The Ultimate eXperience 07.21.08: THREE TIMES THE FUN!

Posted by Ryan Seymour on 07.21.2008

Recapping the stories from this huge week in MMA. From Fedor submitting Big Tim Sylvia - To Anderson Silva's Highlight KO on Irvin - To Joachim Hansen shocking the world to win the DREAM Lightweight GP.



Going into this week we were destined to find which fighter is the best pound for pound fighter in the world, Fedor Emelianenko or Anderson Silva. For Fedor, the plan (in most people's minds) would have been to shoot on big Tim Sylvia and get him to the ground. As most MMA fans would know, Tim Sylvia's ground game is shaky to say the least. Fedor didn't worry about shooting on Tim Sylvia, Fedor just threw a few massive haymakers and they dropped Tim Sylvia on his ass. Fedor then submitted Tim Sylvia IN 36 SECONDS!!!!.


VERY QUICK WORK

Anderson Silva was moving up in weight class. He moved up to the 205 pound division against hard hitting James Irvin. Anderson Silva's did what he usually does, he was on the back foot just settling out his opponent. Almost a minute into the bout, James Irvin threw a kick which was caught by Anderson Silva, Silva then delivered a crushing punch which dropped ‘The Sandman'. Anderson then delivered several blows on Irvin when he was down and it was lights out. Anderson Silva defeats James Irvin IN 61 SECONDS!!!


The Result of a Anderson Silva Ass Whoopin.

So who is the better fighter, that question is still unknown. Both fighters made very quick work of there opponents and won with relative ease. Anderson Silva has now won a total of eight fights in a row and has a record of 21-4. Anderson Silva has literally destroyed everyone in the middleweight division. Lutter, Franklin, Henderson, Marquardt and Leben have all fell victim to Anderson Silva's superior skills. If it wasn't enough for Anderson Silva to clean out the middleweight division, now he is also defeating light heavyweights. The future doesn't look to bad for ‘The Spider', it has been announced that his next opponent will be Patrick Cote. Cote is a good striker and definitely has knock out power, but in all serious he is not what I would call championship material. Cote's ground game is a bit suspect, so if Anderson Silva wanted to he could probably win that fight by submitting him on the ground. But knowing Anderson Silva he will probably keep that fight standing and end up knocking Patrick Cote out.

Fedor Emelianenko is 28-1, he has won an incredible 24 fights in a row and he is not the pound for pound best fighter in the world. People have hated on Fedor because he hasn't faced a top ten heavyweight in a few years. Well the best way to shut the critics up, is to go out there and do it. Tim Sylvia was ranked the sixth best heavyweight in the world going into this fight. Fedor beat Sylvia in 36 seconds, I thought he might take a few rounds to eventually get him to the ground, guess that wasn't the case. Now Fedor's next opponent is bit trickier then Anderson Silva's. Rumors have been going around that Fedor will fight on a new years card. His opponent is likely to be one of three great heavyweights, Andrei Arlovski, Josh Barnett or (the fight we are all hoping will happen) Randy Couture. By far are those opponents easy, but going into any of the three bouts I would have Fedor coming out on top.

Talking about #1 fighters in there division, people believed that Shinya Aoki was going to win the DREAM GP and be arguably the best lightweight in the world. Hey MMA isn't like that, unpredictability is one of the best things about mixed martial arts. DREAM.5 started of like everyone expected, Shinya Aoki defeated Caol Uno and Eddie Alvarez defeated Tatsuya Kawajiri. But here is where it all shapes up. Eddie Alvarez had sustained a cut in his fight and was unable to continue to face of against Shinya Aoki. Joachim Hansen who was able to win a reserve bout earlier in the night, took Alvarez's spot in the final to face of against Shinya Aoki. Shinya Aoki had all the spotlight from this DREAM GP. He had a grueling brawl with Gesias Calvancanti and then at DREAM.4 defeated someone with a new submission called the AOKIPLATA.



Joachim Hansen had absolutely nothing to lose in this fight. The bell rung and Shinya Aoki almost immediately took Hansen to the ground. Aoki doing what he does best, trying to finish the fight with submissions. Aoki nearly had Hansen with an omoplata at one point in the fight. Both fighters were on the ground with Hansen on top of Aoki. Hansen who is a very strong hitter was landing some great punches on Aoki when they were on the ground. It didn't take to many shots from Hansen to leave Aoki dazed, a few more and Aoki was knocked out. Hansen who came into the night, not really in the question about winning the GP, … ended up winning the whole thing. Poor break for Alvarez who couldn't continue to compete because of a cut. A Hansen/Alvarez rematch would be great to watch as the first fight was exceptional to watch and because we need to see Alvarez fight for the DREAM Lightweight GP.