Well UFC 126 was on a great weekend. Super Fight Saturday before Super Bowl Sunday. The UFC and Dana White provided a great fight card to make all the excitement of a great weekend.
They really hyped up Belfort and for good reason he has done some damage in his career. I remember seeing before the fight a commercial hyping up a fighter making you thinking it was Silva and the stats were actually Belfort’s. Anyhow as Silva was walking out my 98 pound wife looked at me and said Silva is going to crush this guy, and she meant it and she was right.
Silva did his normal dance, a brief feel out and a chance he gives you to go for it before he has your number and boom, boom, boom lights out! It is so cool you can always see his footwork change once he is done with his observations, then it’s on. So Anderson after a minute you could tell Silva had him, he had his hands down at his side and kicked him with a rear front kick to Vitors face or chin and he went down. Silva followed up with a shot or two on the ground ref steps in. The funny thing is I really don’t think Silva had a clue that kick would knock him out I think is was just throwing it out there, of course he targets everything, but common hands down rear leg kick. He was just goofing around.
So…. Yes Silva is just that good.