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Rusty_Noob said:
Just watching UFC 136 - god I hate Keith Florian, he makes me dislike watching KenFlo fights.
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Still, one of the best cards I've seen for a long time!! Kudos to Edgar after taking that kind of beating in the first round but cant help but think Maynard threw it away - he should have gone after Frankie as soon as the 2nd round started!!!
 
Who has he beat in the UFC's top 10 MW's ?

http://www.fightmatrix.com/mma-ranks/middleweight/

I know this is a top 10 of all MW's but 8 of the top 10 are UFC fighters, and he hasn't beaten any of them.

An I know MMA maths doesn't work, but he also lost to Marquardt and Hendo, whom Silva beat.

Maybe in the future when he has proved himself, he should get a shot, hell I would like to see it, but he needs to earn it first. If he knocks off 2 people from that list, I see him getting a shot.
 
Dkore-DeX said:
Who has he beat in the UFC's top 10 MW's ?

http://www.fightmatrix.com/mma-ranks/middleweight/

I know this is a top 10 of all MW's but 8 of the top 10 are UFC fighters, and he hasn't beaten any of them.

An I know MMA maths doesn't work, but he also lost to Marquardt and Hendo, whom Silva beat.

Maybe in the future when he has proved himself, he should get a shot, hell I would like to see it, but he needs to earn it first. If he knocks off 2 people from that list, I see him getting a shot.
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I just don't see who else there is for Silva to face. People say Hendo if he gets past Shogun but lets be frank here, aside from an act of god or Shoguns knees blowing out again he is not going to win that fight.

The Palhares loss to Maquardt was more of a freak accident than anything in my eyes, Palhares was going for a heel hook, Nate slipped out of it very easily... Palhares looked at the ref going 'wtf' and basically got smashed in the face, leading to the stoppage.

Palhares brings something that Silva hasn't faced before, absolute top level BJJ (came second in this years ADCC) with great take downs. Thus Silva wont be able to pull his usual crap that he does against BJJ fighters of dancing around them.

Dunno, maybe I'm on Palhares' sack a bit, but I think he'd stand a good chance. You are right that he probably needs a couple more wins before he'll get a shot though.
 
Rids said:
I just don't see who else there is for Silva to face. People say Hendo if he gets past Shogun but lets be frank here, aside from an act of god or Shoguns knees blowing out again he is not going to win that fight.

The Palhares loss to Maquardt was more of a freak accident than anything in my eyes, Palhares was going for a heel hook, Nate slipped out of it very easily... Palhares looked at the ref going 'wtf' and basically got smashed in the face, leading to the stoppage.

Palhares brings something that Silva hasn't faced before, absolute top level BJJ (came second in this years ADCC) with great take downs. Thus Silva wont be able to pull his usual crap that he does against BJJ fighters of dancing around them.

Dunno, maybe I'm on Palhares' sack a bit, but I think he'd stand a good chance. You are right that he probably needs a couple more wins before he'll get a shot though.
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This is the thing, there isn't really anyone worthy* for him to face without rematches.

He is in one of the weakest divisions and has in effect cleaned it out, he really needs to think about 205 permanently now. He has had 2 fights at 205 and beaten a former champ, so why not move up permanently.

Personally I think Silva is scared of the wrestlers at 205 that could take him down and hold him there, wrestlers who aren't prone to being triangled like Chael. There are plenty at 205 Bader, Davis, Evans, Hamill, Rampage (if he actually chose to wrestle) and Matyushenko etc etc. I'm not saying all these would beat him, but they are all wrestlers with the style to beat him.

I wish Jake Shields had come into the UFC at MW not WW, he has great wrestling and awesome subs too. Yea he may have laid on Silva for the win, but least it would have shaken the division up.
 
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You can never tell shields may still go there yet after his last loss...

The divisions definatly need an overhaul and shake up, dont see silva moving sadly... todays ufc champs like to keep it that way, proberly would retire rather then face bones down the road.... guess one would only change weight classes if there a contender going for the belt take kenflo for instance, I think hes run out at this point !

Hopefully once all strikeforce fighters are resolved into ufc rankings we may get a lot more fun matches.
 
Florian ruined the fight unfortunately, couldnt expect him to strike with Aldo as he'd get smashed so he spent 25 minutes humping him. Yawnfest im afraid.

I think Silva will smash Sonnen 2nd time around. Im sure of it.
 
StevieP said:
Forgot about Bisping & Mayhem - obviously the winner of their fight will be next in line!
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Haha, as much as I would love to see Bisping murdered by Silva, he lost to Wanderlei Silva and Hendo, if they put him up next it would be a very Strikeforce thing to do, and that decision making is done for.

It should be Chael or Hendo, with Chael being the smart business thing to do, give Hendo to the winner of TUF, a Bisping rematch would be further hilarious and Hendo Vs Miller would be genuinely interesting
 
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