Do you think Anderson Silva’s knockout UFC 162 loss to Chris Weidman tarnishes his legacy as the best of all-time?<\/p>\n
If so, and you believe UFC President Dana White, you just might be a creep or a weirdo.<\/p>\n
Now that Silva’s reign of dominance has finally come to an end, White predicted that “all the creeps and the weirdos [will] come out of the woodwork” to question whether Silva was really as good as was hyped.<\/p>\n
But as far as White is concerned, Silva’s legacy as the best persists even though the Middleweight Championship now belongs to Chris Weidman.<\/p>\n
And though many are particularly judgmental given the extent to which Silva’s cocky in-ring antics facilitated Weidman’s knockout blow, White argues that those same critics would be praising the former champion’s style had he won Saturday’s match.<\/p>\n
“This doesn’t do anything to his legacy. The stuff that he was doing…if he did that stuff and won the fight, they’d be talking about what a genius he is,” claims White.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[7],"tags":[464,468,50,467,187,459],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n