Anderson Silva vs James Irvin

Last Saturday night Silva entered the cage in Las Vegas with the intention to show everybody he can handle even fighters heavier than him. On the other hand Irvin has to prove to his weigh class that he would let a 185lb step on him like he does in his category.

“I didn’t come up to the 205-pound division to disrespect any fighters, but if you stand up and exchange Muay Thai, this is what happens.” said Anderson Silva.

James Irvin prepared for everything but the most powerful hit: the punch. When Irvin throw a mid kick against Silva he never imagined that Silva would grab him and punch him badly right in the middle of the face. That punch cost Irvin the right to prove how good he was.

The best thing I like in Mixed Martial Arts is the improvisation during the fight and Anderson Silva is very good at it. You never know what is going to be his next move, maybe a superman punch or a Moay Thai.

“This was my first time coming up here and it was a good experience,” said Silva. “But my responsibility is to defend the 185-pound title”, said Silva.

Even though Silva knows he can handle bigger fighters he intend to stay in 185lb category to defend his title. However Dan White is begging him not to go back to middle-weight division knowing that he’d be more valuable in light heavy-weight division.

“There is no reason I can’t knocking him out or caching him or something. This guy is much smaller than me. I’m gonna beat me him up a lot of things that people don’t realize that he’s beaten smaller guys up”, said James Irvin.

When James Irvin said this words he had no idea that Anderson Silva can’t be consider a smaller guy. If he had realized that he’d have avoid some of the Silva’s biggest asset: Punches.

Anderson Silva talks about his win at light heavyweight against James Irvin