Ok, so before this is just completely old news I think I need
to touch this once more. Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnen. Anderson Silva won,
twice, end of story. I have had this debate now online, at work and with lots
of friends. I really surprised me that many people wanted to see him loose.
I wanted to see him win. Fist objection: that was an illegal
knee strike. My foremost thought is that he used an knee strike, TDK has those,
teach them. But then I get to my point, if the knee strike was intend for the
face, and somehow wound up just being a lucky shot, then the video does not
back that up.
If you will notice his left foot come off the mat after he
moved in for the shot, he did not spring forward. Had he sprung forward then
the end result would have been knee to face, the mere fact that he lifted his
left foot with no added momentum tell me that he intended for gravity to take
over. He saw his target move lower so he adjusted; he lifted his left foot and
let his knee strike fall on the target, in this case the sternum. I think it
was masterful.
Second objection: It was rigged and Sonnen threw the fight
to set up fight three. Let me start by saying I don’t find Sonnen to be that
type of fighter, next I would ask who in their right mind would want to throw a
fight by getting the sternum crushed. The amount of damage that could
potentially cause is not worth it, you could seriously mess someone up with
that. He was fine, seemingly, after the fight but who would willingly submit themselves
to that move from Anderson Silva?
The decanters are telling me, “well it’s not like Sonnen to
throw the spinning back fist and when he hit the ground he waited for Anderson
to do something.” They are finding this move out of character and still think
the fight was staged. I say this, he added a new move to his repertoire, and
people that are progressive do that all the time. Had he connected with that
move it would have knocked the snot out of Silva. Also when he was on the
ground I believe the hesitation was due to him either thinking Silva would
begin the leg kicks and try to jump to a punch, or he was going to look for the
safe chance to spring to his feet. Or he might have thought it was a safe spot
to be, since he was kicking the crap out of Silva on the ground.
As this writer points out the knee strike was not the only
good shot Silva landed.
And as fox sports alluded to, I hope they do not fight
again. I don’t want to see it.
One more note:
Have you ever been taught in TKD to attack the solar plexus? I bet you have, in
sparring it’s common and in the forms it’s prevalent. Go teach the knee strike
now, a lot.
Peace.
