Seeing Fedor lose and lose bad twice made me realize that seeing your heroes get creamed is no fun.You want your legends to live on forever. When you put a much naturally larger Anderson Silva up against George St-Pierre any fight will be lop sided. Silva is naturally 185 – 205 where GSP is a clear 170.
Stylistically it might be a bit more interesting, but it still wouldn’t be fair. Silva is one of the best strikers in the game, a jedi as he has been called and calls himself, while GSP is the most complete overall fighter. You remember when you used to play video games and you had to choose between the guy with the even stats and the one with the single major advantage? Well Silva doesn’t have many disadvantages, but being prone to want to stand over work on the ground is probably his biggest weakness. GSP is so intelligent he would obviously see ground and pound as his ticket and shoot in early (see Chael). This all sounds well and good and we run it through our heads, but do we want either of them to lose?
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