UFC 101: Declaration - August 8th in Philadelphia

[ndeezlo]

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Do you think Forrest will feel guilty cashing that check for fight of the night?

[Heelfan71]

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[MC Fatigue]

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I really want to see GSP vs Anderson Silva now. I think GSP can easily fight at 185. That would be a great fight.

Honestly; what part of watching Silva absolutely humiliate Forrest makes you think that GSP fighting him would be a good idea?

After watching that - I'd truly feel sorry for GSP if he was dumb enough to sign a fight against him. Dude wants to test himself against the best, but does he really want to be completely dismantled? I don't really see what GSP could possibly do to the man.

He's had two fights now at 205 with something to prove, and just destroyed both of them. A few lack luster fights at 185, but honestly he's got nothing to prove down there. If it weren't for Machida, I could see Silva moving up permanently.

[Heelfan71]

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GSP doesn't stand a chance against Silva.

[allBthere]

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did forrest just take a dive or something? that was the weirdest fight i've ever seen. lw's can take that ko punch. the way he just got up and ran away...it was all very strange to me.

if forrest was really ko'd by that punch, his career is over. anyone can take that punch.

[Heelfan71]

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Dislocated jaw and couldn't hear out of one ear. It wasn't the last punch that did it. The knock down before that

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/oth...o-Machida.html

[allBthere]

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GSP doesn't stand a chance against Silva.

the same type of confident style posts were flying around that gsp would get ko'd by alves and he dominated him.

this fight with forrest didn't prove much to me...it was a crap fight - forrest didn't try to bring any type of pain...it's was just crap. it's like he wanted to go down and get ko'd.

This wasn't some kind of amazing wow-factor fights imo...forrest should be very embarassed. maybe cote should move up and go to a decision. crap fight, doesn't say anything about how gsp would fare against him. and imo gsp can win.

[Heelfan71]

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don't think Forrest should be embarassed. If that is the case, then pretty much everyone Silva fought should be embarassed. He was caught with a good punch that dislocated his jaw by arguably the best P4P fighter in the world.

[aholbert32]

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did forrest just take a dive or something? that was the weirdest fight i've ever seen. lw's can take that ko punch. the way he just got up and ran away...it was all very strange to me.

James Irvin got hit by a similar punch by Silva and got Ko'd

[jmood88]

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Late to this thread, but Amir got jobbed. No way should that have been stopped, he wasn't taking any of those punches while he was trying to get up, they were wild and not connecting.

I don't know, it didn't look like he was able to do anything once he dropped and he didn't protest them stopping the fight.

[jmood88]

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the same type of confident style posts were flying around that gsp would get ko'd by alves and he dominated him.

this fight with forrest didn't prove much to me...it was a crap fight - forrest didn't try to bring any type of pain...it's was just crap. it's like he wanted to go down and get ko'd.

This wasn't some kind of amazing wow-factor fights imo...forrest should be very embarassed. maybe cote should move up and go to a decision. crap fight, doesn't say anything about how gsp would fare against him. and imo gsp can win.

I'm pretty sure Anderson Silva is much better than Alves.

[aholbert32]

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I don't know, it didn't look like he was able to do anything once he dropped and he didn't protest them stopping the fight.

i think the issue is Hendricks hit him like 5 times in the back of the head wildly and the ref did nothing. Amir was definetly stunned but I dont know how you allow Hendricks to hit him in the back of the head.

[Heelfan71]

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[Wet Bandit]

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Honestly; what part of watching Silva absolutely humiliate Forrest makes you think that GSP fighting him would be a good idea?

After watching that - I'd truly feel sorry for GSP if he was dumb enough to sign a fight against him. Dude wants to test himself against the best, but does he really want to be completely dismantled? I don't really see what GSP could possibly do to the man.

Really? Last night really did nothing to address Silva's weaknesses. He's a phenomenal striker, sure, but GSP was never gonna out-strike him. The way GSP would do his damage against Silva would be with takedowns and ground-and-pound, which Silva showed he was susceptible to against Lutter and Hendo. And last night did nothing to change that.

It'd certainly be tough, but GSP's chances are just as good today as they were two days ago against Silva.

That being said, if Silva comes out and dominated Hendo in his next fight, shrugging off takedowns and keeping the fight standing, then I'll say GSP has no chance. But right now, there's still the very real chance GSP could take him down repeatedly and control him and pound him on the ground.

[Wet Bandit]

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i think the issue is Hendricks hit him like 5 times in the back of the head wildly and the ref did nothing. Amir was definetly stunned but I dont know how you allow Hendricks to hit him in the back of the head.

Yeah, I don't have a problem with the timing of the stoppage as much as the fact that Hendricks was just unloading on the back of Amir's head with no repercussions. That was insane.