Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Told you so

On March 20, 2011 I wrote here that Jon Jones should fight Anderson Silva, or at least that's the one fight that makes sense (as opposed to GSP vs Silva).  And after taking the belt from Rua in a dominant and destructive fashion, defending it against Rampage and then recently putting to sleep Machida, Jones vs Silva is the best match-up!
Unfortunately this might not yet happen cause business wise, Dana probably won't risk putting out the flame of Jones yet.  Plus there is still not enough market demand to see these two fights, and demands sell tickets.
Maybe 2 years from now or even earlier, if we see these two destroy every opponent then it would be inevitable that they face each other to settle the best pound for pound MMA fighter.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Jon Jones vs Anderson Silva

Yep, after he defeated Vera I thought this guy (Jones) is outstanding and the only real opponent that he should face is Anderson Silva.  And now that he has devasted Rua and is the LW champion then there really is a market for this.
Anderson Silva didn't want to stay at 205 because back then Machida was the LW champion a.k.a. his friend (or best friend).  Now that Machida is no longer king of LW then the more reason Silva should go back at 205 and make the fight of the century.
I know people are looking at GSP vs Silva but I think Silva will just dominate St. Pierre.  Even if St. Pierre can put Silva down, I don't think GSP can knock out Silva (Sonnen tried for more than 4 rounds and was unable to even put Silva in danger).
So to me personally, I would rather see Jon Jones vs Anderson Silva.
They're almost equally matched in most aspects:
Height
Skillset
Unpredictability
Age
Charisma

I hope this is the fight that would happen instead of GSP.