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Ploy by UFC to get media off GSP

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#1 ·
Recently, it has been announced that Okami is going to fight Anderson Silva at Rio. However, Anderson Silva was on Mike Straka's fighting words recently and said he has no interest in fighting Okami, saying that fight finished in a KO.

Is this a ploy to get the media off GSP leading up to the fight? most of the questions would revolve around " if you win, are you looking forward to this fight?" and there would be tremendous pressure for GSP to win.

I really think that the UFC just did that to get the media to stop talking about it so much, and if GSP wins, he will be facing Silva.
 
#2 ·
Probably, it only makes sense. It would be dumb to announce a fight for GSP against Silva because he could lose to Shields, then there'd really be no point for them to fight lol

Who knows though, if GSP does beat Shields they could dick Okami out of a title shot and grant GSP a fight, not like anyone would complain lol
 
#3 ·
Nobody will be backing Okami that's for sure. He lost to Sonnen and barely beat Marquart and somehow deserves a title shot:confused02:

If Silva had beaten him soundly in their first fight we wouldn't even be having this discussion.

Bring on Silva vs GSP!
 
#15 ·
Nobody will be backing Okami that's for sure. He lost to Sonnen and barely beat Marquart and somehow deserves a title shot:confused02:

If Silva had beaten him soundly in their first fight we wouldn't even be having this discussion.

Bring on Silva vs GSP!
Three fight winning streak, and he also beat Mark Munoz who is probably better than guys like Bisping and Wanderlei who are top ten, plus Maia will never get another title shot as long as Silva is Champ, Chael just lost, and the UFC wanted Silva/Belfort so bad it killed them.
 
#5 ·
Recently, it has been announced that Okami is going to fight Anderson Silva at Rio. However, Anderson Silva was on Mike Straka's fighting words recently and said he has no interest in fighting Okami, saying that fight finished in a KO.
hahahaha Did he REALLY say that?

I hope not because that is beyond retarded.
 
#7 · (Edited)
I didn't describe it good.

Silva was talking about the last fight they had, where it ended in a disqualification because of an upkick while Okami was still on the mat. He believes that Okami could have continued but chose just to get the DQ win. So Anderson feels like that was a KO for him.
 
#9 ·
For further clarification - Silva didn't say he had no interest in fighting Okami. He said he wasn't interested in a "revenge" fight (for his DQ loss). In spite of the loss on his record, he felt like Okami lost the fight (and I guess he's satisfied with that). In fact, Silva said that if Okami earned the right to fight for the title, he'd do it.
 
#18 ·
Maybe Anderson Silva really thinks that Okami could have continued. This is a similar situation to JBJ having a loss on his record when he shouldn't.

Hamil couldn't continue because of a separated shoulder, not because of elbows. The ref didn't do a good job in really trying to find out what was wrong, he just assumed that the elbows were the driving force in Hamil not being able to continue.

When I look at that up kick, I could hardly believe that he wasn't able to continue. We have seen worse looking up kicks in the UFC and fighters continuing the fight.
 
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