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Originally Posted by Assani Fisher
None of us really know how much the steroids helped Sonnen in that fight. Nor do any of us know how much Silva's injury hurt him in that fight.
What we do know is that those two factors contributed to some degree and Silva was still able to win the fight. To me, that makes Silva look even more unbeatable. Overall though, what seems to happen is that people adopt a certain viewpoint and then cling to that viewpoint even though the truth is that none of us have any real insight into how much those 2 factors helped Sonnen.
Meh, fighting with injuries is pretty common. It could have been as simple as he had a bad performance and mentioned something that nagged him. Also assuming Anderson probably takes some form of PEDs, I don't think it's unfair to just rate that fight as it was, Silva showing poor wrestling and not knowing how to get a good wrestler off the top of him (as he's shown he can't do in the past). Then choking out that good wrestler with a basic choke because Sonnen has horrid submission defense (as he's shown in the past)
I'm not dismissing the fact Sonnen cheated. He clearly did. I just think people are using that fact as an excuse for Spider instead of properly critiquing a major weakness and exploitable part of his game.