Anderson Silva’s Knees: Unstoppable

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As soon as Silva locked that Muay Thai clinch, Ace was done. The first thing they teach you in a clinch is to smother your opponent so he doesn’t have room to wind up full-force knees. Of course this is easier said than done against a strong, lanky opponent such as Silva. The Brazilian played the course beautifully switching to knees to the head as soon as Franklin dropped his arms to protect his battered midsection.

This marks some of the most brilliant Muay Thai I’ve seen in the UFC thus far and I’m happy that we have some new blood holding belts that aren’t from the Miletich School of Assholery. Oh, and someone needs to notify Tim Sylvia that after you win the belt, you don’t actually have to use it to hold your pants up. It’s really more like a trophy, Tim.

John Fitch made his first televised UFC performance this weekend against Japanese Shooto dude Kuniyoshi Hironaka. Fitch has been touted as one of the best kept secrets in the UFC with a solid, well-rounded game. A lot of people have been waiting for Fitch to get big-time. Fun fact: Fitch was supposed to be on the first season of The Ultimate Fighter but was cancelled on last minute. And by last minute I mean he was at the airport ready to go kind of last minute. Yeah… thanks Dana. The former Purdue wrestling team captain pwned Hironaka for three rounds and by the end of it, Hironaka was looking Korean. I was rather surprised that Hironaka didn’t get cut with the bazillion elbows that dropped on his face.

Speaking of cuts, Kenny “Eyebrow” Florian surgically opened up the head of Sean Sherkroids with two little elbows turning the fight into a crazy bloodbath. And Sherk. He’s basically a four-foot-tall bicep muscle. How the fuck do you fight that? I was hoping Ken Flo in all his Muay Thai-ness would try to time a knee as Sherk came in for the takedown, but of course that never happened.

Did anyone else find K Flo’s entrance amusing? I was thinking that maybe he forgot that he was fighting that night because he got the date confused with Comic Con down in San Diego. And if you’re going to dress up like a samurai, at least find a decent fucking straw hat. Especially if you look like you’re about 14 years old. Otherwise you just look like you’re out looking for candy this time of year.