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Forrest Griffin Explains What Went Wrong Against Anderson Silva; Says He Hopes He Doesn’t Have to Fight Jon Jones Next


(Video courtesy YouTube/TheJasonEllisShow)

When Forrest Griffin ran out of the Octagon after getting sat down by Anderson Silva at UFC 101, most of us MMA media types thought, "There’s something we won’t be able to ask him about in an interview."

Apparently time heals all wounds because Forrest has finally broken his silence on what happened in the fight and what was going through his mind as he was jabbed into a living death by "The Spider" and he has apparently taken the  advice he gave me at the MMA Expo about making fun of yourself.

Earlier this week on the The Jason Ellis Show, Forrest brought up the fight with Silva on his own when he was asked if he would be fighting Jon Jones in his next bout



"I hope I’m not fighting Jon "Bones" Jones. I might be. Fuck it; if I am, I am. I’ll do it, but I’m not even training right now. That’s a bad dude. That dude wil’ whup my ass. Fuck it. What’s the worst…I mean, it couldn’t be worse than Anderson Silva. It shouldn’t be worse than that, right? Every fight I go into, no matter what happens, it couldn’t be worse than Anderson Silva," Griffin pointed out. "’Cos that shit was a year ago and literally every day people ask me something about that. ‘What happened…What happened?’ You want to know what happened? It’s on page 23 [of my new book] if you need to know. Check it out."

"He punched you in the chin," Ellis deadpanned.

"Repeatedly," Griffin pointed out. "And I was very confused. I tried to punch him and he literally moved his head out of the way and looked at me like I was stupid for doing it. He looked at me like, ‘Why would you do such a stupid thing?’ He looked at me like, ‘Oh, did you really think you were going to hit me? What a stupid thing to think you slow, slow white boy,’ and then he punched me. I felt embarrassed for even trying to punch him. I felt like some kid trying to wrestle with his dad."



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Dung Fu Master- August 21, 2010 at 9:21 pm
@fatbelly...I said he outboxed him, not that he won the fight. As you know, Silva won via submission - it damn sure wasn't due to any boxing strike.

BTW, I like Griffin. He is a courageous fighter and he's funny as hell. However, if he's a slow white boy, he'd better adapt or leave the Silva matches to fast white men like Sonnen.
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fatbellyfrank- August 21, 2010 at 3:40 pm
@ Dung fu
The belt round his waist, that would be fine
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Dung Fu Master- August 21, 2010 at 11:53 am
@fatbelly...Let's see...Chael delivered more strikes while they were on their feet and floored Silva twice. How much more evidence do you need?
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fatbellyfrank- August 21, 2010 at 12:36 am
@ Dung Fu Master, Forest may be a slow slow white boy, but at least he's not a delusional shit talkin wannabe politician/real estate agent who still fucken lost
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fatbellyfrank- August 21, 2010 at 12:34 am
:Dung Fu Master Says:
Sat, 08/21/2010 - 02:02
@ El Guaco:
Reality Check Time. Compustrike:
Sonnen 289
Silva 29
Apparently I'm not the only fool who thinks Sonnen outboxed Silva:
Check this headline from MMA Convert:
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So you've posted to advise us that you and the people at MMA convert are all fools, we only needed one of your comments for verification, and I always susspected that about the people at MMA convert
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fatbellyfrank- August 21, 2010 at 12:30 am
Dung Fu Master Says:
Sat, 08/21/2010 - 02:02
@ El Guaco:
Reality Check Time. Compustrike:
Sonnen 289
Silva 29
Apparently I'm not the only fool who thinks Sonnen outboxed Silva:
Check this headline from MMA Convert:
"Chael Sonnen’s fists were on fire in his title fight against Anderson Silva at UFC 117. Not only did Sonnen take Silva down at will and beat the living daylights out of him, he outstruck Silva on the feet. CompuStrike’s numbers say it was only 19 strikes landed to Anderson’s 14, but still, if you saw the fight, you know Chael got the better of Anderson in the early striking exchanges, which was simply jaw-dropping in of itself."
Forrest Griffin may be a slow white boy, but Sonnen was not
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And even though he was outstruck 10-1 Silva still took the belt over Chael"Hands like Feather Dusters" Sonnen. Any one still barking on about Sonnen supposedly deserving the victory and shit need to get over it, or seek psychiatric help, Sonnen fought well, but not well enough to win, and if you dont beleive me, check any MMA site and see who's name appears as champion. Is it Silva or Sonnen, Silva you say, so he won and he's still the champ
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Socal Tot- August 20, 2010 at 1:38 pm
The comment about Anderson making Forrest say he felt like he was wrestling his dad was classic. I remember trying to take out my dad when I was a wee lad and it went down pretty much how the Siva v. Griffin fight went down- minus the punches to the face. Agreed that Forrest is a humble dude. He got his ass beat by a master that night, but Forrest is still a bad ass mofo.
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Mofo- August 20, 2010 at 10:26 am
Haha! So sad that he landed 289 punches and not a one of them hit Andy's chin.

Todd Duffee and Nate Marquardt and Dos Santos, THEY get to brag about how FEW punches they threw!

The more you trumpet the number of punches landed, the more embarrassing for Sonnen.

That said, Sonnen blew my frikkin mind that night, he *absolutely* brought it, and that was one of the best fights I've ever seen, just because of Silva's history. He's still a dick, of course. But he likes it that way.


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Dung Fu Master- August 20, 2010 at 9:02 am
@ El Guaco:
Reality Check Time. Compustrike:
Sonnen 289
Silva 29
Apparently I'm not the only fool who thinks Sonnen outboxed Silva:
Check this headline from MMA Convert:
"Chael Sonnen’s fists were on fire in his title fight against Anderson Silva at UFC 117. Not only did Sonnen take Silva down at will and beat the living daylights out of him, he outstruck Silva on the feet. CompuStrike’s numbers say it was only 19 strikes landed to Anderson’s 14, but still, if you saw the fight, you know Chael got the better of Anderson in the early striking exchanges, which was simply jaw-dropping in of itself."

Forrest Griffin may be a slow white boy, but Sonnen was not.
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J-Dog- August 20, 2010 at 7:41 am
How can you not like this guy? He has one of the best personalities in the sport. I bet the book is funny.
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fatbellyfrank- August 19, 2010 at 10:45 pm
^Clay Guida and Roy Nelson, yeah Asterix and Obelix rock
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Mofo- August 19, 2010 at 10:05 pm
Asterix... Haha grew up with that shit... It's surely just insomnia making my brain weird but I just pictured Faber (with the long hair) as asterix and Butterbean as obelix. Aaaaand time fer sleep

But first: fuck sonnen, and forest is the man
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fatbellyfrank- August 19, 2010 at 9:35 pm
El Guapo, theres been a bit of that lately, we must keep our wits about us Potato Warriors, we're like Asterix the Gaul and his village of indomitable warroirs, we must repel the troll/be invaders at all costs
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El Guapo- August 19, 2010 at 6:25 pm
Note to self: If it's not one of the regulars, be sure to check and see if if they've been a member of CP for more than 2 hours..

It seems I've just been had. That's what I get for feeding the trolls. Well done, TrashoftheMarsh/Dung Fu/whatever you're gonna change your name to...again. Well done, indeed.
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Danky4twanky- August 19, 2010 at 6:15 pm
I agree with fatbellyfrank. Let's move on. I actually brought it up but only as an example that anything can happen in the cage. So if ur riding chael's nuts, please exit left. Griffin is a funny muthafucka tho.
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Mr_Misanthropy- August 19, 2010 at 6:03 pm
Forrest is a kewl dood.
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fatbellyfrank- August 19, 2010 at 5:17 pm
El Guapo, It is a fucken cool catch phrase, and this is about Forest, fuck off any one wanting to talk about fucken Sonnen, its ovaaaaaah,, I thought we all agreed Sonnen was winning right up til he fucken lost move on.
Fucken loved this interview, seems to me Forest has a fairly healthy sense of self appreciation and worth so why bullshit, Silva beat him up so pointless cryin about it, mark of a man IMO, yeah he fucken rocked me all ends up man, dont want to do that again, but lets have a laugh and keep entertainin the fans

+100 Forest and that is a fucken cool catchphrase "What a stupid thing to think you slow, slow white boy" you can even see it on Anderson's face.
And outboxed for 4.5 rounds, wouldn't that have required both fighters on there feet for 4.5 rounds, I dont recall seeing that, hell of a lot of ground game I thought
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Danky4twanky- August 19, 2010 at 5:05 pm
Dominated On the ground for 4.5 rds, but outboxed is pretty over the top. That's not what I saw.
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DazedNConfused- August 19, 2010 at 5:03 pm
Meh Andersons still awesome. That was a comeback win and a great one at that. People will say it proved he can be beat, but did it?

I mean he got owned for 4.5 rounds, he even looked rough on his feet, and he still won. If anything it showed that it's going to be tough beating Anderson even on an off night.

Don't expect every fight to go like the last. That shit's a rare occurance.
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Sudos KFC- August 19, 2010 at 4:57 pm
El guapo, why are you so upset? Chael was at very worst even on the feet with silva, on that one particular night, was he put in danger? Dropped? Yes and so was silva. So I would say maybe he DID watch the fight, and only that fight, because on the one, singular night you could give the stand up strikes landed (its not based on who wanted to be standing) to either man.
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LJM- August 19, 2010 at 4:40 pm
That makes me almost love Griffin. He is hilarious and humble. A rare combination.
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El Guapo- August 19, 2010 at 4:35 pm
Did TrashoftheMarsh really say Chael outboxed Silva for 4.5 rounds? Holy guacamole, he did! Not sure how to respond to that. I suppose I could ask him if he actually watched the fight, but that would be too obvious. Hmmmm.. Anybody??
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ClashOfTheMarshmallows- August 19, 2010 at 4:14 pm
@ El Guapomole....I guess nobody told Chael Sonnen about that catch phrase. After watching 4.5 rounds of Chael just generally outboxing and and pounding the shit out of Silva, I'd say that catch phrase belongs in the shitcan.
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Danky4twanky- August 19, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Sounds like griffin has a confidence issue. I hope that this was just a light hearted response that he didn't really mean. I like Forrest but you have to believe you can do better and progress. He can't be scared of Jon "pot snitcher" jones. He is right about getting his ass whipped but you never know. I thought chael was gonna be the middleweight champ when round 5 started
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fatbellyfrank- August 19, 2010 at 3:48 pm
Cool stuff Forrest, Tito, BJ, take note, you can be honest after a fight
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