Watch UFC 101 : Forrest Griffin vs. Anderson Silva
Middleweight champion Anderson “The Spider” Silva has ran through his division en route to a perfect record, but lately, something has been different.
Once a deadly and precise striker who obliterated opponents with devastating knees from a deadly Thai clinch (see Franklin, Rich … twice) and single shots to the dome (see Irvin, James), Silva has [...]
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Middleweight champion Anderson “The Spider” Silva has ran through his division en route to a perfect record, but lately, something has been different.
Once a deadly and precise striker who obliterated opponents with devastating knees from a deadly Thai clinch (see Franklin, Rich … twice) and single shots to the dome (see Irvin, James), Silva has taken a more passive approach in his last two outings. While victorious in both, the UFC seems interested in bringing back the once deadly Spider who was quick to attack.
Forrest Griffin will never bring anything less than a fight, and it is a virtual guarantee he will do much the same on Saturday night in Philly, and the live crowd should be behind him from the start as he exemplifies the everyman aesthetic favored by their sports fans. Anderson Silva has been pushed into a corner and shoved into this fight, which is a fight he does not need for any reason whatsoever, and yet there is every single reason for the UFC to have put him into this position.
Griffin does not need championship belts. Period. Thanks to his historic battle against Stephan Bonnar at the very first ‘The Ultimate Fighter’ finale, and his miraculous victories over “Shogun” Rua and “Rampage” Jackson, it is a lock that Griffin will forever have a job with the promotion. This is a man who graces the cover of the UFC video game in most places and the one fighter who is seemingly without detractors.
Anderson Silva is not in his same class, at least when it comes to marketing muscle and adoration from the fans. Silva is the much better fighter, and at his best is a killing machine, but he seems nonplussed by the whole notion of fighting professionally and has admitted that he is looking forward to retirement has done little to garner a larger following.
Silva needs a championship belt. Badly. In fact, he needs to remain undefeated in the UFC if he wishes to be remembered long after he walks away. He is not a charismatic fighter, has not been the sort of blood and guts warrior like his former Chute Boxe-teammate Wanderlei Silva, and isn’t the hardworking everyman in terms of effort or image that Forrest Griffin is. The one selling point about Silva is that he is the very best, and the fact he is undefeated in the UFC and holds the UFC Middleweight Championship lends credence to this argument and bolsters the claim that he should merit being ranked with or above Georges St. Pierre in any argument about pound-for-pound rankings among fans.
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