With all this talk lately about who could beat Silva I began thinking. I have a short list of people and someone I never considered was Jon Fitch. Im not a Jon Fitch fan in the least. I personaly dont care for him. Im wondering if he would be a bad matchup for Silva though. Hes pretty big for welterweight, hes long and tough, apparently cant be subbed. What do you guys think if a matchup between the two happend. I figured Id just throw it out there with all the talk of GSP vs Silva and what not.
I'll agree that his last fight wasn't impressive, but bar that most of them have been. The guy seriously will not be submitted its rediculious. However, I do think that Anderson would ******* murder him. Silvas stand up is much much better than his. Jon's wrestling is really good, but Henderson outwrestled him and still got beat. Fitch would put up a fight and it might actually go to a decision if Fitch gets him down, which is a hell of a lot more than his other opponents can say.
At this point MMAforum.com needs a template to submit a "%Random_UFC_Fighter% versus Anderson Silva: Who wins?" forum post. It would save people a lot of time I think.
What's next for Anderson Silva? I hope nothing more than a cold beer, a hot girl, and a good time. He's earned it.
In my opinion Fitch wouldn't stand a chance against Silva, any which way the fight went Silva would have the advantage; which would mean Fitch would lose decisively.
I've heard some posters say that GSP would get destroyed by Silva, if so then Fitch shouldn't even bother making weight.
Its ignorant to think that nobody can be subbed or knocked out in MMA. As for Fitch beating Silva....he needs to beat a few guys before he would even be considered to fight Silva. I'm kinda hoping that he stays in the division for a while and fights Lutter and Marquardt again maybe Franklin too. Moving down would be a real stretch...that's almost 50 pounds he'd have to cut to get to WW. If he can take his power with him to the LHW division I think he'd probably dominate that division as well.
I dont think GSP would get destrpyed at all. I think if GSP played it smart and wore anderson out he has a great chance to win it. Fitch though isn't quite on GSPs level yet. He doesnt have the striking or submissions yet. His standing game is okay, his wrestling is great and his jits is fairy average. His sub defense is amazing but I've yet to see him really finish with a technical looking sub (he has 4 legit submission wins [i dont count strikes...] 3 by RNC one by guillotine), and I htink thats exactly what it would take to beat silva. The one thing I do think fitch has to beat silva is that he can wrestle him until Silva gets tired (MAYBE!?) and THEN try and do something, but other than that he doesnt have a chance.
Like I said I doubt he'd win, but if he could out wrestle him and defend those Subs he'd put up a fight. Standing he gets destroyed, Anderson has way more reach on him and is a much better striker in general. All I'm saying is that I dont think Fitch would get teh shit beat out of him, he quite possibly would though.
EDIT: Holy shitballs anderson walks around at 220!? Jesus.
Well, you could argue his fight against diego in that case too. Diego went for all kinds of subs in that match and couldnt catch fitch in any. The one he did get Fitch got out of. He has great sub defense regardless. I'll admit though that AS is a black belt, so it'd be a lot harder. I really don't want to see silva face fitch either (I think he'd lose and he's my favorite fighter :\)
I'd much rather see him face lindland or Okami again
Well, we havent seen him face an outstanding wrestler really. I mean there's Hendo but did he show it at all? Not really. The only time he took him down was when he was half KOd anyway
He got him down in the second but couldn't take him down in the second as Silva defended the TD like a beast. Who exactly is better than Hendo? Lindlan? You're also forgetting he beat Nate Marquadt who was supposed to be a great ground guy and striker.
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