Looool yeah coz they use axes all the time in mma I'm big fan of all fighters and mma boxing but it really ain't a fitting name for a fighter who don't use weapons😂😂😂😂😂
@@mattwebb9412 He does not need a weapon. Watch some of he's Vale Tudo fights, the man is a weapon... The Axe Murderer was given to him when he beat Eugene Jackson in 32 seconds. He is truly a guy that embraced the fact there were only like three rules in Vale Tudo...
I met Wanderlei in Los Angeles back in 2006 for a PRIDE promo. Let me tell you guys, Wanderlei is one of the nicest men I have ever met. He is very polite and affectionate. It makes me sad to see people make fun of him. He is a good guy for real.
He is already brain damage :( Google "Wanderlei Silva dano cerebral" and translate de page, its in portugueses He said he already has 8 out of 10 issues caused by brain damage
Rampage knocking out silva with a left hook then landing multiple punches on his unconscious body while the referee struggles to pull him off and joe rogan saying revenge is sweet is also iconic.
It was the time where the real MMA heroes were created. The fighters fought with their hearts and didn't have to rely on fake drama to sell tickets or PPV.
Thats why the cauliflower face... Also one of the nicest guys... Met him at pride in vegas , the night he called out Chuck...that was Coleman vs Fedor... I was talking to Mark when some jackass behind me asks Mark why he brought his kids , and Coleman started coming over the rail... It was beautiful , I stepped aside and the dude ran... Great night
Fun fact, he joined Chuteboxe in Curitiba because he think himself as being too ugly and had a low self steem , so he decided to get in shape so improve his chances with the ladies, there he discovered Muay Thai and found a way to vent off his frustration. Maurício Shogun Rua, also from Curitiba, was a quite successful model before joining Chuteboxe and found his true self in fighting. Talk about polar opposites
Prime Wanderlei pumped full of steroids was the scariest fighter of all time, especially with limited rules where he was allowed to punt your head off your shoulders.
Mark Kerr was a physical beast, but had a very weak mentality. I would rather fight Kerr than someone like Khabib. Khabib doesn't get tired and makes even the elite athletes look like they barely trained. He's like a smaller Fedor/Velasquez, but with limitless cardio and even better technique.
Wanderlei is such a nice humble guy. It's a scary thing, knowing he could easily kill you, but the way he is with his fans and regular people, it's like he wouldn't harm a fly.
Say what you want about Wanderlei. He is a true fearless and skilled fighter. When he lost many fights in the UFC, he wasn't in his prime anymore, and he wasn't too skilled in ground work. There are many fighters that could face Wanderlei. But he is definitely one of the best brawlers ever and one of the best fighters to watch.
I don't hate the him. who the fuck said i hate the guy? i'm just stating facts, okay maybe the ugly part it was just a hurtful comment but you seriously need to stop shoving his balls down your throat i have nothing agaisnt wanderlei stop antagonizing me without an actual argument lol
Wanderlei in his prime before his chin went was just a savage. The image of him slamming his knee into Rampages head and him just slumping through the ropes was terrifying.
The way Wanderlei stares down his opponent up close is intimidating to say the least, Conor has an extremely dominant stare down too, as he steps in and really looks at his opponents eyes and face followed by words of encouragement.
Wanderlei definitely was the one MMA fighter back then that had an aura about him. You wanted to tune in when he was fighting. He burned out quick though.....not sure if it's because of steroids or what.
@Jesus Hitler 4-5 years is definitely not very long compared to some of his pride counterparts.. He only competed against top echelon guys for 4 years with considerable success. He started to burn out quickly and noticeably by the time he got to his last Pride middleweight grand prix. Also considering plenty of legends in the fight game can last up to 7+years competing at the top.
J ROCK Thats a LONG time in the fight game bro. Whats crazy about alot of these PRIDE guys, is noone knew about them till UFC bought them out...Wanderleis best years were behind him when he came to UFC n he was still headlining main events that were sellouts....Igor Vovchyan is one of the best fighters to ever lacem up, but he never fought UFC, same with Fedor. Although the latter still fights... Anyway back to my point the Axe Murderer was the badass of badasses for a long time, hed fight anyone anysize anywhere anytime.
Silva was never the same after that Crocop high kick. It was an open weight tourny and Mirko outweighed him by 35 pounds or something ridiculous. If Wandy had taken the proper time to recover after it (9months-1 year) might have made all the difference in his career. He didnt though and his chin got weaker and weaker with each fight.
Theres nobody really that intimidating in the UFC anymore, cro cop, Wanderlei, vitor, Chuck liddell, tito, Bigfoot, Andrei, ect. so many guys were straight up scary looking back then and you don't get that anymore.
I was going through some old storage stuff of my dads. I watch the UFC consistently and I saw this disc that said pride FC. The main event Dan Henderson vs wanderlei Silva. Butter bean was also on the card. It was exiting to watch Henderson would fight any one anytime because Silva at the time was the scariest dude out there and hendo was 195 and Silva had to cut. Dan was just awesome to see
Cro cop was already in pride for a while when this fight happened, this was the fight right before Dan Henderson ko'd Wanderlei. This was the beginning of his downwards spiral in his career.
It's crazy to see how brazilians thrive in almost every sport. Its a country where no funds are destined to sports at all, we have no gyms, no fields, no courts. Our universities don't have any teams or athletic programs, most of professionals come out of poor neighboorhoods with no structure at all. You can often find out that a professional soccer player didn't even have shoes early on, they played bare footed. Fighters who didn't have any gloves, only a punching bag and a partner to beat his ass up. The cheapest the sport, the best they get. When you find a brazilian who made it in sports, take your fucking hat off, specially if you are american with all those fancy training facilities, government provided assistance and all sort of doctors to help fix you up.
Pride was my favorite fight promotion. So many insanely good fighters in their prime, and a looser rule set made for the most incredible fights in the history of fighting sports. I wish Dana would open Pride again, or change the UFC rules to match the old Pride rules.
silva and rampage discredited themselves to newer audiences when they fought old and over the hill in their fighting career, at their prime they were beast!
Wanderlei is a beast and he shouldnt have fighted in heavyweight when he was a light heavy and yes i know he played light heavy. Am i right that wanderlei said he got 1million dollars to fight Quinton Jackson. And i think that UFC wasent his game. And i think Pride was better because i loved the old style rules and stuff. My Opinion
Crocop at his pride was the second greatest mma ever in my opinion right next to Fedor. Igor vovchanchyn and Marco ruas are the most underated fighters ever though, they could be top 5 for what they were
Wanderlei Silva also was in a lot of Vale Tudo bare knuckle fights before he even competed in the UFC and Pride FC. Not including his training where he allows people to punch his face to warm up the skin on his face? That made no sense when Wanderlei Silva said that, but he did. Warm up the skin on the face.
Wanderlei and Cro Cop fought twice, with the second fight being the one where Cro Cop KO'd Wand. They fought before at "Pride: Armed and Ready" (number 20 in the series if I remember,) and to be fair if that fight could have gone to the judge Wanderlei could have won easy.
1st fight he fought at pride middle weight 2nd fight he came in heavier than cro cop and was slow lethargic and in no fight condition and got slept first fight he was at his fighting weight and only reason he never got the decision was to save face for both promotion's
Pride FC was way better than the UFC. Saku, Fedor, Wanderlei, Cro Crop, Rampage, Igor V, young Overeem with his hammer, Ricardo Arona, young Vitor, Gracies, etc.
Wanderlei reached a level of scary at one point in his career that no one has reached. Francis Ngannou might be a marvel of human strength and fitness. Brock Lesnar might be the highest level athlete you can find on this earth, but neither of them are even close to the scariness of Wanderlei.
Uhhh Joe? Kevin Randleman stared him down and had the best knockout in 2004 (short notice). Props to Wanderlei, he’s of the same warrior cloth. RIP to the greatest of all time; my father “The Monster”
Wanderlui was a fucking legend , when he came to Australia we had no fighters so he wanted to thank Australia and said he was fighting for us cause he had never meet so cool people who drunk them selves into a frenzy for him. One of the most ENTERTAINING FIGHTING machines to grace the octagon.
"Wanderlei Silva is the only fighter with cauliflower face" - Chael "the goat" Sonnen.
Peeped the SB saga pic💔💓
Uncle chael !!!
Uncle Chael P sonnen, never lost a round
Meme King woosh
Zack Lance you’re right because he loss whole fights
The Axe Murderer... still one of the most fitting nicknames for a fighter to this day.
For reals dope nickname
Looool yeah coz they use axes all the time in mma I'm big fan of all fighters and mma boxing but it really ain't a fitting name for a fighter who don't use weapons😂😂😂😂😂
@@mattwebb9412 He does not need a weapon. Watch some of he's Vale Tudo fights, the man is a weapon... The Axe Murderer was given to him when he beat Eugene Jackson in 32 seconds. He is truly a guy that embraced the fact there were only like three rules in Vale Tudo...
What does it mean? I don't get it.. My english is not that good(no disrespect intended) did he beat someone who had axe nickname?
Tsuka 2104 scary asf, imagine if they tell you "you are going to fight the axe murderer"
When Wanderlei Silva left home his father finally became man of the house.
Sadly, his father died in a car accident.
@@myaccount4699 thanks for that bummer ass story
@@vangurad456 wasn’t even a fucking story
@@myaccount4699 Oh...
@@myaccount4699 allow it fam
'Wanderlei Silva was a pretty good looking guy', yeah, 10.000 BC maybe.
He really looks like a Neanderthal 😭
@@almightyfonics 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hahaha..
Hahahahaha
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"Wanderlai looked like he was about to kill someone.
And Crocop looked like he just did."
-youtuber
Damn I still remember this.
Duuuude...you fucking nailed it!!!
Awesome comment!
great comment that i already saw somewhere and I'm glad you didn't take credit for it, respect man
Whoever put that will have it on his grave
The fighter with the fiercest prefight staredown is Fedor. The is nothing more badass than looking bored when you step into the ring.
love that 😁
Nah TR Alistair 10 years ago K1
No way... Mirko has such a dead stare... looks right through you.
The word to describe Fedor is "Stoic."
Hands down Cro Cop makes people shit themselves with one look
I met Wanderlei in Los Angeles back in 2006 for a PRIDE promo. Let me tell you guys, Wanderlei is one of the nicest men I have ever met. He is very polite and affectionate. It makes me sad to see people make fun of him. He is a good guy for real.
I hope he stops fighting before he gets brain damaged. He's too old to be taking beatings like that.
He is already brain damage :(
Google "Wanderlei Silva dano cerebral" and translate de page, its in portugueses
He said he already has 8 out of 10 issues caused by brain damage
s. vaheed bad ass
I went to this gym he owned and trained at here in my town for over a year
Sounds like you 2 spent the night together😂
Wanderlei KO’ing Rampage and him going through the ropes is iconic
@barbara gill Never failed
He’s thinking of Overreem
Gdamn casuals😂😂
To this day, that KO is one of the most violent things IV seen in combat sports. Silva was a berserker back in the day. Animal.
Rampage knocking out silva with a left hook then landing multiple punches on his unconscious body while the referee struggles to pull him off and joe rogan saying revenge is sweet is also iconic.
Yeh Pride Wandy was a brutal fighter.
Wanderlei is one of the coolest guys to meet, training with him is another story but he’s really down to earth and willing to talk to you for hours.
The old school pride fighters were so awesome..I really miss those days of mma
Dude.. for real. Pride kicked ass. No booing from the japanese crowd. Ring promoted better striking. Just ruthless rules.
It was the time where the real MMA heroes were created. The fighters fought with their hearts and didn't have to rely on fake drama to sell tickets or PPV.
Yea the birth place of advance cte
I watched pride in chino state prison first time I seen mma
Only place you’d see some crazy shit like Wanderlei vs Mark Hunt
He will return to fight now in 2019, in MK11 as Baraka.
Lmfao
People like this joke here in Brazil... Calling him Baraka lol
LMAO
🤣😭🤣😭 lmao
Goooood comment
Wanderlei is a savage. Hes had so many bare knuckle fights on top of all his MMA fights. Full life of battle lol
Colton W But yet he still throws a punch like my dead granny.
Shut tfu bitch he’ll knock you out still 💯✊🏾
The videos of his bare knuckle fights where head butts were legal are insane
Thats why the cauliflower face... Also one of the nicest guys... Met him at pride in vegas , the night he called out Chuck...that was Coleman vs Fedor... I was talking to Mark when some jackass behind me asks Mark why he brought his kids , and Coleman started coming over the rail... It was beautiful , I stepped aside and the dude ran... Great night
He was even in the Brazilian Army lol.
“I can’t let you get close”-Uncle Chael
Hahahahahaha
Wannannow
top 10 anime moment ever
@P Jeffery swoon
@P Jeffery no u
I meet Wanderlei Silva he truly love his fans he love to talk with us take time for us ... this guy is a living legend
Absolutely!
I’ve met Wanderlei and his wife doing some work for him...awesome kind hearted dude. Got a quick roll in too. Will never forget it!
No you didn't 😂
Silva ruined himself with all his bare knuckle fighting in his late teens. Unreal amout of scar tissue to the face
Yeah that dude's face is like a boiled leather shoe
The price you pay with that sport
what he did to ruin himself is hard sparring in the gym almost everyday, massive brain damage
Technically is safer than gloved fights the damage is in the skull but less in thr Brain
Silva was a very poor guy in his teenage years... He could not afford to make fights with gloves at that time
4:05 "super normal looking guy"
*looks exactly like Joe Rogan*
hahahaha
👍
Just a normal looking badass
They’re talking about his physique looking normal, not his face lol
😂😂😂😂
We need a documentary about Wanderlei’s childhood. I wanna know what created that beast.
Fun fact, he joined Chuteboxe in Curitiba because he think himself as being too ugly and had a low self steem , so he decided to get in shape so improve his chances with the ladies, there he discovered Muay Thai and found a way to vent off his frustration.
Maurício Shogun Rua, also from Curitiba, was a quite successful model before joining Chuteboxe and found his true self in fighting.
Talk about polar opposites
@@Tobiasu Shogun was a model? He looked like he was 40 at 23.
Don Frye had the best stare down for a long time, he also still has the best mustache ever in MMA
Just mma ?
@@ashleygarnish9995
....And in 70s porn
Lol Din Frye's iconic mustache needed it's own penicillin I.V. back in the "bloodshot eyes and a sore mustache" 1970's!
It’s good to see people still give Don Frye’s mustache the recognition it deserves.
What about Dan Severn?
Croo Cop in Pride was SO badass.
I still remember his kick that made Brock Lesnar buckle into a fetal position.
G D what
G D I think you mean Allistair my guy
nobody defended his shit back then. haha
Dude, he's still
Prime Wanderlei pumped full of steroids was the scariest fighter of all time, especially with limited rules where he was allowed to punt your head off your shoulders.
Nope, Vitor Belfort ! He half killed Silva in the UFC with one of the greatest ko's
Haha
His stomping finish against Yuki kondo ! Brutal
I'ma go with Mark Kerr on steroids scariest dude at that time
Mark Kerr was a physical beast, but had a very weak mentality. I would rather fight Kerr than someone like Khabib. Khabib doesn't get tired and makes even the elite athletes look like they barely trained. He's like a smaller Fedor/Velasquez, but with limitless cardio and even better technique.
4:22 “jay leno and him should chin off” 😂🤣 I’m crying
Connor: you should walk around with the card and shake that chin
When Wanderlei Silva Was 18yrs old,,,, he told his parents to move out.
I call bullcrap..
Wanderlei was one of the most terrifying guys to watch fight, his mannerisms were just straight up nightmares.
will always be my all time fav fighter, hes either killing you or getting killed! true warrior! War Wand!
I'm always amazed by Joe's memory when it comes to who fought who.
True Fans remember sport very well.
Wanderlei is such a nice humble guy. It's a scary thing, knowing he could easily kill you, but the way he is with his fans and regular people, it's like he wouldn't harm a fly.
That typically us Brazilians
Yeah, he doesn't hurt flies. He usually goes after bigger game.
Say what you want about Wanderlei. He is a true fearless and skilled fighter. When he lost many fights in the UFC, he wasn't in his prime anymore, and he wasn't too skilled in ground work. There are many fighters that could face Wanderlei. But he is definitely one of the best brawlers ever and one of the best fighters to watch.
Wanderlei is one of those fighters you know they're on the top 10 of still active fighters with brain damage
No doubt. Who was it that broke his skull?
who said you can't be badass and have brain damage? he can also be added to the list of top 10 uglier fighters as well!
I don't hate the him. who the fuck said i hate the guy? i'm just stating facts, okay maybe the ugly part it was just a hurtful comment but you seriously need to stop shoving his balls down your throat i have nothing agaisnt wanderlei stop antagonizing me without an actual argument lol
Everyone is different. Archie Moore was knocked out a ton of times. He didn’t show any signs of brain damage until very late in his life.
@Pusfilth,
He was already fully retarded before he got shit poppin in MMA. The brain trauma might have increased his IQ.
Wanderlei in his prime before his chin went was just a savage. The image of him slamming his knee into Rampages head and him just slumping through the ropes was terrifying.
Loved watching him Vs Rampage in Bellator, watching Silva swing like that, just like old times...
One does not simply get a moniker 'The Axe Murderer' !!
Wanderlei hitting Sakuraba with that right/left hook combo is seared into my mind.
Wanderlei Silva Vs Dan Henderson in Pride 12 in 2000 is when I became an MMA fan to the hardcore. MMA was my NFL at that point.
Wanderlei silva is my fav fighter of all
I loved pride compared to ufc. It was just different, the feel of the event was just different. Some real characters that fought, especially Sakuraba.
Nobody was scarier than Fedor and Silva in their prime.
I dunno, your mom is a pretty strong contender for that spot
Ouch! A mom joke. What edgy humor will you come up with next?
@@resignator You think his mom humor is bad, wait til we break out the dad jokes...
Been crying the last hour from his mom joke. If he brings my dad in I might just off myself.
Your mom jokes are probably the most bottom of the barrel, low effort, low brow insult/joke there is, but in this context I found it kinda funny
I used to watch wanderlei with my dad on old DVD’s and the dudes insane!
The way Wanderlei stares down his opponent up close is intimidating to say the least, Conor has an extremely dominant stare down too, as he steps in and really looks at his opponents eyes and face followed by words of encouragement.
Wanderlei definitely was the one MMA fighter back then that had an aura about him. You wanted to tune in when he was fighting. He burned out quick though.....not sure if it's because of steroids or what.
He just took too many punches. Everyone loves a fighter that will stand in the center of the ring and bang away ,but dudes like that never last long.
all of the above
@Jesus Hitler 4-5 years is definitely not very long compared to some of his pride counterparts.. He only competed against top echelon guys for 4 years with considerable success. He started to burn out quickly and noticeably by the time he got to his last Pride middleweight grand prix. Also considering plenty of legends in the fight game can last up to 7+years competing at the top.
J ROCK Thats a LONG time in the fight game bro. Whats crazy about alot of these PRIDE guys, is noone knew about them till UFC bought them out...Wanderleis best years were behind him when he came to UFC n he was still headlining main events that were sellouts....Igor Vovchyan is one of the best fighters to ever lacem up, but he never fought UFC, same with Fedor. Although the latter still fights... Anyway back to my point the Axe Murderer was the badass of badasses for a long time, hed fight anyone anysize anywhere anytime.
Silva was never the same after that Crocop high kick. It was an open weight tourny and Mirko outweighed him by 35 pounds or something ridiculous. If Wandy had taken the proper time to recover after it (9months-1 year) might have made all the difference in his career. He didnt though and his chin got weaker and weaker with each fight.
Wand was just Scary ! Mr. Pride and mma legend 🇧🇷
JRE is easily my favorite content rn... so glad that is practically never ending
I'm mad a lot of people missed out on wanderlei in his prime yo. One of the best fighters of our era
Cincinnati! My hometown! Just thinking of Wandy and his crew rollin around downtown makes me smile.
Wanderlei was genuinely terrifying, not a man you'd wanna meet in a dark alley.
For me wanderlei is may fav fighter to watch.he just so ferocious.pride middleweight champ for a reason.
Wanderlei fighting Brian Stann. That has to be one of the most incredible fights, ever.
Talk about going to war... Both of them!!!
Fuck yeah
“Dan Henderson’s chin looks like it was drawn on” 🤣🤣
Would’ve loved to see fedor vs wanderlei
Fedor would’ve won, but it’d be an awesome fight
Much respect to wanderlei silca the most ferocious predator that ever competed in mma
Brazillian power
When is joe and Eddie going to commentate over the old pride fights?
Jose Aldo's face has also changed a lot in a decade
Ye no steroids now
Up the ra
Luke y Nate Diaz too
Its drooping on one side. I'm honestly concerned for the guy.
dat vergil doe 😂😂 Conor quote ifw it
I would love to have seen a Cro Cop Rampage staredown
They are really good friends tho... so never wanted to fight.
Get both the Diaz brothers on here and have a blunt smoking competition!
I wonder why it hasn’t happened yet you think they don’t like him
Eh idk could you imagine trying to listen to Nick Diaz incoherently mumble his way through a 3 hour podcast?
"I can't let you get close"
Theres nobody really that intimidating in the UFC anymore, cro cop, Wanderlei, vitor, Chuck liddell, tito, Bigfoot, Andrei, ect. so many guys were straight up scary looking back then and you don't get that anymore.
Bigfoot wasn't that era but fair comment.
Yoel Romero
Best fight ever was Fedor vs Cro cop.
He looked like Tong Po from kickboxer... without that pony tail of course.
I was going through some old storage stuff of my dads. I watch the UFC consistently and I saw this disc that said pride FC. The main event Dan Henderson vs wanderlei Silva. Butter bean was also on the card. It was exiting to watch Henderson would fight any one anytime because Silva at the time was the scariest dude out there and hendo was 195 and Silva had to cut. Dan was just awesome to see
Wanderlei Silva is the 🐐
Fun fact,
Wanderlei was the heavier fighter when fighting Mirko in the second fight :)
Cro cop was already in pride for a while when this fight happened, this was the fight right before Dan Henderson ko'd Wanderlei. This was the beginning of his downwards spiral in his career.
I still remember that how Silva beated Rampage's ass so merciless.
The man's a legend.
I can’t let Wanderlei get close
I was at UFC 68 in Columbus. Drove from Maine to Ohio for that event.
It's crazy to see how brazilians thrive in almost every sport. Its a country where no funds are destined to sports at all, we have no gyms, no fields, no courts. Our universities don't have any teams or athletic programs, most of professionals come out of poor neighboorhoods with no structure at all. You can often find out that a professional soccer player didn't even have shoes early on, they played bare footed. Fighters who didn't have any gloves, only a punching bag and a partner to beat his ass up. The cheapest the sport, the best they get. When you find a brazilian who made it in sports, take your fucking hat off, specially if you are american with all those fancy training facilities, government provided assistance and all sort of doctors to help fix you up.
you think the average american has money for all that? other than a gym
Pride was my favorite fight promotion. So many insanely good fighters in their prime, and a looser rule set made for the most incredible fights in the history of fighting sports. I wish Dana would open Pride again, or change the UFC rules to match the old Pride rules.
Wanderlei won the first fight against Cro Cop, awesome fight
silva and rampage discredited themselves to newer audiences when they fought old and over the hill in their fighting career, at their prime they were beast!
Wanderlei is a beast and he shouldnt have fighted in heavyweight when he was a light heavy and yes i know he played light heavy. Am i right that wanderlei said he got 1million dollars to fight Quinton Jackson. And i think that UFC wasent his game. And i think Pride was better because i loved the old style rules and stuff. My Opinion
Imagine going through a creepy alley in the dark and you run into wanderlei
that'd never happen, you need UN authorization to deploy wanderlei and they keep him in a lead-lined sarcophagus when he's not fighting
In the thumbnail Silva looks like “Puri-puri prisoner.”
Crocop at his pride was the second greatest mma ever in my opinion right next to Fedor. Igor vovchanchyn and Marco ruas are the most underated fighters ever though, they could be top 5 for what they were
Holy moly I've never been this early on any joe rogan related content
Congrats. Have a cookie.
Poly Nikes I'd prefer a non existant medal over your non existant cookie
why does it matter when you get to a video? copy pasta lameness.
*slow clap*
Wanderlei Silva also was in a lot of Vale Tudo bare knuckle fights before he even competed in the UFC and Pride FC. Not including his training where he allows people to punch his face to warm up the skin on his face?
That made no sense when Wanderlei Silva said that, but he did. Warm up the skin on the face.
"Him and Jay Leno should have a chin off" lmao
Loool😂😂😂😂 how did joe miss that?!!
Remember Victor Belfort's speed of light barrage on Silva. It's one of my earliest UFC memories
“Wanderlei silva has the most profound facial change in all of MMA.”
Besides Joe “HGH” Rogan’s face.
The Uncle Fester look
Wanderlei was a spartan warrior in his past life
I think silva is back on the juice because he looked pretty good and actually caught rampage ....
Wanderlei is one of the baddest dudes to ever fight
Crocop straight took a life or two or more
Gonzaga nearly took his too!
Cro Cop kicking Bob Sapp in the ribs is iconic to this day 💯
Most intimidating faces:
Pride version of Wanderlei Silva, Wallid Ismail, Ralph Gracie, Brock Lesnar, Kimbo Slice.
You forgot Igor Vovchanchyn
Wanderlei and Cro Cop fought twice, with the second fight being the one where Cro Cop KO'd Wand. They fought before at "Pride: Armed and Ready" (number 20 in the series if I remember,) and to be fair if that fight could have gone to the judge Wanderlei could have won easy.
Yeh Wanderlei went into decline after that KO.
1st fight he fought at pride middle weight 2nd fight he came in heavier than cro cop and was slow lethargic and in no fight condition and got slept first fight he was at his fighting weight and only reason he never got the decision was to save face for both promotion's
When the Axe Murderer took on Cro Cop who was an "actual Murderer" he of course got destroyed buy Mirko.
How about fedor?
Cro Cop was way bigger. Wanderlei was just insane to fight actual heavy weight monsters, nowadays that fight wouldn't exist.
@@RafitoOoO no he wasnt , actually wanderlei silva weighed more than him in their fight dont lie.
Pride FC was way better than the UFC. Saku, Fedor, Wanderlei, Cro Crop, Rampage, Igor V, young Overeem with his hammer, Ricardo Arona, young Vitor, Gracies, etc.
"This was CroCop at his peak... right before he mastered MMA."
Wanderlei reached a level of scary at one point in his career that no one has reached. Francis Ngannou might be a marvel of human strength and fitness. Brock Lesnar might be the highest level athlete you can find on this earth, but neither of them are even close to the scariness of Wanderlei.
Uhhh Joe? Kevin Randleman stared him down and had the best knockout in 2004 (short notice).
Props to Wanderlei, he’s of the same warrior cloth.
RIP to the greatest of all time; my father “The Monster”
One of my favorites ever.
F
To your grandfather as well.
I was working in heat treat at a UAW plant in Michigan. We had to have a safety meeting that week.
RIP to them both
“Uh Vai Morrer! Uh Vai Morrer!”
CroCop is a legend..good shit
Whoa man.. Is it safe to say that that was the golden age of mma? Daaaamn they were killers back then
Wilfred balmores yes that was the golden age. The real badasses.
I remember watching fedor getting slammed by kevin Randleman. If you have not watched it man, holy FUCK DUDE
Wanderlei on his prime was a raging beast
Cincinnati in da house
Wanderlui was a fucking legend , when he came to Australia we had no fighters so he wanted to thank Australia and said he was fighting for us cause he had never meet so cool people who drunk them selves into a frenzy for him. One of the most ENTERTAINING FIGHTING machines to grace the octagon.
That was Dan Henderson vs wanderlei Silva 2 not 1
Joe talking about Wanderlei... always a classic.
3:40 ... Did Rogan accidentally say "fucked" instead of "fought" here? Or am I just projecting Wanderlei's mistake onto what I'm hearing?