Munoz gets Injured but fights anyways
KOs Munoz
LUCK
Fights Anderson Silva
Silva fall victim to his success and becomes unusually overconfident and decides to not fight seriously
KOs SIlva
LUCK
Rematches Silva
While fighting with Vitamin D deficiency throws outstandingly fast kick to Weidman while moving and accidentally precisely kicks a notch to high and smashes tender vitamin d defficient calf on Weidmans Knee.
LUCK
Dont get me wrong Weidman is a phenomenal fighter that definitely belongs in top 5 he just hasnt had a chance to show his full potential and fighting abilities because of his amazing amount of luck.
The 2 rounds that Weidman won against Silva dont mean much and heres why. He won both rounds primarily using his wrestling. Andersons Silvas weakness is wrestling but he has fought better wrestlers than Weidman and won. These include 2 fights against Sonnen both of which he won. He lost the 1st round of both of those fight primarily because of wrestling. He also beat Dan Henderson, an Olympic wrestler who no doubt better than Weidman and Sonnen in terms of wrestling. Henderson won the first round primarily using wrestling.
Anderson Silva always loses the first round against wrestlers but he also has always beaten those wrestlers. Plus we have never seen Chris Weidman fight credible competition. Sakara is not even in the top 10, Maia is one dimensional and is the size of a welterweight, Munoz was badly injured and therefore completely out of shape. Once again Weidman is a great wrestler and an overall great fighter, def top 5 material but we have not even seen him fight legitimate competition.
I think he was maybe born under a lucky star given the way his career has progressed. Some luck is what it takes usually along with talent and ability to make a career in something like fighting and I have said that before in this forum. However he is not without skill and ability and while he struggled some with closing the gap with Silva during their first fight there was none of that in their rematch. Instead it was Sliva that was having difficulty and Weidman easily won the first round. Don't forget that Weidman was a Division l two time All American wrestler and has a degree in Psychology so he is not without some brains along with the athletic skill and ability. He really reminds me of Jon Jones in a lot of ways and both have similar backgrounds.
He strikes me as a very intelligent and gifted athlete that can learn and do well at things who has a strong wrestling background. His striking ability is improving every day as evident in this second fight with Silva. His kicking ability is the only weakness that I see him as having and he has enough offense and power in his hands otherwise to compensate for that. I think with time he is going to progress to the elite class of fighters that only a few in the UFC have reached so far. Silva was one of them and so was GSP and I believe Jones is also and you don't get placed in a group of fighters like that by only luck.
No.
In the second Silva fight, he absolutely dominated in the first round. And he was on his way to dominating in the second. Was it lucky that he checked Silva's kick? No way. He said in interviews afterwards that he'd worked on that intensively, because Silva's kicks in the first fight had been effective.
Or the first fight with Silva. Hey, he beat Silva. Even if you ignore the idiotic clowning of Silva's, Weidman was doing just fine. Is it luck that Weidman saw an opening in the first fight and took advantage of it? No, that's skill...not luck.
It doesn't have to be an "either/or" situation. Both fighters can be good. In the Weidman/Silva fights, both were good. But on those two occasions, Weidman was better.
Yes. If Chris didn't raised his leg when Anderson throw that leg kick it wouldn't hit his knee and Silva's leg wouldn't be broken, and even if Silva was on his back in the first round, Chris Weidman is bleeding and Anderson Silva is not despite being on his back.
In the second fight, he dropped Silva in the clinch and beat on him for the better part of five minutes. In the first match, he took him down and dominated him on the ground. He didn't fall for Silva's baiting. That sounds like a well-trained, well-disciplined fighter to me. No, it's not "luck".
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