise i won't hurt you too badly.
Fedor is the one not fighting top competition, and we all know who he actually should fight. RE-read what you said, saying that you fight low competition and only lost once is meaningless.
Nuthuggers make things up and completely avoid facts to hype up the object of their affection. For example, how the hell are you going to lose fighting competition that the rest of the top competition could also destroy? Yea but anderson should totally tell you his strategy when you're too dumb to understand anything out of "smash n bash" so that you feel like "spending a day with him".
Yea...it's totally not gay to talk about how you want to spend the day with another guy.
Nuthuggers make things up and completely avoid facts to hype up the object of their affection. For example, how the hell are you going to lose fighting competition that the rest of the top competition could also destroy? Yea but anderson should totally tell you his strategy when you're too dumb to understand anything out of "smash n bash" so that you feel like "spending a day with him"
Yeah u described urself pretty good there ****face.
Read all my comments and note the time too so you get the whole thing.
However I think your easy pray, gettin your panties all up in a bunch...What real account? what are you on, I got 1 account and thats this one BIATCH.
Understandign mma is too much to ask of you madnessucks
Now go suck at something else
this year been shocking first bj penn lost then machida then rampage then fedor and then carwin lets see wht happens next.....
aah Okay, Rampage and Carwin losing were no way near upsets. The other ones were though.
Machida wasn't so shocking...i mean he's my second favorite fighter, but shogun is a good fighter, just not nearly as dominant. BJ was a shock yea, but it made sense.
Fedor was pretty shocking, but making blatant mistakes catches up with everyone
Carwin was an upset.
This is what is going to happen. Chael is going to take Anderson down, end up in his guard and he will be surpised at how secure it is and how he will be unable to break through it cause anderson is a bjj black belt and a lanky sunuvagun. Eventually he will get submitted.
I Agree. Anderson has knocked people out from the bottom lol
lil nog, u mad? yeah... u mad.
That elbow from Marquardt must have messed Sonnen's brain up. The stuff he's saying is beyond delusional. If he can't think for himself, at least someone in his camp should shut him up.
Plastic Surgeons alert. Good luck Sonnen.
After seeing LIL Nog get handled, rocked, and nearly submitted by Brilz his opinion means less to me.
Everybody keeps going to the Hendo fight and pointing out that Silva "submitted a wrestler". Hendo was pretty clear that he has out of it from a punch and didn't really know what is going on.
I would be more impressed if Silva took someone down and then submitted him.
I think Silva will win but I am hoping for the upset. Silva is a straight up ****. Maia was pretty straight forward in an interview and said that he was fake and is two faced.
Im afraid Chael will go from being in the spotlight to just having purple spots on his eyes.
Sonnen is a liar. In one of his recent interviews he said he's never lost at middle weight, which is of course a bold face lie. He lost to Maia. He just says all these things so fools who don't know any better will think he's a bad-ass. He is literally a deceiver. Almost every other word that comes out of his mouth is just a straight up lie.
All that crap he said about Anderson speaking English fluently backstage and being scared of Sonnen whenever they meet is all 100% made-up B.S.. Anyone who buys his lies is a total fool. Sadly, that is a lot of people. Just look how many people he deceives in his political career too. The man is a professional liar, just like most politicians. All he has been trying to do this whole time is boost his own career by trash talking someone better than him.
Silva has made the situation worse by being a bit ****y in a couple of his recent fights. But he's a good guy; he just gets board in the ring sometimes. Sonnen, on the other hand, is a complete douche. He is going to lose big, there is no doubt about it. Sadly, that won't shut his mouth though. His kind never shut up.
I don't know about the back stage part, but he is definitely lying about the twitter account and that he is undefeated in middle weight.
What? (above).... you can't say c-o-c-k-y on this board without it getting turned into ****'s. What kind of a a f-u-c-k-i-n-g stupid rule is that? :)
It's just a program they use, all it sees is your c*ck
Oh Noguieria started talking too much, I think its one of the reason why he lost for Cain...