GEGARD MOUSASI VS ANDERSON SILVA- ITS NOT IMPOSSIBLE TO DREAM OF
Bleacher Report
October 01, 2008
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Mousasi the Armenian/Dutch fighter is the new middleweight king of
K-1 mma promotion DREAM. With pinpoint striking, good submissions and
an intelligent stoic demeanor, Mousasi may just be the middleweight
threat Silva is looking for.
Silva, having just recently announced he was planning on retiring
next year, is most likely doing so in a ploy to get the UFC to start
hiring some top talent in the 185 lb. division. Nevertheless, Mousasi
could be the guy to upset the fearsome spider.
Mousasi’s style and build is much like the spiders and could prove
to be an interesting matchup. Being very lanky as a fighter, Mousasi
possesses good striking and has developed an all around good jiu-jitsu
game.
Recently beating Ronaldo "Jacare" de Souza to claim the DREAM belt
Mousasi’s victory is very reminiscent to the Yushin Okami vs Silva
fight, where Silva was disqualified via an up kick from the bottom that
knocked Okami out, however in DREAM- Mousasi was awarded the victory.
Mousasi has even submitted black belts in jiu-jitsu much like Silva
as well, where Silva submitted Lutter by triangle, Mousasi submitted
Denis Kang by way of triangle choke.
The two fighters teams even have a rivalry with one another. Mousasi,
who trains with Red Devil Fight Club in Russia has Fedor Emelianenkot
the no.1 heavy weight. Silva trains out of Muay Thai Dream Team which
has Antonio Rodrigo Noguiera who is either no. 2 or 3 depending who
you ask.
Emelianenko and Noguiera have a classic rivalry that ended in
Emelainenko taking the belt from him.
However, despite what an amazing match up this could possibly be, it is
most likely not to happen. Since Mousasi has recently signed to fight
with Affliction, while Silva is fighting in the UFC. Sadly this fight
won’t happen since Dana White is so intent on running any possible UFC
compeitor out of buisiness and has no intentioin of importing Vladmir
Finkelstein’s fighters, much less anyone foreign who isn’t from Brazil.