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Psycho Sonny said:
i think machida has the best chance tbh, jon jones's weakness is going to be leg kicks, he has chicken legs.

so anyone with decent leg kicks and a bjj black belt in case jones gets a takedown from a leg kick has the best chance.

stay on the outside and just kick the crap out of those pencil thin legs.
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Shogun? Didn't work out too well for him, he fits your description perfectly ;)

I think a lot of you are underestimating rampage, I can't see Jones KO'ing him. He has a hell of a chin, it's going to come down to if he can stop the takedown, and if he can stop it, can he land on the feet.

If anyone can test Jones chin it will be rampage or perhaps Rashad. I like Jones and he will probably win the fight, but don't think for a second it's a given.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
shogun didnt throw a single leg kick, he was too afraid of being taken down.

had he decided against his approach of i'll match him in stand up, he could have probably did some damage.

but watch the fight again, not a single leg kick was thrown by shogun.
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An there is a reason why he didn't too, the counter to a kick is a lovely cross. An with Jones wingspan he could land it quite easily.

Also even Shogun said that first knee ended the fight for him, he was just hanging on with heart after that.

I think a rematch would be quite different.
 
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They have more or less run out of fights they can sell for GSP without more rematches with people he already dominated.

Providing Nick gets by BJ it's another match they can sell, if he loses then he wasn't worth it anyway and the hype for that fight gets killed off, if he wins just fuels the hype fire.
 
HighlandeR said:
Wonder what happen to bamma fights, seems the strikeforce event just dwarfed any mma website lol

Was a good event for strikeforce some nice knocks outs and good fights...

But just like josh asked coker cant we just make it offical and make the winner of the grand prix the new strikeforce heavy weight champ he didnt comit or make it offical.

I think like everyones recently been predicting strikeforce is going....

I think if cormiers hand isnt broken I could see him working on take down defense and just out striking barnett to win, but will be an interesting fight and more likely that guy will head to ufc sooner rather then later :)
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I don't think he needs to work on his TDD, he was in the US olympic wrestling team twice haha.

I can see him beating Barnett. His striking looks way better than Barnett's and he definitely has more power.

Barnett is good on top but if he ends up on the bottom I see Cormier pounding him out.
 
It should be a good fight that's for certain. I don't really mind who wins it, just want all these HW's moved over to the UFC as there are lots of exciting match ups to be made.

Cormier has said if he wins and then gets absorbed into the UFC, he will drop to 205 and fight there as he trains with Valasquez and doesn't want the whole fighting a team mate drama ala Evans vs Jones.
 
Tribune said:
Have to agree with that. If he really wanted to establish himself as the No1 fighter, he would have joined the UFC a couple of years ago when Dana was bending over backwards trying to sign him.
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He wasn't bending enough with regards to Fedor's idiot management, they wanted joint promotion and cuts of PPV which the UFC would never give so he was destined never to join.

Also the fact they wouldn't allow him to compete in anything outside of the UFC was another big issue.
 
Ever thought maybe Fedor isn't bothered about legacy? Even when he was being told he was the best in the world etc, he always brushed it off and disagreed.

He fights for the money and for his family, I don't think he has ever cared about being considered the best in the world.

It's his choice, he has made a living out of it and become a rich man regardless of if he has had the fights the fans really wanted to see.
 
Not saying it would have changed the result, but Shields lost his dad only 3 weeks ago, even though he took the fight I can't see him being mentally ready for it.

He will bounce back i'm sure. Ellenberger looked good, dude has serious power :)
 
He only just eeked out a split decision against Ninja, as long as Shogun can avoid the H-bomb he will easily take this by decision, he has far better standup and if taken down will get up.

Another bit of MMA news is Hector Lombard, Bellators MW champ has agreed to fight Renato Babalu Sobral at LHW. Shoule be a good fight, apparently Babalu beat up Lombard in training once, as he was picking on all the smaller fighters and hurting them in sparring.
 
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