Anderson Silva walks around at 230, but fights at 185

by Dank456 on Oct 28, 2008 5:34 AM EDT

"I apologized because I've trained really hard with my trainers for five rounds," said Silva. "I dropped down from 230 pounds to 205 pounds to 185 pounds. So, I worked my butt off. I had a long training camp to prepare myself for this fight. So I really feel like I owe everyone an apology for this fight. I owe you guys an apology; I owe the fans an apology and Dana (White)."

http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=7446&zoneid=2

Silva weighs as much as Fedor and is actually taller than Fedor and should be fighting at Heavyweight or at least at Light Heavyweight. So now I don't understand how Silva could be the best Pound-for-Pound when Pound-for-Pound Silva weighs 230 but fights at 185. Seems Silva decided to take the easiest route as a fighter and compete in the weakest MMA division. Silva is definitely one of the biggest if not the biggest Middleweight so he should be dominating at Middleweight. While you have somebody like Fedor who is one of the smallest fighters at Heavyweight and he destroys everyone.

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Maybe you don't get it..

P4P doesn’t have anything to do with the size of the fighter. That’s… umm… the whole point.

by Blackout612 on Oct 28, 2008 9:32 AM EDT reply actions

Seconded.

There is too much wrong with that argument for me to really go into so I’ll just say, no.

Thanks for the quote though.

by Sam Cupitt on Oct 28, 2008 10:11 AM EDT up reply actions

Was gonna put up some data on the populations of weight classes, but then I realized how long that would take and how little people would read it.
Not even worth it…

Oh, Silva at 230 = fat and happy, eating his bigmacs and not worrying about punching someone’s face in…

by iiowyn on Oct 28, 2008 10:22 AM EDT reply actions

This sounds like an argument for why Fedor is better than Silva. If you really want to make that argument, then tell us why Fedor deserves to be the p4p champ, not why Silva doesn’t. I think you would have a much tougher case on your hands. BTW Fedor wouldn’t have a shot at cutting to 185.