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Originally Posted by FightFan76
As long as they are MMA rules or as long as Silva can punch and/or kick him than Silva knocks him out.
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Similiar sentiments were expressed before the Shamrock-Le match.
Cung Le is virtually the only striker I've seen in mma who's as fluid a striker as Anderson Silva. As Frank Shamrock found out, he's a very
powerful kicker as well. And recall that San Shou is an art that allows takedowns, and Cung Le was undefeated. That means one of two things. Either he's such a good takedown artist that no one ever got a chance to take him down, or he's got pretty good takedown defense. And
nobody is so good at takedowns that nobody gets a
chance at them.
Also, it's six mma fights for Cung Le now, and he's still throwing a LOT of kicks, and a lot of HEAD kicks. That means a) good cardio, and b) nobody has grabbed his leg and thrown him yet.
I figure Anderson Sliva wins a fight with Cung Le, because of knees in the Muy Thai clinch, but against any of the other UFC middleweights, I'll put my money on Cung Le. (That's why they call it gambling.
) From my own days fighting, I know that that repeated side kick to the gut really does take the aggression out of an opponent.