Tim Sylvia Off Affliction: Trilogy; Buentello To Fight Yvel-Rizzo Winner
Tim Sylvia, who suffered a 10-second knockout loss to 48-year-0ld former boxing champ Ray Mercer on Saturday, has been removed from Affliction’s August 1st event in Anaheim, California, “Trilogy”, for precautionary reasons.
Affliction vice president Tom Atencio confirmed the news with Fanhouse on Monday, saying “It’s his second (loss) in a row, and I don’t want to take a chance on anything. The fight is less than 60 days away.”
Sylvia (24-6), who previously suffered a first-round submission loss to top-ranked heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko last July, weighed in at 310 pounds for his bout against Mercer and would have needed to shed 45-pounds in less than two months to make the 265-pound heavyweight limit.
Sylvia’s opponent, Paul Buentello, will remain on the Affliction: Trilogy card, where he’s likely to meet the winner of a June 27th matchup between Gilbert Yvel and Pedro Rizzo.
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[Pictured: A 310-pound Tim Sylvia (courtesy of Sherdog)]
Tags: Gilbert Yvel, Paul Buentello, Pedro Rizzo, Tim Sylvia
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Thank you Kris for answering my forum question…
“Sylvia’s opponent, Paul Buentello, will remain on the Affliction: Trilogy card, where he’s likely to meet the winner of a June 27th matchup between Gilbert Yvel and Pedro Rizzo.” – That is, if both of them don’t end up on medical suspension as well. This sort of situation is one of the top reasons why the UFC has exclusive contracts. Not only is it bad for the organization when a fighter fights for someone else and gets hurt (now Affliction has to find a replacement), but it’s bad for the fighter as well (now Timmeh can’t get paid $800,000 to fight in Affliction again.)
This should come as no surprise, on multiple levels.
Primarily Sylvia has got to be on shaky physical, mental, and emotional ground after a loss this humiliating. Secondly even if he did make it down to 265 [catchweight 280?] for the Buentello fight, he’d probably be in no condition to make much of a showing, and with Affliction thisclose to closing, the last thing they need is a main event junk fight.
Thirdly, in terms of ticket sales, PPV buys, and overall sport relevance, having Tim Syliva on your card right now would be like calling the event “Affliction:Barely Hanging On”, or “Affliction:Close to Collapse” or something equally dismal, even though I’m sure Affliction couldn’t care any less about MMA relevance.
Also, even though I realize that Tim Sylvia is maybe the least popular man in MMA, I hope he regains some semblence of his previous form. Professional sports is both literally and figuratively littered with the bodies of athletes who were consumed by personal demons [White Castle?], regardless of their nature.
I wish him the best of luck, mostly because it seems like he’s going to need it.
(Check your name in the name field, make sure you’ve got the right thing in there, this is the second one to hit moderation. – Justin)
when was he ever the main event for this upcoming card?
I thought he was the co-main event.
Apologies if I got that wrong. It also goes to show how far the guy has slid when the former UFC HW champ isn’t in the main event.
Apologies for the name issue. I’ll try to be more careful in the future.
I guess you’re going to go by “jcohl” now instead of “j.cohl”?
I think he’s been trying to defeat his demons by hunting them out of several sacks of sliders, a box of Krispy Kremes (on a personal note… yum) and three pints of Graeter’s Black Raspberry Chip (on a persoanl note (again)… yum), but because he was trying to maintain some sense of decency and decorum (not to mention he was having trouble finding another girdle), he decided to wash that down with a Diet Coke.
On a slightly more serious note, he looks like the Pillsbury Doughboy grew some body hair and strapped on gloves. Not a good look for him and hopefully he’ll take his next fight a little more seriously.
Tym Siliva really messed up man. This is the knd of stuff that happens when MMA Fighters start thinking that they are boxers and vise versa. I know that Rey Mercer is 48, but he was still an accomplished boxer.
Silvia really ruined his reputation and lost a great amount of respect from his peers and fans alike. I feel sorry for the dude, he was on the UFC champ and now he’s getting knocked out by Rey fu*king Mercer in 10 seconds!!!
It’s a good thing they pulled him off the Afflivtion card because Buentello can for sure knock him out also and problably to some serious damage to Silvia.
Tym Silvia, get out of the spotlight for a while, think about what you want to do with your life and forgive yourself from making an a$$ out of your “legacy”.
Wow, i read the article that said he weighed in at 310, but i suppose that it didnt really register in my head.. now he’s looking extra flabby! at least a c-cup : ) he must have fell off the wagon after the loss to fedor. this loss must not be going well in his head either.. hes only lasted what? about a minute in his last 2 fights? man i wish him the best but seriously, hes a joke now. I dont see him ever being a threat to anything but the Cheetos industry.
his last two fights have equaled i think 45 or so seconds. fedor went through him in I think 30-35 seconds, and mercer ko’d him in what seemed like 8 but timmy took at least two seconds to hit the canvas. I like the zinger on the cheeto comment ck. that was funny. poor timmy, bit of advice for him though… take a 2-3 year break homie. if not retire, just stop doing any kind of mma or boxing for two to three years. he is one loss away from becoming the next ken shamrock.
His last two have equaled 46 seconds. Official time was 36 seconds for the Fedor fight, and 10 seconds for this fight.
That picture is priceless. Truly priceless.
But why in the first place did Timmy take this fight? It’s a no win scenario for him.
His manager is also the promoter. *coughconflictofinterestscough*
You’ve been coughing a lot lately, Justin. You might want to get that looked at.
Stepping away from tim for a sec to comment on one of the guys in the next Affliction card …. gegard mousasi takes on sobral then in september is fighting sokoujou in the SuperHulk tourney for DREAM . This guy is a fighter !!! If he kicks ass in both, which he will, and considering his already stellar run at middleweight….where will he rank ??? I have to say he should be in the top 5 for light heavyweights .
Too bad he wants to go to Heavy for good…
Dammit Dr.Doom, I like the way you think! War Mousasi!
By the way, I hate when people say “War Whoever”. Haha
do these shorts make my a@@ look fat?
obviously he thought training was not required.
he’s still a great in my books but wow.
When was he ever great…? He beat Arlof. and really of all the times they fought only one IMO was even really watchable. Munson… really timmeh he had like a 100ft reach advantage and lets face it not everyone is randy and can overcome a disadvantage like that. In my book he was never great, rather just another champ when the field was meh at best…I mean common Cabbage was a contender, , Mir was flying off bikes when he was not breaking homeboys arm, Lesnar was trying the NFL, randy was to busy fighting chuck, Cro-Cop, Gonzaga, big Nog, and Velasquez(sp?) were not in the UFC(well at least not Huge in the UFC yet) and i think even Heath the kinda gatekeeper Herring was still fighting over-seas. Just seems like he was A huge dude fighting Sub-Par talent.
just putting this out there and for those who don’t know me, Timmmeehhh bothers me very much but the guy hasn’t had a(n) awful career and frankly didn’t look himself of against Mercer…. Look into the guys eyes in that fat Timmehhh pic he looks high or something, he is off and it is slightly concerning
Tim Sylvia went 16~0 to begin his MMA career before his loss to Frank Mir….
His notable wins include: Ben Rothwell, Jason Lambert, Mike Whithead (2x), Cabbage, Ricco Rodriguez, Gan Magee, Wes Simms, Assuerio Silva, Jeff Monson, AA (2x), Brandon Vera
*perhaps not total barn burners but you all know who these guys are and honestly that is a decent group of people he defeated*
Notable Losses are: Frank Mir, AA, Randy Couture, Big Nog, Fedor, Ray Mercer
*sooooo which one doesn’t fit? the fighters that Timmmeehhh has lost to are top notch fighters some would call them elite (time of fight perhaps not now {AA}), but then to get blown outta the water by Mercer? soo all this hate for Timmeehhh is what it is but he has had a decent career… And has been the UFC HW champ….
Now would be a good time for Ricco Rodriguez to get a rematch…joke
Agree with Fr702 about the eyes…When I saw that picture in a thumbnail I thought it was AFTER the fight.