Dana just announced at the Presser. Silva vs. Sonnen 2 will take place in a Rio Soccer Stadium with an 80k capacity.
Source: https://twitter.com/#!/ufc - up on the UFC twitter. Apparently will be in the Maracana Stadium. Should be the best atmosphere at a Fight Event of all time in my opinion..unless your Chael.
Who knows who wins, thats why they fight the fights. If it was a foregone conclusion that Silva wins the fight then Im not wiasting my money on the PPV, but its not a sure thing.
Silva is going to murder Chael in front of 80,000 screaming Brazilians, and it will be the most epic moment in UFC history! I hope the UFC hypes the **** out of this fight.
These Anderson Silva fans are a delight I must say.
Guy gets taken down and punched in the face 300 times and they try to pass it off as he waited, yet will never accept the fact that if Chael had stalled instead of kept working he'd have rode it out and won.
The noise and general atmosphere in that pressure cooker will be the most amazing in MMA history Sure, Pride had bigger audiences on a few occassions - but them Brazilians are passionate like nobody else!
Can't wait for this fight, no matter the outcome - it will go down in MMA folklore for the coming generations to look back at
- I'm still pulling for Silva though, gotta support my man once again Will be a close fight though
The noise and general atmosphere in that pressure cooker will be the most amazing in MMA history Sure, Pride had bigger audiences at a few occassions - but them Brazilians are passionate like nobody else!
Can't wait for this fight, no matter the outcome - it will go down in MMA folklore for the coming generations to look back at
- I'm still pulling for Silva though, gotta support my man once again Will be a close fight though
Of course he's not, even though Sonnen's clearly just selling the fight, the people chanted "You're gonna die" at Chad Mendes and he tried to be friends with them. Sonnen's talked shit about Minotauro, Machida, Wanderlei, Vitor, Anderson, and everyone else you can think of.
...Holy smokes! That is freakin' sick! If Sonnen wins he'd better have a helicopter nearby to airlift him out of the stadium because all those crazy Brazilians might explode into a rioting frenzy. I think Anderson will put on a stunning performance and get a dominant win. He has the massive crowd, Chael will be clean and Silva will approach the fight much differently. I bet he's been working on his TDD with JDS. He'll be much more unpredictable and will most likely catch Sonnen with some wicked, unorthodox strike that will set the stage for the end. I don't see Chael taking Anderson's title on the biggest stage of the champion's career...
This will truly be an event for mma history regardless of who wins or in what fasion. As much as I want to back my boy Chael, I have to put my money on Anderson. Just a hunch. We'll see though. Either way I cant wait!
The thing is, Sonnen doesn't play into Anderson's style. In fact, he's one of the few guys in the UFC capable of playing the exact opposite of Anderson's style.
Push forward and have awesome takedowns. Try to stand toe to toe with him in mma and you lose. I don't care what your name is. Push forward with the takedown threat, and you can actually touch him.
Silva will probably win this fight. But it's not so black and white as people like to think.
This is going to be one of the most memorable fights ever
just wondering if anyone is aware that the record attendance at this stadium was 199,000 in 1950. ive been to a few big stadiums to watch football (soccer), some around 90,000+
but i still couldnt imagine what 200,000 would be like!
so excited for this fight, i can feel the butterflies already! and as much as i hate to admit it chael sonnen has done alot to make it so. and deserves to get beaten up in front of as many ppl as possible hehe
does anyone know what the record crowd for a fight is?
Wow... thanks for putting words in my mouth, Psycho. I never denied that Chael dominated that fight. I have questioned the circumstances but never what happened. My point was that an injured Silva stuffed a massively roided Sonnen's takedown attempts. A telling fact I think for the second fight.
As for Stann... I never for a moment believed he would beat Chael. He has no ground game. Krystof casually out wrestled and submitted him. What should I expect when he faced an actual wrestler? Stann is no better than a C level fighter. At best. And I have never thought otherwise.
Chael's performance against Bisping is exactly what I expected from him. It's the same kind of performances he put on before his roided up title run. Pretty awful. Shit stand up, good takedowns, and no ability to even threaten a finish. And it's still a fight I believe Bisping won. I was hoping for a double ko during that fight though. I can't stand either fighter.
And you're not a troll, Psycho. I didn't call Lyotolegion a troll because he supports Sonnen. I called him a troll because of his rant about the UFC setting up Sonnen and Okami to lose.
I try to keep things level and leave out my personal feelings for the fighters involved when it comes to discussing a fight but I am right there with you. All the questions from the first fight have left a bitter taste in my mouth. I want them to fight and answer all of those questions.
My personal belief is that Anderson will win in convincing fashion - which he always does. For all the talk of his weakness to takedowns he has never been beaten by a wrestler. In the UFC he has submitted every fighter to take him down. That's a damn good record that matches up extremely badly with Chael's record of submission defense. 25 minutes is a long time for Chael to sit in Silva's guard.
My hope is that Silva makes an example out of Chael and he can fade into obscurity. Never having to hear him talk again would make me a very happy man. That's not a prediction of what will happen. Merely a beautiful dream. A vaguely arousing one at that.
imo I think Sonnen got into Silva's head. Given this plus the pressure of performing in front of a 80k home crowd, I think he won't be able to handle it and lose a decision.
This is a point I have raised in the past. People talk about how Sonnen has to perform in front of the Brazillian crowd, but I think Silva having to perform in front of his home crowd, against his arch nemesis, and wanting to destroy him for his fans can bring on a lot of pressure also.
Mix in the fact that Silva is getting older and is coming off a long layoff due to injury means there are some cards stacked against Silva.
Silva will win this one pretty easily. Striking fighters are getting better at TDD and wrestling across the divisions is becoming less effective, unless the wrestler is able to set up their takedowns with good striking first.
I don't see Sonnen being able to exchange for long in the stand up, and Silva will have better TDD to stuff the direct attempts.
Sonnen not only has a world class double leg TD, but he is a world class Greco Roman wrestler. All he has to do is press Silva and get his hands on him and chances are Silva is going down.
Also, Im not sure where you get the wrestling is becoming less effective across the division. Munoz, Sonnen, and Okami, Weidman and Boetsch are wrestlers and their wrestling is what allows them to do much of what they want to do.
Sonnens gonna die! Sonnen is in danger! Sonnen is gonna get raped! Evil Brazilian people gonna molestify him.
No.
I bet the "hate" for Sonnen isn't even remotely close to the hate the Brazilians have for each other, when it comes to club football. That shit is tribal.
silva's probably going to win, but holy shit if he doesn't. They better helicopter him out of there or he won't make it backstage, they have barriers in a lot of soccer stadiums to keep fans back from going crazy, but there will already be fans on the field.
don't be so sure, if he says anything even slightly derogatory to Anderson, Brazil and more importantly soccer I could see a few hundred people rushing the stage. Imagine what would happen if Anderson was calling Americans fat, lazy and stupid and he beat Chael in Oregon. Things might escalate on their own if their is security surrounding the stage and the crowd starts antagonizing them, sometimes hostility can just fuel itself until their is a mob mentallity. I bet they do have a helicopter sitting just outside the stadium in case shit does go down, the risk is more than 0%. Chael already said a lot of things that were pretty out of line, calling Brazilians stupid and undeveloped.
I think he's just crazy, as in mentally not all there. The kind of crazy of a snowboarder who flings himself off a cliff and trying a double backflip without having prepared for it. That little voice of reason that says something might not be a good idea, he doesn't have that.
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