Antonio Silva vs Daniel Cormier

Bigfoot Silva (left) is way bigger than Daniel Cormier, but a lot of that weight advantage is in his cyclopean domepiece. Then again, Silva is known to cut weight to make 265, whereas Cormier looks like he ate a dozen donuts before the fight. Cormier is a doughy wrestler that is very strong, but has only eight fights under his belt. He’s filling in for Overeem, who decided he’d rather fight just Brock Lesnar and pulled out of this farce of a tournament.

It will be interesting to see how Silva deals with a man who is closer to his size. We’ve got Cormier winning this one because he’s a way better athlete. Silva is overrated because he beat the much smaller Fedor. The ref who looks like Ace Franklin is Franklin’s actual brother. Round-by-round updates after the jump:

Round 1-Cormier fucking tagged Sliva in his massive head. Now Cormier is on top and is going to let Silva stand up. Cormier still teeing off on the largest target in MMA. Silva goes for a takedown. Cormier stuffs it like the Olympian that he is. Franklin’s bra lets them stand up.

Silva throws a kick, Cormier catches it and dumps Silva on his ass. More extremely weak kicks to Silva’s legs. Cormier is thinking about following Silva down to the guard, but instead nonchalantly lets Silva stand up. Cormier seems to be working the clock, because he is looking at it constantly. Silva now swarms Cormier and Cormier laughs as he gets away. Cormier nails Bigfoot again in the face and Silva is down for good. 

On the replay it appears to be a right uppercut that did the job. Now we have an alternate that won one fight in the finals and whoever is facing him better watch out because he is a fucking beast. Great fight. Love these heavyweight one-rounders. Cormier trains with big Cain Velazquez and says he probably broke his hand on the monolithic skulll of the saskwatchesque Silva.