Quote of the Day: Lyoto Machida Thinks Anderson Silva Could Beat Fedor Emelianenko

Braces self for shit storm.

God damnit, Machida. You just had to say it, didn’t you?

Stop going on Sherdog’s boards Lyoto.

There’s no way to pick apart this fight without seeing Silva fight at 205 regularly. I’ll barely touch upon this. People have this preconceived notion that Silva isn’t physically strong enough to deal with the likes of Fedor, but it’s based on the reality that he fights at 185 pounds. If Silva cleans out the 5-6 contenders that are staring down the barrel at 185 and decides he wants to move up long-term, I’d like to see how his fighting weight adjusts with the additional bulk. I think he would transition just fine, but judging this matchup is meaningless otherwise. Fedor at 220 > Silva at 185. Fedor at 220 vs Silva at 220= nobody knows.

Fedor’s team mates believe that he can beat Anderson Silva

Crazier shit has happened. I wouldn’t be totally shocked, just because Fedor is small for Heavyweight. If Fedor was 265, it would be a different story, but at 220, its plausible.

I doubt the clinch-work would do much good when an overhand haymaker landed in his ear.

Anderson “My Uncle” Silva.

Fedor’s overall power for his size would probably snap Silva’s arm on the floor. I just don’t see it happening. Everyone says shit like this, then the fight happens, Fedor wins, and the post-fight press conference is something like:

& that is pumping up their buddies. I love Silva like a lot of people do, but I would not give him much more than a punchers chance until we see him facing some stiffer 205ers like Blackout said.

I’d like to see the fight, I think Silva would do a lot better than the majority of the posters here are thinking.

Because you know Lyoto thinks he can do it too. We may not see much of Silva at 205 if Machida polishes off Rashad.

Basically, these guys walk around at Couture’s fighting weight, and Fedor fights at about 230 most of the time. After watching Lindland somewhat move Fedor (and Arona actually outgrapple him for a time), I sure don’t think Fedor is absolutely unbeatable.

That’s the beauty of the sport – everyone can be beaten.

Anderson is way superior technically

Great analysis, Machida.

The question that this had me asking myself after I stopped laughing is, “Could Fedor cut the weight?”

I know that there have been advances in alloys in the last few years, but The Cyborg is still much more advanced than the current metallurgy advances.

He’s a top ranked fighter whose much closer in weight to Fedor. If he’s going to take a swipe at the guy at least put his own ass on the line.

He has a point. Fedor would never hit a man in glasses.