UFC 101 Live Blog: Anderson Silva vs. Forrest Griffin Round-by-Round Updates

Posted Aug 08, 2009 11:37PM By Mike Chiappetta (RSS feed)

Filed Under: UFC

PHILADELPHIA -- This is the UFC 101 live blog for Anderson Silva vs. Forrest Griffin, the co-main event of the pay-per-view card.

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Round one: Forrest runs to take center of cage as is his custom. Silva, as is his, starts patiently. Silva catches a leg kick, and hits him with a hard right. Silva rocks him with a right. Forrest falls, catches his balance and gets back up. SIlva stuns him again. Flashing power now. Silva urges Forrest on, pulls his hands now, lets Forrest try. Forrest can't touch him. Silva lands a hard right, floors him. Silva follows him down, then lets him up. He's toying with him. He offers Griffin a hand up. Griffin eschews it. Silva floors him with a seen-to-be-believed falling backward right jab that catches him on the chin and it's lights out for Forrest. Suddenly the crowd loves Silva again.

Winner: Silva by KO

That showed the very wide chasm between very good and great. Silva absolutely toyed with Griffin and still put him away in less than a round. Immediately after getting off the canvas, Griffin got up and ran out of the cage and straight to the book. He has said himself he's a sore loser, and that wasn't exactly the classy way to handle a defeat, but I guess you can't blame him.

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

8-09-2009 @ 12:10AM

MMA Fan said...

The fight was fake. Forrest got paid to give it up. Anderson sucks.

Tabitha Salley said...

that fight was a joke!

8-09-2009 @ 12:12AM

i am truly pissed! 45dollars for that???? bs! set up bs and i am truly mad!

8-09-2009 @ 12:34AM

twaddlejoe said...

Most embarrassing fight I have ever seen. Forrest lost all his dignity, and that was before he ran away as soon as he got up.

8-09-2009 @ 12:35AM

Mitchell said...

Seems people were upset here that Anderson won over Griffin/ it was so short/ that they paid $45. Well, what did you really think?

8-09-2009 @ 1:39AM

peter harris said...

Forrest did the best he could. It is hard to even land a shot on the best and most talented fighter in all of MMA. The fight was just how I expected. Silva made another great fighter look silly.

8-09-2009 @ 1:50AM

mattilln said...

Something has to be wrong with Forrest. He had the best heart in MMA. He gave up! That is not Forrest! Please Forrest, give us an explaination. That was not the man we all know and love. Where is the man that fought Stephen Bonnar in the first Ultimate Fighter? The loss was not what hurt, seeing him give up broke my heart!

8-09-2009 @ 4:22PM

a1goodboy said...

Penn-Florian kinda surprised me...not because BJ won, but that Florian wasn't really in the fight..I thought he'd give BJ a tough go of it.
Silve-Griffin was just what I expected it to be and won substantial wager on that one.