Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-31529160-20171103170512/@comment-108.63.11.114-20171107182638

Truly Silva's career is one of hand-picked opponents. Dana understood the importance of having that almost mythical icon such as Ali or Jordan to grow your sport. He had some good wins early on (Franklin, Hendo, maybe Leites) but other than that his streak has mutliple asteriks in my mind, some for fights he took and at least one for PED's.

He struggled with middle of the pack wreslters like Sonnen  (I know he is a great wrestler but MMA record not very good) and part of that streak were wins over has-beens like a retired Bonnar and a middle pack Okami ( just becasue he fluked a win earlier doesnt make him legit)

There is something in Football termed "strength of schedule" and it is used to formulate the true power rankings. WHO you defeated counts towards your rating. The same logic can be applied to MMA and when you do you see why guys like GSP and if we include the cheater Jones had a much more tougher run, they cleaned out top ranked guys in almost every title defense.

The combined records of Silva's opponents is not even close, he is not in the GOAT conversation even if we ignore PED's. He shone against lesser stars and struggled as soon as they gave his mis-match - wrestlers and fought too many middle-packers.

Sonnen himself admits GSP would destroy him if he ever fought him and he owned Silva 4/6 rounds.

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