UFC 101 Review: What Was Forrest Griffin’s Game Plan Against Anderson Silva?
by Kelvin Hunt on Aug 10, 2009 5:00 PM EDT
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I feel like I've already written what I'm about to write one time before, in regards to Rashad Evans vs. Lyoto Machida. However, it's pretty much the same question that has to be asked in regards to Forrest Griffin's game plan to beat Anderson Silva at UFC 101. What was his game plan? The entire fight only last a hair over 3 minutes, and half of that was both fighters feeling one another out with lots of movement and little action. I wrote that I thought Griffin should use his size to pin Silva up against the cage and trip him down to the mat and work from that position.
I know hindsight is 20/20, but surely Griffin knew that he couldn't stand and trade with Silva? He didn't even attempt to take Silva down. He may have been trying to set up his take downs with strikes? Ok, well none of your strikes are landing, and most of his are so that game plan should have been tossed instead of becoming more aggressive with strikes against one of the best counter-punchers ever. Fighters like Anderson Silva, George St. Pierre, Lyoto Machida, and Fedor Emelianenko will only be defeated will sound game planning, luck, and/or a little of both.
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Forrest was kind of predictable in that fight. Silva seem to know what he was going to do before he did. I don’t know what Shawn Tompkins’ had in store for Silva. His game planning is very suspect. I guess Kit Cope was on to something about fighters at Xtreme Couture.
by The Bronzeville Bully on Aug 10, 2009 6:17 PM EDT reply actions
lol
I hope Tompkins didn’t think he could stand with Silva….oh wait!
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Nah I think he was going to guage him a little — I bet it can pretty scary to get close and clinch if you don’t have someone’s rhyhtm down.
Bloody hell.
Son
I ain’t scared of no man..but I could only imagine what it would be like to actually face Anderson Silva in a fight.
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by Kelvin Hunt on Aug 11, 2009 12:00 AM EDT up reply actions
Its easy to look back and blame things on the gameplan or a lack of one. But Im pretty sure when you face someone so superior, its hard to stay on course. Perhaps Forrest showed more respect than he should have. I think he lost the fight within the first 10 seconds. I’ve never seen Forrest give up. Rashad certainly went down fighting against Lyoto but Forrest just quit.
Its funny because all he kept saying in those pre fight interviews was “I may lose but I’ll never be broken.” I believe Anderson broke him.
by cauliflower_ears on Aug 11, 2009 7:57 AM EDT reply actions
Excellent point
Its funny because all he kept saying in those pre fight interviews was "I may lose but I’ll never be broken." I believe Anderson broke him.
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I don’t know why people are faulting him for lack of game plan. Maybe Anderson Silva nullified it. Silva is well scouted by now, I’m wondering why he didn’t attempt to press the action during Silva’s well known first minute feeling out process?
I’m really interested in hearing Griffin’s first post-fight interview.
cauliflower_ears that’s a REALLY GREAT avatar if I do say so myself. Check out the final illustration. It was for UFC 79. Also, click the MMA tag for some more crappy MMA drawings and illustrations.
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by VeeisAnimated on Aug 11, 2009 8:50 AM EDT up reply actions
Welcome to the site!
I don’t know why people are faulting him for lack of game plan. Maybe Anderson Silva nullified it. Silva is well scouted by now, I’m wondering why he didn’t attempt to press the action during Silva’s well known first minute feeling out process
There was nothing to nullify…Griffin didn’t really do anything…lol…had he pressed the action..he probably would have gotten KTFO sooner.
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Thats an awesome vector illustration. I happened to find a cropped version of the same while looking for Wandy’s pictures.
Thanks for the link and welcome to the site.
by cauliflower_ears on Aug 11, 2009 11:40 AM EDT up reply actions
Thanks . . . I’ve been a lurker for quite a while I decided to sign up because you guys are not as retarded as the many people on Sherdog. (Just kidding, I know everybody here are Ph.D candidates)
Since there a number of great MMA cards this month, I’m posting nothing but MMA related drawings on my small and humble blog. There’s a strong chance I might do it daily . . . doubt it.
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by VeeisAnimated on Aug 11, 2009 3:19 PM EDT up reply actions
Word
Feel free to post a couple of your drawings up in the fanshots section.
P.S. I am a Ph.D candidate.
Naw, I’m just playing…lol.
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