No offence intended, because I'm seeing this out there, everywhere else and I think I'm maybe in the minority - Is it because the dude who KOed him is American that you guys are sort of glossing over the fact that what we just witnessed was fucking retarded? I can think of nothing else. I guess you have to give credit to Chris for winning, but the way he won just makes the whole affair a complete joke. I would be still pissed if I was Weidman - Silva basically threw the fight. But at that stage, he'd made Weidman look like no less of a chump than Forrest Griffin in standup (ignoring the early takedown which was solid work).
I know a lot of people are saying "fix", but to me, it's more like "mental weakness" that he's been showing for a lot of fights. The dude is crazy as hell. His post fight interview was absolutely ridiculous. "He's the champion, he's the best?" - ugh, what a dick. I guess that when you have a 10 fight contract and you're utterly bored with the whole affair, you might turn into what we just saw. I don't read humility in what he does - I read fear and boredom. It's not so hard to lose your title to someone when you basically got KO'ed doing an acting show.
I just don't understand why there isn't more condemnation of this guy. I don't know why the news reports are talking about anything but that. That being said, you have to show respect to the guy who won - but ugh, the circumstances of it are stupid.