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UFC Middleweight Champion Anderson “The Spider” Silva faces Nova Uniao fighter Thales Leites @ UFC 97 Redemption in the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada.
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28 Comments
April 18th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
I don’t understand the booing…I mean what did they want Silva to do when Leites only wanted to graple?
It must be frustrating to fight someone that dosn’t want to fight…and everytime he had the clinch leites just dropped like a sack of spuds…
If you’re going to boo, then boo Joe Silva for putting on this crap and not giving the Spider something to work with.
April 19th, 2009 at 2:32 am
Anderson is amazin…..
Ppl who boo don’t understand martial arts !!!
They just love blood-shed and mindless violence…..sad…
April 19th, 2009 at 3:46 am
I totally agree with you. I mean seriously, i thought that demian maia would be chosen to fight silva next. Damian is a level above leites when it comes to grappling. How about Michael Bisping? Bisping is probably the only fighter in the 185lbs division that could threaten silva in terms of striking. I mean seriously the wolfs lair had so much succes recently it seems like Bisping should be a much better oponent for Silva than leites. I am surprised and disappointed. Silva is looking to retire and they are giving him an unexperienced mma fighter with decent grappling skills – THAT IS NOT ENOUGH.
April 19th, 2009 at 7:35 am
Espelho, yes very true, Leites did not have an answer for Silva. I believe it was his fault. Instead of running away and pulling guard, he might need to learn how to clinch and get the guy against the cage. Kind of like how Randy Couture is able to continuously take people down.
I think Demian Maia vs. Anderson Silva will be a better match.
April 19th, 2009 at 7:39 am
Ice, I agree w/ you that Michael Bisping would be a good match up for Anderson Silva in terms of striking. I think also Denis Kang might have a shot as well. Otherwise, the only two that I honestly think could take out Anderson on their feet in the MMA world is Cung Le or Vitor Belfort.
April 19th, 2009 at 8:01 am
I wanna see gsp vs silva. That would be the most intense fight ever!
April 19th, 2009 at 8:59 am
Admin, Vitor vs Silva would be a great fight…the most accurate boxer vs the most accurate MT kickboxer…and Vitor would not be scared to bang with him. But I still think Spider could beat Vitor. Cung Le to me is a bit overated, but has awesome kicks.
For me the people deserving a shot at Silva would be: Marquadt, Wanderlei Silva (according to Sherdog, despite being friends a spat has started between the two and you know Wand goes in there to murder people!) and Henderson (only person to win a round with the Spider).
Bisping, if he beats Hendo definitely deserves a shot, but it’ll prob be next year if it ever happens.
Tibbo, I would love that superfight to happen, but at a catchweight so that titles are unaffected and also cz Spider would not make the drop to 170 as easily as GSP can add on the pounds (I am sure he walks around at 190-200 anyway).
April 19th, 2009 at 9:42 am
Tibbo,
GSP would be a good fight for Anderson but I think Anderson’s height and reach advantage would be too much for him. I think it would turn out to be similar to the Nick Diaz vs. Frank Shamrock fight last week.
April 19th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
i think pple are stupid for booing at silva because he did what he had to do..leites trained for the fight expecting that the fight would only be on the ground, which cause silva to become frustrated and also the crowd. Also about GSP VS SILVA this will happen maybe after Gsp is done with thiago.
April 20th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
It’s a quite boring fight.. But Silva take that chance to Knock-out his Oppenent. They both tactician. But in very game there’s always a winner… SILVA Rules….
April 21st, 2009 at 1:06 pm
dont count tihiago out
April 21st, 2009 at 9:02 pm
this just shows how canadiands cant appreciate a fight XD, ive seen worse fights but this one did not deserve all the booing
April 25th, 2009 at 8:24 am
This was the worst MMA fight I’ve ever seen, my 40-year old mom would have kicked both Anderson Silva’s and Thales Leites’ asses. I mean come on, its a championship bout, i thought better of Thales, I thought that he wanted that belt, I thought that Anderson Silva wanted to leave a legacy. I really hope that the winner from Dan Henderson vs. Michael Bisping will kick Anderson Silva’s skinny ass. Or better GSP splitting his skull open and hammering his brain. BULLSHIT!!!
April 30th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
DaeronX, I see no one has made a comment about your Canadians (which you cannot even spell) can’t appreciate a good fight most likely because your stupidity doesn’t deserve a response but I cant resists. First I assume you are an American due to your ignorant attitude thinking you are the superior race and if someone doesn’t agree with you they are in the wrong. (Remember that war you started in the Middle East and cursed Canada for not jumping in immediately because the US thought is was the right thing to do. Maybe we were right? And on that note when did you join World War 2, that one was an obvious one that needed to be fought and you were years late) Anyway, back to the topic, if this fight was in the US there would have been more boo’s than what you heard here. Canada has respect for others but wanted to see a better show. Not like some who burn others flags or boo during another country’s anthem. You should look at yourself before you point fingers at others.
My opinion of the fight: Silva has excellent ground defense and Leites has excellent stand up defense so you saw a very defensive fight with little effective offence on either side. Not much either fighter can change about that during the fight.
May 1st, 2009 at 8:02 am
The thing about this fight is that Anderson already got the title…he is now “DEFENDING” the title…he shouldn’t have to be that aggressive..Theites didn’t want to do much but take him to the ground…
May 1st, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Leites was holding back a lot, silva loves countering, he couldnt counter since leites was not hitting
May 12th, 2009 at 9:34 am
great fight Silva lit Thales up big time, i loved all silvas crazy technical striking doesnt get much more entertaining then that. I love to watch a long fight without any bullshit humping on the ground, only thing is Silva never threw a single knee which i would’ve liked to see, other than that great fight keep postin this shit mmavideos. TEAM DESTRUCTION out.
May 12th, 2009 at 9:37 am
Oh ya those straight on leg kicks to the knee were incredible! TEAM DESTRUCTION out.
May 12th, 2009 at 9:40 am
Also the guy who said that Silva is the defender, ya he doesn’t need to go out and put on a show, they can’t take away his belt for not finishing a fight, give Leites some props for going 5 rounds witht he champ. It would jsut be plain stupid of Anderson to go out there and fight to put on a show and get the finish when having the belt is the only thing that matters period. TEAM DESTRUCTION out.
May 25th, 2009 at 8:55 am
Silva didn’t deserve all the booing. He was actually apologetic for the people’s ungratefulness. Fuck the people. It was a good fight. One-sided and not explosive, but a good fight. Not every good fight is clipshow material.
May 25th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
This guy was no match for silva, he only had one thing in mind, that was his ground game…as for the booing..completely unnecessary, what was silva to do really?..wicked fight, silva completely worked him.
June 7th, 2009 at 12:26 am
Ares you’re a joke dude. You’re a classic casual fan that doesn’t care about how skilled the fighters are. If you want some bs street fight watch something else.
I’m choked that Anderson even apologized to those pieces of shit. They don’t deserve to watch him fight. GSP would get worked by him, he’s still the best in the UFC hands down. It’s a joke that anyone is insulting him after two lack luster performances. He beat the crap out of everyone else they put in front of him. Not like GSP performed perfectly in every fight he’s been in, but he catches a break for being Canadian evidently.
I can’t see a bunch of Affliction fans turning on Fedor if he didn’t destroy someone in one round.
July 17th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Could someone fix the Anderson silva Vs Thales Leites Please
July 21st, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Silva didn’t deserve the booing, he put on a great fight. Leites really really needs to improve his wrestling. Period. Silva does have great takedown defense, but not world class (as in the Dan Henderson fight). Silva is the best striker in MMA though.
Exeter,your crazy for thinking Silva could beat GSP. Even though we prob wouldnt see the fight cuz GSP walks around at 185 and would have a significant height and weight disadvantage that would prob cost him the fight he would win if silva made the cut instead of him putting on the pounds.
GSP is the best wrestler, argueably, in MMA today. He would take Silva down and although Silva is a black belt GSP’s top skills would be too much (as seen in his destruction of BJ Penn, also a black belt) he would mount and finish with strikes, easy.
July 21st, 2009 at 5:53 pm
poor guy. breaks my heart to see the canadians boo him just cuz they like how the match went.
Punch the legs!! Punch the legs!!
July 21st, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Like they said silva has the belt( DEFENDING ). Thales obviosly didn’t want it bad enough. If he was winning then went on defensively fine but to be losing and still not try to gain the advantage? Dont you want the freakin belt? you trained your ass off and now your losing, you have to go out on a limb and take a chance or you look like a dipshit, DIPSHIT! Not ANDERSONS fault the guys scared to fight him so anderson took his leg for wasting everyonnes time, ice up that knee bitchboy!
August 10th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
round 3 ended with 10 seconds left :S
October 1st, 2009 at 2:05 am
Actually at the first Silva’s answer he had said he couldnt give a espetacular show and that most of people doesnt understand what is going on in the fight but are them who pay evebody’s salary and everyone there gotta be respected and not receive Boos
So the guy who translates had not translated this part, I think cause of the spectators could interpret bad what he’d said