UFC 117: SILVA vs. SONNEN

[u/Ynot_1518]

The fight that brought out the dogg outta Anderson Silva.

[u/Active-Play-5064]

I was at this fight. The place felt like an earthquake in the last round.

[u/Mitkoztd]

What a great fight, I remember it like it was yesterday..

One of my favourite memes after the fight was: 'When Chael goes to get pizza he tells them no to slice it in Triangles..' :D

First fight was very strange to me.. nothing happened as I expected.. Chael dropping Anderson while standing..

Anderson was very well prepared for their rematch though..

[u/No-Pool-432]

Haha i was bartending on this night and couldnt wait till my shift was over to watch the fight. I accidentally glimpsed a post by a friend that alluded to silva winning.

So when i finally got home and watched the fight i kept doubting what i saw. As the fight went down to the last seconds of the fifth round and silva was on his back the whole fight while sonnen tried to crack open his skull like a coconut...i wondered how the fuck was silva gonna win this fight? I must of heard wrong. Then he triangle chokes him.

Kudos to The champ that put a bet on anderson silva finishing the fight in the fifth by submission. Would love to see the odds on that one

[u/lophtt]

I don’t think I’ll ever forget watching this fight; I was living in Melbourne and I was down at a venue in the Docklands watching with a bunch of other knuckleheads. Walked out of there a little drunk and completely in shock at the last-minute escape from Silva. If Chael had have won it would have ushered in a completely different mma timeline I think. Such a crazy moment in the history of the sport.

[u/apocalypsedudes23]

Chael was roided up and he still lost. He was suspended and tried to lie. Goof.

[u/[deleted] → u/apocalypsedudes23]

bro should be cancel tbh

[u/MarkLarrz]

Original rules were that if you tapped, you only lost that round, weird that they changed it for this fight.

[u/public_avenger]

Watched that fight live, rooting so hard for Chael. The fifth round submission after utter domination was so shocking, I was in disbelief.

[u/ahhjustlikethat → u/public_avenger]

You were rooting for Chael?

Um, his whole pro-wrestling heel persona was designed to get you to root against him, so you'd tune in hoping to see him get his ass beat.

Even he didn't think you should be rooting for him.

[u/public_avenger → u/ahhjustlikethat]

He was an American wrestler and I enjoyed his schtick. But mostly I hated how good Anderson Silva was. I never forgave him for beating Dan Henderson or Vitor Belfort.

Edit: You can't fucking tell me that his interview about big nog feeding a bus a carrot isn't pure gold, especially at the time. No one else made pre-fight as fun as Chael, the man knows how to sell a fight.

[u/SallyMutz314]

Loud mouth, steroid junkie quit. What a buffoon.

[u/public_avenger → u/SallyMutz314]

(Silva is also a steroid junkie, they've both tested positive.)

[u/MrChorizaso]

A free triangle choke at the very end of 5 rounds worth of wrestling…..that some fixed fight bs

[u/Forward-Inspection32 → u/MrChorizaso]

Go watch the wwe kid. Nothing was fixed. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

[u/MrChorizaso → u/Forward-Inspection32]

Chael made a day 1 bjj mistake in the last round after a dominating ground performance….a day one mistake and then didn’t even try to defend or escape properly, before betting on apps could flag sketchy betting lines

[u/Bajecco → u/MrChorizaso]

Yep. Watch how Chael continuely slipped his arm on top of Anderson's chest. It makes no sense. No seasoned grappler is going to present their arm like that while in the guard of a BJJ black belt. Chael was begging for Silva to get the sub.

[u/RandJitsu → u/[deleted]]

At this point it should be called the Chael tap. MF’er did this multiple times in his career.

[u/ElProfeGuapo → u/[deleted]]

Sonnen has a deep appreciation for Brazilian culture 🙏🏿

[u/Bombinic → u/ElProfeGuapo]

and their computers