Anderson Silva beats Chavez Jnr

[Wee Tommy]

Quite a surprise even though Jnr not a great boxer. Silva is 46!

[DrDuke]

Yes, I didn't expect Jr to be that sh!t. He looked like a novice, didn't know what to do, except occasional swinging, he was slow and defenceless. He didn't look like a boxer at all. He'll lose to his dad now.

[Bleak]

Why So novice like , he had a couple of
Alright wins at a time in his career

[watsupdoc87]

Just watched the highlights. Chavez looked like didn't know how to throw a jab. Very weird. Didnt look like a bixer

[Wee Tommy]

Just watched the highlights. Chavez looked like didn't know how to throw a jab. Very weird. Didnt look like a bixer

Almost like a fix tbh

[JamesPhilips]

Just watched the highlights. Chavez looked like didn't know how to throw a jab. Very weird. Didnt look like a bixer

Almost like a fix tbh

He barely tried. Looked like a YouTube boxer having his first fight. Very odd

[watsupdoc87]

Just watched the highlights. Chavez looked like didn't know how to throw a jab. Very weird. Didnt look like a bixer

Almost like a fix tbh

Yep. Exactly what I thought. No way you go from a world title and many title bouts to fighting like that. Makès sense. Probably an easy fight to fix

[DrDuke]

Why it should be a fix? Jr was a champ and so what? Today there're too many belts and all of them are disvalued. Charles Martin also was a champ. Jr has been sh!t for quite long and he has been declining more and more. He shocks time after time, doesn't he?

[polecateddy]

I kind of get the impression with Chavez Jnr, he’s already retired and doesn’t do any prep now beyond basically a bit of home gym exercise. And people keep paying him! Lol

[Controversial]

Chavez was fined 100k for missing weight too

[coneye]

Chavez was fined 100k for missing weight too

Not the first time i believe ,,, Just honestly don't know why promoters use and pay these guys huge amounts ,, Just let him fooook oof back to mexico , and sit on a beach drinking Tequila , and smoking bongs , no need to just keep throwing all that money at him , when theres boxers out there willing to put there life on the line to earn a few dollars ,,

Not has if he's tremendously talented or over exciting to watch is it

[Wee Tommy]

The way boxing works and has done for over a century is that promotors ‘take a punt’ on fights to try and make money. So they aim to sell tickets and in the modern era PPVs, in order that their 1,000,000 can become 2,000,000. It’s amazingly simple. Yet some folk think ‘they’ should be paying folk who don’t put bums on seats out of their own pockets.

How long would such a business last if say it was the building trade? Build a house for £500,000 and sell it for £250,000…

I’m not saying I like it but it’s easy to understand. Chavez jnr is the son of a boxing legend. Like him or not he must sell or else nobody would take a punt on the guy.

[high tower 1]

The way boxing works and has done for over a century is that promotors ‘take a punt’ on fights to try and make money. So they aim to sell tickets and in the modern era PPVs, in order that their 1,000,000 can become 2,000,000. It’s amazingly simple. Yet some folk think ‘they’ should be paying folk who don’t put bums on seats out of their own pockets.

How long would such a business last if say it was the building trade? Build a house for £500,000 and sell it for £250,000…

I’m not saying I like it but it’s easy to understand. Chavez jnr is the son of a boxing legend. Like him or not he must sell or else nobody would take a punt on the guy.

What about future revenue though. Speculate to build someone up so they eventually generate big revenue.

Everyone seems to be cash grabbing at the moment with these novelty fights. What about five years down the line when everyone’s bored and you’ve not been investing in the next generation.

[Wee Tommy]

The way boxing works and has done for over a century is that promotors ‘take a punt’ on fights to try and make money. So they aim to sell tickets and in the modern era PPVs, in order that their 1,000,000 can become 2,000,000. It’s amazingly simple. Yet some folk think ‘they’ should be paying folk who don’t put bums on seats out of their own pockets.

How long would such a business last if say it was the building trade? Build a house for £500,000 and sell it for £250,000…

I’m not saying I like it but it’s easy to understand. Chavez jnr is the son of a boxing legend. Like him or not he must sell or else nobody would take a punt on the guy.

What about future revenue though. Speculate to build someone up so they eventually generate big revenue.

Everyone seems to be cash grabbing at the moment with these novelty fights. What about five years down the line when everyone’s bored and you’ve not been investing in the next generation.

That’s a different business strategy and that’s why it’s normally only medalists and such who get that investment. Like betting favourites.

[TheLeprechaun]

Who knows how good Silva would have been in boxing if he'd just taken that up instead of MMA.

[DrDuke]

Who knows how good Silva would have been in boxing if he'd just taken that up instead of MMA.

That's an interesting question. Silva definitely has a decent boxing skillset and talents, like speed and reflexes. He fought at 185 in MMA and his prime was since circa 2004 until 2012.

This means he should have cut to 175 or be a qute small cruiserweight. It's tough to predict, how the weightcut could affect him, or how he would deal with good bigger and stronger guys, but probably he would have been at least a noticeable fighter, maybe even a belt-holder.

At the LHW of those times he would be thrown in the mix of Tarver, Dawson, Hopkins, Pascal, Adamek and declining Roy Jones. I don't think he would be able to beat them, except Jones, who wasn't there anymore. But probably Silva could grab a belt, acknowledging that the likes of Danny Green, Shumenov and some more forgettable competitors could do it.

At the CW of those times he would be thrown in the mix of Mormeck, O'Neil Bell, Haye, Cunningham, Wlodarczyk, Huck, Hernandez, Maccarinelli. Here it probably would be even tougher for him to grab a belt at least for some time, but maybe he could deal with the likes of Maccarinelli.

[margaret thatcher]

anderson had som skill for sure, but i think this is more jr being a total sack of goo at this stage

[Wee Tommy]

I’ve never seen anything from Silva (including his boxing matches) that make me believe he could have made it as a pro. He was a Muay Thai guy whose reach enabled him to knee the hell out of people. He had good power but hardly a boxers workrate.

I can’t really believe how bad Chavez looked tbh even though he was never top class.

[high tower 1]

I first saw silva when he easily beat Lee Murray who had a massive rep at the time.

Serious competitor.