A Tale of Two UFC Kings: Georges St. Pierre Vs. " The Spider" Anderson Silva

*Photo courtesy of Ijie O-o

After avenging both loses to Matt Serra and Matt Hughes, the Ultimate Fighting Championships elite welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre, is a fighter, whom lately it seems, has no equal.

However, if he did, one would have to give the nod to the UFC middleweight champion, Anderson "The Spider" Silva.

Metaphorically speaking, in the animal-kingdom, the Spider is undoubtedly a dangerous predator. A Black Widow Spider has enough venom to kill a full grown human.

In the middleweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championships, the 185-pound Brazilian Spider also reigns supreme.

So much so, in fact, that it’s no longer a debate regarding who, in the UFC, will defeat him in the future, it’s now a question of whether Silva will be beaten at all during his UFC career.

Yet, where Silva has been successful at 185 and 205, St-Pierre has also had similar success at 170.

GSP has single-handedly wiped out the UFC welterweight division of any and all serious competitors.

“The Spider” Silva facing St. Pierre however, could possibly be an entirely different matter.

Although Silva seemingly has few deficiencies in his well rounded arsenal, if there is one, it would have to be his wrestling ability.

In both their previous meetings, Dan Henderson and Chael Sonnen, both twisted Spider off his bearings rather easily. And as we know, St-Pierre has been called one of the best, if not the best wrestler in MMA.

Not unlike Sonnen, GSP would also certainly need every ounce of his bolt-of-lightning agility, and ground-slamming wrestling maneuvers, to effectively have any chance of beating the 185 champion Silva.

Neither Henderson, nor Sonnen could finish the job while they had Silva down. So the big question here is..could GSP?

And in addition, although it’s simply a theory of mine,“The Spider,” in this writers opinion, could easily cross over and become a world-ranked top-10 boxer.

So therefore, it’s also my opinion that the chances of St-Pierre winning this fight from a vertical position with his excellent jabbing ability, are very slim.

Anderson would simply slip the jab of GSP, as he did against Forrest Griffin, and then, using his great counter punching ability, make the great St. Pierre look amateurish, or foolish.

However, when the conversation concerns taking a man to the ground, nobody does it better than King Georges.

GSP shoots for his opponents legs like he has been literally, fired out of a War-Cannon.

So the extra 15 pounds of added weight to his frame, should he move up there, would undoubtedly give GSP’s double-leg shooting technique a definite edge, and in my opinion would be one of the French-Canadian's few keys-to-victory.

At this point, the actual fight is no more than a mere rumor, but even the remote possibility of the match is enough to make this writer tremble with excited-anticipation.

So good luck to you, my fellow Canadian; stay out of The Spider’s web, don’t stand with this guy, use your wrestling skills, and most of all try not to fly straight into his trap—as others before you did.