Cyrille THE SNAKE Diabate- Highlights 1997-2002

[qazwsxedcrfvg123]

very nice video. really great selection and everything is sorted and grouped. And on top of that it shows how he trains those kind of strikes.

Really enjoyed the video and the skills of Cyrille.

[TheMMAGeek]

@thewhiteSRR I wasn't saying the guys I mentioned were the only good fighters at 155, but they were some of the best the division had to offer. And when top ranked fighters like BJ Penn, KenFlo, and Diego Sanchez leave the weight class, it makes room in the top ten rankings for guys like Guida and Guillard. Still my favorite division, though, because there are many well rounded, dangerous fighters. A tough mountain to climb, so to speak. It's amazing how Edgar does it while being a natural 155!

[TheMMAGeek]

@thewhiteSRR I agree with that. But it did lose a lot of it's best talent when BJ Penn, Nate Diaz, KenFlo, Joe Stevenson, Diego Sanchez, and Tyosn Griffin all left the division. Luckily, though, Diaz ad KenFlo are coming back to Lightweight.

[TheMMAGeek]

If he can get his wrestling and submission defense up to par, he would be the champion at 205. His striking abilities are quite impressive!

[Longhornzrock96]

Perosh is going to choke him out.

[4c00h]

@Longhornzrock96

he has to play it smarter than how he did with mirko though, he's gotta go straight for the takedown cause his stand up skills are very low

[lucasjay1000]

this is some mortal combat shit haha

[tomhayes1993]

looks so effortless when he strikes

[iGreekSalad]

@discoandherpes Id sa anything below welter is shithouse. Faggot

[TheEbopallday]

Reminds me of Corey Hill on tuf 5, but Diabate is a lot better

[paaaatrika]

@CLFDevil A french elite muay thai striker get's his ass kicked by a Swedish amateur boxer lol..

[Pat123123123]

You guys are blind or anderson silva nut huggers.. Anderson fights in the shittiest division in all of MMA.. He finally fights sonnen and gets his ass wooped for most of the fight.. And no offence but even i could submit sonnen. Basically my point is, anyone with K1 level striking could beat anderson in a K1 rules fight and cyrille was deff no pushover in K1.

[discoandherpes]

@Pat123123123

Heavyweight is the shittiest division in mma. 

[ESSENCEOFEACHTHING]

@CLFDevil

I have a question.How long has Diabate been active in MMA? I think that his height and long limbs will prove to be a hindrance.

[ESSENCEOFEACHTHING]

@CLFDevil This dude is like Diego Hearns of MMA!

[lskandarr]

@CLFDevil totally, one of the best strikers in the world.

[Jkinser51]

@CLFDevil ya your right other than the fact that it isnt better

[KitchenSpeclol]

@CLFDevil dont pay attention to them. i was just arguing with a guy the other day who was saying lesnar had the best striking in the heavyweight division. i would put cyrilles stand up right there with anderson silva. hes probably even a better striker then silva its just that he has a crap ground game. which is weird becuase he trained with hendo for a while in cali

[Jkinser51]

@CLFDevil your the faggot saying hes a better muay thai fighter than anderson silva

[Supertoxie1]

@CLFDevil Cyrille Diabate is Bout It...

[ninjion]

Anderson would fucking murder Diabate in a standup battle. Anyone who says otherwise is probably either French, blind or retarded.

[BFSKraut]

@CLFDevil I think Gustafson made you look dumber than a TUF faggot, eh?

[Kliffdiver]

@Lukasrofl

That was over 4 years ago...

[sb413197]

The snake has some unbelievable striking

Just hope he's worked on his TD defense/ground game a little - UFC is stocked with wrestlers

[assnut33]

and dude if you think this guy could beat anderson silva then you mustve been beatin retarded by your mom.

[187Headhunta707]

@assnut33 your a fuckin idiot.

staged knockouts? shut the fuck up bitch.

get off andersons dirty nuts.

[assnut33]

dude this guys a joke half of those "knockouts" looked staged. i see that hes coming to the ufc and after watching this i know he will get knocked.

[seahawk120]

i want this song

[gabo10101]

its sagat irl

[hughnonr]

@CLFDevil He's up there, for sure.

There's also Shooto 115 champ Rambaa M16 Somdet though.

He's tiny, and the weight class isn't all that well developed yet, but little dude's a beast. Not to mention fun as hell to watch.

And I'm not sure if Malaipet is retired or not, but when it comes to pure MT ability, he's gotta be up there as well, even if it never really translated all that well to MMA for him.

[blazinbleezies]

Cyrille Diabate would beat Anderson Silva.He has beat Peter Aerts and finished Rick Roufus, 2 of the best kickboxers ever and who are light-years better strikers than Silva.Anderson would never get the fight to the ground as Cyrille's takedown defense is more than good enough to stop Anderson's takedowns.Unfortunately the fight will never happen because any good wrestler will have their way with Cyrille and he won't get a shot at Anderson.

[chefry207]

@blazinbleezies fuck finally someone with some sense. The dumbass who said Anderson would beat this man doesn't know shit and just a zuffadrone. Anderson got completly out classed TWICE by Jose Pele Landi and Cyrille Diabate is a better MT practitioner than Jose, as well as mentioned he beat 2 greats. Who's the best striker Anderson faced? Lee Murray? Too bad he didn't stand with him or else it would be credible.

[firdaus125]

Diabate is straight up muay thai... all these american kids trying to train 'stand up' should learn from him

[AkiraMoa]

KILLER JABS !

[cfrancis]

gogo gadget arms every time straight right...wow

[pettibone311]

damn hes good.

[nadhim69]

@CLFDevil not the best anderson silva is better

[votumseparatum1]

@nadhim69 Not really. Anderson Silva has yet to be really challenged. It's not that he is THAT good but his opponents are not good enough. Cyrille has been in trouble and still won fights. Saturday night he got hit hard by Cane and still won. The mark of a good fighter is his ability to come back so I don't think Silva or Cyrille are better than each other until they fight each other.

[mickel1470]

Impressive look for his debut. But he needs to keep those damn hands up! A shogun rua,lyoto or lil nog will pick him apart with his hands that low. Hope to see more from this guy!

[dleerox24]

@CLFDevil his striking is good, but are you kidding me? the best? 

[chuckyfunk1]

very impressive striking by Diabate. Taking out Cane will bring many opportunities. I suggest he trains takedown defense 24/7. the first time he faces an even mid-level college wrestler he's going to have problems. UFC needs more high caliber strikers like Cyrille.

[michaeladmond]

he hits hard man love that fight on sat night .. i can see the ufc making spider go up to 205 again to face him

[silkyjohnson123]

Cyrille landed his first win in the UFC over touted striker Luiz Cane. Cyrille is going to be one to watch for in the UFC.

[MrKOknee]

@CLFDevil I think the best striking in MMA would go to Alistair Overeem. He is a top notch K1 fighter and a top notch MMA fighter. Melvin Manhoef is also a good candidate.

[nadhim69]

@MrKOknee in the heavy weight division alistair sure is the best striker, I remenber

when he fought shogun he was clearly controling the stand up game.

Golden glory man , best kick boxing school in the world

[MrKOknee]

Long arms + pinpoint accuracy :)

[huntman125]

This guy would kill Silva in a striking match.

[Loboalfateoria]

shogun destroyerrrrrrrr

[SkyeKingdoM]

Sagat went on a diet and signed with the UFC I see.. lmao

[MrPositiveVibe]

@CLFDevil By the way man Diabate shadow boxing at 25 secs in MAN THAT"S MEDIOCRE....

[MrPositiveVibe]

@CLFDevil Damnyou replied fast, before my last message. You don't need to bring up the fact he destroyed mediocre strikers with ease you FOOL. LOOK AT SILVAS FOOTWORK, STRIKING DEFENCE/REFLEXES, POWER, HOW PRECISE HE IS, IN ALL THOSE CATEGORIES HE In NO DUBT SUPERIOR TO DIABATE...

[SamuraixJack]

@MrPositiveVibe As we obviously saw against Chael sonnen.....fail XD

[MrPositiveVibe]

@CLFDevil You absolute moron I have no doubt Andersons and Shoguns Muay thai are better because they showcase it in MMA I don't recall them getting their heads stomped in (shogun vs cyrille). I'd love to see this guy get the praise for best striker in mma after his fight with Cane. Then maybe he'll get to Silvas level train with guys like Freddie Roach and have them praise him till then this guy's mediocre at best when it comes to mma.

[MrPositiveVibe]

@CLFDevil Don't ever show me those stats again when you very well know theymean nothing because this is MMA striking he's in Andersons world now. Don't ever try kidding me claiming he hasn't faced top strikers and on a regular basis doesn't train with ELITE competition. Who the fuck has Diabate faced that would give Anderson problems on the feet ???

[MrPositiveVibe]

@CLFDevil What resume ? HAHAHA Anderson would be wise to not stand with a mediocre striker ? Anderson Silvas Hands are IONS ahead of Diabate don't get me wrong Diabate's Mauy Thais slick but you ca't even compare them. Just Andersons boxing alone would crush him, Shogun already stomped his head in Anderson would do what he did to Forrest Griffin if you haven't seen that fight search it up.

[darrylrude]

Cane is gonna beat this twig down.

[mellomonsta]

this motherfucker was giving shogun a hard time, he's definitely gonna fuck up Luiz Cane

[WeaponXwhs]

Wat wieght class is he in ???????????

[angelc2308]

@WeaponXwhs 205.His next fight is in the UFC against Luiz Cane.

[MrPositiveVibe]

There's some stupid mother fuckers on a forum that think this guys stand up is more vicious and technical then Anderson fukcing Silvas HAHA....SHERTARDSSSSSS SUCK A FAT DICK YOU LOSERS GET OFF A FORUM BOARD FOR ONCE WITH YOUR NON SENSE

[0000max0000]

great stuff against some complete losers, kind of sums up his career so far

[snake3553]

he just sign with the ufc

[MMAWEARdistribution]

Oui grande nouvelle, il vient de signer pour 4 combat et affrontera luiz Cane à l'ufc 114

[icescream77]

Jolie video

[MbisonBalrog]

What event was cyrille fighting when he wears the white jacket, and brown pants? It looks like a chinese shuai chiao uniform. Also was he fighting on a lei tei?

[DrSiegal]

Te event is the Golden Trophy

[TheBruceeta]

he sucks ass ,,and have no take down defense

[Ange02c]

Elle DECHIRE cette video !!

[Jopi182]

dhalsim de street fighter !

[IronChefKenichiSakai]

for UFC 82, Dan Henderson trained with Cyrille Diabate for his fight against Anderson.

Too bad The Snake doesn't have the same level of BJJ as The Spider.

[ropeburn555]

true but it wasn't like that rnc cam from some mastery of bjj.  silva plastered him on the feet and dan had nothing left

[shojinkhan]

yes you right for the jjb but diabate have the same body and same thai boxing skills than silva

[PuRo787]

anderson by flying front flip superman elbow. ^_^

[IceThatJaw]

And I don't know if he fought in K-1 or not, I was just making a comparison.

[IceThatJaw]

On the feet this guy could beat Anderson. This guy is a K-1 level kickboxer. Anderson is almost that level and even that surpasses everyone in the UFC especially since if it goes to the ground Anderson's covered. If this Snake had a ground game he'd be a beast.

[ropeburn555]

there not in the same weight class

[rckr24]

This guy blows! He literally got stomped out by Shogun! This homom wouldn't last 3 minutes with anderson silva!

[moosemonkeymma1]

um..shogun would stomp out anderson as well :)

truth be told the snake is a bad matchup for anderson,anderson would have to take it to the ground.anderson has not fought strikers like the snake before.

[ropeburn555]

don't embarras yourself with comments like that. Shogun's not stomping out anyone any time soon especially not anderson

[Elthenar]

I think you should try to avoid embarrasing yourself. Shogun was universally considered the #1 LHW before he went into the Griffin fight in horrible shape. A healthy Shogun would have absolutly no fear of going to the clinch or ground with Anderson and would have a very very good chance of winning is Anderson went back to 205. Anderson is damn good, can't deny it, but is not unbeatable. Look up his Ryo Chonan fight for proof.

[Elthenar]

Bah, mispost...this was supposed to be a reply to Ropeburns comment below. Cyrille is slick though.

[ballerstatus8122]

He sure does have some lethal hands, but i think Anderson Silva could out strike him.

[spontaneousguy]

Ryan Robinson loses to some real C level fighters mate, and think "the snake" retired him after 1 minute of their fight!

[servo66]

I saw the Shogun fight and he was winning the stand up game. Shogun put him down though and then stomped him until they called TKO.

[cdmjeeah]

damn that guy can throw a punch..i didnt know that he was that good striking...

[cdmjeeah]

he loss badly to shogun but yeah it would be great to see him against overeem...

[ShogunHooah]

That is one skinny motherfucker!

[cjz2007]

Mark hunt ? are you kidding ? Hunt would destroy the Snake,he's higher up in weight too 300 ? but I like Diabate he's good fighteer.

[erosnecropsik]

continue comme ça cyrille tu relèves le niveau du mma fr

[smashersmith]

Ryan robinson is fighting him on 21st april at Cage rage. Ryan is one of my training partners and is an awsome BJJ speciallist. the snake is gonna get choked out

[yelloke]

LOL!!! I'm sorry, but you just embarrassed your friend. BJJ specialists are not suppose to get armbarred by muay thai specialists.

[lefty459]

man if this guy could defend the take own well he would own the 205lb division i think pride should have him back and fight somebody like allistar overeem or mark hunt

[ShogunHooah]

A. Overeem would just submit him if he didn't feel like striking with him. I'd like to see Diabate vs. Grove. Two long lanky motherfuckers going at it.

[ThickieWonder]

dude his striking in the shogun fight was superior!But once they got on the ground there was nothing he could do to stop the shogun ground and pound via stomps

[j2dar04]

shogun wanted no part of snakes stand up . but i suppose thats mma .

[Tkraz]

grand combatant

[tsakherkuum]

Seems to pack decent power for such a skinny guy.

[imyourgod2]

damN! that rick guy ate a shitload of leg kicks.. snakes knockouts look so effortless

[juancho39]

he should improve his takedown defense. but i seriously doubt his frame is suited to defending the TD. better work on his jits then

[imyourgod2]

yea it seems he really commits to his kicks... so he'd get taken down. he got taken down by that lil asian guy heh

[everst]

snake vs mark hunt anyone?

[narg]

He looked good against Shogun. Nice use of Mortal Kombat music, haha.

[abseil]

Snake is a good Fighter

[mcnamara]

WAR SHOGUN...

[lugrokipl]

cest koi comme musique?

[Bast1832]

trop trop fort :)

ALLEZ GREG !!!!!!!(faudrais fournir des infos esclusive des coulisses du Pride :p )

ps: mon blog sur le MMA entre autre

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[Hak82]

Super bien faite la video ;)