Brandon Vera Calls Out Recently-Returned Thiago Silva
by Tim Burke on Jan 9, 2012 12:15 PM EST
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PrintIt seems that Brandon Vera wants another shot at Thiago Silva. Silva beat Vera down at UFC 125 and initially won a lopsided decision, but the fight was switched to a no-contest after Silva knowingly submitted a fake urine sample. Silva's suspension recently ended, and it didn't take The Truth long to get wind of it:
He did the editing there, not me. Vera was initially cut by the UFC after the loss, but was given a reprieve after Silva was suspended. Vera returned to the octagon at UFC137 and faced Eliot Marshall. He controlled the first two rounds, but Marshall dominated the third and had Vera in a nasty armbar that actually broke Vera's arm. Vera persevered to the final bell though, and while a lot of people thought Marshall should have been given a 10-8 round for the third and the fight should have been a draw, Vera was declared the victor via unanimous decision.
Is a Vera/Silva rematch a good idea for Thiago's return? When would Vera even be ready to fight? My guess is that Silva will be given someone higher up the depth chart than Vera, but who knows at this point.
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i for one appreciate the ballsy callout, instead of everyone angling for fights they think they are going to win a la brandon schaub.
Because Vera has no momentum
He got cut and uncut after the Silva fight
Wasn’t too convincing in his last fight
He needs a fight he can win as opposed
i would like to see him beaten up badly
it would do him good maybe? I think he seriously thinks he is still a hot prospect
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I don’t see this fight going down any differently from the first – if it is to happen, of course.
Unless ring-rust plays a major factor with Thiago, I see Vera getting man-handled again before being issued his walking papers from the UFC.
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by @KatanaClothing on Jan 9, 2012 4:20 PM EST up reply actions
Brandon Vera couldn't beat diminshed Randy "Liberty Mutual" Couture
He will get turned into a drum again because Silva will cycle smarter this time.
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by menckenstein on Jan 9, 2012 12:18 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
In many people’s eyes, Vera should have been given that decision.
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In any seeing persons eyes
Brandon Vera won that fight. Even Randy basically said he should have won. He said something like “I’m not sure what the judges are looking at”
I meant beat literally, not spar harder than.
That fight was atrocious.
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by menckenstein on Jan 9, 2012 12:23 PM EST up reply actions
Randy crumpled from Vera's body kick
That’s a lot more beating than your average decision in the UFC.
This is the type of fight where the 10-9 system, and not the judging, was the problem. Randy squeaking out the tiniest amount of positional dominance in rounds 1 and 3 should not be worth more than Vera’s substantial damage in round 2.
by paythefighters on Jan 9, 2012 2:14 PM EST up reply actions
Maybe by Pride criteria but you have to judge the rounds individually in the 10 point must crap
"Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."
If people gave more 10-10 rounds
Then this wouldn’t be a problem. If two people have the exact same amount of offense except one person gets in an extra punch or two, it should still be 10-10. We’d see fewer bad decision in my opinion, even if we’d see more draws in 3 round fights.
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by Cory Braiterman on Jan 9, 2012 12:44 PM EST up reply actions
10-9 Couture
10-9 Vera
10-9 Couture
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by MattParker117 on Jan 9, 2012 1:36 PM EST up reply actions
In many people's eyes, Vera lost his decision to Elliot Marshall....
I’m in agreement to a lot of people here, Silva would eat Vera alive…… again…..
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by jack knight starman on Jan 9, 2012 3:14 PM EST up reply actions
I could see a draw
But not really Marshall winning.
by discoandherpes on Jan 9, 2012 7:47 PM EST up reply actions
As stated above I meant literally beat, not barely outpoint in the worst fight of either man's career
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I think Silva would win just the same as he did before despite the lack of roids. Seems like Vera is overstating his own abilities yet again
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you’d think he’d watch a few episodes of The Wire and buy urine from the day care center.
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by Victor Rodriguez on Jan 9, 2012 4:32 PM EST up reply actions
as I said
on twitter, I’d rather see Brandon Vera vs. Tito Ortiz. I have zero interest on Tito vs. Chuck, Forrest, or any of these silly rematches.
That one would kind of make sense
Because it’d be fairly even overall and the loser can gtfo and stop wasting our time.
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by menckenstein on Jan 9, 2012 12:30 PM EST up reply actions
if Vera loses,
both of them leaves the UFC. haha. :)
by Anton Tabuena on Jan 9, 2012 12:31 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
That's what we call a win-win.
by 775assassin on Jan 9, 2012 12:45 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
If Vera loses, Chael Sonnen should leave the UFC
If Thiago wins, Chael Sonnen should leave the UFC
by phantom5691 on Jan 9, 2012 1:48 PM EST up reply actions 4 recs
either way we all win!!!! no more right wing quacks in my mma!!!! im looking at you matt hughes
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by Un Sandpiper on Jan 10, 2012 1:11 PM EST up reply actions
Nice
I like that matchup all around.
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I don’t think Tito wants to go out with a fight like that though. He wants to go out with something people actually want to watch.
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do people really want to see him against Liddell? or Forrest?
Maybe it’s just me, but man those are crappy crappy bouts.
by Anton Tabuena on Jan 9, 2012 12:35 PM EST up reply actions
Yes. Waay more people want to see those bouts than Ortiz/Vera. Brandon isn’t a draw at all. Chuck and Forrest are.
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no, I know they are draws.
I’m just saying, are there fans actually saying that “hey I want to see that rematch!”
Cause as a fan, I really have zero interest in seeing Tito fight a retired guy, or get his ass beat again by Forrest. Are you even interested in those bouts?
by Anton Tabuena on Jan 10, 2012 12:18 AM EST up reply actions
Rematch against Lil Nog? That was really watchable!
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by menckenstein on Jan 9, 2012 12:36 PM EST up reply actions
Good call. I like Vera vs Ortiz, even though it pretty much garantees that Vera gets a win (probably via TKO) and sticks around in the UFC a while longer.
doubt it.
I think you forget that Tito has a very big skull, and Vera gets too tentative.
by Anton Tabuena on Jan 9, 2012 12:34 PM EST up reply actions
The kicks Vera landed on Couture would down Tito at this point… his body can’t handle body shots anymore.
I suppose Vera want's another nose break
he got absolutely outclassed and humiliated in that fight and it had nothing to do with the juice.
IM sure
it had something to do with it…I mean Vera has realy good TDD, & was whooping that ass in the stand up, so if they fought again i think he’d b able to do alot better. That said Id still pick Silva to win a unam dec, 29-28
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I'm not sure if Vera can keep it standing long enough to win...
but I’ll agree on one thing though, that humiliating beating on the ground made people forget how Vera was winning all the striking exchanges on that bout.
by Anton Tabuena on Jan 9, 2012 12:31 PM EST up reply actions
Well that shit goes out the window when you get outstruck by Eliot Marshall
Vera’s skills have declined rapidly.
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Well technically
he wasn’t being “outstruck”, he was winning the first two rounds (although it was pretty boring) until Marshall landed one on the chin late in the third.
by Anton Tabuena on Jan 10, 2012 12:20 AM EST up reply actions
Silva admitted he was taking injection in his spine due to an injury – which woudl be corticosteroid , not anabolic steroids.
Never believe a man who swaps urine samples.
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by dancingChicken on Jan 9, 2012 2:43 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah things didn’t end too well for TS last time somebody slammed a pint of that stuff
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by dajulzta on Jan 9, 2012 6:07 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
i hate comments like this
if drugs don’t do anything people woudn’t take them. period. doesn’t matter whether it’s in the fight or in trainting or whatever.
also: is no one on this board a little impressed that vera wants that rematch when he got tooled so hard? i do not expect him to win but i respect him for the call out.
nah, he wants it bent back into shape.
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by Victor Rodriguez on Jan 9, 2012 4:33 PM EST up reply actions
Vera used “No H_m_.” That calls for a savage beating.
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by Krimson on Jan 9, 2012 12:40 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
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by RECE ROCK on Jan 9, 2012 12:31 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
i can't take this......
Brandon Vera sit down and enjoy your time in the PRELIMS! Your not a good fighter anymore. Drug free and injured Thiago Silva will play bongo on your face again.
If a revenge match is what it takes to get Vera's killer instinct back, that's fine by me
I bet he’d get clobbered again, though.
This is an oule.
by some schmuck in texas on Jan 9, 2012 12:33 PM EST reply actions
You know what?
I hope he does get this fight and it goes exactly the same just for the fact that he used “no homo”.
After this catastrophe how can this guy even bring himself to call people out
by UncleMax on Jan 9, 2012 12:37 PM EST reply actions 10 recs
low blow max low blow
lol he shouldve let silva give em a can…then called out thiago
everybody wants to be a hero..but don't nobody wanna die
Sometimes you gotta fight the devil with a demon
Those aren't palm strikes.
Those are straight up bitch slaps. The only thing Thiago didn’t do there was ask him for the money he owed him.
by buzz_killr on Jan 9, 2012 2:49 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
Thiago "MURDERFACE MURDERFACE MURDERFACE" Silva
aimed at the crotch...
by Damon O. on Jan 9, 2012 6:10 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
I like how Vera reacts to the taunt, as if he could do something
You just spent the round getting beaten on and now you’re going to try and fight?
Man, did Thiago Silva just mess him up or what? Eliot Marshall is a lower-tier Light Heavyweight, and Vera almost lost to him. Vera should be fighting the Perosh’s, Diabate’s, TeHuna’s, and Pokrajac’s of the UFC, not Thiago Silva.
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Wait, I've got it!
Vera vs. Woodley.
This is an oule.
by some schmuck in texas on Jan 9, 2012 12:55 PM EST reply actions
OK guys...
because Uncle Creepy did it too this week. The whole “no homo” thing. Not sure how it’s gauged in the offensive meter, but with all problems fighters have had with social media of late, probably want to let that “joke” go
I was thinking the same thing. Why not phrase the first sentence in a way that you don’t have to put a disclaimer of "no homo " at the end of the tweet. It’s just stupid.
It's that the world is basically a forced labor camp from which the workers, perfectly innocent, are led forth by lottery, a few each day, to be executed.
I don't think that's just the way I see it. I think that's the way it is. Are there alternative views? Yes. Will any of them stand close scrutiny? No.
by memitim on Jan 9, 2012 1:08 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
If you're ok with being sexually insecure
then sure.
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by Genki Sudo's Choreographer on Jan 9, 2012 1:36 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
"BRB need to use the bathroom... NO HOMO, DONT THINK ABOUT MY WIENER *cries in toilet stall*"
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Well now I can’t help it! !! Thanks alot.
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by the-gentle-way on Jan 9, 2012 3:53 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Nothing wrong with it, it’s just juvenile.
It's that the world is basically a forced labor camp from which the workers, perfectly innocent, are led forth by lottery, a few each day, to be executed.
I don't think that's just the way I see it. I think that's the way it is. Are there alternative views? Yes. Will any of them stand close scrutiny? No.
by memitim on Jan 9, 2012 2:12 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Yeah,
As a promotion looking to improve its mainstream brand, getting rid of hate speech from its athletes is a good policy in general. Oh yeah just being a good human being might make it worth it too.
I thought Lay N Pray was a stupid insult until I watched Tyrone Woodly fight.
Silva deserves someone higher up.
Vera has this need to call people out after losing to them. He did the same thing with Jon Jones. Silva dominated him and deserves a more exciting fight. A fight with Rogerio Nogueira or Alexander Gustafsson could be fun.
not only the Jon Jones fight it’s his MO after every loss to call out the fighter who just beat him or make up a excuse as to why he got beaten. He has done this for every loss I ran rememeber exsept the Jardine loss. After he lost to Tim Sylvia and Werdum he asked for rematches and made up excuses as to why he lost or why the real Vera did not show up in the fight.
For that "no homo" remark
he should be cut from the UFC forever, for 2 weeks.
by Ikuhisa Quinoa on Jan 9, 2012 1:11 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
He should have to listen to Tito read Fox in Socks 50 times over
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by benten20 on Jan 9, 2012 1:16 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Vera is finished
Thiago Silva by KO in any rematch.
There’s no way they make this fight anyway.
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Vera is a sick man..
to love public humiliation that much.
by chillnnsht on Jan 9, 2012 1:24 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
This is stupid
That fight was nowhere near close and I doubt Silva’s enhancement made the difference
Nobody thought Vera would win that fight
Silva will commit brutal murder
Vera should just count his blessings that Silva got caught and he got his job back
Silva’s going to bomb Vera out of the UFC again
No way, Vera needs to fight Shogun
They gave Rampage the Bader fight. Shogun needs a tune-up fight too, and Vera is just perfect.
by Lauren J Darkbloom on Jan 9, 2012 1:30 PM EST reply actions
C'mon guys, Vera wasn't serious.
Somebody interviewed him while he was talking nonsense in his sleep. Here’s a photo from the interview.
by Machiel Van on Jan 9, 2012 1:30 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
why is he making a bisping face?
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Oddly enough, the best fight I can think of for Vera is Stephan Bonnar. Which is a terrible, terrible sign for his career trajectory.
Bonnar from a year ago, maybe… He’s on a 3 fight win streak against 3 guys I’m pretty sure would beat Vera and one that’s probably a toss up.
Things are going worse for Vera than that.
You’re sure Kingsbury and Pokrajac would beat Vera? Let’s not get carried away here. Bonnar is a 3-fight streak with the lowest level of competition possible in the UFC.
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man,
remember when Barnett did that back in his old UFC days when he was covered in blood? Ooooh, remember all the shock at that image back then.
I thought Lay N Pray was a stupid insult until I watched Tyrone Woodly fight.
Well, at least he's not calling out easy fights, or fights he thinks are easy
Looking at you Brendan f’cking Schaub
I would expect Vera to be calling out someone like Ortiz, Matyushenko, Diabate, or Perosh.
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by MicahtheCynic on Jan 9, 2012 2:39 PM EST up reply actions 6 recs
I missed Thiago Silva
I want to see him play the bongos on Vera again…
Brandon Vera is that guy
like melvin guillard, I don’t know where they take their arrogance from, definitly not from their achievements
I dunno man
Melly-G is an unfadable force of sheer badassery. I doubt many people could say the same about Vera without pissing their pants from laughing
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by dajulzta on Jan 9, 2012 4:56 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
I’m not saying he hasn’t achieved anything or that he has no skills (I like to watch him fight), but to justify his ego, he would have to be champion since 1999 and even then I would like to kick him in the nuts
by feiwongfu on Jan 9, 2012 5:19 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Vera vs Polish experiment or luiz cane
Silva would shove his hand down vera’s throat and break his gooohhhdaamn sppiiiiiyyyne
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Vera already beat Soszinsky who I think retired after his fight
with Pokrajac. Cane kind of makes sense though.
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