Anderson Silva Wants “To Fight The Best”, Would Accept Chuck Liddell Fight
Anderson Silva’s manager, Ed Soares, discusses with MMA Weekly the middleweight champion’s hopes for future mega fights, including a possible bout against former UFC light heavyweight champon Chuck Liddell in December:
“I think he wants to fight those big mega fights because that’s the kind of fight we want to be involved with right now. “I think it’s a combination of seeing what the potential opponent is and also seeing what the UFC wants to do. At the end of the day, this is a business, and they need to sell fights. They need to sell a lot of pay-per-views, and they need to sell tickets. So, we want to be involved with those types of fights.
We’re not looking past Patrick Cote, but I think we’ll take one step at a time and see what happens. But yeah, if a Chuck Liddell fight came up, we’d take it. Whoever the UFC wants to put in front of us, he wants to fight the best, and whoever that may be at the time, that’s who he wants to fight.
If the right fight was to come up for the New Year’s fight, maybe we would take it. Right now it’s really hard to say, we’re pretty much just focused with Anderson on the Oct. 25 fight.”
Rumors of the Silva-Liddell bout emerged last week along with Forrest Griffin vs. Wanderlei Silva for the UFC’s new year’s eve card on December 27th in Las Vegas. With Georges St-Pierre vs. BJ Penn now set for late-January the UFC is looking to book another matchup to fill the void left on the December card and compliment the heavyweight championship bout between current title-holder Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and former champion Frank Mir.
Tags: Anderson Silva, Chuck Liddell
I think Dana would never do the Chuck-Silva fight. that makes it hard to get his boy another title shot, after losing to Silva.
i think it will happem….because if chuck wins the rashad fight its a good next fight and if he loses its still a good fight….but i really feel sorry for chuck because hell lose to anderson…..spider is just to good
Should happen on NYE card if Chuck wins as Anderson has the easier fight aand the shorter turnaround.
No offense to you guys, really….but Chuck has beaten Randy Couture in his prime. You might count him out, but not me. He’s got just as much a chance in this one as Anderson.
Silva is faster, Chuck is stronger. Silva has a great clinch, Chuck has devastating hands. Silva has a great ground game, Chuck’s sprawl is second to none. It will most likely stay on the feet….and we all know who USUALLY wins those wars.
This is a lose-lose-lose for Chuck.
If he doesn’t take the fight, he is scared of Silva and doesn’t deserve a shot at Griffin.
If he wins, well he’s supposed to as he is fighting at his native weight. If he loses, he loses a shot at Griffin for the foreseeable future.
If Silva wins, he’s proven once again that he is one of the greatest p4p fighters. If he loses, he went up to fight a great former champion and was bested. Then he dominates the #1 contender at his championship weight.
Win-win for Silva, lose-lose-lose for Chuck.
This is not good.
I agree rutdog. Liddell would be hard pressed to win against Anderson Silva. The guy walks around at 225lbs so he easily can fight at 205 and still be considered the correct size.
I think Wanderlei deserves a title shot just from his record alone…and you can’t really do Chuck/Wandy 2 so soon. If Griffin could manage to beat Silva then he would finally be for real.
I guess what I am ultimately saying is….
If Dana and Joe Silva are going to make this sort of fight, they need to have a lose scenario for the lower weight class (Silva and Penn in the currently rumored bouts). If that person loses, there is NO TITLE HOLDER for that class and you start a tourney-style fight to establish the top 2 contenders.
Now, I need to bookmark this comment so I can paste the link every time one of these stories is posted.
I DON’T AGREE WITH THIS BUT CHUCK ISN’T GONNA BACK DOWN. LIKE DBIZ SAID ITS A LOSE LOSE FIGHT FOR CHUCK.. I WANT HIM TO GET HIS TITLE BACK…
Oh and Josh V I would agree with you if Liddell hadn’t lost to Keith Jardine and Jackson.
Very good point, dannyboy. He has dropped the ball on some of the fights he should have won, that’s true. But remember the old saying that a tiger is most fierce when his back is up against the wall? In my humble opinion, Chuck is “near” retirement. Maybe he’s got some of that spark left to get back to the title shot….who knows. I just know that I counted Chuck out against Wanderlei, and I didn’t think he had a shot against Randy….man, oh, man….I was mistaking big time.
1st Josh V we all know who would win that war….Anderson!!! chuck was outstroke by jardine come on now. Anderson silva is ay more precise than he is. i would give my right nut for this fight though, i think it would be a retirement fight for chuck though. dont think he would be the same after this one.
Blows my mind. Best fight available would be GSP vs Anderson Silva at a catch weight or at 185. The light heavy-weight division is stacked and does not need the Spider while middle and welterweight basically have no contenders left. Lightweight is also stacked, yet Penn gets a title shot at welter before even having to defend his newly acquired belt. Dana White says we will never see a Georges St Pierre vs Anderson Silva fight though and for that I say Dana, you sure suck!
Wandy was timid in his fight against Chuck. I think he may have respected him a bit too much which cost him. I hope Wandy gets Griffin so we can see a Liddell/Silva 2.
Markus think about it. Anderson walks around at 225lbs… that’s a lot of weight to cut for 170. Plus Dana wants to baby St. Pierre for a bit. He may be next TUF coach.
Chuck and Wandy was a great bout and I hardly think Chuck beat him “soundly” First round yes, but if it wasn’t for the early take-down and spinning back-fist in the 3rd, it could have easily been a split. If Wand had better conditioning that fight, totally different outcome.
As far as Jardine goes, I don’t see him putting too much hurt on anyone. He bored us against Liddell and then got knocked out by both Houston and Wand in a matter of mere seconds.
I don’t see Anderson and Chuck keeping much distance at all. I think this is a great fight though and could go either way. Their styles clash. Silva likes to take to offense and overwhelm his opponents and Liddell loves to circle around the cage and counter everything you throw at him. I want to see A. Silva’s chin tested more than anyone else.
True Danny. Good point.
However you can’t tell me GSP walks around at 170 either. He’s huge for that weight class. I don’t know for sure but I think it’s safe to say GSP probably walks around at close to 185-190. Therefor taking him up a weight class to meet Silva would be fair.
Dannyboy,
Wouldn’t it be great to see Wanderlei and Griffin bang it out for 5 rounds? Man, that would be fun!!! It’s funny because with Wanderlei’s new hypoxia training, he’s getting nastier and nastier by the day. New prediction: As soon as Chuck retires, Wandy becomes the new face of the UFC. He seems like the team player.
Markus J,
Great point about testing Silva’s chin. I think the right guy to do it is Chuck. I’d give this fight to Chuck in round 2.
hey josh, didn’t chuck lose to keith jardine while standing, no offence to lidell, but he
I actually think this would be a suicidal move by Silva (Joe) & Dana to make this match this could kill the aura of Anderson Silva.
For me i only see a Liddell KO victory as Chuck has always stepped up his game against the big names.
I suppose people will mention Rampage & Jardine to refer to my previous comment, but Chuck was looking ahead to a showdown with Wandi and looked more interested in being this big time celebrity.
Chuck showed in the Wandi fight that on his day no one can compete with him and i expect the same fate for Silva.
last i checked dont both of these fighters have big fights right now
I dunno…rampage wooped chucks ass 2-times before they fought in the ufc..and then wooped him again for the title…if anything I would have said he wanted that fight more than any other…even more than the wandi fight…it would be a good fight either way…but I’d still lean towards Anderson Silva…its just him time…like every other fight who dominates for about 3 yearss….hughes,ortiz,liddell, wandi..now its anderson silva’s turn
Nah. Cote is pretty much just filler.
i want to see chuck vs forrest if chuck wins his next fight, it makes no sence chuck vs silva if chuck beats rashard, i mean if the winner of that would go on to meet forrest then yeah lets get it on but if silva is just doing this fight to make his name bigger it makes no sence at all,
an if the match does happen i got chuck by knock out 1st round remember it only takes a second with liddell an i think he’d only need 120 of then to knock the so called p4p fighter out,
What happens if Cote & Evans pull off a “Serra” (apart from pigs flying) ?
I know what your saying Cole for me Chuck didn’t look up for it in either fight.
Chuck showed the same fire, passion & intensity in the Wandi fight that he did in whooping Tito twice & countless others.
Rampage is the key hear, no one should be considered number one contender but him or until someone beats him. So no way Chuck or Wandy fights for the belt until Rampage gets another shot or one of those two beat Rampage. BTW, I believe Chuck won’t win against Evans so none of this will matter.
Johnboy
I totally agree with you the so called P4P no 1 will get a 1st class arse whoopin’ from Chuck.
This is Chuck Liddell not a bum like Irvin or overated fighters like Franklin & ect.
This is Chuck Liddell the man who put beatings on Tito in his peak, Couture in his twice and Belfort in his peak.
watch cote win…then this fight would be out of the question
(i’m being hypothetical here)
How many times have you seen a former champion be given a rematch for the title right away? It rarely happens. Rampage has to beat somebody in order to obtain #1 contender status. Besides there are so many other fight scenarios that appeal far more to the UFC and fight fans then a Forrest vs Rampage rematch. Sorry to burst your bubble, but it ain’t happening. And Rampage fans out there better hope that his first fight back isn’t against Wand. But I have a feeling it will be and I feel sorry for Rampage if that’s the case.
The winners of Chuck-Rashad and Forrest-Wandi will meet sometime in the middle of next year. The UFC doesn’t care who wins the Forrest-Wandi fight, because either one creates a dream matchup as long as Chuck wins. Chuck fights his former pupil for the title, or Chuck fights Wandi again but this time it’s for 5 rounds. BUT, if Rashad wins, then….?
And, when it comes to Rampage, he’s got a lot on his plate right now with the ongoing legal issues, he really needs to concentrate, but it would be really hard to do. He might lose another one, based on where his head is.
rampage is not the number one contender he got his ass beat by forrest whos not even classed by many/most people as the top 205 fighter, rampage needs to kick wandis ass an i do mean kick it, not a decision it needs to be ko/tko for him to become the no1 contender, but i think dana is guna baby rampage from now on prob throw bonner or some1 like that at him b4 he steps up again,
Markus J has a good point…the 205 division is very deep and there are many others that deserve there chance at the belt…but i think rampage is fighting shogun…i saw that somewhere can’t remember where tho…
wandi is not guna get the next shot if he does the ufc and fight world is bull S H I T
Rua made a verbal agreement with the UFC to face ex-light-heavyweight champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson (28-7 MMA, 3-1 UFC). Rua and Jackson met in 2005 under the PRIDE banner, with Rua earning a first-round knockout.
“I’ll be back in December,” Rua told Tatame.com. “[The UFC] said that I might fight with Quinton Jackson, but nothing has been signed yet. They called me and offered a fight with him and I accepted, but they didn’t say anything else.”
To Markus: There also haven’t been a lot of 5 round decisions for the belt that a lot of people say could have gone either way. The only way Jackson doesn’t get first shot at the belt is if they want to keep him out of the spotlight a little longer after his “incident”.
This a poor fight choice for Liddell, He’s getting old just like Hughes is and bet his body can only handle four or five fights left, maybe.
Am i going to complain that this fight actually does come true? Hell no!!! This is a huge money making fight for both fighters and the UFC. This fight should take place in Brazil since Silva’s beaten everyone in their backyards. But don’t get your panties in a bunch cuz they both still have fights coming up pretty soon
winner of chuck vs evens faces wandi for #1 contender
I believe that this is the biggest fight that the UFC can possibly make right now!
wandi vs. forrest
chuck vs. spider
shogun vs. rampage
mir vs. nogueria
I would pay $100 for this card!
The real question though is how many of these match ups will actually take place.
Chuck vs. spider would be totally sick.
I HONESTLY THINK ONCE CHUCK BEATS RASHAD HE’LL GET THE TITLE SHOT… IM NOT THE ONE TO LOOK PAST OPPONENTS BUT I DON’T SEE RASHAD EVEN CLOSE TO CHUCK…
The No 1 contender will be Machida or Thiago Silva no question forget Liddell, Rampage, Wandi or Shogun.
Both thoroughly deserve the next shot especially Lyoto.
why are people questioning spiders chin…he will not be knocked out you idiots…every fight we say ohhhhh….what id someone catches the spider and every time he catchs them…..anderson pretty much was the first guy to ko hendo..i mean he wasnt out but he was closer than ever and i have the balls to say anderons hands are better than liddells….more strength, accuracy and speed….i guareentee liddell doesnt last a round…i see liddell/silva playing out like silva/leben a striker with tons of power comes in but before his punchs can connect he gets nailed with tons of punches and anderson capitalizes and wins by tko in the late first or early second
wolf,
i also agree lyoto needs his shot..he can beat anyone in the division
People are questioning Anderson’s chin because we’ve never really seen him take a punch. Which is pretty impressive given his recent string of wins and the big names he has fought. Still a GSP vs Silva fight appeals to me way more than anything else.
i dont give gsp a chance in that fight…..gsp is well rounded like marquardt an d if he cant beat silva then gsp cant either….anderson would walk through in a matter of minutes….whats gsp gonna do ko spider…nope….submit him not happening….decsion him nope we saw what happened to hendo after winning one round anderson had a small talk with his corner and came out a different spider and destroyed him…anderon cant beat him standing or on the ground so there goes the descion …..anderson/gsp good fight?…..i think not…unless you like watching spider walk through some of the best fighters in the world and making them look like andy wang!
If Chuck beat Rashad next week he will get the title shot. He says he wants it, He and Forrest are 2 of the most well liked and well known fighters making this one of the biggest paydays this sport has seen. That is your NYE main event. Spider only factors in if Chuck some how loses to Evans.
I’m not a big Chuck Liddell or Anderson Silva fan. Frankly I’m tired of hearing about Anderson Silva. The last fight was a joke.James Irvin even took painkillers beforehand so it wouldn’t hurt so much when Anderson Silva hit him. The guy was looking for a soft spot to fall as soon as he walked into the octagon. It’s about time Anderson Silva fought a guy like Chuck Liddell. I’d even like to see a rematch with Henderson and Silva. If Silva keeps fighting with the 205s, he’ll get his bell rung and then we’ll hear all about how he was fighting out of his weight class and all that crap.
silva will not get his bell rang…..if faster fighters like franklin,hendo,irvin and marquardt couldnt ring his bell who in the lhw division will…….there are no strikers in the lhw division fast enough to catch silva…..it will be a cold day in hell when anderson silva lose’s ever again……so you better start throwing some ice in the fire cause its gonna take a lot of ice to freeze hell……..there is only two men who pose threats to anderson silva…..lytot machida is one and that fight will never happen……..and the most well rounded fighter behind silva at middleweight martain the hitman kampmann….if kampmann beats marquardt(which i believe will be fight of the year)…then kampmann will face silva next and if he can stay away from strikes he can try to digg out a descion or a sub..but probably still not…only time will tell
I agree Dolfgang that a rematch between Hendo and Silva would be good. Dan Henderson is the only man to win a round unanimously against the Spider in the UFC. Dan handled him well in the first round and it only goes to show that wrestlers have the biggest advantage over a guy like Silva. Thus why I think GSP could very easily dominate him as he is one of the best wrestlers in the game. Hendo went on to admit he cut way too much weight for that fight and did not feel like himself out there. I’d like to see a rematch myself.
Markus J
Don’t forget Lutter too.
Lutter actually mounted Silva and was GnP him until his dubious cardio kicked in.
On those 2 rounds a great wrestler jujitsu practitioner would give Silva problems can the same be said for Penn or GSP ?
I’ve seen that GSP Anderson fight floated around a lot. But GSP stand no chance against a superior fighter in Anderson. Yes Henderson controlled him with his wrestling in the 1st, but he has a much tougher chin than GSP and is a harder puncher than him also. Meaning he was willing to go in and trade for the shot. GSP will get tagged with punches coming in and even if he does get it to the ground Anderson is so long and his BJJ is good enough to catch GSP there too. I think everyone has fallen in love with GSP being a great athlete, we forget his BJJ is good not great, and he doesn’t have KO power in his hands. He has very fast hands and kicks like Roger Huerta, but isn’t gonna take you out with 1 punch.
LUTTER DID HAVE HIM MOUNTED AND DROPIN BLOWS. AND ANDERSON WAS ABLE TO WORK THROUGH IT. I THINK THAT SHOWS HIS CHIN HAS BEEN TESTED.
How can anyone say that Wandy deserves a title shot over Chuck? Granted Chuck, in the last 2 fights, has more losses but lets not forget that Chuck has way more victories in the UFC than Wandy. I think Liddel should get the shot at the title first then Wandy. Although I would like to see Chuck and Anderson fight. I just don’t see Chuck taking the fight. I mean what does he have to gain out of it. If he beats Silva it won’t put him any closer to the 205 title, and what if he were to lose(very possible)? Then it would set him back that much futher in his quest to regain his title.
I think if you look at it from a marketing stand point the best with to market the Silva vs Liddell fight is to have Wanderlei vs. Forrest on december and have Liddell fight winner for a big PPV then Silva fight 1 more top guy then fight winner of Liddell / Wanderlei / Forrest it’ll make for some good PPV’s
Firstly, me personally, I think Chuck will walk thru Evans next week like a breeze. I am well pi88ed he has evans as an opponent really as I feel he is no competition to him.
Now, as for Anderson Silva vs Chuck, I think Chuck will knock the living crap out of Silva after a surprise hit that everyone, almost everyone is thinking will not happen. Chuck is a bad ass mutha and he DESTROYED Wandy, I mean Wandy took some hard beatings and made it thru, but I just think Anderson will get KO’d by Chuck as Chuck is on this “last time chance ” attitude and it has fuelled him greatly.
I know he lost to Rampage, but as I said before I think THAT was cos he was just against Rampage, and nobody else.
MAybe Rampage has Chuck’s number, like Tito always had Shamrocks, it’s just a thing that happens. SO damn what if chuck lost to him, he’s also a bad ass mutha, I also think Chuck was just TOO cautious of Jardine and he scraped thru a split decision wasn’t it ? or am I wrong?
What I mean is, Jarding didn’t FINISH Chuck like Randy did, so iin my book Chuck only really LOST a fight to Rampage.
Griffin has beat rampage and I think Chuck will knock the crap out of him aswell. Chuck has the fire back, maybe a funny 5 minutes with his previous 2 fights, but CHuck is back, I seriously think Anderson Silva will first lose to Chuck, and then all you lot bashing Chuck can sit back and swallow.
I see Chuck as the biggest threat yet to Anderson, and Chuck WILL NOT decline the fight, Chuck will fight anyone, and eveyone knows that, even the ones saying he will dodge Anderson.
Get real.
Chuck will be LHW Champ very soon, and will also have Anderson under his belt as his latest BIG NAME VICTORY.
Long live Chuck !!!!
very bad matchup for chuck. Anderson is a good boxer with excellent defense plus kicks and a dangerous MT background. Chuck goes down in the second round but he better not be lookin past rashad because he’s no cake walk like everyone thinks.
HE WILL WALK THROUGH RASHAD. HE TRAINS OUT OF NM WERE IM FROM AND I BACK UP ALL THE FIGHTERS FROM NEW MEXICO BUT I JUST CAN’T SEE THIS ONE GOING DOWN LIKE THAT… I HEARD RASHAD DOESN’T FIGHT OUT OF JACKSONS. IS THAT TRUE…
Will be interesting to see if Chuck’s right hamstring is 100%. At 38 years old, takes a little longer to heal that serious of an injury. He will be 39 if he fights Silva. One inside right leg kick and that hamstring could be damaged again. I see Anderson TKO mid-second round.
well liddell probaly wouldn’t take figt unless he loses to rashad but if he wins whcich i hope he does! he will get title shot
Anderson Silva is a champ…..
I would love to see this fight.
i actually believe rashad has a chance at beating chuck…..greg jackson is a great coach and a great camp with tons of great fighters and i think rashad is working hard for this fight….plus rashad is a warrior and he has a great chin and has never been knocked out and not really rocked ever either and i think he has a shot at upsetting liddell here…..but over all the spider would walk through liddell….it would be like spider is the human torch and liddell….liddell well liddell he is the iceman…….fire plus ice = water and anderson is the micheal phelps of mma ….which means liddell has little chance
I say bad matchup for Liddell. If jJackson Ko’ed him Silva would break his jaw.
rashad evans is gonna feel what a true light-heavyweight punch feels like when he steps in against chuck. i know he fought tito but tito doesnt hit any where near as hard as chuck does. im sure rashad is thinking he gonna be able to treat this fight like he has every other fight but he is gonna see and feel why chuck was the most dominant light-heavy weight the UFC has ever had. im hoping for a 1st round KO and chuck to fight for the belt in dec.
chuck will lose to rashad i guarentee it
Timcat I agree that anderson is a bad matchup for Chuck. But I gotta give the edge in power to Rampage, physically he is just a bigger guy. Anderson hits very hard but he hurts you cause he is a sniper with his reach and just manages to catch you.
And no way Rashad wins, he never faced a striker like Chuck. Evans is a poor mans Tito Ortiz and Chuck matches up very well with wrestler (look at what he did to Randy and Tito, both some of the best wrestlers in MMA at the time. They are a combined
1-4 against the iceman)
True Aznstar he did beat Tito and Randy but if he underestiamtes Evans wrestling abilities he could have a upset like Randy in the first 1. Liddell doesn’t have what A Silva got thats a Clinch game so if Evan does get past Liddell’s punch this is how he can take him down
End of the day its a fun fight…Now Dana needs to get ready for 10/4
UFCmanz, I agree. He can’t come out like the Jardine fight. If Chuck does that he will be on the wrong end of a unanamous descison. But I think Chuck realizes if he wins Dana will set up a fight with him and Forrest at the NYE card. Since Penn GSP aren’t fighting then,they need a big time draw. Liddell Griffin is that draw.
Would be so cool. Lidell Win, Cote knock out Silva (maybe by luck and also because im a patriot).
For the #1 contender Lidell vs Silva somewhere in 2009.
You guys are forgetting Liddell has one of the best take down defense vs wrestlers the game has to offer.
Rashad is an IDEAL match up for Liddell and Chuckie should have no problem taking him out.
On the other hand, a guy like A. Silva is not a great match up for Chuck but also not a bad match up, as Chuck is a counter fighter and Silva is all offense.
this is a crazy freakin match-up no matter what and i guarantee they will sell out tickets within the first week! if dana is smart, he will do this ASAP. regardless of whether this is a good fight for chuck or anderson, i’m sure they will both get the payday of their lives!
There is more chance of Cote beating Silva than Evans over Chuck.
Evans is tailor made for a 1st round KO
Chuck eats wrestlers for breakfast
Back to Cote one thing he has going for him is he works with Mark DellaGrotte that is a huge boost to his chances the man has done wonders for his career.
Evans is the underdog again. He always finds a way to win. Don’t bet or don’t bet big against the streak.
I DON’T UNDERSTAND HOW PEOPLE CAN GIVE COTE AN EDGE SAME WITH RASHAD…
I don’t for one minute think Cote has an edge over Silva, YZ
But the fact he works with DellaGrotte gives me the impression this will be no walk over look at the last Ken Flo fight he came in with a flawless game plan.
Working with DellaGrotte and his heavy hands is the only upside i could give him over Silva i think there is a chance of an upset but a very,very, very, very small chance.
I do hope Cote pulls it off but the only time i see Cote beating Silva is in the up coming UFC game
This is how it works when you fight Anderson Silva. You can choose to stand and strike but the second he connects you will feel like wrecking ball hit your head….no matter where he hits you. You could go to the ground but he will manipulate you the same way he did Dan Henderson. Silva is on another level and people need to stop questioning his domination.
Whoever said “Liddell will walk through Evans,” is wrong. I am willing to put money on Evans. I don’t even care who wins this fight to be honest but I think Evans will be the victor. Chuck has been a great hero in MMA but he is getting over the hill. Evans is faster and that is the main problem I see Chuck having with Evans. I also think/see Evans being a lot more athletic than Chuck…..we’ll see and I have no problem admitting I’m worng if Chuck wins. I think a lot of Liddll fans are in for an upset and painful feeling of disappointment.
i hope u r wrong KOuch im a big chuck fan and the thought of him not fighting again makes me want to kill my pet dwarth with bacon buttie abuse
Evans is not beating Chuck.
Evans could not even beat Bisping (I’m no Bisping fan he won that fight 29-28 and yes i do think Hammill did beat him too)
Evans has not fought an Elite fighter yet (Tito does not count) and will get overwhelmed by Chuck very quickly i only see a 1st Round KO.
Odds of 2 to 1 do not encourage me to put a bet on Evans BTW
Cote has a better has chance of beating Silva but not much of a chance though.
chuck all the way. Screw Evans, like many have said, he has not faced a really, solid fighgter, and chuck is that. Bloody Tito and Evans was a draw wasn’t it ? even the it was cos Tito held the fence, and then Evans would have been there with a loss.
Just like he will be faced with when chuck KO’s him.
Im sorry but chuck would be in a world of sht…Anderson silva im sorry is pound for pound the greatest fighter in the world…Im so sick of hearing Fedor is the best ok…it does not matter the size the only thing stopping siva is silva…Gsp is second on that list..
Chuck 4 years ago wins easy. Chuck comin off a mobility injury against an athletic fighter he should beat…Not so easy…
silva isn’t unstoppable, he will get stopped at somepoint, and I think chuck will do it.
Being at the top on a good streak can easily let you get too relaxed, let’s see what happens. we all have our favourites, and our opinions, and thats all they are.
Good luck to both, but I am behind chuck.
i think evans is over-rated big time. until he can prove that he can KO or convincingly beat a big-time opponent, i won’t be impressed by him. it seems everytime he goes out to fight, he’s looking to protect that “perfect record” by throwing a couple of little sissy punches, then running away. that’s not strategy, that’s being a little sissy. i’m not a big fan of chuck, but i hope he puts evans away early. i don’t want to spend my PPV dollars to see him!
ya idk know who would win against rashad and chuck i really want chuck to win and ya he has good take down defence but rashad has really good takedowns and chuck is more of a stand up fighter so i think if rashad get chuck down he probaly could win which i hope he doesnt
GOOD LUCK CHUCK!
if chuck wins he gets a title chance if he loses the title chance then he fights silva unless he loses to rashad then he also fight A silva
Wolf,
Are you F-ing with me? I swear I should be laughing at your sarcasm right now but I’m not. Cote has a better chance of beating Silva than Evans does beating Liddell!?!? You are insane! Out of those four Silva is the best! Silva is P4P the best fighter in the world right under Fedor. Liddell’s career is winding down while he gets older and moves out of his prime. Evans is working his way up the ranks and has shown improvement in every match.
You are right about Chuck’s past…..that’s exactly what it is…..the past. He’s old and past his prime. I like Chuck but he is being put in this fight to give Rashad more recognition for beating a big name. Like I said before, I don’t even care who wins. I’m just calling it how I see it. I’ll bet you $100 even on Evans and $5,000 even on Silva.
Throwing dow a big 5g’s hell ya that’s how u bet KOuch hells ya
My two cents is that Chuck should and will win this fight v Evans he might entertain the idea of fighting Anderson, but I think he just wants his strap back, then let’s say Anderson fights Rampage (just saying I doubt this will ever happen just picked Page outta the blue, or because two stories are about him anyways) and Silva wins then he fights for the title and if Liddell is the champ win lose or draw he will retire after that fight, and again there are a lot of ifs around here if Chuck loses and Silva wins I see this fight between them more likely to happen then if they both win and god forbid Cote won the that would just anger the Spider and he might just destroy anyone who gets in that cage literally!!!
my two cents on all the possibilities that could happen……
Liddell beats Evans (probably will happen)
Silva beats Cote (probably will happen Silva moves back to 205)
Liddell vs. Griffin in Dec.
A. Silva vs. W. Silva (wont happen since they trained together before but if either of them want a title shot it need to happen)
Rampage vs. Rua in Dec.
The winners of Silva vs. Silva and Rampage vs. Rua get the next title shot no matter who has the belt!!!
rua doesnt title chance unless rua wins and beats someone else i mean cmon forerest beat rua and rampage.
KOuch,
wolf was just saying that cote had a chance like if he got super LUCKY!! and managed to get a ko in round 1 because he hits hard but probaly wont even get a chance anyway
the next person that would get a chance is chuck or rashad.
Machida vs Silva = Machida wins
Machida vs Griffin for LHW
Excatley UFC fan
Cote has heavy hands and presses the action and could land that lucky punch (as i said i doubt it, but i hope Cote gets super lucky)
Evans is the most overated fighter i have ever seen he lost to Biisping (got lucky) would have lost to a washed up Tito if wasn’t for the point deduction.
Evans will not stop Chuck or get a decision i would put my mortage on it.
Chuck will win via KO
Rashad is nothing at LHW he should move down to MW wher he might be something due to his size for a MW
i dont think ko more like tko but doesnt matter almost same thing
let go chuck
Rashad would be good at 185…
really! i didnt know he could make it to 185 i thought he was at his least at 205 will he would kill to at 185 unless he gets gased all the time from so much wieght cutting
He’s a trained wrestler.The weight cut should not be a problem. Look at Filho…Same build plus or minus pills of course…
chuck beat vanderlei soundly.
it would be an awesome fight.
spider would fight like jardine did, but he’s more deadly than jardine ( and that’s saying a lot cause jardine puts hurt on his opponents).