Found July 28, 2009 on
Bleacher Report:
For what seems like years, Dana White has been declaring that Anderson Silva is the best pound-for-pound fighter on the planet.
Yet recently there have been so many dominant performances by other pound-for-pound fighters, that the debate has once again been blown wide open.
In my previous segments, I looked at the P4P cases that could be made for Miguel Torres and Lyoto Machida. This week, we look at "The Spider," again, using my criteria of results, skill set, and beatability.
Results
Recently, Silva has taken a lot of flak for what have been labeled as lackluster performances. Yet despite his seeming lack of killer-instinct in those fights, I don't think that Anderson has gotten a fair shake.
In my opinion, he would likely have finished the fight with Patrick Cote were it not stopped due to a leg injury, which was likely exacerbated by Silva's brutal leg kicks.
The Thales Leites fight was perhaps not very exciting to watch, but by the end of i...
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