One of my favourite UFC fights as Israel Adesanya fights Anderson Silva

Israel Adesanya v Anderson Silva

Some people said after this fight that the respect shown between fighters and to the Dojo meant that UFC could become one of the most respected martial arts. 

People say that MMA is a Mixed Martial Art as it takes parts of Kick Boxing, BJJ, Wrestling, and other martial arts, and fighters have to use all of them. However as it's becoming more and more usual for a UFC fighter to have to know both key components of MMA (Stand Up Fighting - the best parts of Kick Boxing/Muay Thai/Taekwondo) and (Floor Fighting - the best parts of BJJ, Wrestling, Jujitsu) to succeed in the octagon, then one day it will become a martial art on its own.

Just watch at the end the respect shown between Israel Adesanya and Anderson Silva, as they both kneel and pray on the cage floor, and hug each other for ages. I sure would love to know what Anderson was saying to Izzy for about 3 minutes in his ear after the fight. I wonder if Izzy will ever let us know?

I love this fight because Spiderman, Anderson Silva was my favourite MMA fighter before Israel Adesanya came along. Israel is undefeated at the Middleweight so far and faces his toughest fight yet tonight at UFC 248 against Yoel Romero for the middleweight belt. That fight is yet to happen as I write this but will be posted on the site for sure whatever the outcome.

Will Israel Adesanya become the next UFC's Spiderman or will someone else take that special title.

It just goes to show you don't have to be a ripped triangle chicken chest on steroids to fight. Skinny black dudes can do just as well, and Israel has all the right attributes being skinny, so there is less of a target to hit, and having long spindly arms and legs, which gives him reach advantage, and means anyone wanting to get close to him for a takedown attempt is likely to be spotted and struck before being able to. 

Izzy is very good at spotting and defending against takedowns, and if you don't get him on the floor in the centre of the Octagon. You will just waste your time against the cage as he can spread his long legs so wide that the attacker has a big problem trying to trip him up and get him to the floor.

For me, the best moment of watching a Spiderman fight, was when he was trying to put his opponent off by moving his hands about in front of him, not blocking but just trying to make the other fighter not know his next move. 

It always seemed like brilliant skill, when kicks or punches came his way but he just avoided them by inches as if they were nothing, putting the attacker off, that was until he got too cocky against Chris Weidman, and got sparked right out. Lesson learned.

However unless Izzy reigns for a long time, Anderson Silva will certainly go down in history as maybe the best Middleweight UFC fighter ever.

So here is the full fight between Anderson Silva and Israel Adesanya and you could see at the end of the fight the respect both fighters had for each other.

The original English Version video got taken down so I have had to replace it with a good video but with Spanish Commentary. I have also put up an official fight highlights video as well in case that gets removed as well.

Israel Adesanya v Anderson Silva - Full Fight

 Israel Adesanya fights Anderson Silva - Official Fight Highlights

Let me know in the comments about your best Anderson Silva moments during his career. He is a GOAT, still fighting at 42!

UFC 208 - Dana White Interview

UFC 208 - Dana White Interview

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Dana White talks backstage with Megan Olivi and gives his thoughts about UFC 208. He was slightly disappointed from what I gather from his demeanour and voice.



The main event, Anderson Silva v Derek Brunson in which Brunson won on a tie break which a lot of fans, pay per view watchers, and probably Dana wasn't to happy with at all. Spiderman continues to say that at even 41 he will carry on fighting.

So let see some more spider action next time!

Here are some of Spiderman's best moments in the UFC.



Watch the interview here: YouTube.com

Also watch the full Spiderman fight here: Anderson Silva v Derek Brunsonwon.

What do you think about holding UFC 208 in New York, was the referee skilled enough, what was the judging like and who was the best fight of the night.

Spiderman Anderson Silva vs Derek Brunson in UFC 208

Anderson Silva vs Derek Brunson at #UFC208

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On Saturday, the UFC returns to New York to make a little more promotional history at UFC 208.

In the main event, Holly Holm takes on Germaine de Randamie to determine the UFC’s first women’s featherweight champion. But the co-feature is a talker, too.

Former longtime middleweight champion and pound-for-pound king Anderson Silva (33-8 MMA, 16-4 UFC) returns to take on Derek Brunson (16-4 MMA, 7-2 UFC) in the co-main event.

Silva will be looking for his first official win in more than four years.

After a non-title TKO win over Stephan Bonnar at UFC 153, he lost his middleweight belt to Chris Weidman, then badly broke his leg in their rematch.

When he returned 13 months later, he beat Nick Diaz at UFC 183 – but failed drug tests associated with the fight and was suspended for a year.

After that, he lost a close decision to Michael Bisping before Bisping won the 185-pound title, then took a non-title fight on just a couple days’ notice against light heavyweight champ Daniel Cormier at UFC 200, which he lost by decision.

Maybe I should have split this into two articles but I couldn't help putting the UFC 208 fight between Spiderman Anderson Silva and Derek Brunson from UFC 208 into this article.

If the below video does not play or has been removed then hopefully the highlights video below is still playable. After translating the title it seems to be the full fight however the commentary is in English.

Anderson Silva v Derek Brunson - Full Fight UFC 208

 

Fight Highlights between Anderson Silva and Derek Brunson UFC 208

As the nice people at YouTube like taking down videos that are allowed to be embedded in other sites when you click the share button, I have to keep finding other videos to show you. Sometimes it comes down to just the highlights or the fight from a channel in Estonia with commentary you cannot understand. Then after 2 years, you can embed the full fight without any hassle again.

I really don't know why they make videos embeddable e.g show the HTML code to play them elsewhere if they don't want the video, to be shown on other sites. Why not just take the "embed" option off the Share pop-up?

Anderson Silva v Derek Brunson - Fight Highlights UFC 208

So who do you think will win and will you stay up just to be disappointed like I was with Rhonda Rousey when I stupidly chose to stay up all night to watch the main event for her only to be stopped 48 seconds into her comeback Friday night fight to the Brazillian Lionness, Amanda Nunes in UFC 207.

At least she won me £40 from her amazing on-target punching and Rousey had no chance to get within range to get her to the ground for her favourite finish, an armbar.

Well at least I won some money and I guess Rousey will go off and make some more films like The Expendables 3 with all the old crew, Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson, Wesley Snipes, Dolph Lungren, Antonio Banderas, Jet Li, and many more aging stars of the 80's.

View the breakdown here > mmajunkie.com