There's been something concerning the combative sports that seems to transcend the notion that today is better than yesterday, or today will be better than tomorrow; letas face it, none of the lovers of today can readily anticipate the fall of their characters because none folks have a crystal ball. But fall they will. On a lengthy enough time-line, everyone drops, including Anderson Silva, Jon Jones, Georges St-Pierre, Jose Aldoa'one and all, they'll fall. When it comes to the fight game, it is nearly impossible to deny that the past is the father to the present and once you look into the past, nearly all of the greats, and the greatest of the greats, finally succumbed to the erosion of time. Supporters declare that age will never meet up with Anderson Silva, in the same way they declare that no-one at light heavyweight will defeat Jon Jones, etc. Itas a technique of thinking in line with the simplest assumption available, and given how principal these practitioners have been, what could possibly be easier to imagine than victory after victory? Much like when Roberto Duran waved his hands in round 8 of his rematch with Sugar Ray Leonard, crying aNo masa no mas,a fans couldn't believe it was happening since they had never seen it before; to have expected them to imagine it before hand would have been like asking Attila the Hun to imagine world peace. The simple facts are that just as a is unsinkable until it sinks, so also will Anderson Silva be unbeatable until he's beaten; possibly before his new 10-fight contract reaches the age of retirement. But for those people who have seen previous generations of allegedly unbeatable fighters flavor defeat, growing older as they go along, we realize what'll happen, because it has always happened, and always will. The great thing about the fight game is that on one evening, the lessons learned and the skills drawn from yesterday could conquer the best of today, should they be marshaled by a man who has the courage of his convictions and a quality of intent that won't see him dwarfed by the moment. An example of this could possibly be when Vitor Belfort nearly presented Jon Jones with a simple armbar, or perhaps a straight better example was when Anderson Silva defeated Chael Sonnen via distribution very late in the fight at UFC 117, similar to Royce Gracie defeated Dan Severn at UFC 4. But such classes and skills need a vehicle, and it's those fighters who've proven capable of coupling the precedents of the past with their own distinctive characteristics and species of success that stick out inside our mind as giants of yesterday, or the unconquerable of today. For instance; Georges St-Pierre has been so prominent in his careera'especially now that he's near becoming the first tenured welterweight champion in UFC historya'that he's made a sequence of six direct decision wins into an impressive testimony to his greatness among the great, just like Metallica demonstrated that the long song was still art with the release of aAnd Justice For Allaa. Therefore to even consider for a minute that GSP can drop in a hypothetical round against one of the greatest of yesteryeara'Frank Shamrocka'is laughable and unthinkable, as it is away from realm of experience for fans have been not fans when Shamrock was to yesterday what practitioners like GSP and Anderson Silva are today; giants among men. Therefore, why ask the questions in the initial place? Because thatas what struggle supporters do; we check out the past (which provides us great gratitude for today's) and we try to assess the greatness we see before us with the greatness we've seen before. After all, like attracts like, after all, and if we didnat like what we were viewing, wead be looking anywhere else. Therefore, with both feet planted firmly in the present, we are able to recall days gone by and think exactly how great the battles could have been between the standouts of yesteryear vs. Recently compared to. today.
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