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Even with the whole 'steroid thing'.... i dont think steroids would of really enhanced that performance too much. His gameplan was what was beating silva, i dont think anyone can really sit there and claim that chael wouldnt of been able to hold down silva without roids considering hes held down stronger guys before eg marquardt.

I think he will be still as good as he has been in his past couple of performances and will ground and pound the shit out of stann.

Chael just needs to start training submission defence, its his biggest flaw.
Ya know what ya gonna get with Chael, he's gonna try to get ya down, then ground and pound, his wrestling skills are quality, make no bones about that. What I dont agree with is the shit he comes out with pre-fight, only to be caught as a cheat, and now making a comeback, speaking even more shite

The steroids made him stronger, otherwise why take them?
Nate was on drugs, for quite a while by all accounts, thats probably the reason he got his original shot at Silva.
Same for Sonnen. Now he's back im interested to see how his performance is, although I personally dont think he should be allowed to fight in the UFC again.
Yeah but Chael never tested positive before the Silva fight and he held down guys with better wrestling and physically stronger than Silva so i dont think the peds would of made much difference really. Chaels game plan is to ground and pound the shit out of you, he did it to Silva no different to anyone else hes done it to. The only reason why it looked so good was coz wrestling is becoming a known weakness of Andersons. Henderson had him in trouble in the first round and chael threw him around like a rag doll and Jon Jones would destroy him inside one round if they ever fought