Talk:Anderson Silva

Edit request on 12 October 2012

The URL to Anderson Silva's website is wrong (In the blue box on the right-hand side). It lists http://www.spideranderson.com/ as his website, but his official website is actually www.spidersilva.com 128.187.97.18 (talk) 21:14, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

 Not done: Please provide some reliable source which refers to this new site as his official site and someone will be glad to change it. It might be better to wait until there is some content at the new site. The old site redirects to br.msn.com, but at least has some content. Thanks, Celestra (talk) 01:12, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

Edit request on 19 November 2012

Anderson's fight record lists August 26, 2001 as a Middlewight bout. The Sakurai page lists it as a Welterweight bout. Text should be changed from "Won Shooto Middleweight (168 pounds) Championship" to "Won Shooto Welterweight (168 pounds) Championship"

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Vacation^nine 23:45, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

Longest reigning fighter period?

Is there anyone in all of combat sports whose been a champ longer than Spider? If so it should be in the header if he's more than just UFC's. --208.38.59.161 (talk) 22:13, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Striking accuracy was not 100% against Leben.

He was very close to 100%, but that figure is wrong. I don't have the exact number handy, but if you watch the fight with Leben you can clearly see that he misses one shot after the first knockdown while Leben is getting back to his feet. I thinks that's the only one he missed, but if anybody has a video of the fight and can do a proper count and fix that number that would be great. I've changed it to "just under 100%" in the mean time. 24.107.102.129 (talk) 22:22, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

Actually, I can't edit it. It's protected for some reason, but in any case -- somebody should fix this error. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Miker00lz (talk • contribs) 00:27, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

Edit request: "The Spider"

A brief mention should be made regarding his nickname "The Spider" - I have included a mention of this in the sports sub-section of the Cultural depictions of spiders article. Perhaps 'Background' would be the best place for this, but I'll leave that, and exact wording to the discretion of the editor. The editor might want to expand my suggested text using information from the source (Silva, per UFC/MMA News article).

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Suggested text:

Silva was referred to as "Brazil's Spiderman" by an announcer who thought he looked like a superhero in the ring, originating his nickname "The Spider".

Not done for now: - there appears to be no consensus at this point for this edit. Feel free to reactivate the request if necessary. Thanks. Begoon ^talk 11:23, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Lock icon

 Done~Also, please include the semi-protected 'lock' icon in the proper location on the article's page;[Done.] ~thanks, ~Eric F Last Modified: 74.60.29.141 (talk) 05:50, 30 November 2012 (UTC) 74.60.29.141 (talk) 22:28, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

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vs Sonnen

The table has Silva win over Sonnen in Jul 2012 as TKO, when it appears to have been a submission. Will review the official notes ... --66.190.238.14 (talk) 08:30, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, wrong date. --66.190.238.14 (talk) 08:34, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Assertion about Okami DW

The only one at this point who we have a source for saying this claim is Anderson Silva himself. Do we really need a "Silva says" in this case? I think if you watch the fight you will see that Okami was given essentially a knockout blow then asked to recover from it and fight again. USAtoday today doesn't make any reference to this being cheap or cowardly PortlandOregon97217 (talk) 09:58, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Considering that this is an article about Anderson Silva, I don't see a problem in citing what he had to say about the fight. Evenfiel (talk) 12:15, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Seriously? that mmaweekly link says "one of the top fighters". Besides, MMAweekly is not reliable. If you can find at least an mmajunkie(which is also USAtoday for wiki purposes) Then I will believe you. Cuz they are presumed notable by the people I asked (minus mtking but his opinion doesn't count) over at the reliable sources message board. And that article says nothing about Okami being cheap and cowardly. I adjusted the line to more accuratly reflect the ref. PortlandOregon97217 (talk) 17:40, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

The MMAWeekly article says that Silva is "Highly regarded as one of the favorites to win this entire tournament coming in". MMAWeekly is just fine. As for the part about what Silva said, you should check out the source for it. Evenfiel (talk) 23:32, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

i know what the article says, since I already changed the article to reflect it. I'm not argueing that it doesn't exist. I just question if wikipedia is a repository for every quote a person has ever said. Unless it was said in a mainstream publication then obviously it is worthy of quoting. PortlandOregon97217 (talk) 23:46, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

I don't see the problem in having that quote. It's not like there are quotes about every fight he has ever fought.Evenfiel (talk) 00:30, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Black belt in Muay Thai

"Black belt in Muay Thai"

What the heck is this crap? There is no colored belt ranking system in Muay Thai. I wish you wikipedia gurus would do some actual research before contributing to this article. 68.38.75.142 (talk) 01:47, 2 February 2013 (UTC)