GSP: Anderson Silva "Is Huge" and Weighs "Around 230 Pounds"

then why the fuck is everyone keeps saying that GSP will?

“I’ll fight at any weight you want me to, but I, like, wanna get paid a couple million fucking dollars”

Well I have heard stories that women cannot ‘andle Silva’s size or ’is riddum.

GSP likes being a rock star. He is the WW champ, makes money, is famous in Canada, probably gets the VIP treatment, he doenst want to ever have a Serra moment again.

Moving up to MW he isnt hte champ and would have ot fight bigger fighters.

Its alot to risk. He can just stay at WW and fi ght whoever and continue to win and be the best WW ever and make money etc.

It is alot to risk when your the one moving up in weight.

I believe it. Georges looked fucking gigantic on the video blog.

and Shields pulls a Ginormous rabbit out of his ass and beat GSP then he will have no choice but to move up to 185.

not that I believe Andy to be 230 lbs, but on the last interview that I translated the reporter mentioned that Anderson weighs over 100 kilos off-season, which he supposedly heard from Anderson himself, who in turn did not correct that claim. 100 kilos = 220 lbs. Maybe he saw that interview and took it as fact?

I hope Jake Shields leg humps him to a UD.

I want to see this fight every bit as bad as the next guy but if he really doesn’t feel comfortable with the idea of moving up to MW then he shouldn’t do it. That said, at the end of the day I’m sure Dana will end up getting what he wants.

It’s always great seeing two of the very best go toe-to-toe, but I think the size discrepancy is too great, in this case. Andy is just too big…

I do think Andy could move up, tho, as he is on par with most of the LHW division.

Eh… whatev’s.

that one you talk about every once in a while, could be:

1. The great fighter who decisioned every contender in his category
OR
2. The utter badass who beat the P4P #1 fighter in the world in his own weight class.

But who else is frightened that a man named Sen. Jon Fitch died on the same day MMA’s Jon Fitch was fighting?

http://www.katv.com/Global/story.asp?S=14152112

So that’s how Fitch gets his powers?

“Don’t be scared homie.”

I actually like dominant champs. The whole randomness that has reigned over the LHW division has been annoying. Hopefully Shogun will hold onto the strap for a while.

so we all know ramage get up to 250 most people feel that hurts him, rumble gets up in the 200 range and many people feel the weight cut hurts him too, being huge is not an automatic advantage in a fight, it is however an automatic excuse for not taking a fight. i admire bj , never ever once that i have heard making gsp size advantage an excuse for anything, he went in he fought he lost, he went back to his fighting career , is still headlinging shows and still has a huge fan following. if gsp thought he could beat anderson they he would have no reason not to take the fight, he would then go on to fight all the same guys that anderson has already fought and prolly beat them too. look at the soft bj penn fighting, look at sachez fighing…soft, and yet they are not offering this as an excuse, win lose or draw. is gsp saying he also needs to get up in the 230 lb range before he fights anderson?

Much fear I sense in young gsp….much fear indeed.

MMA’s version of Pacquia VS Mayweather. Never has this been more true.

Like it’s being pointed out by GSP, the whole weight issue is just too tricky. I’m with the side that says they’d rather see Andy move up to LHW.

GSP regularly said that if he moved up to 85, that it would be for good. He made many comments about “when I do something, it’s not to try, it’s to be the best,” etc. Now, he sounds more unsure, which I don’t think we should read too much into- the guy has a fight coming up which will be (on paper) his most legitimate, established opponent since Hughes at the height of his run. I think that the difference in language between then and now is interesting, though I don’t know how telling it is.

Interestingly, I was looking to find some of his quotes about moving up from the lead-in to the Kos fight, and found this quote:

“I think it’s inevitable; I just think it’s a matter of when,” Shari Spencer said. “When and if Georges decides to move up, it will be a permanent move and I think that is what’s difficult to ascertain regarding the timing of the move.”

I find it interesting to read the above quote, after GSP’s quotes about why he fired Spencer, like this one:

We felt we had a different vision for the future of my career and it was best to remain close personally but not in business relationship.

Again, it may just be a case of convenient logic, and none of us have any insight into this situation, but it’s possible that as the possibility of actually doing it draws near, GSP is having second thoughts about the move. Also, we can’t discount the DFW aspect here- he threw what? $165K in Kampann and Sanchez’ pockets last night? I have a hunch that would be chump change on top of what he would offer GSP to move, or fight at a catchweight. Lets just all make sacrifices to Jobu and hoe hope hope that this fight happens.

it’s the small ones.

Ne soyez pas effrayés copain

Even on TUF

 i am sick of this so-so crap from GSP. he scared of someone else being bigger? so your just going to stay where you are,beating fighter after fighter easily and never pushing yourself? seems like the easy way to me. how will you know how good you are or can be if you stay in the same circle?