Vitor Weak Mentally: Coach Tompkins Responds

Vitor Belfort vs. Anderson Silva: Coach Tompkins on Wandi Silva and Team Tompkins Coach Shawn Tompkins talks about his team, wec fights, vitor and wandi silva and more. 

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what mental weakness has he shown the past 2-3 years though.

He broke his left hand with the first punch he threw against Terry Martin. He stayed composed, listened to his corner and finished the fight

Tru - what mental weakness has he shown the past 2-3 years though.
Backing out of umpteen fights.



Anyway, I guess since HIS coach says it, it must be true! Debate over. I thought HIS coach was going to say, "Yeah it's true. But we're going to fight anyway."

  

ausgepicht - 
Tru - what mental weakness has he shown the past 2-3 years though.
Backing out of umpteen fights.



Anyway, I guess since HIS coach says it, it must be true! Debate over. I thought HIS coach was going to say, "Yeah it's true. But we're going to fight anyway."

  
backing out due to injuries.  Anderson has postponed the fight for injuries, then vitor got hurt.  i'm probably wrong, but what fights has he backed out of.  If anything he backed out of a non title fight to take the bigger fight.  But yeah, i think it's been over a year since the franklin fight right?

 

Tru - what mental weakness has he shown the past 2-3 years though.


 Vitor can be broken, he's been in front against meh opposition in the last 2-3 years.



If you put Vitor in a bad spot, he cracks.  This is not a secret nor is it deniable.

 name one other fighter to defeat both wandi silva and randy couture in under 1 minute of the first round.

Tru -  name one other fighter to defeat both wandi silva and randy couture in under 1 minute of the first round.
No offense, but you're missing the point. What everyone is saying is that as long as things go his way, he's OK. As soon as a shitstorm comes, he folds.



Besides, not sure how 12 and 6 year old fights apply here. That's the problem with Vito's fans, they are living off of his accomplishments from the Jurassic period.

 

not really, in the last 4-5 years he has ost 2x only.  to overeem at heavyweight by decision and henderson by decision.  he has not lost in 4 years.



5 fight winning streak.  4 of those by stoppage.  3 of those by KO 



im just looking for good conversation; not trying to argue or say anybody else is wrong.  I remember watchign vitor way way way back in the day.  I remember his ufc debut and when he refused to come out to fight randy in alabama.  vitor is only 33 years old.  so the "mental" issues were when he was pretty much a kid.



I like and respect wandi to the fullest and we have the same coach so my allegiance goes to wandi when push comes to shove, but vitor is a cool guy and i hope to see him successful in the future.

 in the last 8 years here are vitor's losses. 



chuck (prime)

randy (prime)

tito (prime)

overeem

overeem

henderson (prime)



nopt a bad group of people to have lost to.

 None of what you are stating refutes the point that Vitor is mentally weak.



He's immensely talented, and a complete frontrunner in fights.  When things are going well, he is great.  When faced with adversity, he falls apart every single time.  Frank Mir is similar.

 

And complete lol at pointing to his win over Randy within the first minute of the first round like it was a legitimate win.  It was a complete fluke.

 cre^^^^^  i thought u were anti black house because of ed soares beef.



jjj2121 ^^^  you make a great argument and yes, you caught me trolling about the randy victory in 49 seconds lol.  i must have forgot to mention it was due to dr. stoppage from an accidental cut at the start of the fight. 





good points everyone, thanks for good conversation

Tru -  name one other fighter to defeat both wandi silva and randy couture in under 1 minute of the first round.


LMAO this has got to be a troll

Brian Rule - 
Tru -  name one other fighter to defeat both wandi silva and randy couture in under 1 minute of the first round.




LMAO this has got to be a troll


 lol..he actually did beat wand in like 44 seconds and randy in 49 seconds.  but randy was because of a cut at the start of the fight

The three times I saw him fight live were versus Tank (UFC 13), Matt Lindland (Aflliction 2) an Marvin Eastman (UFC 43). Total Destructions.

 ^^ i was at both of the affliction fights.  We thought Lindland was dead for a second from the crowd.

 ^^^ do you think anderson will press the pace or start off slow like against chael?

 nobody noticed that pettis is not on this carD?

Tru -  nobody noticed that pettis is not on this carD?


 Huh?



Pettis is fighting Bendo at the last WEC show.