MMA/UFC Thread

Hmm quite a bit to cover here.

Lesner was put into the deep end of things well before he earned purely based off knowing his name would sell but it's hard to argue with the results he's manged to get. I've never seen anyone thrown to the sharks while that green and actually succeed. That should tell you that even if he got cut some breaks a little too early there's not much doubt he would have climbed the ladder the old fashioned way anyway.

Couture vs Toney was sad and predictable and wholly unnecessary on any level. If Toney had manged to punch Randy in the face and end it fast it wouldn't have meant anything other than that he's lucky and hits hard. Couture taking down and choking out a out of shape brain damaged man who had no ground skills whatsoever meant even less.

I'm not sure Silva vs GSP will ever happen but if it does I'd say GSP hasn't better chances than a lot are giving him. As much as it's made for boring fights from him for the last while he's turned into one of the best wrestlers in the sport with maybe Chael Sonnen and Gray Maynard being better. Silva on the other hand has no defensive wrestling skill whatsoever and GSP isn't prone to leaving himself open to submissions in the same way Sonnen is. Add the fact that GSP has shown over the last few years that if he thinks the other person can hurt him on the feet he's not too proud take it top the ground like his life depends on it. Which given Silva's level of power and skill on the feet it pretty much would.

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Originally Posted by SimDaddyGT

I'd have to see Silva get in more than one measly little jab that knocks his opponents out cold before I can say he's impressive, especially after his piss-poor attitude and performance at 112.

If that's all you've seen then you really need to go back and watch his fights right after he came into the UFC. He's gotten bored and complacent with how much he's outclassed his opponents for the last while but he hasn't been the champ for so long do to lack of skill. It would be nice if this close call he just got lit a fire under his ass for the next while though.

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Fedor won't come over until either the UFC lightens the restrictions on their contracts and becomes willing to co promote ie never or Fedor gets knocked down enough pegs to not be able to make the most money while having things his way. So probably not until he's sufficiently faded to make it even more frustrating than if he hadn't come over at all. So he'll go all Crocop on us.

There's nowhere I can't reach.