From an interview with a Brazillian MMA site. <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Anderson Silva recently sat down with our good friends over at Tatame.com to discuss a wide variety of issues including; moving up to 205 lbs., the UFC vs. Affliction, possible future opponents and much more. Below are highlights from their conversation: Silva On Training For Irvin: The training is good, its being very cool. It's a new experience. I only train with people above my weight, I've always trained that way. We are going to wait and see how is it gonna be, right. Leaving the fight without injuries as always, is good. Then going to see my family is the main point. We made a training programs and physical preparation, we've studied and did the physical preparation with capable personal and we are going there to put it to the test against Irvin to see if all of the training methods worked. Silva On Moving Up To 205: When I fought on Pride, a 185 weight class didnt existed, only a 205 weight class and I always fought on it. But I didn't had the same physical quality and technique I have now. It's an experience we are doing it for many reasons. One of them is as a personal favor for Dana White that I could do this fight and I, alongside all my friends that help me, concluded that it is possible. We will see. I will try to do my job as I always have been dong, independent of the result, and I'm going to test myself to put me to the test and see if I can do it. If the result is positive, then it means all our new experimental training methods worked. Whoever has a mouth, speaks whatever they want. Irvin is right and that's why everyone has its own weight. I don't have intention to fight on this category and Im only doing this because they (UFC) asked me and I think I can do it. I don't intend to fight for this belt, this belt belongs to Lyoto (Machida) and he already proved that. I'm going to fight because I like to fight and because I like challenges. Anderson Silva On His Rumored Fight With Yushin Okami: I will not confirm that, but I believe it is possible. He won all the fights he did so far and has earned the right to fight. We are still seeing what is it gonna be. I don't know how the fight would be, its hard to tell. Its a hard fight, he is very versatile athlete, has many technical qualities and I think it would be a good fight, I would like it a lot (to fight Okami). Silva On Facing Defeat: Im not going to be the champion forever, there will be someone to defeat me, obviously, and this makes me stronger so that I keep maintain my positive results. Winning or losing are right there, walking side by side. Ive lost, Ive won, Ive kept on without fear... For me, its not going to be abnormal if I lose. I train to make a good fight. The result is fruit of the work I put in. More people will want to fight for the belt and I have to keep well trained. Silva On Fight Night 14 vs. Affliction: I don't believe it to be an event dispute, I think that it is a way to show that the sport is growing.. The UFC doesn't dispute with other events. The UFC is the biggest event in the world and there is no dispute. Unfortunately the other events are on the same date. The UFC is going to appear on free television though which is very important for us and the fans.</div>
Good to see teammates like Silva and Machida working together. Silva is set to dominate the middleweight class for a long time, and Machida could be the LHW champ in a year. Big Nog might be able to hold his title too with the lack of depth at heavyweight. The reign of Black House is at hand!
could be, could be. They have any young up and comers training with them or will this be like MFS, and have several top dawgs and not much else
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Celtic Fan @ Jul 9 2008, 11:33 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>could be, could be. They have any young up and comers training with them or will this be like MFS, and have several top dawgs and not much else</div> Casa Preta is actually almost dead. They are supposedly going to restart the franchise. They are building a new training facility in Miami to go along with their other one, Silva & Nogueira MMA Academy. Rafael Feijao is someone from their camp that might be important. He is building a name for himself with EliteXC at the moment. Also, Paulo Filho is a known commodity among the hardcores, but he's somebody that, when he finally does jump to the UFC, will be a factor. From BTT there are a lot of good fighters, Toquinho being a really good UFC prospect. The Canadian wing of BTT will probably produce some good fighters as well.
are they still affiliated with BTT? I though the Nogeuira's, Silva and Fihlo were starting their own camp and it included opening a MMA camp in the U.S. as well.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (speeds @ Jul 9 2008, 12:02 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Good to see teammates like Silva and Machida working together. Silva is set to dominate the middleweight class for a long time, and Machida could be the LHW champ in a year. Big Nog might be able to hold his title too with the lack of depth at heavyweight. The reign of Black House is at hand!</div> I can understand not wanting to fight Silva, and possibly Machida (but anything like Silva). However I wouldnt understand why most fighters wouldnt jump to fight Nog. He is defensive and has good submissions, against Tim Silvia he was losing pretty much the whole way until he caught Silvia with a submission. If someone has decent standup and good takedown defense. I think Liddell for example would probably struggle against some of the other HWs but would have a fun time against Big Nog, just because I doubt Nog could get him down and doesn't have good enough standup to beat Liddell. I don't know how forget how good Vera or Gonzaga's takedown defense are, but they definitely have better stand up.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Trench @ Jul 10 2008, 03:34 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>damn celtic fan. Whats up with the 1000+ signatures! LOL</div> I've been out hunting sigs lately and had a few on my comp I uploaded to my photobucket account.. I like'em so I use'em. I got about 80 more too going to get some mma sigs to share too.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Lavalamp @ Jul 9 2008, 08:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (speeds @ Jul 9 2008, 12:02 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Good to see teammates like Silva and Machida working together. Silva is set to dominate the middleweight class for a long time, and Machida could be the LHW champ in a year. Big Nog might be able to hold his title too with the lack of depth at heavyweight. The reign of Black House is at hand!</div> I can understand not wanting to fight Silva, and possibly Machida (but anything like Silva). However I wouldnt understand why most fighters wouldnt jump to fight Nog. He is defensive and has good submissions, against Tim Silvia he was losing pretty much the whole way until he caught Silvia with a submission. If someone has decent standup and good takedown defense. I think Liddell for example would probably struggle against some of the other HWs but would have a fun time against Big Nog, just because I doubt Nog could get him down and doesn't have good enough standup to beat Liddell. I don't know how forget how good Vera or Gonzaga's takedown defense are, but they definitely have better stand up. </div> It's most likley because he's only lost 5 times in his career and has a reputation for taking a beating and then winning anyways. Pretty much the exact way he beat Timmy S. here's his record.. in the last 5 years he's lost to Josh Barnett (avenged) and to Fedor 3 times.. his only other loss was waaay back to Dan Henderson, which he avenged. If you name isn't Fedor, chances are Nogueira will beat you. Win Tim Sylvia (25-4-0) Submission (Guillotine Choke) 1:28 3 UFC 81 - Breaking Point 2008-02-02 Win Heath Herring (28-13-0) Decision (Unanimous) 5:00 3 UFC 73 - Stacked 2007-07-07 Win Josh Barnett (22-5-0) Decision (Unanimous) 5:00 3 PRIDE - Shockwave 2006 2006-12-31 Loss Josh Barnett (22-5-0) Decision (Split) 5:00 2 PRIDE - Final Conflict Absolute 2006-09-10 Win Fabricio Werdum (11-3-1) Decision (Unanimous) 5:00 3 PRIDE - Critical Coutdown Absolute 2006-07-01 Win Wagner da Conceicao Martins (4-4-0) Submission (Armbar) 2:17 1 PRIDE - Total Elimination Absolute 2006-05-05 Win Kiyoshi Tamura (28-12-2) Submission (Armbar) 2:24 1 PRIDE 31 - Dreamers 2006-02-26 Win Pawel Nastula (1-3-0) TKO (Strikes) 8:38 1 PRIDE - Critical Countdown 2005 2005-06-26 Loss Fedor Emelianenko (28-1-0) Decision (Unanimous) 5:00 3 PRIDE - Shockwave 2004 2004-12-31 Win Sergei Kharitonov (15-3-0) Decision (Unanimous) 5:00 2 PRIDE - Final Conflict 2004 2004-08-15 Loss Fedor Emelianenko (28-1-0) No Contest - Accidental Cut 3:52 1 PRIDE - Final Conflict 2004 2004-08-15 Win Heath Herring (28-13-0) Submission (Anaconda Choke) 0:30 2 PRIDE - Critical Countdown 2004 2004-06-20 Win Hirotaka Yokoi (11-5-0) Submission (Anaconda Choke) 1:25 2 PRIDE - Total Elimination 2004 2004-04-25 Win Mirko Filipovic (23-6-2) Submission (Armbar) 1:45 2 PRIDE - Final Conflict 2003 2003-11-09 Win Ricco Rodriguez (29-9-0) Decision (Unanimous) 5:00 3 PRIDE - Total Elimination 2003 2003-08-10 Loss Fedor Emelianenko (28-1-0) Decision (Unanimous) 5:00 3 PRIDE 25 - Body Blow 2003-03-16 Win Dan Henderson (22-7-0) Submission (Armbar) 1:49 3 PRIDE 24 - Cold Fury 3 2002-12-23 Win Semmy Schilt (25-14-1) Submission (Triangle Choke) 6:36 1 PRIDE 23 - Championship Chaos 2 2002-11-24 Win Bob Sapp (9-3-1) Submission (Armbar) 4:03 2 PRIDE - Shockwave 2002-08-28 Win Sanae Kikuta (28-6-3) KO (Punch) 0:29 2 UFO - Legend 2002-08-08 Win Enson Inoue (11-8-0) TKO (Triangle Choke) 6:17 1 PRIDE 19 - Bad Blood 2002-02-24 Win Heath Herring (28-13-0) Decision (Unanimous) 5:00 3 PRIDE 17 - Championship Chaos 2001-11-03 Win Mark Coleman (15-8-0) Submission (Triangle/Armbar) 6:10 1 PRIDE 16 - Beasts From The East 2001-09-24 Win Gary Goodridge (23-17-1) Submission (Triangle Choke) 2:37 1 PRIDE 15 - Raging Rumble 2001-07-29 Win Volk Han (17-5-0) Decision (Unanimous) 5:00 2 Rings - King of Kings 2000 Final 2001-02-24 Win Hiromitsu Kanehara (14-20-1) Submission (Rear Naked Choke) 0:27 2 Rings - King of Kings 2000 Final 2001-02-24 Win Valentijn Overeem (24-21-0) Submission (Arm Triangle Choke) 1:20 1 Rings - King of Kings 2000 Final 2001-02-24 Win Achmed Labasanov (6-5-0) Submission (Armbar) 1:38 1 Rings - King of Kings 2000 Block A 2000-10-09 Win Kiyoshi Tamura (28-12-2) Submission (Armbar) 2:29 2 Rings - King of Kings 2000 Block A 2000-10-09 Draw Tsuyoshi Kohsaka (23-16-2) Draw 5:00 2 Rings - Millennium Combine 3 2000-08-23 Win Andrei Kopylov (5-9-0) Decision (Majority) 5:00 2 Rings - King of Kings 1999 Final 2000-02-26 Loss Dan Henderson (22-7-0) Decision (Split) 5:00 3 Rings - King of Kings 1999 Final 2000-02-26 Win Jeremy Horn (79-18-5) Decision (Unanimous) 8:00 3 WEF 8 - Goin' Platinum 2000-01-15 Win Valentijn Overeem (24-21-0) Technical Submission (Keylock) 1:51 1 Rings - King of Kings 1999 Block A 1999-10-28 Win Iouri Kotchkine (3-4-1) Technical Submission (Armbar) 0:40 1 Rings - King of Kings 1999 Block A 1999-10-28 Win Nate Schroeder (10-9-0) Submission (Armbar) 1:52 1 WEF 7 - Stomp in the Swamp 1999-10-09 Win David Dodd (4-7-0) Submission (Crucifix) 1 WEF 6 - World Extreme Fighting 6 1999-06-12
^^^ Yea but people are afraid of a guy like Silva because he will as Rampage says "whoop your ass". Most of his opponents have been knocked out, Rich Franklin had to have his nose rebuilt. When fighting Nog, it sounds like fun to punch Nog in the face forty times and eventually Nog catches his opponent in a choke and wins it. Like if I'm going to lose, I'd rather punch Nog in the face forty times, than to have my face re-arranged and battered up and kneed in the body by Anderson. Side-note: Im glad to see that Silva will stay at Middleweight, Id rather see him there and continue to defend his title and pwn.
