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Anderson Silva Set to Draw Big on His "Final Run"
Throughout his dominant UFC career, the knock on Anderson Silva has been his drawing ability, or lack thereof. His two fights with Rich Frankin did buyrates in the 300,000 range, and his fight w...
Quote of the Day: The False Choice of Safety vs. Pleasing the Fans in Mixed Martial Arts
"UFC, of course, would thrive more if all main event fights were exciting, if all fighters went all-out and played aggressively on offense and loosely on defense, taking chances that often would lea...
Fighternomics: The Strategies of Anderson Silva and Thales Leites
Since the final horn, we've seen a long series of back-and-forth articles about the performances of Anderson Silva and Thales Leites in their bout at UFC 97. Silva, the Zuffa-heralded pound-fo...
Yves Lavigne Wiped Down Anderson Silva at UFC 97
Josh Gross asserted that Anderson Silva spread the Vaseline applied to his face onto his body upon entering the cage at UFC 97. MMA media avoided GreaseGate II thanks to the controversy surrou...
Quote of the Day 2: Mauricio "Shogun" Rua
"Since the start I was very motivated [to fight Chuck Liddell] and it was important. I’ve trained hard, very focused, more prepared physically and mentally, so I got there ready to show my w...
How the Mainstream Views UFC 97 and Anderson Silva
Some of this might be uncomfortable to listen to and there's a lot I don't agree with (the Wiman vs. Stout fight was excellent, for starters), but it's a viewpoint that should be heard. I am not posti...
The Strange Parallels of Anderson Silva and Roy Jones, Jr.
Jordan Breen is befuddled by the overlap and wonders why Silva is aping his boxing idol: And now, after the Cote and Leites bouts, Silva has taken another step in mirroring Jones. The charm of that...
The Case for Anderson Silva
Reasonable people can disagree, so I thought I'd also air Sergio Non's perspective after sharing mine: Leites never presented another significant threat in the affair. By the fourth round he wasn't...
Anderson Silva Has Very Little Shame
I'm honestly shocked anyone is defending the absolute deliberate and unprofessional performance turned in last night by UFC Middleweight champion Anderson Silva. What the alleged pound-for-pound king ...
Thales Leites' Passivity in Numbers
FightMetric released their report for Silva/Leites. Here's the number of strikes thrown by round for each fighter: Round Silva Leites 1 17 8 2 19 16 3 44 13 ...
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