Fight Study: Is Anderson Silva MMA's Muhammed Ali

Is Anderson Silva MMA's Muhammed Ali? Now here me out before you call me blasphemous. I'm not saying Silva rivals Ali's social impact or even his long term impact on the sport. I'm looking at mostly personality and fighting styles. Some points to consider?

-Both fighters are tall and lanky with long limbs.
-Both fighters are known for their evasive footwork.
-Both fighters utilize their speed yet have knockout power in their hands.
-Both fighters are incredibly unorthodox, they don't seem to sit on their punches and yet can still deliver a knockout punch from an unusual angle that doesn't seem like it would generate a lot of force bio-mechanically.
-Expanding further on the unorthodox style of fighting, they both have fighting habits that are generally considered incorrect. Both Ali and Silva lean back to avoid punches and both fighters keep their hands low.
-Both fighters showboat in the ring, Ali with his famous Ali Shuffle and Silva's clowning around against Maia.

In terms of charisma and personality:
-Both fighters have been known to talk to their opponents during the fight. Ali would goad his opponents, yelling at Liston in their rematch to "get up bum!" as well as whispering in Foreman's ear "Is that all you got?." I don't think I need to remind everyone of Silva's in fight chatter against Maia.
-Both fighters gladly accept the role of heel. Ali admits that he imitated the professional wrestler Gorgeous George, who would anger the audience with his arrogance and cockiness. Ali also believed in theatrics. He once rented a tour bus with insults written across the side of the bus onto Sonny Liston's front yard just to get under Liston's skin so that he could get a title shot. Silva walks into a weigh ins with a mask.
-People also seem to love to hate and doubt both fighters chances at victory. Ali was never the favorite against Liston. A lot of people thought it was a dive on Liston's part. A lot of people thought Ali was going to be murdered in the ring by Foreman. When Ali converted to Islam, sports writers criticized Ali's boxing abilities, everything they had praised about him before became a negative attribute. Instead of being tactical in the ring, he was described as sneaky. Instead of being surgical and methodical, he was now boring and slow. His evasive footwork was no longer admired but instead scorned because now he was seen as running away. Sound familiar with Silva?

Now sure there are definitely differences, simply because of the differences between the two sports they inhabit. Silva's long term impact on the sport is also hard to judge at the current moment. I also doubt Silva will ever have a social impact like Ali did, but Ali never was aware of his social impact at the time and never set out to be a philanthropist and a spokesperson on social inequality.

*shrugs* I've been watching a lot of Ali documentaries lately and I always seem to notice the hate Silva receives. I think he's a great fighter and I always enjoy watching him fight. I noticed these similarities and thought I'd bring it up for thought.