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Originally Posted by jd1020
What do I have to be butthurt about? You were the one insinuating that Silva doesn't go down to someone just sticking his arm out and got hit by a hulk-like smash.
Silva's cocky, got clipped in the wrong spot, went down. The End. There was no domination from Weidman, like some are suggesting. It was a shallow win for Weidman, brought on by Silva's cockiness. You can sit there and say it's some gameplan by Silva, and maybe it is, but you can't tell me that when he's training for a fight he's being coached to have his arms down and let the other guy hit him and to put yourself against the cage and let the other guy get position.
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When you engage in a combat sport, you can usually tell within the first 10-20 seconds how well you are going to size up against someone.
With that said, people are insinuating that Silva "got cocky" because he felt he saw Weidman's best and was confident that he could get away with it. I think that's bullshit. If anything, he show-boated with intentions of using his own show-boating as an excuse for getting his ass kicked, if it ended up happening...and I think Silva caught on relatively quickly that the possibility of that happening was a very, very legit one....so the show-boating was in absolute excess and look what happens...he lost, yet the vast majority of spectators are calling it a "fluke" because they believe he lost due to show-boating.
After being taken down and struck repeatedly by Weidman in the first, Silva knew he didn't want to be there again. He felt it. That's why he was so efficient and determined to counter the takedown attempt in the 2nd. And while it probably wasn't in Weidman's best interests to go strike for strike, toe to toe with Silva...Weidman was a lot better off there than Silva was on the ground with Weidman.
And I thought Weidman rocked Silva while they were on the ground than many people may have thought.