What surprised you more? Silva vs. Weidman I or Aldo vs. McGregor?

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Two long reigning Brazilians champs go down.

Even though Silva was a bigger favorite I’m gonna go with Aldo going down in a heap in 14 seconds was more surprising.
 
StewDogg11 said:
Two long reigning Brazilians champs go down.

Even though Silva was a bigger favorite I’m gonna go with Aldo going down in a heap in 14 seconds was more surprising.
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Sidenote, still hate Aldo to this day cause of this.

McG superstar status started because of this....
Fuck him.
 
I would say Silva's loss because of the way it happened. McGregor via early KO was not totally unexpected, everyone said he basically had to win by KO early to win at all. Yeah it was faster than people believed it would be but Weidman via KO was laughable, anyone predicting that was pretty much joking before it actually happened
 
Mcgregor was a knockout artist, so him knocking out Aldo wasn't a surprise.. the 13sec was the surprise.

Weidman, a wrestler, out matrixing Anderson in standup was something nobody predicted... people thought he may submit or GNP his way to a victory, but nobody saw him winning the standup.
 
Aldo vs McGregor.

Silva was playing too goddamn much, that result was bound to happen one day so it didn't surprise me.

Aldo going down as quickly as he did with the legacy he had already built... was shocking.
 
Both were surprising in different ways

Watching Aldo get KO
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Watching Silva break his leg
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Both Silva and Aldo did everything they could to avoid them so neither Weidman or Conor winning was unexpected. The champs knew it and were acting accordingly and so should've the fans.

That said, Weidman was supposed to grapplefuck Silva. Not KO him standing.
 
Aldo-Mac. Was there live and was expecting a War. Aldo getting beat like that while still being in his prime was incomprehensible. Had a small amount of coin on Aldo too. Silva-Weidman I can't say I expected how it finished but a buddy of mine that was always good on picks favored Teh Chris and after the Dinner fights wasn't that outlandishly he won.
 
People were picking Chris and Conor for the upset maybe not the majority but plenty were. But NO ONE saw Chris KOing Anderson cold STANDING. MAYBE a GNP stoppage but if Chris were to finish Anderson everyone thought it'd be by sub. That was more shocking.
 
It's gotta be Silva/Weidman.

Everyone knew Conor had power in that left hand at 145, and if he was gonna win it would probably be via KO. Still shocking as hell but not completely unexpected.

Going into Weidman/Silva- All of the talk was that Weidman's ONLY path to victory is via grinding out a wrestling win. 0% chance of him KO'ing the best striker of all time on the feet. And that moment from Silva clowning in complete control to being KO'd on his back was just mind-boggling, it didn't even seem real at the time. Almost felt like he was still clowning and would get right back up and KO Chris. Unbelievably shocking moment.
 
I did not expect Weidman to do that to silva. I thought he was slow, flat footed and the only way he’d win was by grappling.

On the other hand, I actually thought Conor would beat Aldo. I didn’t think it would look like that but yeah.. I have no idea.
 
Aegon Spengler said:
I would say Silva's loss because of the way it happened. McGregor via early KO was not totally unexpected, everyone said he basically had to win by KO early to win at all. Yeah it was faster than people believed it would be but Weidman via KO was laughable, anyone predicting that was pretty much joking before it actually happened
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Nobody was saying back then that Conor had to win early. His cardio issues only ever appeared in his very next fight against Diaz, and only once he'd jumped up weight classes. You can't retroactively say he was going to gas when he had never yet gassed lol.

Conor never had cardio issues at FW. Likely in part because of the cardio he had to additionally do to get down there that he no longer does at LW/WW. His cardio was good at FW. Holloway, Mendes, and Siver all went 2-3 rounds and Conor won them all leading up to Aldo, and came out the fresher and more durable fighter. He never gassed at FW.

If anything, people were saying Aldo was the one who had to win early as he was, and still is, notorious for fading in later rounds (when actually pushed, not allowed to dictate the pace himself). People were worried about another Hominick situation where Aldo wins the early rounds but fades hard towards the end as if he did that against Conor he was getting finished this time as Conor was a fantastic finisher.
 
Be serious. Nobody watched Silva's and Aldo's fights with the same curiosity. Silva was far more interesting and his loss more shocking to everybody.
 
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