Anderson Silva Steals the Show With KO of Forrest Griffin at UFC 101

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PHILADELPHIA -- Anderson Silva walked into UFC 101 surrounded by boos, a goat, and left bathed in adulation, the G.O.A.T., or at least something close.

Needing a highlight-reel worthy performance to quiet the sudden doubts emanating from two straight lackluster performances, Silva -- fighting for only the second time at 205 pounds -- toyed with former UFC light heavyweight champion Forrest Griffin before putting him away with a stunning short right in just 3:23 of the first round.

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PHILADELPHIA - AUGUST 08: Anderson Silva ® throws a right punch to Forrest Griffin during their light heavyweight bout at UFC 101: Declaration at the Wachovia Center on August 8, 2009 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Anderson Silva;Forrest Griffin

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PHILADELPHIA - AUGUST 08: (L-R) UFC Fighter Georges St-Pierre and actor Gerard Butler attend the UFC 101: Declaration at the Wachovia Center on August 8, 2009 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Georges St-Pierre;Gerard Butler

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PHILADELPHIA - AUGUST 08: (L-R) Kenny Florian battles lightweight champion BJ Penn during their lightweight championship title bout at UFC 101: Declaration at the Wachovia Center on August 8, 2009 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** BJ Penn;Kenny Florian

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PHILADELPHIA - AUGUST 08: (Top) Lightweight champion BJ Penn battles Kenny Florian during their lightweight championship title bout at UFC 101: Declaration at the Wachovia Center on August 8, 2009 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** BJ Penn;Kenny Florian

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UFC lightweight champion B.j Penn, left, and Kenny Florian fight in the second round of their mixed martial art match, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009, in Philadelphia. Penn won. (AP Photo/H. Rumph Jr)

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PHILADELPHIA - AUGUST 08: (L-R) Lightweight champion BJ Penn battles Kenny Florian during their lightweight championship title bout at UFC 101: Declaration at the Wachovia Center on August 8, 2009 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** BJ Penn;Kenny Florian

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PHILADELPHIA - AUGUST 08: (Top) Lightweight champion BJ Penn battles Kenny Florian during their lightweight championship title bout at UFC 101: Declaration at the Wachovia Center on August 8, 2009 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** BJ Penn;Kenny Florian

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UFC Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva, right connects with Forrest Griffin in the first round of their mixed martial art match, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009, in Philadelphia. Silva won. (AP Photo/H. Rumph Jr)

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PHILADELPHIA - AUGUST 08: Lightweight champion BJ Penn ® battles Kenny Florian during their lightweight championship title bout at UFC 101: Declaration at the Wachovia Center on August 8, 2009 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** BJ Penn;Kenny Florian

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PHILADELPHIA - AUGUST 08: Lightweight champion BJ Penn ® battles Kenny Florian during their lightweight championship title bout at UFC 101: Declaration at the Wachovia Center on August 8, 2009 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** BJ Penn;Kenny Florian

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"After seeing that, I want to see someone say he isn't the pound-for-pound best in the world now," UFC president Dana White said shortly afterward.

Silva's image makeover was faster than some sports cars do zero-to-60. Upon entering the cage, he was booed lustily by the Wachovia Center crowd of 17,411, who clearly remembered his back-to-back efforts against Patrick Cote and Thales Leites. As expected, the fight with Griffin led to fireworks.

Griffin immediately ran out to take the center of the cage as is his custom, but he landed virtually nothing through the duration of the short fight. Silva toyed with him, dropping his hands, slipping punches, and at one point, imploring Griffin to come at him with more. Though Griffin tried, he couldn't bridge the chasm between very good and great. On this night, he would have needed a mode of transportation to navigate that distance. Silva floored him once, twice, and then finally, for good with a punch that Chuck Liddell would be proud of.

After slipping a few Griffin strikes, the reigning middleweight champion stepped backwards and planted a hard right on the point of Griffin's jaw. The ex-champ's head snapped sideways and he fell back in a heap with his hands outstretched wide. Silva didn't follow him to the mat, aware of what happened, but the fans took a moment to fully digest that just like that, it was over, and over with an exclamation point.

Silva exploded in celebration while Griffin quickly got up, collected himself and sprinted straight out of the cage and back to the locker room. Silva, meanwhile, was suddenly back in the MMA world's good graces, and he jumped to the top of the cage, straddling it and imploring louder cheers.

"Anderson wants to fight the biggest fights possible at 185 or 205," his manager Ed Soares said afterward.

Silva's standup clinic came under the watchful eye of boxer Roy Jones, Jr., who was in the Wachovia Center crowd to watch a man with whom he has been trying to set up a boxing match. In the post-fight press conference, UFC president Dana White again voiced his disinterest in the bout. Instead, he spoke about the possibility of Silva fighting light heavyweight champion Lyoto Machida somewhere down the line.

Machida and Silva, however, are very close friends and have said they would never fight each other. But White says if it's a fight fans want to see, he'll make it happen.

"This sport is about who's best," he said. "It's like a football game. If Anderson gets to the point where he's taking out 205ers, I'll make that fight. I promise you." Silva shook his head no, but that fight would be well in the future anyway. The most likely next opponent for Silva remains Dan Henderson, who is fresh off his UFC 100 knockout over Michael Bisping.

Regardless of what the future holds, Silva stole the show from the main-eventers, Kenny Florian and BJ Penn. The crowd was still buzzing from the Silva knockout by the time the lightweight championship match started.

In the only title match of the night, Penn dominated the challenger from start to finish before submitting Florian with a rear-naked choke in the fourth round. Penn, fighting for the first time since his decimation at the hands of Georges St. Pierre, was overjoyed, dropping to his knees in celebration.

"After a loss, it was very important to come back like this," Penn said. "I'm not used to fans booing me. I wanted to show them that fighting is still my life."

Florian could never get his offense started, trying a series of takedowns that were routinely stuffed by Penn.

The end came in the fourth, when Penn tried his own takedown for the first time at the behest of his brother and cornerman JD, who told him to give Florian a new look. Penn completed the takedown easily and put Florian on his back. From there, he landed a series of elbows and punches before getting Florian's back, softening him up with a few heels to the ribs and choking him out.

For his efforts, Penn won the submission of the night bonus, the first one of his storied career.

Penn said he woke up Saturday morning and wondered what he was doing with himself after nine years in MMA. He thought back to his teenage years when he dreamed of being the UFC champion, and the motivation carried through to the fight.

"I wanted to live that dream again," he said. "It's good to take the belt back to Hawaii. They have a real champion, and I'm happy."

Penn added that he was surprised that Florian stuck with the takedown mindset so long, saying, "He's not a Matt Hughes or a Georges St. Pierre." Penn is likely to face Diego Sanchez in his next title defense.

In the most controversial bout of the evening, former Ultimate Fighter champion Amir Sadollah suffered a knockout loss to UFC newcomer Johny Hendricks.

Hendricks landed a hard left that hurt Sadollah. Another flurry put Sadollah down, and he landed on all fours as Hendricks rained punches from the top. Referee Dan Miragliotta quickly stopped the fight, but Sadollah and the crowd protested to no avail.

"When I hit him, I saw his eyes roll back in his head," Hendricks told FanHouse. "I tried to hurt him. I tried to hit him with everything I got. That's all I can do. Everything else is the referee's job to protect the fighter first."

Meanwhile, Ricardo Almeida might have made his last match as a middleweight a successful one. After fighting off a deep arm bar attempt in the second round, Almeida regained control and won a unanimous decision over Kendall Grove.

"It was very tight," he told FanHouse. "I was waiting for my arm to pop so I could get out. I just felt that I was caught and there was no way out. But Kendall started adjusting my wrist around and it was just enough to get the elbow out."

Afterward, Almeida told FanHouse that he was not able to completely straighten out his arm, but said it was likely not a serious injury. He is likely to drop down to welterweight in his next bout.

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PHILADELPHIA – Hours after the most electrifying domination in a career filled with them, deep in a back hallway of the Wachovia Center, Anderson Silva was waiting for Dana White. Silva is the UFC’s middleweight (185-pound) champion but Saturday he boldly moved up 20 pounds and in a jaw-dropping exhibition, brutalized Forrest Griffin, who just nine months ago was the light heavyweight (205) title holder.

Silva knocked Griffin down twice, offered a hand to help him up once and then promptly floored him again for good at 3:23 of the first round of UFC 101. Most remarkably, he did it with a punch he threw while backpedaling.

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It was a complete annihilation. Griffin failed to land a single punch and when he came to his senses, he sprung up and ran from the octagon, trying to push through a doctor’s examination.

“He might be in Georgia by now, he ran out and I haven’t seen him since,†White, the UFC president, joked.

That Silva could move up a weight class and not just win, but destroy with power, was a game-changing and perhaps UFC-altering moment. That’s what Silva and his manager, Ed Soares, wanted to discuss with White.

With his arm wrapped around White’s shoulder, Soares leaned in and delivered a proposition. “Spider†Silva would move permanently to light heavyweight, even if it meant the unorthodox move of giving up his middleweight belt.

“I can do that,†White smiled, a bit stunned at the offer. “I like that. We can do that.â€

Soares smiled and shook White’s hand. Silva had been accosted by a fan by then and couldn’t hear White, but it was presumably the news he was seeking. The man has such outrageous confidence in his abilities he’s willing to potentially toss away a championship he’s owned for almost three years to take a challenge outside his comfort zone.

“I’d let him,†White said later, sitting in his quiet dressing room. “We’d put [the middleweight title] up for grabs.â€

The hour was late and everyone’s excitement was still high. Perhaps plans and goals change by morning, so White didn’t know what to say officially. This was still just hurried talk. He knew this much though, as a promoter there are more blockbuster fights for Silva at 205 than 185, where he’s beaten everyone of note.

Silva’s next title defense was supposed to be against Dan Henderson, who Silva savagely choked out in March 2008.

“Who knows,†White said, wheels already spinning. “We’ll see what happens. In the talks I’ve had with Anderson, he wants to take on the best in the world. He’s the most talented fighter in the world, the best pound for pound fighter and it’s a joke to say anyone else is. And he wants to continue to prove [it].â€

White thought for a moment.

“He would jump in that mix [at the top of the light heavyweight division],†White said. “You’ve got Rashad [Evans], you’ve got Rampage [Jackson], [Lyoto] Machida is the champion. And Tito [Ortiz] is in the mix now.â€

If Silva did vacate the middleweight title to move up full time, the ironic thing is that he claims it wouldn’t be to pursue the light heavyweight belt. At least as long as it was held by Machida, a fellow Brazilian and training partner.

“Lyoto is my friend, he is my brother and there is no way that fight will ever happen,†Silva said.

White, coveting a clash between two men who are both unbeaten in UFC competition, brushes that talk aside.

“I’ll make it happen,†White said winking his eye. “It’s not even about money. It’s about proving you’re the best, it’s about securing your place in history. It’s about putting on a super fight that fans want to see.

“I’m all about making big fights that fans want to see.â€

Saturday was one of those fights. Silva was motivated by criticism that his last two fights – both victories mind you ¬– were dull, so he gladly moved up to take on a dangerous Griffin, who was known for his attack dog style.

It was intriguing, at least until Silva started toying with Griffin. He knocked Griffin down at will, dared him to connect with a punch, challenged him to be as tough as his reputation and then finally just finished him.

Coming in there was a “Rocky†element to the fight, Griffin the heavy underdog with the Philly crowd firmly behind him and booing Silva. By the end, Griffin was gone and Silva was being cheered. It was the recognition of brilliance overcoming any easy Hollywood storylines.

“He wants to be involved in the biggest fights we can put together,†Soares said.

The fact Silva took this fight is a testament to that. The Brazilian is 25-4 overall and has won all 10 of his fights in the UFC. At age 34, he could’ve sat at middleweight and potentially won 10 more, making nice money with relatively little risk in a division he’s been untouchable in.

That isn’t him though. Not even close.

So not long after stunning the sport with a legendary performance, there he and his manager were, trying to force a back-hall huddle with the UFC kingmaker. Move Silva to light heavyweight for good, they suggested to White.

With nothing left to prove at middleweight, Anderson Silva now wants to lay waste to a whole new division of the UFC. He doesn’t need a belt to prove a thing.

[venom33]

this is what happens when brazils best fights a reality show contestant. one of the worst fights in mma history!    :-\  jmo

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Lol that reality contestant has beat 2 of the best light heavyweights in the world. Your a hater  of the UFC jmo

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I am a big silva fan...I was a tad worried about this fight because I knew Forrest would throw haymakers but Silva is just pure beast.

I rooted for Ken Flo but he was just outsized and didn't have the pop in his punches. No elbows last night.

3 of the 5 matches were awful, but I'll keep buying the PPVs. BTW, who is going to Dallas?

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i agree with venom on this forrest is one of my favorite fighters but that was awful  :/

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Lol that reality contestant has beat 2 of the best light heavyweights in the world. Your a hater  of the UFC jmo

you are correct, im a fan of mma not a company, i couldnt give a crap less who was promoting it! i enjoy the fights the ufc puts on, but i dont like the fact that each ppv has only 1-2 fights that are worth watching and the other 5-6 fights are tuf dilluted who i think are mediocre at best! however, i dont think anywhere in my statement i mentioned the ufc at all. i mentioned an inconsistant,overrated reality show contestant who was involved in the most exciting fight (tuf1 finale with bonnar)in ufc history and after last night one of the most horrible matches in not only the ufc but mma history!  he needs to focus more on mma and less on writing books! jmo

i do think its funny though how you use only half of the facts to either state or validate your arguement. you fail to mention that forrest has gotten his a$$ handed to him by much lesser fighters and pulled off a controversial decision against rampage. any other fighters who've had this many recent horrible,lackluster performances would either be on the chopping block or you'd be dogging out on these boards.

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Lets see he has lost to tito Ortiz close fight, Jardine Number 7 in the world, Rashad Evans number 2 in the world and rank in the top 10 PFP list in the world, and Anderson silva PFP best in the world. Those fighters right there are much lesser figthers that he lost too lol what the hell ever, he has lost to 4 guys that are pretty dang good and 2 of the guys are top 10 in the world.  Hey UFC puts on how many shows a year????How many shows does strikeforce M1 put up lol. Those are the last 4 fights for Forrest atleast he fights the best in the world and not guys like Fedor has fought lol, I mean what can you say he lost to the best fighter in the WORLD, it happens, just like pacman vs hatton i mean there just that good.

Anderson Silva                     

  Rashad Evans 

Quinton Jackson 

Mauricio Rua 

Tim Sylvia- lost to a  46 year old boxer lol

Hong Man Choi- who is this guy again   

Matt Lindland- fought a 185 pound fighter

Andrei Arlovski- no chit arlovski 

[UT#1]

or maybe he should write more books after that performance lol did you read it?? i quite enjoyed the book

[venom33]

Lets see he has lost to tito Ortiz close fight, Jardine Number 7 in the world, Rashad Evans number 2 in the world and rank in the top 10 PFP list in the world, and Anderson silva PFP best in the world. Those fighters right there are much lesser figthers that he lost too lol what the heck ever, he has lost to 4 guys that are pretty dang good and 2 of the guys are top 10 in the world.  Hey UFC puts on how many shows a year????How many shows does strikeforce M1 put up lol. Those are the last 4 fights for Forrest atleast he fights the best in the world and not guys like Fedor has fought lol, I mean what can you say he lost to the best fighter in the WORLD, it happens, just like pacman vs hatton i mean there just that good.

Anderson Silva                      

 Rashad Evans  

Quinton Jackson  

Mauricio Rua  

Tim Sylvia- lost to a  46 year old boxer lol

Hong Man Choi- who is this guy again    

Matt Lindland- fought a 185 pound fighter

Andrei Arlovski- no chit arlovski  

incredible.... can we have a discussion thread without you bringing up fedor? seriously? after the ppv last night i went on numerous sites and it amazed me that YOU were the only one i found that was bringing up such garbage. dude, give it a break.... im a fan of fedor no doubt but im a much bigger fan of mma! youve got to love the sport more than you hate the fighter!!!   ive said this numerous times about your threads that you use very biased opinions when you post and very, very little fact, but when you do throw a fact or two its only half of the story. ive tried and i cannot argue with you over an opinion, heck i dont think anyone on here can. you mention fights that will never happen, you call people out whom you will never meet, its like you get a hand full of crap and throw it at the wall and whatever sticks you use it to backup your opinion.

example of you using only certain stats that back your position: you mention the fighters who fedor has fought recently, but you fail to mention what their rank was when he fought them only their recent losses and lindlands weight difference. in the same paragraph you mention the rank of rashad, tito(last time he was relevant?) and jardine but fail to mention their recent,devastating losses! again, you only use the stats that benefit your position. you need to understand, like baseball this is a stat based sport and opinion can only go so far.

also, lindlands weight was 215-220 the night of the fedor fight!!!

[venom33]

since you opened the can........silva has been dominate since he joined the UFC but fedor has been dominate before that and still is!

fedor has fought the worlds best and he is undefeated in MMA. The "loss" to TK was a joke and he proved that in the rematch. Silva is yet to fight the very best. He looks like a world beater against the likes of Franklin, Leben and Griffin but in the big picture those guys are nowhere near the top of the world rankings. Henderson is really the only top fighter that he's fought in the UFC and I don't think he was really prepared for the fight. Fedor beat a string of ex UFC champs and the very best that Pride could throw at him. When Silva's record even remotely resembles Fedors then maybe we can revisit this.

also,fedor has no legitimate losses Anderson has what 3 or 4.

fedor might not be fighting in two weight classes but has beaten several top HW's who out weigh him by 20, 30,100 Lbs or more.

fedor remains unbeaten and continues to be possibly the P4P best fighter on the planet and top hw of all time.

maybe if fedor beats hardonk, kongo, herring again, and kimbo you would respect him more.   ;D

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Venom,

I think you have a very biased opinion as well.. Yes Fedor has fought the best, but that was a while ago... I think he is probably the greatest fighter, but he has not been tested against the best lately... Baseball is right the folks he is fighting now just aren't at the level of what Anderson Silva is fighting at. Fedor had the chance to fight in the best org in the world and fight the best heavyweights that are here right now...  I would take Lesnar, Mir, Coture, and even Carwin before any of the douche bags he will be fighting in Strikeforce or dream... Maybe we can see him fight Minowaman (Awesome)......NOT

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Lindland was a overweight lol and looked sloppy......and Jardine devasting losses Jardine lost a Decison to Rampage in a pretty good fight lol and Rashad and tito lost to the 2nd best PFP fighter in the world in MACHIDA I mean atleast these guys are fighting the BEST..

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Hey venom those fights I mention could happen because UFC makes the BEST fights, if your BOY fedor would man up and fight in the UFC those fights could happen and you know it.

[venom33]

Venom,

I think you have a very biased opinion as well.. Yes Fedor has fought the best, but that was a while ago... I think he is probably the greatest fighter, but he has not been tested against the best lately... Baseball is right the folks he is fighting now just aren't at the level of what Anderson Silva is fighting at. Fedor had the chance to fight in the best org in the world and fight the best heavyweights that are here right now...  I would take Lesnar, Mir, Coture, and even Carwin before any of the douche bags he will be fighting in Strikeforce or dream... Maybe we can see him fight Minowaman (Awesome)......NOT

let me make sure i get this straight, mir 12-4, lesnar 4-1, carwin 11-0 ,and oldture 16-9 are the "best" fights out there for fedor 30-1, and rogers 10-0 ,overeem 29-11 , yvel 36-13, monson 31-8, and barnett 24-5 are all d-bags? these are the people you look down on???? i guess when someone signs with the ufc they become 50% better than they were before they signed the contract.  :

oh, you might want to check minowas record and see who hes fought and defeated. he has 80 total mma fights with a record of 42-30.....he will fight ANYONE. thats not a fighter i would bad mouth.... youre showing your noob colors. 

also, i have to say you totally got me and made your point with the "NOT" at the end! 

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Every mma fan would rather see fedor fight lesnar. Coutore. Carwin.velesquez. mir. Machida. Ortiz. Peoole can careless bout Barnett now and monson but Rogers fight people would watch that's it others guys you name we could careless.

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Who wants to watch fedor fight guys that have 11 losses and 13 losses come on now we want to see him figtht heavyweigt contenders rank in the world pound for pound guys in the world oh wait ufc has all those guys but fedor won't step up to the plate and fight the best anymore.

[venom33]

Every mma fan would rather see fedor fight lesnar. Coutore. Carwin.velesquez. mir. Machida. Ortiz. Peoole can careless bout Barnett now and monson but Rogers fight people would watch that's it others guys you name we could careless.

incredible....

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It is incredible how the ufc is lol. Be Better if they had fagedor there whoops I mean fedor

[venom33]

It is incredible how the ufc is lol. Be Better if they had fagedor there whoops I mean fedor

wow! instead they can rely on oldture!  ;D

[Guest baseball25]

Nah they have lesnar.gsp. Silva. And machida.top 3    Best fighters in the world but get coutore does sell more pviews then fedor so why not keep him lol

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Venom

You keep referring to Fedor as the best PFP fighter in the world (and he may be) but much of that title is based on opinion which, as you stated, only means so much.

I think Silva has stepped up and could hold a claim to that title. He has dominated his division, stepped up and annihilated a quality light heavy weight and may be willing to give up his belt and move up to take on the rest of the division to prove how good he is. He's willing to fight the best in the world and go after them, not just sit back and say I'm the best and expect that respect.

Seems like that's how you earn #1 PFP ranking in the world. JMO

I was one of those that was questioning his position,,, but not any more.

[venom33]

Venom

You keep referring to Fedor as the best PFP fighter in the world (and he may be) but much of that title is based on opinion which, as you stated, only means so much.

I think Silva has stepped up and could hold a claim to that title. He has dominated his division, stepped up and annihilated a quality light heavy weight and may be willing to give up his belt and move up to take on the rest of the division to prove how good he is. He's willing to fight the best in the world and go after them, not just sit back and say I'm the best and expect that respect.

Seems like that's how you earn #1 PFP ranking in the world. JMO

I was one of those that was questioning his position,,, but not any more.

i think the title of best p4p and top hw in the world does consist of opinion but the majority is factual info. i would be willing to agree if not silva then it would be gsp... ive said this in previous posts.