"Big" Dan Speaks about his Reaction to Anderson Silva
by Zak Woods on Apr 29, 2010 11:30 AM EDT
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"Big" Dan Miragliotta spoke to FIGHT! Magazine about his reaction to Anderson Silva's UFC 112 performance, immortalized to your right.
FM: So the fifth round started out a little better then?
DM: They started fighting and there were a couple of good points where Maia actually scored some points with punches and then the next thing you know, that’s when Anderson started running around again and I stopped the fight with minute left and I told him, "This is your final warning." I should have just taken the point away. I knew he was winning all five rounds anyway, but nothing was really being done. I was mad at myself for not taking a point away. But it’s over and hindsight’s 20/20. Like I said, I was honored to do the fight and I was proud to do the fight and then when it was over, I’d been a spectator and not the referee.
More after the jump.
FM: Did Anderson Silva say anything to you after the fight?
DM: We had words. Everyone says he doesn’t speak English. I don’t know. He understood what I said to him. He kept apologizing. He called me coach. He said, "coach, I’m so sorry. This isn’t me. I don’t know why I did this; I’m so sorry."
I said, "Anderson, you are an extraordinary athlete, an extraordinary martial artist. You can’t keep giving performances like this because you’re just so good. Let the people see how good you are." I don’t know what happened. It’s a shame because he’s talented and Demian Maia’s no slouch either…I give Demian credit. He tried to come back in the fourth or fifth round and he kind of risked his neck to go in there to try to knock Anderson out because he knew he couldn’t get him on the ground and Anderson just ran away. That’s why I stopped the fight and I actually warned him.
When you've lost "Big" Dan, you've lost the trust of America.
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The referee needs to enforce the rules and keep fighters safe. Thinking about the quality of the fight is not his job and he needs to focus on other things.
by Jonathan Snowden on Apr 29, 2010 12:01 PM EDT reply actions
But granting interviews, making faces, acting like an ass in the cage postfight? Less so.
by Jonathan Snowden on Apr 30, 2010 11:06 AM EDT up reply actions
haha
It was the perfect time to regain love from the fans. Let’s face it, Mirg has some odd stoppages. And after he let Mir get pummeled while unconscious against Carwin, I was pretty ticked.
since he was in Abu Dhaibi… they werent necessarily under the unified rules right? so he could take points for anything he wanted. Sure, its a meaningless point. But he sooo would have gotten laid for it
Even a broken clock is right two times a day.
Maybe he was
I’m no expert on the unified rules, maybe there is a section that deals with when fighters refuse to engage.
so Chael was right about Anderson's English...
"It’s going to be like sex with a grizzly bear, you know, a lot of scratching and growling on both sides." - Don Frye
Haha, I thought the same thing.
Seriously though, Silva does speak English, just not well. So he gets his interpreter to talk for him, cause naturally he feels awkward and embarrassed when he fumbles with a language that’s foreign to him, as anyone would. I don’t know where this idea came from that he’s trying to make us think he doesn’t speak English AT ALL as some kind of trick.
Machida makes an effort, has the same representation, and has been fighting is the US for a shorter ammount of time
I see no reason why Anderson can’t do the same, and to be completely honest with you I doubt he is trying to “trick” anyone like Chael alleges, but whether he or Soares want to admit it it does give off an aura of elitism at worst and indifference at best.
"It’s going to be like sex with a grizzly bear, you know, a lot of scratching and growling on both sides." - Don Frye
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