Who should these guys face next ?

Jose Aldo vs. Frankie Edgar/Ben Henderson
Chad Mendes vs. Jung Chan Sung
Vitor Belfort vs. Yushin Okami or Palhares
Rousimar Palhares vs. Yushin Okami or Vitor
Erick Silva vs. Charlie Breneman
Edson Barboza vs. Nate Diaz

Jose Aldo - LW Champ
Chad Mendes - Nunes
Vitor Belfort - Wand (TUF, but I'd prefer Bisping win or lose vs Maia)
Anthony Johnson - Daley at MW
Rousimar Palhares - Maia (if he loses to Bisping) or Okami
Erick Silva - Charlie Brenneman (a wrestler to test his ground game)
Barboza- Lauzon/Showtime loser

Rumble vs. A Treadmill, new diet and a plastic surgeon to fix his oddly shaped head.

Farmer1906 wrote:

Jose Aldo - LW Champ
Chad Mendes - Nunes
Vitor Belfort - Wand (TUF, but I'd prefer Bisping win or lose vs Maia)
Anthony Johnson - Daley at MW
Rousimar Palhares - Maia (if he loses to Bisping) or Okami
Erick Silva - Charlie Brenneman (a wrestler to test his ground game)
Barboza- Lauzon/Showtime loser

Great minds think alike, that's those Brit genes

Jose Aldo-Clay Guida
Chad Mendes-Hatsu Hioki
Vitor Belfort-Someone who makes weight, maybe winner of Munoz/Chael for interim belt if Anderson isn't expected back soon
Anthony Johnson-Nate Marquardt for UFC Reject title
Rousimar Palhares-Demian Maia, or a gorilla from the zoo
Erick Silva-Thiago Alves
Edson Barboza-Donald Cerrone

Jose Aldo - Edgar/Bendo winner
Chad Mendes - don't know; Gamburyan or Roop maybe
Belfort - ending Wand's career
Anthony Johnson - don't care
Rousimar Palhares - Alan Belcher
Erik Silva - I'm down with using Pyle as the measuring stick for the young guns; Rory got him out easy. Plenty at 170 though for someone like Silva; Damarques, Paulo Thiago, etc
Barboza - I was down for Nate but I think he gets Pettis-Lauzon winner. Therefore, I'd like Miller-Guillard winner. Or Jacob Volkmann

Jose Aldo - ben henderson win or lose (i want to see edgar/maynard IV)

Chad Mendes - dustin poirier (assuming aldo moves up)

Vitor Belfort - bisping/maia winner (assuming sonnen/munoz winner gets silva)

Anthony Johnson - jardine in strikeforce (see if he can make weight, if he can't, who gives a fuck if that fight gets cancelled?)

Rousimar Palhares - bisping/maia loser

Erick Silva - anyone, no shortage of welterweights to make a good fight

Edson Barboza - nate diaz

Jose Aldo - Gilbert Melendez, cerealously, who are either of these guys really supposed to fight?
Chad Mendez - Darren Elkins
Vitor - Wanderlei
Anthony Johnson -Jesse Taylor
Rousimar Palhares - Sonnen/Munoz loser
Mike Massenzio - Keith Jardine
Erick Silva - Rick Story
Carlo Prator - Lopez vs Riddle winner
Edson Barboza - Donald Cerrone
Terry Etim - Dustin Hazlett
Gabriel Gonzaga - Arron Rosa
Thiago Tavares - Lentz/Dunham winner
Sam Stout - Gomi/Soto loser
Yuri Alcantara - Diego Nunes
Michihiro Omigawa - Hiroyuki Takaya

I like barboza vs cowboy.

Tim called it with that one. I completely agree.

Palhares would dominate Chael worse then Maia did.

Aldo should not move to LW. Why do people hate to see Champions dominate? He is young, let him compete where he is best at. Somehow it's a negative to be too good at your weight class. Oh GSP needs to move up, oh Spider needs to move up, oh let's see Jones move up to HW, let's see Cruz move up. How about every Champion can just move up? Now we can have a whole new set of Champions because these current guys are just too good. Great idea. Better hope these new set of guys aren't too impressive or up they go.

Aldo- Hioki if he wins if not Poirier if he wins, if both lose it's Zombie by default.

Chad Mendes- Mike Brown or Raphael Assunção

Vitor- already set to face Wand

AJ- Japan? Go fight at HW. You can't make weight consistently enough to be in a Bellator tourney, you won't and shouldn't fight for any Zuffa organization. Go fight Abe Wagnor at HW on a MFC card or something.

Captian Hillhook- Munoz/Sonnen loser makes sense. He would tap either one pretty easily.

Erik Silva- I think he should fight Mike Swick like he was originally suppose to. Still a fight I wouldn't mind seeing.

Barboza- the Cowboy matchup sounds fun. How about Tibau? Could push the winner into the top 10.

belfort vs munoz sonnen winner
aldo vs edgar

OU wrote:

Aldo should not move to LW. Why do people hate to see Champions dominate? He is young, let him compete where he is best at. Somehow it's a negative to be too good at your weight class. Oh GSP needs to move up, oh Spider needs to move up, oh let's see Jones move up to HW, let's see Cruz move up. How about every Champion can just move up? Now we can have a whole new set of Champions because these current guys are just too good. Great idea. Better hope these new set of guys aren't too impressive or up they go.

Everyone doesn't need to move up, but at some point it just gets boring watching rematches or undeserving guys fight the champ.

If GSP stayed healthy and fought Condit and Diaz last year (assume he won for this argument I know you think otherwise) then who on earth would GSP have left to fight at 170?

We're lucky Diaz got brought over and Condit has an unreal hot streak otherwise we'd stuck with GSP fighting Fitch a 2nd time and Kos a 3rd time. Yawwwwwwn.

Same is going to happen with Aldo. The FW division is thin. He's running out of names and they can't be built quickly enough. He needs to coach TUF or something and take some time off.

That's just extremely unfair IMO. You are punishing these guys for being too good at their job. His job is to be the best FW in the World. It's not his job to create contenders. They line up the best there is to offer and he knocks them down.
But he does it too well that you now find it stale? Ahh he is just too damn good, that's so boring, too talented...yawn.

GSP should never take a fight at MW. Have you seen him when he talks about it? That is NOT what he wants to do. People are pretty much trying to force him to move up. Which is total BS. He isn't even finishing people at WW. He was already "caught" one time before. That can happen to anyone in any fight. Fight where you feel most comfortable and where you are most productive.
This gay ass "you must entertain me NOW!" shit is taking away from the credibility of the sport.

OU wrote:

That's just extremely unfair IMO. You are punishing these guys for being too good at their job. His job is to be the best FW in the World. It's not his job to create contenders. They line up the best there is to offer and he knocks them down.
But he does it too well that you now find it stale? Ahh he is just too damn good, that's so boring, too talented...yawn.

GSP should never take a fight at MW. Have you seen him when he talks about it? That is NOT what he wants to do. People are pretty much trying to force him to move up. Which is total BS. He isn't even finishing people at WW. He was already "caught" one time before. That can happen to anyone in any fight. Fight where you feel most comfortable and where you are most productive.
This gay ass "you must entertain me NOW!" shit is taking away from the credibility of the sport.

Completely agree. Aldo has defended his title 5 times now? (2 in WEC and 3 in UFC I believe). That is hardly evidence of such domination that he has to leave the weight class. Some fans are too ready to call someone unbeatable at a given weight class. The guy has been champ for only 2 years. I think he should stay where he is and keep dominating until there are literally no real fights to make for him.

OU wrote:

That's just extremely unfair IMO. You are punishing these guys for being too good at their job. His job is to be the best FW in the World. It's not his job to create contenders. They line up the best there is to offer and he knocks them down.
But he does it too well that you now find it stale? Ahh he is just too damn good, that's so boring, too talented...yawn.

GSP should never take a fight at MW. Have you seen him when he talks about it? That is NOT what he wants to do. People are pretty much trying to force him to move up. Which is total BS. He isn't even finishing people at WW. He was already "caught" one time before. That can happen to anyone in any fight. Fight where you feel most comfortable and where you are most productive.
This gay ass "you must entertain me NOW!" shit is taking away from the credibility of the sport.

+1

Aldo has also had difficult weight cuts in the past. Its not like moving up is a new subject with him

bobbitt15 wrote:

Aldo has also had difficult weight cuts in the past. Its not like moving up is a new subject with him

That would be a fighters choice and him making a decision himself that moving up in weight is what is better for his career. That is not the same as people demanding it for entertainment. Like I said the fighter should fight wherever he can perform at his highest level. Not wherever you would "like to see him at".

OU wrote:

That's just extremely unfair IMO. You are punishing these guys for being too good at their job. His job is to be the best FW in the World. It's not his job to create contenders. They line up the best there is to offer and he knocks them down.
But he does it too well that you now find it stale? Ahh he is just too damn good, that's so boring, too talented...yawn.

GSP should never take a fight at MW. Have you seen him when he talks about it? That is NOT what he wants to do. People are pretty much trying to force him to move up. Which is total BS. He isn't even finishing people at WW. He was already "caught" one time before. That can happen to anyone in any fight. Fight where you feel most comfortable and where you are most productive.
This gay ass "you must entertain me NOW!" shit is taking away from the credibility of the sport.

A lot of these guys want to move up and take on bigger challenges. Aldo has talked about outgrowing the division. Same thing happened with Mousasi at MW.

He's actually been caught twice. Once with a sub and once with a punch. That of course is over about 10 years and 24 fights. I bet you can count the number of rounds he lost in his entire career on your hands. If GSP takes our the interim champ I bet he'll be more than willing to face a new challenge.

Well if it's in your competitive nature and YOU as a fighter want to move up to test yourself then by all means do what you do. But we as fans and the people putting on the fights have no right to ask them to do so. Because you want to be entertained is not a reason for a fighter to move up in weight.
All you can ask of a fighter is to do your job to the best of your ability. It's his career and his body at risk. It's unfair to ask/demand that from any fighter. There should be no added pressure. Let the fighters do what they and their camps feel is best for them.

Aldo has stated that he would ONLY move up if he got a title shot his first fight there

Didn't Rogan mention something about Aldo being a little more lean for this fight since he had such a difficult cut before?