Anderson Silva is one of the most respected names in the world of MMA. ‘The Spider’ has achieved an unmatched status in the world of combat sports. He owes it all to his outstanding skills and prolonged career. He was a well-known face in the MMA world even before joining the UFC. The ’47-year-old’ switched to full-time boxing after completing his time inside the Octagon. But, his recent highly anticipated bout with Jake Paul ended with a defeat for Silva through a unanimous decision.

Silva lost the fight to Paul as the judges scored the bout, 77-74, 78-73, and 78-73 in favor of Paul. Silva went on to accept his defeat like the legend he is known to be.

Anderson Silva was graceful even in defeat

The combat sports covering media house ‘MMA Junkie’ put out a post-fight update about the ‘Silva vs Paul’ bout on their Instagram account. It showcased a moment from the post-fight conversation between the in-ring opponents.

Silva reportedly took his defeat like a man, saying, “Jake is better than me today. I know I lost. I know I failed in my whole strategy and my opponent win”.

The ’47-year-old’ Silva had already won a lot of hearts when he decided to step inside the ring against 25-year-old Jake Paul who was nearly half his age. Now ‘The Spider’ has earned the respect of the combat sports world once more by being graceful, even in his defeat.

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On the other hand, Jake Paul was subjected to some pillory for his mentality to fight with the fighters who were already past their prime.

Anthony Smith ripped Jake Paul for calling out retired fighters

The noted UFC Light-Heavyweight fighter, Anthony Smith, chose to arraign Jake Paul because of his knack of earning lump some amounts by calling out retired legends of the combat world and knocking them out. The MMA covering page, ‘XcellentMMA’ posted his video on Instagram.

Smith stated, “If Jake Paul beats Anderson Silva, we should all fu**ing boycott the rest of his fights, until he fu**ing fights someone that’s on his level or whatever level we deem him to be on.” Jake Paul visibly disgusted him, “talking s**t about MMA fighters and UFC”.

Smith also added that Paul “pretends” that he wants ” to bring fighters up, everyone to get paid better” and then he “trashes everyone”.

He was visibly enraged as he stated, “Now we’re putting food on your plate to drag our legends? Older, shorter, smaller legends that spent their entire careers running their bodies into fu**ing car accidents”

Being a fighter himself, it is understandable that Smith holds legends like Anderson Silva very close to his heart. He further blamed Paul, saying, “this f**khead just pulls them out of semi-retirement and then just knocks them out on fu**in pay per view and then still sh**s on all of us”.

His bashing finally ended with, “Go f**k yourself, why are we still f**king pandering this piece of s**t.”

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