Let’s be honest here.. Silva always starts out slow.. As does Griffin… The problem was that Silva turned it on and beat Forrest to the punch.. Forrest didn’t have any opportunity to mount an offense in the fight.. He got dropped at every exchange..

He was scrambling from the first Silva hit and never recovered.. I’m sure his game plan was going to be to try to establish a takedown.. But those have to be set up.. You just dont bull rush someone like Silva with your head or hands down.. Silva would have picked him coming in.. You have to gamble like Hendo did and allow Silva to come in with his strike to close the distance and try to clinch without taking too much from the shot itself.. Forrest did try to clinch but was clearly rocked from the initial exchange that he couldn’t do anything with it and Anderson tried to go Franklin on him with the knee so he backed out and looked to recover..

Forrest didn’t have a bad game plan people.. He just never got the opportunity to establish himself or his game plan… He wasn’t slow.. Silva was just fast.. It made him look slow.. He threw some nice strikes at Silva, just couldn’t get anything to connect.. Silva is a lot more powerful than his frame would indicate as well as his base strength.. But it wasn’t even that. Forrest got hit flush on the chin with the right hand that dropped him the first time.. It was enough of a hook that rattled his cage a bit.. I think the shot that did his jaw in was the loud popping shot that he semi blocked after the first knock down.. You hear a loud thud when Anderson hits him with that left hook after the first knock down.. I think that shot was the one that probably started it for Forrest.. If you watch closely.. He get’s taqgged behind his right ear.. He sort of stumbles after the shot.. I think he was rocked at that point and Silva kept him scrambling trying to avoid the on coming strikes.. He then dodges everything thrown at him and lands a flush straight left that put’s Forrest down for the second time.. This just shows how off Forrest really was.. They weren’t bombs, but stiff straight punches on the button each time.. Forrest was rocked after the first knock down and never recovered.. That final jab didn’t look like much but it was a hard shot on the button “again”.. It was theory of biomechanics again.. Force X Mass = Acceleration.. Meaning all of Forrest momentum combined with Silva’s power made more of an impact than it looked.. Forrest was lunging forward with all his weight shifted forward.. That final shot was the one that dislocated his jaw.. He got popped and his bell was rung.. His equilibrium was rattled … Anyone thats taken a stiff jab on the chin coming in knows how much you can be rattled by.. He was clearly KO’d.. His hand motion was more a subconscious reaction than anything.. He was Ko’ed, that doesnt mean he has to be completely asleep to be out.. His motor skills were shut off, thus he fell to the floor like a sack..