Chris Weidman wins via osteoporosis

Yeah, Silva should just recover and retire. Maybe coach if he feels like it. He's done more in the sport than anyone else. It should be enough. I don't think anyone would feel like he quit if he retires at this point.

And it's good, too. 185 needed a shakeup of some sort.
Yeah, it was time for a changing of the guard. Silva has pretty much earned the right to do whatever he wants with his career. I think he should start his own training camp and get young fighters to train with him. He could develop some really good guys, and girls.
 

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My list of gruesome non-fatal sports injuries?

Well, there was the Track & Field judge who got impaled by a javelin during a meet.

I've seen some rodeo bulls (and those in Pamplona and in bullfights) really get their horns into someone...and shake them for a while. Up & down, all around. Plus a toss in the air and stomp for good measure.

Joe Theisman's injury was pretty bad- worse, IMHO, than Silva's. You instantly knew it was bad when the cokehead LB who got him (Lawrence Taylor) got up and was instantly screaming for Washington's medics instead of celebrating the sack.

I've seen some skateboarders with feet or arms turned the wrong way as they had multiple fractures of a limb.* One impalement, too, as a guy was grinding along a rooftop ledge and went over the side onto another, lower rooftop, into some pipes.

Worse than that was Clint Malarchuck's injury- he got his throat slashed by a skate during an NHL game some years ago. Jets of blood about 7' long gushed out as they struggled to get medical personnel out to save him. That's why throat protectors are almost universal among goalies these days. But not universal- Adam Burish had a similar injury 2 years later.

But in my book, the worst I've seen was another leg injury. It was in a soccer game in Africa. The news sportscasters BOTH warned people- and repeated the warnings- to look away if they were squeamish before running the clip. A player was running to make a play near the sideline, and there was some contact and then one of his legs folded like an accordion. Multiple fractures along the length of his leg, with bone sticking out everywhere.












* FWIW, some typical examples of those injuries were spliced into the official music video for Unsane's "Scrape." It's a hard 3+ minutes to watch, but it ends nicely. :)
 
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I can't say I'm surprised. Guys rarely want to quit and they really rarely want to quit after a loss. He probably thinks it was a fluke loss but he was losing before his leg broke.
 

I can't say I'm surprised. Guys rarely want to quit and they really rarely want to quit after a loss. He probably thinks it was a fluke loss but he was losing before his leg broke.
Yeah, Silva seems to think it was just a fluke. I think the knockout in the first fight hurt him much more than he thinks. Silva got hit with a right while in the clinch with Weidman, and Silva went down. He took some nasty punches to the head when he went down. Silva's chin may not be the same after that first fight. Silva needs to be careful, less he ends up being the next Maynard.
 




Yup, Belfort needs to start training now. If the fight takes place in the U.S., which it most likely will, Belfort is going to need the extra time to prepare for Weidman. Belfort better get his better work on his wrestling and TD defense or it's going to be a very short night.
 

And Weidman better be ready for the insane initial pace or it'll be a short fight. Belfort isn't necessarily better than Weidman but he's awesome at starting a fight.
 

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