Did you not read the short paragraph above your long pointless one. I just stated that I never said he didn’t have power. All I am saying is that without accuracy power isn’t much. He is blessed with both. I dont even like forrest griffin dude.

Apparently, Pebbles (if that is your real name) you’ve never heard of my buddy Sir Isaac Newton. He begs to differ. His second law of physics states:
F = d(m * v) / dt
In layman’s terms, it means: Force “power” is a product of Mass “hand/foot/knee/beverage” multiplied by Change in Velocity with Time “acceleration.” This is an important part of the K.O. equasion:
K.O. = (Power+Accuracy)? Chin
If I casually toss you a cool beverage, and you’re not ready for it, it could harmlessly collide with your chin. Now, if i give you that same beverage Nolan Ryan style, and it hits you in the exact same way, you’re not likely to remember much of what happened that day.

Power is hugely important in knocking a dude out. Forrest Griffin doesn’t have it, and he landed on Tito all day their last fight. Carwin/Brock/Silva have it and they drop kids like crazy. Silva’s got power, and he’s a ninja in the cage. He’s not indestructible, he’s just insane good at what he does.

I didn’t say he had no power. I said it’s not all about power. He punches and kicks extremely hard. I honestly think it’s his accuracy though. Look at some other guys with power. They dont exactly rock people all the time. Why cuz they dont have accuracy. I never said he didn’t have power. He has it all. Im saying nobody he has faced can even tell if he does have power or not because he just hit’s them on the botton. Look at an interview on youtube. Forrest said he does’nt know how hard he hits. He just got him right on the button.

Regarding the heath care in Canada….

We have a bunch of GREAT doctors around here. BTW, a lot of US doctors are from Canada…this is a big problem for us actually, we pay for their school and they run away to make more money down south.

Problem is that the free/public system is overloaded so you should expect a lot of waiting but still get decent treatments.

As for Brock he couldve went in a private clinic just like in the US. He’s obviously not the average guy, he’s body is his paycheck. I really doubt GSP would go wait 12 hours in a public hospital.

Society wise our system is way better than the US which is only good for young and healthy people….my sisters had like 17 majors surgicals interventions. She wouldve been left for dead in the US or my whole familly would be broke.

Yeah yeah… i know you’re not impressed by my english performance.

some of you are clearly delusional, anderson has no power?????

you sirs are fucking retarded…

heres the scenario.. what is going to hurt worse… 5 pounds going one mile per hour? or 5 pound going 50 miles per hour?

i could be shane carwin and hit you with my ham hands with a glancing blow and fucking put out your lights….

or i could be anderson silva and hit you with my 5 pound fist going apeshit fast super crazy fast and KTFO you..its the same thing physical power can puts your lights out becasue your strong as fuck… but if you are fast as a raped ape and have a little hand it can equal the same thing… its physics bitches

theres and old saying SPEED KILLS, just go back and relive don fry KTFO some nameless hap with a six inch punch in like ufc 11 (i may be wrong here about which event but it happend, just like anderson fucking up forrest with a little ity bity shot to the face which made him cry like a little girl) silva has speed which equals power, as well as accuracy which is ever more deadly.

and swede ……again your an assclown gibroney bitch with a mouth full of beef with chinnuts on the side

Holla if ya here me!!!

Forrest got dropped like 2 or 3 times with punches before Silva KO’d him. Forrest was done once Anderson hit him the first time. And pebbles, seriously, are you going to try and argue against the fact that Silva has alot of punching power? Speed and strength are what mainly constitutes for alot of punching power which Silva has both of as well as pin point accuracy. Silva rocks people with one punch every fight which is undeniably a display of punching power. Yes, accuracy plays a part but just because a little kid hits me directly on the button doesnt mean I will get KO’d. Power plays a big part.

I always liked Cote in the past, but I think I resented him a little for not charging Silva and getting turned into a highlight reel But he did well that fight, fought smart, and I’m glad he’s back and fighting Alan Belcher. There is some solid young talent with room to grow in the middleweight division, and I’m excited.

No…actually putting forrest down with a straight right while stepping back doesn’t constitute “punch power”. That constitutes accuracy more than anything. Everybody know’s that you dont need to have a really hard punch just to k.o. somebody. Anderson just has accuracy. Look at what forrest said. He said he doesn’t even know how hard anderson hits. He just got him right on the button.

@swedish, your almost as delusion as Cote.

I guess putting down Forrest with a straight right while stepping backwards doesn’t constitute “punching hard.”

and sorry Canada but your healthcare sucks and your mother smells of elderberries.

I think Cote makes a good point, definitely the first step to beating Silva is to take him of the p4p world’s best pedastal and put him on a “human” level (insert Rocky IV quotes). However, as mentioned previous opponents have come to the ring squawking the same mantra, but met little success. Anderson is masterful at making his opponents feel helpless once the fight begins. Fighters may go into the cage with certain psychological aspirations, but once the fight starts, Silva first crushes their will, than the rest of them. As much as Silva inevitably destorys his opponents will before their face/body, he is nearly unshakable when it comes to his own psyche. He always seems in almost cruise control and I dont know if I’ve ever seen him look confused or uncomfortable during a bout. A fighter needs to get him out of this “zone”, and as much of a death sentence it may sound like, make it more of a fight. I dont know though,if there is currently an opponent in the mw division who can successfully combine that psychological strategy and have to physical acumen to follow up and knock Silva off his throne.

@swedish you gone and done it now boy

He’s winning because he’s on some next-level Jedi shit.

LOL!

this article had me chuckling.

Someone needs to tell Cote that just because someone or something hasn’t destroyed you YET, doesn’t mean it won’t or isn’t just about to.

Scientists call this the “Timothy Treadwell fallacy”.

Wow CP thanks for getting that double post for me. You could have put an s on “care” for me while you were at it though.

PEOPLE! Can we stop talking about this Silva fellow and get back to the health care debate? And by debate I mean lambasting that Swede. Who care about mma when there is a non believer on the loose?

@iDestroy – ha ha ha “everyone has been pretty quiet on that issue” nice. I don’t tear people apart, I am a nice guy.

Ahhh patrick.. you delusional little frenchman… you say the darnest things

how can i believe a word you say when your name is Patrick.. you’re French.. it should be Patrice

Wow…Why does everybody get on the defensive…Nobody even thinks that maybe anderson could’nt get comfortable because cote was also being elusive. Silva did hit him with good shots. Cote took them and gave a few back. Cote didn’t exactly give as many back as A.S. Nor did he give such hard shots back to Silva but he stuck in there and wasn’t getting dominated by any means. I do agree that cote was not winning the fight. He was more succesful than anybody else though. Nobody can say he would have been k.o.’d the next 2 rounds because it could’ve gone the other way around. I think a rematch would be very fun to watch. I only think there is a few guys that could beet anderson and Cote is one of them.

here’s my flagged comment, again:

[I told Swede to kill himself. Twice.]

Then I said that Cote was not winning that fight in any way. Silva was doing some kind of “I’m not gonna kill this guy right away” kind of shit, and he got blasted for it in the media for it. Anyway, jsut because Silva isn’t killing you, Patrick, doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re holding your own.

That was the first fight where I saw Silva knock an opponent down and then offer him a hand back to his feet. I think doing that was cocky and without class, no matter how good you are. We saw him do it again against Griffin, and I didn’t like it there either. Too bad, since I like Silva and agree with CP that he has the Jedi thing going for him.

Anyway, Cote wasn’t winning that fight against Silva any more than I was that night.

I can’t believe someone said ‘…but silva doesn’t punch hard.’

Apparently we are in serious need of mental-healthcare reform…

what?! i had a great comment that was flagged as spam? i find your lack of faith disturbing.

Well to sum it up the health care issue isnt an issue anymore a repub took teddy ‘s seat…..

And im Glad for it also….i already pay for my own families health care, ill be damned if i have to pay for health care for all the freeloading welfare using lazy unemployed douchebags that are in this country, who are to lazy to get some fucking skills and education to compete in a difficult job setting as we have today ..

and i must say i make a modest living, not rich by any means… but i would have been one of those who have the so called cadillac plan….(because a set dollar amount comes out of my wages for every hour i work, it’s self paid for) which would effectivley fuck me overby about and extra hundred a week..

so fuck off swede.. and your sociolized medicine (your probably one of the afformentioned freeloaders anyways)

and last i looked this is the bens website so they can push whatever agenda they want

Cote is missing some brains cells with those comments

@getupandkill

Yeah, sorry. I was attempting humor. Ugh! My wife is right! I’m just a stupid piece of shit!

@Getup

Thanks man, im trying to take it easy. I should be up and about in a few days. I’ve been off for two months, with one more month now for recovery. Can’t lift more than 10-20 lbs. Hurray for T3′s!

Say what you want about Swedish, but his fish are fucking tits.

Swedish, two things. First, you don’t have to be a “liberal” to believe in health-care reform. You just have to think that there are big problems with U.S. health-care and that reforms are needed. That can mean more government intervention or less.

Second, if you’re having trouble sleeping because you read a political opinion you didn’t like on a non-political website, you should take responsibility for that and look for solutions to your sleeping/anger problems. Life’s too short, man.

Swedish, don’t kill yourself. If it wasn’t for guys like you then who would people like ghostboner and others tear apart for my enjoyment? I need this as entertainment while I’m not working at work.

Seriously swedish?

“I’m not at work blasting my clients with my political views and neither should you.”

That is because you have clients and you probably work somewhere, where putting a partisan spin on things is ILLEGAL. That is however, obviously not the case for Ben who basically gets paid for his opinion and spin on information…if you don’t like the way he writes go to fucking mmaweekly

^ where were you yesterday? read the comments under the Lesnar thread, plenty of Northern common sense on that post.

This is sort of a silly article…

I see there are a lot of our northern neighbors posting today. I was just wondering what you guys thought about Brock lesnars comments on Canadian health care versus that of the US. Everyone has been pretty quiet on the issue so far.

I have always been under the belief get a guy who has a strong chin and can get Silva down and jitz the shit out of him and you can win. The times that Silva has lost in the past to submission. Granted we all know Silva has improved leaps and bounds since then, not to mention he showed us in the Leites fight he’s in no rush to run to the ground, but i actually kinda see that as him worrying about the ground game. Silva’s got a great jitz game but it seems he’s either afraid to use it due to past losses via submission or he just knows no one can hang with him on the feet (as fo yet anyway). If he were to move up to LHW I’d like to see him and Shogun go at it and bang. I think that would be an entertaining fight.

I like Cote and enjoy watching him fight but I think he may have been chilling with Nick Diaz enjoying some of California’s finest before he made this statement. Sorry Predator, you put up a good fight but Silva had you figured out bro.

I’m heartened at the spirited debate on healthcare we’ve been having. There hasn’t been this much passion and thoughtfulness poured into a CP discussion since we delved into the merits of the new Octagon girl.

@ steampunk…Make sure you enjoy that time off (you know, despite that whole healing process stuff). I am back to work full-time on Monday after being unemployed for 6 months. Money good, not sleeping-in bad.

@Swedish

Wow, dude.

Im amazed that in this day and age anyone can actually not be interested in Health Care reform within America. That’s a whole new breed of ignorance right there. Jeeeeeeee-zus.

I’m not going to get into the merits of the Canadian system, or, you know, every other system that every other developed country has that is better than the States (Costa Rica!), because frankly I don’t think Swedish is going to listen to me or anyone else for that matter.

But holy shit, dude.

Fowlkes doesn’t have a gun to your head, he’s not got your kids tied up in the basement waving health care reform and equal rights papers in their faces, just skim over the parts you don’t like!

Its not difficult! You don’t have to agree with what he (or the rest of the sane, free world) has to say, but you don’t have to be a dick about it. Just be content with your own ridiculous belief system, take solace in the fact that you are obviously privy to some fantastic affordable private health system that we could not possibly ever hope to understand or afford, and that you are better for it and we are worse. Don’t get all personally offended, we’re just the poor unwashed anyways right?

If you’re going to be ignorant, stick to your guns and ignore everything please, including the casual remarks of an MMA journalist.

But leave us sensible thinkers alone. We’ll progress just fine with you.

Yeah so it turns out if you have hernia surgery, you have a lot of time to answer CP posts. : )

^ Ok I gotcha…good observation actually. Sorry, I was all riled up by Swedouche.

Whoa.

I was among those wondering why The Ben’s were wasting their time with that article yesterday, too, but losing sleep?

Damn, man. You get fired up easily. You should be a Death Fighter.

I don’t have to agree with these guys to enjoy the hell out of CagePotato on a daily basis.

Oh, and Patrick Cote is lucky his knee had more good sense than he does.

Oh shit, I see my spelling is worse than Cote’s. I meant Swedouche. Thanks for the gentle correction GetUpAndKill.

I guess it just shows how long it’s been since I douched. I’m just waiting for socialized medicine so Swedouche can pay for it.

GetUpAndKill: I agree with you. I was being sarcastic but it didn’t translate very well. If Silva had been in the mood, he could have smashed him in the first round…

I’m scarred by the fact that I don’t have a CP t-shirt.

As for Sweduche losing sleep over Ben’s liberal agenda-pushing…I think Sweduche just needs a good whack in the head with a cast iron skillet, then he’ll sleep like the cry-baby he is.

Ben certainly isn’t too liberal with those alleged t-shirts.

Sweduche is kind of a duche.

What other gameplan should he use is the question ?

He’s not a better striker.

He’s not a good offensive wrestler.

He don’t like to fight on the ground.

He has only 2 major tools….chin and KO power . So he have to close the distance and throw fastballs. Easier said than done.

We have to blame A.Silva for this boring fight…P.Coté was at least trying to engage which wasn’t the case with leithes for instance.

@mthomas

As a Canadian to a fellow Canadian, you are TOTALLY wrong.

I hope you are being sarcastic because that has to be the worst gameplan in the world. Besides Kalib Starnes gameplans.

He was not winning the fight that’s for sure.

He did took control of the center of the octogon because Silva was in his usual back pedal mode. P.Coté tried to punch him a few times but Silva was elusive/gay as usual.

At this point there was only 2 possibles outcomes besides the injury:

1- A.Silva wins a boring unanimous decision. He was not trying to ends this fight.

2- P.Coté connects once and KO Silva. Coté was at least trying…he just lack some talent to compete with Silva. We can’t blame him for this.

So, I do think that P.Coté had a good gameplan…absorb with his awesome jaw and pray for a lucky punch.

As a Canadian, I gotta say, Cote TOTALLY would have beat down Silva if he hadn’t blown out his knee. Of course, if Silva hadn’t been feeling particuarly playful that night, “The Predator” probably wouldn’t have made it out of the first round. I mean, this IS the same guy who lost to Chris Leben. And we all saw what Silva did to Leben.

@Swedish: You’re a moron. That is all.

@ Swedish

Welcome to the free world and free speech buddy. I think somebody created Conservapedia just for you.

Swedish– Need tissues you girl?

As a fellow Canadian, we do not spell it scarred… Its scared. As far as Cote goes, the only way to beat Silva would be to pull his jersey over his head and hockey fight him.

You are an idiot fu_kkcongo. There are so many things wrong with your comment. Hendo wasnt dominating anything during that fight. Sure he controlled Silva on the ground for a majority of the first round but didnt do any significant damage to him whatsoever. Second round he got completely schooled too. And dont blame it on gassing, he got beat. Silva doesnt punch hard!?? Have you been hiding under a rock? Dumb ass. Id go on but it is clear you dont know shit.

Swedish – you lost sleep over an MMA blog writers opinion of health care? that is pathetic.

PS – a person’s opinion does not constitute a political agenda.

C’mon people…Cote is speaking some truth. He was having fun in the fight which should say something. We all know how that fight would have ended; however, he is a fighter with a fighters mind. Giv’em a break and let him work his way back up. Look at Marquart, he’s a positive guy who came and left a beating from Silva and now is happy to go back. What do you expect Cote to say? I think at this moment in MMA history, anyone has the right to boast about the time that they entered the ring against THE Anderson Silva.

Ben -

I’m not at work blasting my clients with my political views and neither should you. I take offense to the fact that you are pushing a liberal agenda on a MMA site.

I understand you live in Cali which explains things but still… lets stick to the topic.

PS. I lost sleep over your ObamaCare article last night.

I agree with cote.Silva can be beaten with a rock chin, and aggressive fight put on by the challenger. its just like the silva hendo fight….hendo was dominating silva till he gassed. I dont get why silva is worshiped so much…

I believe cote could possibly beat silva , possibly….probley not, but its possible..hes not as fast, or technical as silva…but silva doesn’t punch hard.
Cote has one of the thickest jaws in the ufc, as did hendo….and like hendo he has knockout power…

All I want to see is a top 3 guy fight silva, he keeps getting cans, gate keepers…and then everyone thinks hes a god cause he destroys them quickly…umm…well ya…griffen?? like come on..worst match up ever…I just hope hes still around when GSP comes up…then we can finally put top rest the fact that GSP IS the best MMA fighter lb for lb in the world..

Unfortunately I think silvas time is almost up…though,if he beats belfort…I will change my opinion on him…..according to slivas worshippers, when they touch gloves belfort will go down…

@steampunk22: Feel better man. Surgeries do suck man. I know. @ Swed: Seriously dude, chill out. See it’s because of people like you we can’t have nice things here! @Patrick Cote: Whatever you’re smoking/snorting, can I have some. I want to be as awesomely delusional as you man…

Don Zimmer would KILL Silva! At 185 or 205, either/or!

On a totally unrelated note, I just had inguinal hernia surgery (Part of me is now made out of mesh! How’s that for a six million dollar man!) and I am eating Tylenol 3′s like candy over here.

I hope this in an active day for posting on CP because man I have not got a lot to do.

He probably says “scarred” because that’s how he’d pronounce it, and he’s spelling words phonetically from a language that isn’t his native language. Take it easy on the guy. Though perhaps a “[sic]” is in order.

@NorthSouth @BenFowlkes @Swedish

If you’re gonna ride Mr. Fowlkes, ride him for misspelling “behemoth” on the “UFC 113 Changes Date” post, not for copying a quote from another website. That’s their mistake not his. His mistake was “behemoth”. Get it right, dingus.

Also, @Swedish, really man? You really gonna be a dick about that? Cagepotato is awesome (probably why you are here at all) and these dudes work hard. Don’t be a dick about it.

Yea shut the fuck up swedish. Idiot. That is totally irrelevant to this article anyway you fucking dipshit.

Anderson is the man though. Anderson def. Vitor via T/KO, R2

Sweeds…

When are we going to get some more ben v ben videos?

wow….a liberal hating Swede? never thought id see one…awesome

i think he wrote scarred to make fun of his accent, right, ben, right?

@Swedish: ObamaCare? Liberal scumbag? If that’s not the reasoned opinion of a calm political observer, I don’t know what is. I guess it’s just completely out of the question for us to have different views on certain issues without one of us being a scumbag, huh? 

^ damn, take it easy bro.
Ben……you ok?

@NorthSouthDudesOnly: Yeah, I considered fixing that for them when I excerpted the quote. But for all I know that’s how they spell it in Canada. I mean, look at how they spell ‘center.’  Those crazy guys.

CP… Shouldn’t you be pushing ObamaCare?

Liberal scumbag. Stick to reporting MMA news and leave your political ambitions where they belong in the toilet (along with your videos)

No, I think he really meant “scarred.” Silva scars most guys.

MMA journalism: Where a six letter word is impossible to spell correctly.

very delusional dude