It's been a while since we talked about the only fighter that is appropriately named after a giant mythological creature that is always blurry. If you were named 'Bigfoot' and you enrolled in a nickname contest and somehow you lost, it was rigged. Being nicknamed after a mythical creature who is forever blurry when captured on camera is the highest honor anyone can bestow on an MMA fighter. If you look really close at Bigfoot Silva's jaw, you can see an on/off switch that activates the force-field around his chin (he borrowed the technology from Scott Smith). All but three of Bigfoot's wins have occurred within the first round and the guy has only two losses in his entire career. Don't let the name fool you, there's no reason why Bigfoot Silva should not be ranked in the top ten heavyweights out there -- and if you think differently, tell him that.

Here's what Antonio 'Bigfoot' Silva said regarding Brock Lesnar's loss to Cain Velasquez after his grunts and sasquatch yells were translated to Portuguese by Tatame Magazine, and then to English.

"Man, I think he must return to his fake fights that it’ll be best for him. I’ve always said that, he’s not a better fighter than Fedor, or Minotauro, or Cigano… He’s not the number one. I’ve said that when Werdum beat Fedor, who would become the number one? To me, it must have been Wedum because he had just beat the number one, but no. they put Brock Lesnar as the first, Werdum on the second place and Fedor in third. For sure now the top position is on good hands because Cain is a great fighter, he’s complete, has proven to have a good ground game, a good Wrestling and he’s a good exchanger. Now it’s on good hands. It was ridiculous for us, fighters, to see Brock Lesnar with only four or five bouts being considered the top athlete on earth, it’s ridiculous. And people like Cain Velasquez, Cigano, Fedor and Minotauro coming after Brock Lesnar… He’s a fake fighter."

On December 4th, Bigfoot Silva will bang against Valentijn Overeem and we'll be there, annoying Tracy Lee at some point in the night. Hopefully we'll get Josh Barnett vs. Bigfoot Silva in the near future, a bout promised to by Sengoku over a year ago. [Source]

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+1 # gomer316 2010-11-21 11:23

Well then lull me to sleep with another one of Bigfoots fights.

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+2 # Joey Jo Jo 2010-11-21 12:16

You must have some ridiculously high standards if you didn't find Silva's performances at Heavy Artillery & Fedor Vs. Rogers entertaining fights.

Probably explains your virginity to much the same end.

I'm willing to bet you were all misty-eyed like some fawning school girl over UFC 119 or 122, two main cards so fucking boring each fighter had to be awoken in their dressing rooms with a cattle prod to the testicles before each match.

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-3 # Guest 2010-11-21 14:56

Not a Brock fan, but fighters should only criticize the fighters that they can beat. Brock would smash Bigfoot.

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0 # Guest 2010-11-21 14:59

...says you.

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0 # Guest 2010-11-22 16:05

Quoting Greatest Eva:

Not a Brock fan, but fighters should only criticize the fighters that they can beat. Brock would smash Bigfoot.

bigfoot would own lesnar in every way possible, especially once bigfoot connects and makes brock do the tutu dance and cower like a little bitch.

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+9 # Joey Jo Jo 2010-11-21 12:19

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It was ridiculous for us, fighters, to see Brock Lesnar with only four or five bouts being considered the top athlete on earth,

It was a ridiculous situation for everyone but the pro-wrestling fanbase.

It's almost like the Nazi period of Germany's history.
A very dark & humiliating chapter.

You just have to move on and remove all references to it from history books.

The only thing UFC fans 50 years from now will remember of it is some blond-haired, blue-eyed warmonger, who liked to make incredibly angry public speeches and emphasize the importance of brute strength but proved to not know the first two laws of combat: you don't fight on 2 fronts and you sure as hell don't retreat back into your bunker when the going gets tough.

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+1 # Mickey 2010-11-21 12:45

Quoting Joey Jo Jo:

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It was ridiculous for us, fighters, to see Brock Lesnar with only four or five bouts being considered the top athlete on earth,

you sure as hell don't retreat back into your bunker when the going gets tough.

+1
Guy should have packed his bags and humbled himself in a legitimate training camp. After everything he has said, it seems as if only Randy would take him in.

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+3 # Jonesy 2010-11-21 15:54

Did you see Pat Barry on Inside MMA afterwards? They asked him if they sparred hard at DeathClutch with Lesnar and Barry just went "ah....we TRAINED hard"

Brock really does need to become part of a team and not have people who are "There to help Brock"

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0 # Joey Jo Jo 2010-11-22 12:10

Not to mention, he's surrounded himself with nothing but wrestlers.

Brendan Schaub was right when he said Lesnar isn't evolving (and yet everyone came down on him like he was advocating child porn, oh the irony is delicious), the entire Minnesota Martial Arts Academy is stuffed with meathead, Div. I wrestlers who just like to hug out and pump iron.
Sherk, Volkmann, Konrad, Tuchscherer... zero diversity there.

Have you seen how much time Brock devotes to weight lifting in his training videos?

If he spent half that time learning to jab & parry correctly he might have just been able to learn to move his head and use angles against Cain, instead of being as linear as a freight train (no, not a Frate Trane).

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+1 # Jonesy 2010-11-22 17:52

I didn't see anything wrong with Schaub's statements. Had he been pulling information out of his ass then maybe, but he was pretty spot on. Everything I've seen of his training (and yeah he does a lot of weight lifting) is just people having him beat the crap out of them.

Up until Cain he was able to get by just on being bigger and stronger than his opponents. Yeah he can punch hard, but his technique is shit. Most people (myself included) thought after Carwin that Brock would work on his boxing, but if anything it just seemed to reinforce the idea that as long as Brock can get a guy on the ground he can win.

That's the issue with having a ton of money I guess, because he's able to have that private facility and pay to bring people in. That was always why I dogged him for the WWE stuff, not due to lack of athleticism (his collegiate wrestling record speaks for itself), but making all that money in entertainment let him just buy his way into MMA.

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-1 # chiggs 2010-11-21 13:43

Quoting Joey Jo Jo:

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It was ridiculous for us, fighters, to see Brock Lesnar with only four or five bouts being considered the top athlete on earth,

It was a ridiculous situation for everyone but the pro-wrestling fanbase.

It's almost like the Nazi period of Germany's history.
A very dark & humiliating chapter.

You just have to move on and remove all references to it from history books.

The only thing UFC fans 50 years from now will remember of it is some blond-haired, blue-eyed warmonger, who liked to make incredibly angry public speeches and emphasize the importance of brute strength but proved to not know the first two laws of combat: you don't fight on 2 fronts and you sure as hell don't retreat back into your bunker when the going gets tough.

+2 AND +3!!!
Also the cattle prods to the Nads is probably what caused the poor peformances perhaps

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-1 # Guest 2010-11-21 12:23

I agree 100%

WAR BIGFOOT!

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+4 # Coq-MMA-Fan 2010-11-21 12:49

Didn't Sakuraba and Josh Barnett do a stint in pro wrestling?

who gives a shit what they have done in the past its about whats going on right now.. sure Brock's hype was a joke and made by Zuffa and the media but we can't do a damn thing about it so quit your bitching and move on. Brock Lesner isn't a complete MMA fighter but to say hes fake is stupid.

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-18 # Guest 2010-11-21 13:08

this site probably churns out more pro strikeforce and anti ufc articles than any other site i know of, for all i know people who run this place could very well be on showtime payroll, but thats just how i feel.

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+4 # 1251 2010-11-21 13:36

Wasn't Brock all over the Frate Train List, even after Carwin beat the shit out of him?

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0 # Jay 2010-11-21 14:00

Quoting 1251:

Wasn't Brock all over the Frate Train List, even after Carwin beat the shit out of him?

no

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-3 # Jay 2010-11-21 14:01

Quoting Jay:

Quoting 1251:

Wasn't Brock all over the Frate Train List, even after Carwin beat the shit out of him?

no

wait yeah. i read that wrong. i thought you wrote cain

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-2 # Guest 2010-11-21 21:03

Carwin didn't beat the shit out of Brock - Cain did. Carwin ran out of gas and lost the fight. Just because you're losing the battle doesn't mean you losing the war. Carwin LOST! Nothing personal - just facts.

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+1 # 1251 2010-11-22 13:29

Looked like an ass beating to me.

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+10 # Guest 2010-11-21 13:39

Your statistics are flawed and seem to be emotionally driven rather than objectively and accurately gathered.


Anyway, Zeus & co. are consistently blogging about various MMA FIGHTERS in a warm hearted tender lovin' way.


Ya see, a sincere patron of MMA would actually care more about the FIGHTERS than the actual organisation.

Served.

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+1 # Guest 2010-11-21 15:11

what made you think i cared more about the org than the fighters ? in the world we live in people make someone or something big, and wait holding their breath to watch them fall, isnt thats what's happening with the ufc ?

i dont have time to gather stats and present a thesis paper to get your approval on the matter, in my free time i check out sites like bloodyelbow, mmajunkie, and mmafighting, and in my opinion the no.of pro strikeforce articles here outnumber pro ufc articles handily, in contrast there's more anti-ufc stuff compared to anti-SF. you cannot knock someone for subjective journalism these days, every media outlet has their allegiances, mma is no different. JMO.

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+3 # horseface 2010-11-21 19:17

there is no mention of UFC or strikeforce or any other organisation in the article

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+6 # Jay 2010-11-21 14:02

Quoting ropes:

this site probably churns out more pro strikeforce and anti ufc articles than any other site i know of, for all i know people who run this place could very well be on showtime payroll, but thats just how i feel.

cite some anti ufc articles

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+4 # 1251 2010-11-21 14:11

The only thing I disagree with, is:
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He’s a fake fighter.

He was a fake fighter. He's been getting his ass beat without aluminum garbage cans and razor blades for a couple years now-- which should bestow a wee bit 'o respect in that regard.

He's a real fighter now. He sucks in a lot of aspects, but I don't want him to give up. This is the most respectful thing he's done since he was in college.

But that decade he spent reacting to phantom punches? Fucking lame, lol Anyone should and would be embarrassed by that.

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0 # Joey Jo Jo 2010-11-22 10:32

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He's been getting his ass beat without aluminum garbage cans and razor blades for a couple years now--

Ha. Fuckin' gold.

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+2 # powers 2010-11-21 14:17

his MMAth is bad. Randy & Mir both hung with minotauro. brock wtf pwned them. Bigfoot needs to worry about Overeem.

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+8 # MMAMoneyLine 2010-11-21 14:29

Yeah...he's a fake fighter. Lesnar beat three UFC champions. Lesnar is an extremely decorated amateur wrestler. Lesnar puts the same work into his training camps and fights as any other fighter.

You gotta wonder when this "fake fighter" nonsense is going to end. It didn't end when Lesnar won his first fight. It didn't end when Lesnar won the championship. It didn't end when Lesnar (for all intents and purposes) defended the championship.

It is unfortunate that these comments are coming from a guy who hasn't exactly beaten any elite opponents aside from the glass-chinned Arlovski (who he couldn't even knock out).

This is going to come off like I'm a Lesnar mark, but its about time the guy gets some respect in the MMA world.

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0 # Jonesy 2010-11-21 15:55

Zeus, was Brock the next victim of the UFC Undisputed cover curse?

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0 # Guest 2010-11-21 16:09

considering there has only been two games..... im sure that most fighters in the UFC have not had luck going undefeated for a long time unless your name is anderson silva or GSP. What curse has BJ Penn been the victim of that dethroned him from the lightweight title?

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0 # Jonesy 2010-11-21 17:06

So...you're new to the site then?

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0 # Guest 2010-11-22 17:16

pretty sure your feeble attempt to make me look clueless just failed. regardless of previous articles, the fact remains that an undisputed curse does not exist. its a combat sport, people get beat up and beat others up.

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0 # Jonesy 2010-11-22 17:53

So if you've been around since Zeus wrote up the article on the 2009 Undisputed curse why are you taking things so seriously?

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-7 # Guest 2010-11-21 18:39

Bigfoot Silva took the words right out of my mouth, I would love it if Lesnar left MMA.

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+3 # Guest 2010-11-21 19:18

roids getting to his peanut brain

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+2 # Guest 2010-11-21 19:32

Its kinda sad that Bigfoot's gotta talk about Lesnar 2 get anyone 2 talk about him! haha

You guys are all tools. Pro Wrestlings for kids and doing it doesn't make u a pro athelete. That said, its just a job! It just happens 2 b the job Lesnar had b4 mma. EVERY1 in mma had a job b4 mma! When Rich Franklin got big I didn't here any1 going "Math teachers cant compete in MMA!" Im not a Lesnar fan but i can think rationally enough to know a bunch of effin haters when i c them!

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-1 # Guest 2010-11-22 16:11

Quoting Dana Whitetrash:

Its kinda sad that Bigfoot's gotta talk about Lesnar 2 get anyone 2 talk about him! haha

You guys are all tools. Pro Wrestlings for kids and doing it doesn't make u a pro athelete. That said, its just a job! It just happens 2 b the job Lesnar had b4 mma. EVERY1 in mma had a job b4 mma! When Rich Franklin got big I didn't here any1 going "Math teachers cant compete in MMA!" Im not a Lesnar fan but i can think rationally enough to know a bunch of effin haters when i c them!

someone should have stayed in school....

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-1 # gomer316 2010-11-21 23:49

Hostility much.

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+5 # Guest 2010-11-21 23:58

Bigfoot's being stupid. He ignored the fact that Lesnar was a great wrestler before getting into WWE.

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+2 # Guest 2010-11-22 19:24

Antonio Silva should back to throwing barrels are portly italians.

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