Anderson Silva: "No Point In Asking, I'd Never Face Lyoto"
That's the word according to the man himself while speaking to portal das lutas:
There’s no point in even asking. Of course I would never face Lyoto. We have a code of honor and, besides being friends, we’re like brothers. It will never happen.
Of course, UFC president Dana White thinks he can make the fight happen and Silva has repeatedly stating he wants to fight the best. So I suppose something is going to have to give at some point. Then again, if Shogun Rua is able to defeat Lyoto Machida at UFC 104 it'll be a non issue at that point.
Silva also spoke on people criticizing his last two performances and why he's glad they did:
I’d like to make it clear that I respect everyone. I’d like to apologize if, at some point, I was disrespectful to someone. I look to do my job and people criticize it. And they should criticize, because that’s how we become determined to fight better. That’s why I thank everyone and have great affection for everyone who’s keeping up with my career. We’re always struggling and it’s hard to be in the situation we’re in, people wanting things of us, with our personal problems, problems with the team, injuries, folks end up getting hurt… There’s a lot involved in getting ready for a challenge. But, thank God, we’re able to overcome the obstacles and come up with the results. Once again I’d like to say sorry to everyone who’s misunderstood me and I believe I would not have made it to this point without having been humble and if I’d been disrespectful to others. I’d like to end my career like this, respecting everyone else and with everyone respecting me.
So with that said, do you think Dana White can make a fight between Anderson Silva and Lyoto Machida happen?
HT: GracieMag for the translation
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I don’t think he can, but crazier things have happened…I think Brazilians are kind of stubborn when it comes to having to fight other Brazilians, especially ones they’re close with…if he can do that, maybe he can get Shogun to fight Wand
by Charles Walker on Aug 11, 2009 1:06 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
do what you are told i say..there is no such thing as brotherhood when it comes to money…silva has six kids man…beat machida and get paid..love is for suckas
by valtheguy on Aug 11, 2009 3:10 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don’t think they’ll ever fight. I wouldn’t mind seeing one of them test the heavyweight division. It would definitely be a low risk, high reward situation. On a different note, Anderson Silva is a pretty respectful guy. I like what he had to say in that interview.
by SlickRick00 on Aug 11, 2009 1:10 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I want Anderson/Fedor damn it.
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by Kelvin Hunt on Aug 11, 2009 1:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Dude, I’m not kidding when I say that I think Silva would take him out. He hits harder than guys that have damaged Fedor before and he has improved greatly on his ground game. Whether Zuffa agreed to co-promote or whatever, I think that M-1 wants none of that matchup.
by SlickRick00 on Aug 11, 2009 1:34 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hell nah
If they didn’t want to fight Belfort…they DEF dont’ wanna none of the spyda…lol.
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by Kelvin Hunt on Aug 11, 2009 1:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Agreed
I think A.Silva could beat any fighter on earth and the only one who would seriously give him some fits is Brock Lesnar.
Brock is incredibly quick and agile and would be able to take a shot on the way in, where he would he then get Silva down and pound him out
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by Nick Becker on Aug 11, 2009 2:34 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah he wouldn’t beat Brock — that’s why the P4P discusiion is relevant.
Bloody hell.
by 3PA on Aug 11, 2009 2:38 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Agreed. I think that he has the ability, though, to take anyone within 40-50 pounds of him.
by SlickRick00 on Aug 11, 2009 2:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think the key to it is having one of the parties agreeing to take the fight…like if Machida agreed to fight Anderson…that would make things more likely….still don’t mean it would happen…but it would provide some leverage…
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by Kelvin Hunt on Aug 11, 2009 1:11 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
This will never happen
and we should be so lucky. If it ever did, it would be borderline worst fight in UFC history. Two elusive counter-punchers who adamantly do NOT want to fight each other?
This is a bad idea.
by Shaun32887 on Aug 11, 2009 1:19 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
As The Million Dollar Man once said, “Everybody has a price.”
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by Nick Becker on Aug 11, 2009 2:28 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Doesnt mean that it would make a good fight
Even if you found a price theyd fight for, they would never put on a good show
by Shaun32887 on Aug 11, 2009 6:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Shaun
You probably have a point.
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by Kelvin Hunt on Aug 11, 2009 6:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
You saw how Anderson reacted when he fought Cote and Leites. I think that if he doesn’t really want to fight Lyoto he isn’t going to, no matter what. If the fight got booked I think he would sandbag it and turn it into a sparring session
by joseph. on Aug 11, 2009 2:31 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, I could see that
I guess the only we can do now is root for Lyoto and Silva to have a falling out =)
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by Nick Becker on Aug 11, 2009 2:38 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Or
Shogun to beat Machida.
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by Kelvin Hunt on Aug 11, 2009 2:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
btw
thanks for coming across cyber borders from WKR Nick.
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by Kelvin Hunt on Aug 11, 2009 2:50 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
For sure Kelvin
You guys do great work here and I will always support my SBN brothers
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by Nick Becker on Aug 11, 2009 3:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

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