I also observe that, knowing Silva from UFC he is more on defense and will counter back once he see good opportunity, but today he don't have that same strategy or barrowing your words, he is not on his self I guess.
Yes, He isn't the usual Silva, in my opinion, he was fighting but in a manner where he is not himself, watching the fight surely crashed my heart, I'd never imagined Silva in this state surely he is 47 years old now and this is surely the ring rust that everyone is talking about and for Anderson Silva, it really hit him very very hard,
Probably Silva had known that he won't win no matter how good his performance is since the judge will definitely favor Paul. As a result Paul indeed won via unanimous decision but it was labeled controversial by some sports site since they had it scored in favor of Silva with Paul only taking 2 rounds (including the 8th round knock out) You can read more about the unofficial scoring of that site in this
postIn my opinion, Silva definitely is losing the fight he was hitting Jake Paul in the first round but Jake Paul can really take the beating like it was nothing, for me, there are no controversial what so ever like I have said in my previous post if this fight ends up in a draw I will be the 1st one to get really mad at the Paul Brother and even Silva for agreeing in this fight in the 1st place, but if it ends up in whoever wins it, I will be glad it did, and it did, and watching the fight Anderson Silva is not the same anymore, call it to ring rust but it surely hit him very hard, he is not the usual Anderson Silva, I think he should not fight anymore if he still wants to fight then fight in an MMA playing field and fight known boxer maybe there he can have an advantage, because of kicks and takedowns,