The Most LEGENDARY MMA Fighter! Why Anderson Silva Could DESTROY Anyone – MMA Breakdown
In the sport of Mixed Martial Arts, Anderson “The Spider” Silva sits alone as a symbol ofgreatness – a fighter whose complete domination of his contemporaries must be measuredagainst titans of other sports. If you understand what figures like Ali, Jordan, Phelps, or Boltmeant to their sports, you have an inkling of what Silva’s prime was like to watch when ithappened.
Across his 14-year UFC career, he set the record for consecutive victories, consecutive finishes in the modern era, the most knockouts and submissions in middleweight championship history, and defended the UFC middleweight championship 10 times – a divisional record. He toppled
figures like Sonnen, Okami, Belfordt, Henderson, Franklin, and Griffin all while holding the UFC title for nearly 7 years – the longest stretch of time in promotional history.
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Spider style… man that’s dope lol and you can see how it’s like an actual spider, how all it’s limbs move in unison to control/dominate their prey
Haven’t followed ufc closely in years, but prime Silva and early Jones years were so much fun.
He was so fluid and relaxed with arms kept down. His calmness/breathing allowed him to stay in constant tempo and focus clearly. Surgical with his art, true Legend
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Excellent boxer as well I think that’s a big part. Sparring vids of him vs pros is impressive
"Trying to make him pay was like trying to get a refund from Comcast" 😂😭😭😭
“Trying to make him pay was like trying to get a refund from comcast” had me laughing so hard
I feel like his competition was no where near todays top middle weights. Dricus, Israel, Khamzat. Even Sean might have given him fits not to mention Alex. I think we’re living in the best middle weight era.
You can see some Capoeira elements in his movements. Which makes perfect sense, as Capoeira’s defense relies heavily on dodging.
The thing that made him different was his huge interpersonal intelligence, especially with this kind of intelligence going down among the new generations. It was also the factor on making Brazilians to win so many world cups on Football. You can easily see the similarities.
Can you do a video for fighting on the backfoot in boxing & MMA?
Imagine a prime middleweight Anderson Silva vs middleweight Alex Pereira. Its such a tragedy we’ll never get to see a battle like that. Maybe we’re lucky tho, it’d be so hype the universe might explode 😂
All thanks to sensei Stevan Seagal, who thought Silva how to fight like he was in the matrix.
He could destroy anyone EXCEPT the undefeated Chael Sonnen.
Lets not forget that illegal knee he threw at his face when Chael was downed.
Stolen belt.
silva feels like a chessgrandmaster in these fights
I’ll forever meat ride Anderson Silva and will go “yes king” the second he taunts
Its like he took a page from Nicolino Locche’s book, the page that says how he does as little as possible in the ring , exept that Locche was a baller that smoked up to 50 sigs a day.. Silva just comes across as lazy and full of himself..
if we’re talking about being ahead of the curve compared to your contemporaries then it’s a sin to place Anderson Silva above Fiodor Ymelianenko as far as legend status goes.
Anderson Silva, Fedor Emelianenko and now Jon Jones are fighters that were so far ahead that they made it look easy to become undefeated for several years
uma puta lutador com a voz de uma garotinha de 10 anos
Silva is my goat
É Brasil 🇧🇷 pohhh@@@
He also trained to not blink as reflex, he said it was disadvantage, so very earlie on he decided to stop.
The greatest showman in the history of the sport.
Anderson Spider Silva.
The first that made it look easy
This is like a Bruce Lee/Ali highlight..
But Silva is more
For real kickboxer
I like how Anderson is. He is built different. He litterally says i watch this in a movie and train for 3 weeks to use in the fight or someone teach me this and a train for 3 weeks and them he use in the fight and not a normal fight but elite MMA. He also used to say to his friends ”I gonna end the fight in this way” like a kick a punch a elbow blow and them he ends the fight the way he said.
Its like watching Jordan, you never knew what he was gonna do, but you were always amazed.
Its a shame he got popped for roids. Puts an unfortunate asterisk on an illustrious career
Anderson was amazing for sooo long, i remember being so excited he was finally competing in the UFC, people forget his pre UFC days were he was a top ranked welterweight, in japan he beat both Hayato "mach" Sakurai and Carlos Newton and over in the states Matt Hughes also beat them, so there was actually plans for a Silva v Hughes bout for the UFC welterweight championship unfortunately Visa complications derailed the fight. His performances as the Cage Rage middle weight champ in England were brilliant also, that’s were i first saw Anderson and i will never forget his uppercut elbow ko of Fryklund that was when i was like ok this guy is really special. Then seeing his long awaited UFC debut fight against Leben i knew he was gonna decimate, but the crazy cinematic style he did it in left no doubt in my mind that Franklin, whom i love also, had a huge problem coming his way. Anderson silva will always be my favorite fighter, no other inspired such fighting mysticism in me.
Prime Anderson vs MUI Goku😅.
I’m imagining the trash talk to be spiderman’s level of quips
0:29 fr?
Olha nosso menino
Sad a lot of younger viewers don’t even know who he is. I talked to some 19 year old who seriously thinks MCGREGOR was the best UFC fighter in history.
If coke was an mma fighter.
I’d take prime silva over anyone. Anyone.
the second greatest fighter in the UFC after Jones. There’s no discussion about that.
Had the pleasure of meeting him a few times since i went to school with his son and we kinda had the same friend group. Such a nice guy, his son… not so much.
I’m Brazilian and when Spider was at its peak, I was a kid, I would wake up at dawn to watch the legend
Thanks for everything Spider 🙏🏾
Silva is who got me really into MMA as a young teen, I already liked MMA bc of people like Rampage, and Forrest, but Silva is who sent me down the path of training myself.
I feel like Silva was heavily influenced by Lerdzilla, the legendary Muay Thai fighter
When I watched AS fight, his opponents seemed so slow, so amateurish, so innocents, but he fought the champions of the weight class, the best, and even so he played with them.
If there’s a fighter that deserves to be converted to a fighting game is him. The only Fighters that had this honour were Bruce Li (Feilong, Street Fighter), Mike Tyson (Balrog, SF), Jose Rizal (Josie Rizal, Tekken), Fedor Emalienko (Abel, SF) , and very loosely Sagat Petchyindee (Sagat, SF) and Victor Zangiev (Zangief, SF)
Anderson Silva was the only one to truly apply Jeet Kune Do as Bruce Lee envisaged it, IMHO. What a champion!
True definition of martial artist would never curse and spit at his oponents during a fight.
I am happy that I got into ufc during his prime. I don’t know that I have seems someone so dominant in any other sport except maybe Tiger Woods, or Serena Williams
my guy invoke a whole ass country with this one
the True GOAT of mma
Lots of capoeira move..He is brasil,so..Hesnot realy was fight.Hes played like the capoeira players