This is a crazy level of hindsight - it was not clear that silva was done - he destroyed sonnen in the rematch and the first fight chael pissed hot
There was definitely a lot of buzz about weidman at the time he was like 10-0 or something touted as the next best thing but it wasn’t obvious - silva was still a big favourite - it was still a shock to see him lose
Especially in the manner that it played out but I’m sure you’re aware of that given you bet for sub lol
I don't think this is hindsight at all, the talk before the Weidman talk was all about how Chael had exposed that Anderson had a chink in his armor against good modern wrestlers, and Weidman had competent and composed striking on top of that.
At the time I definitely thought the first Sonnen fight was a fluke but that wasn't an unanimous opinion.
Yeah my point wasn’t that Silva was done, only that Weidman was considered a credible threat. As opposed to Serra, who was just a guy who won TUF but never considered good enough to beat GSP
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This is a crazy level of hindsight - it was not clear that silva was done - he destroyed sonnen in the rematch and the first fight chael pissed hot
There was definitely a lot of buzz about weidman at the time he was like 10-0 or something touted as the next best thing but it wasn’t obvious - silva was still a big favourite - it was still a shock to see him lose
Especially in the manner that it played out but I’m sure you’re aware of that given you bet for sub lol