I'm split myself as I was with the Woodley fight. It's probably going to be Jake's toughest challenge yet, though I'd put it in the same category as Woodley. Woodley is nearly ten years younger than Silva so he has the age advantage, but Silva was a much better MMA fighter and is now doing fairly decently in boxing himself so there's pros and cons to bother fighters in terms of matchups. If I had to put money on it maybe it goes the distance and Jake on points. I kinda want Jake to win though just to see how far he can actually take this, and ultimately I really wanna see him fight someone like McGregor. The build up to that fight would be epic with all the trash-talking and I think Jake could give Connor a good game in that respect.
Yeah, it's a tricky fight to call in my opinion despite what some boxing elitists are saying, including some very famous boxers, but there we go. The only thing I'd say is Anderson is known to put some volume out, whereas Woodley was nicknamed "the frozen one" since he basically looked like he froze at times, and you could see that still happening in the ring. It's not necessarily a flaw, as he had some obviously very successful times in the UFC. Although, Anderson does put a lot of stuff out there, and that's what I'm most interested in.
If Jake can also prove he can fight on the back foot, and defend intelligently. I actually think he could go somewhere pretty decent in his career.