That said, Maia had no business being in the octagon with Silva. He was outclassed. Maia shouldn't have talked to much crap before the fight. He is nowhere near Anderson Silva. The first three rounds really show that Anderson isn't afraid of Maia. He's sending a message to the UFC to stop putting garbage in the octagon against him. He has nothing to gain but everything to lose.
Damian Maia deserves some criticism as well. The first three rounds he did nothing against Anderson Silva. Nothing. I doubt he landed more than one punch in the entire first ten minutes of the fight. He didn't bring it. He didn't force AS to bring his game. It's unfortunate that when Maia decided to show up, Silva decided he didn't feel like being there anymore.
Like Anderson said, he definitely could have been more humble...there's really no denying that. Anderson Silva was cocky as hell, but that was just because he wasn't threatened at all. The fight wasn't nearly as bad as the reviews were. The result was expected, so the fight wasn't surprising.
A really good post I found on forums:
What does AS has to do to please the crowd? He is by far the most skilled fighter to ever step inside the octagon. Liking it or not, he always breaks his opponents physically and mentally and brings originality to the fights.
When he ran over Forrest Griffin several people said it was rigged.
When he started to devastate all his opponents in the first round, the UFC managers got worried about the PPV sales (the same thing happened to Mike Tyson).
So he plans to take a fight to the distance against Patrick Côté and again all he hears is criticism.
AS has beaten well rounded fighters such as Carlos Newton (former UFC Welterweight Champion), Jeremy Horn, Rich Franklin - twice (former UFC Middleweight Champion), Nate Marquardt, Dan Henderson (former Pride Welterweight and Middleweight Champion), Forrest Griffin (former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion) to name a few.
He has never been Knocked Out. He lost his very first fight by a split decision and 2 other by submission. His last true lost happened in December 31, 2004 against Ryo Chonan. Despite being controlling the fight, Silva was forced to submit at the last 15 seconds of the fight due to a flying scissor heel hook. Certainly AS learned a lot from this lesson and didn’t want to take unnecessary risk against Thales Leites and Damian Maia.
It takes two fighters to make a fight and when your are the challenger, is your duty to hunt the champion to take his belt, just like AS did to Rich Franklin. Thales Leites and Damian Maia didn’t do anything against AS and still he is the one to be blamed?
I really don’t get… AS is the kind of fighter that appears once in a lifetime. People should just enjoy his originality and respect his game plan for the different style of fights he is going to face.
To the ones that say about him not being humble, notice that he respected every single fighter who did not talk trash about him or disrespect him before stepping in the octagon for the fight (Rich Franklin is a good example of that).
But some talked a lot of shit such as Hendo and AS didn’t even want to touch gloves with him at the beginning of the fight.
There is a huge rivalry between BJJ fighters and any other style of fight here in Brazil. BJJ are so cocky provoking and disrespecting AS for years emphasizing how easily they will be owned by a BJJfighter once they schedule a fight of this nature, jus because Muy-Thai is the discipline he stands for.
Damian Maia said a lot of trash prior to the fight such as he would make AS like the floor and take his arms back home with the belt as well.
Seems to me AS didn’t want to finish Damian Maia, he really wanted to punished and humiliate him. Maybe he was caught up on the emotion, but who could blame him?
If you want to be respected, you got to be the first to show respect, and certainly Damian Maia didn’t do that unfortunately.
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