is Silva up there with Ali, Tyson, Bruce Lee?
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Chuck talkn greasy because he know Bruce aint here no more. I see you Ranger. 
What about Ip Man? He trained Bruce Lee 
But in all seriousness, Anderson is probably the greatest fighter of all time.
But in all seriousness, Anderson is probably the greatest fighter of all time.
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His stance isn't wrong...boxing uses the western stance and leads with the weak hand in jeet kune do you lead with the strong side. It's not wrong just opposite for different reasons. His style was street fight attack before you are attacke no rules. Boxing and MMA have rules and timed round it's not the same as what he taught. Had he not died he probably would modify a style suited for MMA and their rules.
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Tyson would send dude back to rio like
He would easily take tyson down and submit him or TKO him stop it. Tyson could not handle the power of brazillian jiujitsu.
It would've interesting in a street fight cuz with bjj you limited as a striker and on the ground Tyson would bite his way out of it and a prime Tyson would knock out 99% of the world including silva
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Before silva even tries to move he already gonna get his ass knocked out. There's a reason why boxers don't wear 4'oz gloves.
Tyson punching silva with 4'oz = coma
Tyson punching silva with no gloves = death
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enough of this bullshyt. the argument is in the fukkin context, if you're strictly basing an argument over a "professional" record, that's fine.
but to be disrespecting an OG in the fight and martial arts world is straightcomparing him to shaolin monks and shyt, really?
even the man we're fukking talking about in this thread is a huge bruce lee fan
Anderson Silva is Bruce Lee! - YouTube
The Bruce Lee Story - As tol by You
Im comparing him to Shaolin monks for the simple fact that they are both extremely talented and displayed their talents through exhibitions, but no one has records of them fighting in a actual sanctioned competition... its really not an outlandish comparison...
So because there's no camera phone clips or youtube proof of him when he was gettin into street fights wit nikkas while he was in Hong Kong before he came to da US or when he was goin at it wit nikkas in da 60s it's okay to just dismiss his combat abilities because of what you've seen on UFC and Pride da past 10-12 years?.... Oh aite.
FOH wit dis dumb shyt already nikka.
Like I said... deliver some sort of rebuttal other than saying you disagree... You haven't typed one thing in this thread that has argued for why Bruce Lee's fighting career compares to these other professional fighters... shyt, I've given more proof as to why Bruce Lee's is comparable then you have
... Can you not articulate yourself past smilies and calling people "dumb nikkas"... I know you can do better big guy...
Thats great that people have seen him win street fights, but none of us have so we can't really say how he would fair in professional combat...
Before silva even tries to move he already gonna get his ass knocked out. There's a reason why boxers don't wear 4'oz gloves.
Tyson punching silva with 4'oz = coma
Tyson punching silva with no gloves = death
Anderson Silva Pro Boxing Match - YouTube
He would take down tyson immediately. I mean tyson hits very hard but mma fighters hit very hard as well. Tyson would have to really choose his punches wisely because knowing that he is going to be taken down where the fight will be ended he cant afford to make one mistake against, The Spider. Boxers just arent well rounded fighters when they enter the world of MMA. Very good against boxers and average joes though. Also if spider kicks tyson in his face its over.