There's been something about the combative activities that generally seems to transcend the notion that today is better than yesterday, or today is going to be better than tomorrow; letas face it, none of the fans of today can readily predict the fall of their personalities because none folks have a crystal ball. But fall they'll. On an extended enough time-line, everyone loses, including Anderson Silva, Jon Jones, Georges St-Pierre, Jose Aldoa'one and all, they will fall. When it comes to the fight game, it is nearly impossible to deny that the past is the father to the present and when you consider the past, nearly all of the greats, and the best of the greats, eventually succumbed to the erosion of time. Supporters declare that age will never meet up with Anderson Silva, just like they declare that no one at light heavyweight will defeat Jon Jones, etc. Itas a technique of thinking on the basis of the assumption available, and given how principal these fighters have now been, what might 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 supporters couldn't think it was happening simply because they had never seen it before; to have asked them to imagine it before hand might have been like inquiring Attila the Hun to imagine world peace. The simple facts are that just like a is unsinkable until it sinks, so also may Anderson Silva be irresistible until he is beaten; possibly before his new 10-fight contract reaches the age of retirement. But for those people who've seen previous years of apparently unbeatable competitors flavor beat, growing older while they go along, we realize what will happen, since it has always happened, and always will. The neat thing about the fight game is that on one evening, the lessons learned and the skills drawn from yesterday could defeat the best of today, should they be marshaled by a person who has the courage of his convictions and a quality of purpose that will not see him dwarfed by as soon as. An example of the might be when Vitor Belfort almost submitted Jon Jones with a fundamental armbar, or perhaps a straight greater example was when Anderson Silva defeated Chael Sonnen via distribution very late in the struggle at UFC 117, similar to Royce Gracie defeated Dan Severn at UFC 4. But such lessons and skills require a vehicle, and it's those competitors who've established capable of coupling the precedents of the past with their own distinctive capabilities and species of success that stick out inside our mind as leaders 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 right decision wins into a legendary testimony to his success among the great, just like Metallica demonstrated that the long song was still art with the discharge of aAnd Justice For Allaa. So to even consider for a moment that GSP may drop in a hypothetical round against one of the greatest of yesteryeara'Frank Shamrocka'is laughable and unthinkable, since it is beyond your sphere of experience for fans have been not fans when Shamrock was to yesterday what competitors like GSP and Anderson Silva are today; giants among men. Therefore, why ask the questions in the initial place? Because thatas what struggle fans do; we look into the past (which gives us great gratitude for today's) and we attempt to measure the greatness we see before us with the greatness we have seen before. After all, like attracts like, after all, and if we didnat like what we were seeing, wead be looking anywhere else. So, with both feet planted firmly in our, we can remember the past and ponder exactly how great the fights would have been between your standouts of yesteryear vs. yesterday versus. today.
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