Silva vs. Lidell

[Jacob Creutzfeldt]

That would be a very bad idea for chuck, silva is a Black belt in bjj chucks purple level from what i hear.

And a lot of successful wrestlers with no bjj ranking have demolished bjj guys via ground and pound ie Tito vs. Elvis Sinosic and Randy Couture vs. Vitor Belfort III. I think Chuck is a former Div I wrestler.

 

[Ianhockey91]

And a lot of successful wrestlers with no bjj ranking have demolished bjj guys via ground and pound ie Tito vs. Elvis Sinosic and Randy Couture vs. Vitor Belfort III. I think Chuck is a former Div I wrestler.

Nope, he wrestled in highschool.

 

[Jacob Creutzfeldt]

Nope, he wrestled in highschool.

Multiple sources lie about his wrestling background then, including his training camp:

http://www.slokickboxing.com/instructors.htm

http://www.extremeprosports.com/ful...uck_liddell_training_fighting_techniques.html

Care to refute the claim?

 

[Ianhockey91]

Multiple sources lie about his wrestling background then, including his training camp:

http://www.slokickboxing.com/instructors.htm

http://www.extremeprosports.com/ful...uck_liddell_training_fighting_techniques.html

Care to refute the claim?

My mistake. However is site says hes ranked number 1 in the world, what is he ranked number 1 in the world in though? Also look at fujita (who is a good wrestler and outweighed silva by 35lbs) silva handled him on the ground quite well against fujita. In any event i have wand winning this one unless chuck uses his magical "kempo thumbs".

 

[Jacob Creutzfeldt]

My mistake. However is site says hes ranked number 1 in the world, what is he ranked number 1 in the world in though? Also look at fujita (who is a good wrestler and outweighed silva by 35lbs) silva handled him on the ground quite well against fujita. In any event i have wand winning this one unless chuck uses his magical "kempo thumbs".

Fujita is an ironheaded bull with decent wrestling skills, tons of heart, and nothing else. Chuck is a granite chinned powerpuncher with legit kickboxing ability and Div I wrestling skills. James 'the debt collector' Thompson almost took out Fujita. To atribute Chuck's KO of Tito, another top level fighter, to a mystery eyepoke is to ignore the 8+ punch combo Chuck unloaded when he backed Tito up against the cage.

I don't remember there being much groundwork during the Fujita/Silva fight.

Chuck's team rank him as the world's #1 LHW MMA guy I would think.

I do also think Wanderlei wins also though because he is an effective pressure fighter, can probably hold his own on the ground, has experience against more top flight competition, and is more consistently in peak cardio shape.

 

[plrpower]

If you compair nicknames Silva is the "Ax murder", and chuck is the "Ice man".

 

[obsessis]

the good thing about this fight is it will open the eyes of all of the TUF fans of other organizations. most of the fans now are very new and think that UFC is the end all of MMA. I think Chuck has a tough fight ahead of him and I don't know if he'll win. Silva will most definitely get the "accidental" fingers in the eye just like Randy, Tito and probably other tough fighters chuck goes against.

 

[Gordz24]

Silva is a beast, but Chuck has iron fists. Chuck wins second round.

 

[plrpower]

I really dont know how Chuck will knock him out if Cro Cop and in 5 rounds. I have a hard time believing that chuck can strike harder than Cro Cop or Rampage Jackson. I would love to see chuck try to fight a HW.

 

[Jacob Creutzfeldt]

While we battle back and forth trying to voice opinion on how 'our guy' will win, who here doesn't believe this one has "fight of the year" written all over it?