UFC 112: Invincible April 10, 2010

[dbreiden83080]

now where is oligarchy this anderson entertainment fan?

I'm sure he'll come trolling in here, attack anyone who does not agree with him with 4 year old insults and then slink off again for a few weeks..

[dbreiden83080]

I don't like BJ, but I think his performance spoke for itself. Kenny/Diego would have wiped the floor with Edgar..and he somehow got a victory? It's also an easy out for Penn to chase other fights in other divisions, it's been a long time since he's lost at LW.

If Anderson wants to be a clown, and Dana wants to punish him AND at the same time make Jon Jones wait a year for a le shot AND give back to the fans...make Silva vs Jon Jones for free on TV.

I think Penn going back to WW is dead now..

He lost to Edgar, think of what Alves would do to him..

[djohn14]

Haha Anderson Silva is still the best MMA fighter in the world

[djohn14]

Btw, no I havent watched the fights, but I still believe hes the best

[dbreiden83080]

Btw, no I havent watched the fights, but I still believe hes the best

He spends more time goofing off then throwing punches.. And i am so beyond sick of him bowing to his foes like he respects them and then has hissy fits at them in the ring..

Silva is an ass-hole

Bottom line..

[dbreiden83080]

Haha Anderson Silva is still the best MMA fighter in the world

The way Dana is talking if he wasn't champ

He'd be cut..

[HarlemHeat37]

I understand the hate for Silva's antics, but speaking for myself, I love it..I fully understand why somebody would be angry after paying 50$ or whatever it is..I love seeing taunting and disrespect though, it's one of my favorite parts of fighting..

Silva is the best, and I doubt he'll be humbled until somebody beats him or comes really close to beating him..

[dbreiden83080]

I understand the hate for Silva's antics, but speaking for myself, I love it..I fully understand why somebody would be angry after paying 50$ or whatever it is..I love seeing taunting and disrespect though, it's one of my favorite parts of fighting..

Silva is the best, and I doubt he'll be humbled until somebody beats him or comes really close to beating him..

Well if you see the fight you'll see what i mean about Silva. I am not kidding he spent most of round 2 yelling at Maia and making goofy gestures at him. If you are so unimpressed by what he is offering, engage and knock him the out.. IS this a fight or a debate? People that were all over GSP about wrestling Hardy too much. Did GSP take hardy down and then at him about his lousy takedown defense for a whole round? Dana is calling this an epic embarassment and he's right

For once..

Sherdog play by play

Silva is frustrated with Maia’s lack of gameness. Silva waves him on angrily and Maia refuses to be baited in. The crowd boos as Silva just stands stationary, waving his opponent on. Silva grows more angry as he screams at Maia to bring it on. This is such a strange scene. Silva continues to voice his displeasure and then he kicks Maia’s feet right out from under him.

[djohn14]

Well....on a brighter note...Did they show Phil Davis's fight?

[Blackjack]

Unrepentant Silva makes mockery of sport
By Kevin Iole, Yahoo! Sports

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates – As the fourth round ended in the middleweight championship fight on Saturday at UFC 112 at Ferrari World, Ultimate Fighting Championship president Dana White picked up Anderson Silva’s le belt and tossed it in the direction of Silva’s manager, Ed Soares.

White was nearly becoming physically ill watching Silva clown in the cage and avoid fighting. He wanted nothing to do with presenting the champion with his belt after the fight with Demian Maia ended.

Silva pranced around the ring, making odd motions and strange faces, banging the mat, running in circles and generally behaving as if he had no understanding that people paid significant money to watch him fight.

He looked like a fool and he disrespected his opponent, the sport, his employers and, most significantly, a live crowd which paid a gate of $3.5 million as well as the hundreds of thousands of people who purchased the pay-per-view to watch him.

White seethed at the postfight news conference and tossed verbal hand grenades in Silva’s direction. After meeting with reporters following the news conference, White headed to Silva’s trailer for a showdown.

He said he didn’t know how he would punish Silva, who won by scores of 50-45, 50-45 and 49-46, but said he would find a way to make it up to the fans for having to sit through such a poor, confounding main event.

Perhaps the best way White can get even with Silva, who was defiant at the postfight news conference, is to have Silva fight on the card he is planning to benefit the military in Afghanistan.

White looked extraordinarily angry when he walked into the room and didn’t pull any punches when he began to speak.

“I’ll answer the questions about what a disgrace the main event was and what an embarrassment it is,” White said almost immediately upon taking the lectern postfight. “I don’t think I’ve ever been more embarrassed in 10 years of being in this business. It’s the first time I’ve ever walked out of a main event.”

By the time the fifth round was winding to a close, the sellout crowd of 11,008 was chanting Maia’s name.

Silva meekly apologized in the cage in an interview with television analyst Joe Rogan, but he struck a more defiant chord at the postfight news conference.

“Unfortunately, not every fight turns out the way everyone would like,” Silva said through Soares, who was interpreting for him. “I came here well-trained, but Demian disrespected me, not as a person, but he disrespected me as a fighter. I take that very seriously. I came here to do my job, which was to beat him up and punish him. That’s exactly what I did.”

Silva dodged the question several times, but finally said vaguely that he felt Maia disrespected him in prefight interviews when Maia, a jiu-jitsu black belt, talked about breaking his arm.

What didn’t make sense about Silva’s answer was that if he felt disrespected was that he spent much of the last three rounds running and clowning and not punching or kicking. He had the opportunity to make Maia pay for his words, if Maia actually said anything incendiary, but he chose instead to circle, wiggle his back side, make faces and essentially make a fool out of anyone who either purchased a ticket or bought the pay-per-view.

“The way I feel, my mission was completed,” Silva said. “I came in and dominated the fight and did what I had to do. That’s how I feel.”

Silva was clearly a far better fighter than Maia, whose only hope of winning was to somehow get the fight to the ground and catch Silva in a submission hold. Silva was faster and could nearly land his punches at will.

He had a far more varied attack and broke Maia’s nose with a flying knee in the second.

The highlights for Silva, though, lessened as the fight wore on and he spent more time mocking Maia and making a jackass of himself.

His actions will have deep repercussions. For one, the fight was aired live in the U.S. at 1 p.m. ET, but was still going to be replayed in its normal pay-per-view time slot beginning at 10 p.m. ET.

Fans who may have purchased the fight in its normal slot likely didn’t buy it after catching word of Silva’s antics.

Even more, Silva did the same thing at UFC 90 and then had a lackluster performance at UFC 97.

White glared at Silva as Silva answered questions from the media. Clearly, Silva’s words did not soothe his boss’ feelings.

“I’m more unhappy than I was when I walked in the door,” White said after hearing Silva’s lame answers at the news conference. “That’s why I ended the news conference. I couldn’t stand to listen to that [expletive] any more.”

Silva cost himself a big chunk of his reputation as well as a lot of money. He lost the respect of the ownership of the UFC, who were embarrassed in front of their new partners, the investment group from Abu Dhabi who bought a reported 10 percent of the company.

He may have lost his status as the top pound-for-pound fighter in the world.

He lost his opportunity to drop to welterweight as he said he wanted to do before the fight and challenge 170-pound champion Georges St. Pierre.

“He doesn’t deserve to fight GSP,” White fairly spat.

Early in the news conference, White said Silva might become the first champion to fight on the preliminary card.

Wherever he fights, Silva had better pray that White stacks the card with a lot of fights people want to see.

Because if Anderson Silva is the main attraction, don’t be shocked if the fans stay away in droves.

[Stringer_Bell]

Dana is pissed, really showing a lot of humility in yet another Silva debacle. Silva always talks about not wanting to be seen as disrespectful, but his actions speak for him every time. I bet Dana will pull the plug on the whole "Silva doesn't speak English" charade. Pathetic.

[dbreiden83080]

Dana calls this all time low point

[dbreiden83080]

Dana is pissed, really showing a lot of humility in yet another Silva debacle. Silva always talks about not wanting to be seen as disrespectful, but his actions speak for him every time. I bet Dana will pull the plug on the whole "Silva doesn't speak English" charade. Pathetic.

LOL beat me to it Stringer


You know Dana had it out with Silva after the Thales fight and he says he is going to do it again but Silva obviously does not care what Dana thinks. He acts this way because he wants to and it's pretty clear nothing Dana or the fans say is going to change what he does in that ring. If he wants to act like a jerk he will and the with everyone..

[Blackjack]

I understand the frustration having just sold a stake in the business and opening up a new market, but you can't cut the nose to spite the face.

Silva needs to be pushed. Period. And like the antics or not, he's the best there is IMO. So if you want to get the most out of him and put on the best show for all involved, you make that GSP fight; someone's got to put him in his place or provide the challenge that makes Silva display the type of talent he has.

As a Silva fan, I'm not real thrilled with what I've heard (haven't been able to see it yet) but I'm not all that surprised either; we've seen the general apathy and antics before. But I'm a fan because of his talent and ability and want to see it on display.

And if White and the UFC knows what's good for them ... they'll do the right thing: Silva vs. GSP

[dbreiden83080]

They were talking SIlva and GSP at 170 at the event as if it was a done deal. Silva fighting at 170 seems unlikely but possible since he has been down that low before. But i still feel that would have to happen at 185. Silva may just get another fight at 205 with a striker that will go after him. But problem is they saw what happened with Forrest and attacking Silva is not going to be in many game-plans..

So we're left with Silva dancing and clowning around again

[Blackjack]

Exactly. There's no one I see out there that presents both the style and talent to push Silva and/or provide an entertaining fight. If it happens at 185, fine by me; I don't think GSP would have a problem there. They just need to get it done.

[Rip-Hamilton32]

glad i didn't pay for this

[dbreiden83080]

glad i didn't pay for this

Edgar Penn was good and shocking

BJ fought lousy..

[Blackjack]

Did BJ look out of shape or like he didn't take Frankie seriously?

I like Edgar but BJ's got no business losing to him if he's right . . .

[dbreiden83080]

While UFC president Dana White, the entire Concert Arena audience, as well as everyone at home that s ed-out $44.95 were outraged over Anderson Silva’s disappointing performance at “UFC 112: Invincible” on Saturday, the middleweight champ claims to have no regrets.

“I don’t feel like I owe anyone an apology right now. Sometimes fights turn out good, sometimes they turn out bad,” Silva said at the UFC 112 post-fight press conference.

Although Silva did not want to atone for his second consecutive uneventful unanimous decision le defense, White did.

Over and over again.

“For something like this to happen, I honestly… I apologize and I’m embarrassed,” White told the media.

White was so disgusted with Silva’s play that he was seen slamming the middleweight belt to the ground as he stormed off to the locker room during the 4thRound.

UFC color commentator Joe Rogan noted that a visibly upset White said something to Ed Soares, Silva’s manager, right before fleeing the scene.

“Unfortunately, not every fight turns out the way everyone would like,” Silva matter-of-factly stated. “My goal in the fight was to finish the fight if I had the opportunity to. I came here to punish him.”

Silva spent the better part of the opening stanza clowning around like Roy Jones Jr. used to in his heyday. “The Spider” followed that up by taunting Maia for not engaging with him, although it appeared as though he made every effort to.

In the championship rounds, MMA’s deadliest marksman completely shut down and circled the Octagon, only throwing a few strikes the rest of the way. Apparently, the hard day’s work was good enough for him.

“The way I feel is my mission was completed. I came in and dominated the fight,” Silva said.

While Silva may have been pleased with his latest conquest, White remained heated throughout the presser. When asked of a potential mega-fight between Silva and welterweight king Georges St-Pierre, White ran from that quicker than he did during the night’s main event.


“I don’t want to see GSP vs. Silva after tonight. Silva might be the first champion fighting on a prelim,” White said of his Silva’s future. “I don’t want to see that [expletive].”

White certainly won’t demote one of his most popular employees, but his anger towards Silva is clearly warranted. Especially after the crowd turned on the le holder midway through the 3rdRound.

“I wanted to come in to make a point,” Silva said in closing.

A point was definitely made, it just wasn’t well received.

http://www.5thround.com/31430/anders...ce-at-ufc-112/

[BlackSwordsMan]

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[The TroutBum]

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[CubanSucks]

Can anyone explain the Penn Edgar fight a little. Where I'm at the internet connection is so can I get a 10 peso version of how Edgar won real quick

[The TroutBum]

Can anyone PM me a link to watch these? I've tried Google and such, but can't find . Isn't there some Russian site that I can watch all of these?

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