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Originally Posted by pokeriseasy
LOL, what? Are you Ed Soares? Listen Anderson Silva is my favorite fighter but what he did in the last 3 rounds was absolutely ridiculous. Anderson Silva is the best striker in all of MMA, Maia is one of the worst and on top of that Maia doesn't have the ability to bring the fight to where he is best at against Silva.
youre way too results oriented
maia took town sonnen who is by far the best wrestler in that division.
maia doesn't exactly have an explosive double leg but if they clinched or silva was throwing strikes at close distance he could definitely have taken the fight to the ground
i dont think silva made the right decision given the **** he's taking, but he increased his chances of winning significantly.
maia had probably more like 7-9% equity at the start of the third round if silva contiinued having a standardish gameplan. bettors gave maia ~15% equity before the fight and after 2 rounds he hadn't taken a lot of damage (iirc). nobody thought maia had much of a chance of winning on points