{"id":223477,"date":"2017-02-17T07:36:09","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T15:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=223477"},"modified":"2017-02-17T07:51:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T15:51:15","slug":"michael-bisping-anderson-silva-tarnishing-legacy-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/anderson-silva\/michael-bisping-anderson-silva-tarnishing-legacy-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Bisping: Anderson Silva is “tarnishing his legacy”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last weekend, in the co-main event of UFC 208, former middleweight champion and bona fide MMA legend Anderson Silva took on dangerous middleweight contender Derek Brunson. Despite the propensity for violent finishes shared by both men, this fight ended up being a slow one, as Brunson was hesitant to wade in on the venomous counter-striker Silva, and Silva waited for counter-punching opportunities that were almost non-existent.<\/p>\n

In the end, Silva would leave this fight with a unanimous decision win<\/a> \u2013 though many fans and pundits felt the decision should have gone the other way<\/a>.\u00a0In the opinion of UFC middleweight champ Michael Bisping<\/a>, however, it doesn’t matter that Silva won, as the fashion in which he won could ultimately damage is incredible legacy.<\/p>\n

The champ explained this feeling on a recent episode of his Sirius XM radio show<\/a>. His words (transcribed by MMAFighting.com<\/a>) :<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat Anderson was doing was just kind of stalking him down and not doing anything. He was kind of disrespecting everybody there, disrespecting his opponent. At times he grabbed the Thai clinch on Derek Brunson, had the Thai clinch, but didn\u2019t do anything. Didn\u2019t throw an elbow, certainly didn\u2019t throw a knee and he allowed Brunson to just tee off with like 10-, 15-punch combinations to Anderson Silva whilst Anderson just held him. It was just bizarre, and I\u2019m watching this thinking, \u2018Anderson\u2019s gonna get knocked out because he\u2019s holding onto this stupid, dumb Thai clinch.\u2019”<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe one time – or the couple of times – where Anderson actually threw something, Brunson turned around and literally ran away from him. You could see he was a little intimidated, he was a little bewildered, he didn\u2019t know quite what to do. All in all, you could see that Anderson was the better fighter, but he just didn\u2019t pull the trigger. He didn\u2019t pull the trigger at all. People were booing in the audience, people were annoyed, people were pissed off. They paid to watch the fantastic Anderson Silva and he just wasn\u2019t delivering.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not trying to kick a man while he\u2019s down, I\u2019m really not. I bought the pay-per-view to watch Anderson Silva. Regardless of what\u2019s happened between the two of us, I\u2019m a fan of Anderson Silva, and he still always brings that excitement. Even still, right up until the final bell of the 15 minutes fight you still thought, \u2018Hold on, is he gonna pull something amazing out of the bag?\u2019 But he didn\u2019t and what he did was, he allowed Brunson to outwork him so when he went to a decision, everybody thought Derek Brunson was gonna get the decision. Of course, it went to Anderson Silva which was shocking, and I guess maybe you could see an argument for Anderson winning rounds one and two, but it was just a bizarre performance and his legacy is slowly turning into that of somebody that\u2019s – well he\u2019s tarnishing his legacy. Let\u2019s put it like that.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What do you think of Michael Bisping’s comments on Anderson Silva? Sound off, PENN Nation!<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 2\/17\/2017. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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