MMA/UFC Thread

Ugh, Lesner. Never has anyone made me more angry at UFC than him. There's absolutely no reason he should have been thrown into the limelight like he has. Dana White pretty much gave him the title out of the gate just because he was a known name from wrestling. He was simply horrible when he came in. He's gotten better, but I'm still upset about the whole thing.

I didn't get a chance to watch the Silva fight, but heard it was much better than the ones he's had in the past, which makes me happy to hear. However, I don't think a rematch would go the same way. Silva now knows how Sonnen works and will be training specifically for him. I'm still waiting for the GSP vs Silva fight.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Yeah, Silva's last few fights have been unimpressive because he's gotten bored. He's beaten pretty much everyone in his division and even some of the ones from other divisions, so he tries to do random things in the ring these days to make the fights more entertaining for him, even if they aren't for the audience. I think this is where the fault was for him against sonnen, he wasn't expecting an actual challenge. The rematch will more than likely fly in Silva's favor because of this fact.

Re: Lesner -- Like I said before, I don't like the fact he was thrown into the championship reign immediately. There are three things that bug me about this. One, it plays favortism. I know he sells tickets, but come on, everyone should have to work their way up. Two, he lost his first fight in the UFC, but was STILL given a title shot afterward, I mean seriously? What the fuck is up with that. Three, he carries that WWE style attitude where "There should be bad guys with dick attitudes to counter the good guys with chivalry attitudes." Dana White already got pissed off at Lesner's lack of sportsmanship and here's to hoping he shapes up.

There had been talks about a GSP vs Silva catchweight fight at one time, but there's always talks about it and nothing comes from it. I'd love to see it, but I think it'd take two fights for us to really see the true match come out. GSP has this habit of losing fight #1 vs someone and then learning their style and dominating in fight #2 against them.

Now my question is how long do you think Fedor's managers will hold out before he's signed with the UFC? Every MMA fan is waiting for it, and now that he's been smacked down a bit by Werdum, maybe it'll happen.

There's nowhere I can't reach.