Anderson Silva

You called, you said he's too slow.

But you also compared this fight to, like, the Anderson Silva, Forrest Griffin type fight.

Do you really believe it's going to be that big of an embarrassment when you fight him?

I don't really believe it.

Let's talk a little bit because some of you guys were ranting on about the whole deal with Islam, not fighting, this and that.

Let me just put it to you as easy as I possibly can.

The guy holds the record for the longest fight win streak in the sport, more than Anderson Silva.

That means something.

Yeah.

Marina Shafir murdered this poor woman, Rachel Armstrong, just denies the handshake, gave her Anderson Silva front kick here, and hip throws, nasty urinage, and mother's milk.

Everything you needed out of Marina Shafir here in 95 seconds.

And then she gets on the mic and says, Mercedes, don't be a pussy.

And...

It was the same night as Anderson Silva vs Chris Weidman won.

Yeah.

And we all went, like Cage Warriors had a little room in the hotel where they put it on a big screen so everyone could sit there and watch it.

And it only ended up being about seven of us left when actually Anderson Silva fought Wadman.

It was John Cavanaugh, McGregor, me, my team, my friends, Danny Roberts, Ian Dean, the matchmaker, and someone else.

There's only about seven of us watching it still.

I just never get Connor after Anderson got beat because he was an Anderson Silva fan, like kicking the wall.

This one, I think, just changes the game a little bit.

He's 14-1 as a featherweight now, and the one to Ilya Teporya does kind of have a... a conversation point around it I don't want to say an asterisk but you you can never not wonder if he didn't take that fight three months after being knocked out by Islam like how does it look different anything like that we'll just never know for sure and you know that's part of the narrative but yeah I mean his legacy is way up there man I'm seeing people asking questions like in the chats and the comments not being like is he the greatest featherweight of all time does he belong on the Mount Rushmore of mma now and people saying like this win kicked anderson silva off my top four of the list or demetrius johnson i mean i think gsp and john jones have two spots pretty locked up but if you wanted to make an argument for him kicking off demetrius or anderson silva or if you have someone else there i not gonna debate you too hard on it i don't think yeah and the other part too is like

his his game is so advanced you know he sets a rhythm and then breaks it and then breaks it again and then breaks it again and then he's building offense on all these changes And these guys just don't know what's coming at them.

They don't know what to read.

So nothing made me happier than the idea of that.

But for him to put that out there and then it not work out, uh again emphasize all that fan pushback about his schedule and all that stuff and if he just hadn't said that or instead of saying you know i want to see the real contender these guys should fight he just said you know like i thought maybe i'd be ready before ramadan but you know something came up i'm gonna have to wait sorry everyone like i think it kind of changes the fan sentiment but it feels very low on him right now and i guess my theory about like how has this, how this played out and does he maybe just have one fight left is, and it leads into your question too.

Like he asked me in our interview before the Gary fight, like, what do you think I have to do to become like the goat? And I said, if you could, I mean, breaking Anderson Silva's winning streak and setting yourself apart was a massive tick on the resume.

But I'm like, if you can get to 20 straight wins, man, like, i don't think that's a record that's going to be touched in the ufc and he's like yeah okay and then he basically parroted that all in the lead up to the fight i want to get to 20 straight in the ufc uh stuff like that and i think that was his real intention like he he didn't seem to want to retire he made These comments about like, I love this lifestyle.