Shogun v. Evans pushed back again

http://mmajunkie.com/news/20410/mauricio-shogun-rua-vs-rashad-evans-ufc-title-fight-on-hold-until-mid-2011.mma


First it was February... Then March... Now late spring or early summer of 2011? News gets suckier, that's right suckier, everytime this story gets refreshed! I'm going out on a limb and saying that they have one more setback and that these two don't fight until at least a year from now, or Dana makes Evans fight Couture after getting tons of fan pressure for an interim title fight.

Evans should fight Machida/Jones/Bader/Rogerio...whoever is a top guy before Shogun

Sonnen should fight Vitor before either fights Silva.

Gives the champ a better cushion for more complete recovery and doesn't let guys ride the hospital gown of the injured champ for months and years.

This has been the time table for a while.

Doesn't there need to be an interim title match if Shogun has not defended by May 8th, 2011?

GDPofDRC wrote:

Evans should fight Machida/Jones/Bader/Rogerio...whoever is a top guy before Shogun

Sonnen should fight Vitor before either fights Silva.

Gives the champ a better cushion for more complete recovery and doesn't let guys ride the hospital gown of the injured champ for months and years.

You won't see the Bones fight, obviously... But I think we "could" see the others. But if Randy walks through Toney, Dana will want to give him one last shot at title implication type face time before he turns 50. That would be my bet...

No, why would there be. They do interm matches when they don't know what the time table for the champion is. Like when Randy tried to escape his contract and when Brock got sick.

They did one for GSP but that was an exception to the rule made because the fight was so close.

Wolfgangsta wrote:

This has been the time table for a while.

NO, NO, NO, NO.... NO

Wolfgangsta wrote:

No, why would there be. They do interm matches when they don't know what the time table for the champion is. Like when Randy tried to escape his contract and when Brock got sick.

They did one for GSP but that was an exception to the rule made because the fight was so close.

I think it will eventually lead to this. It will get pushed again, and Dana will cave to fan and Randy pressure... Just sayin

If it's that long they should.

Tito was out, Chuck and Randy fought for the Interim then Randy beat Tito all within 10 months.

Brock was out, Carwin and Mir fought for the Interim then Brock beat Carwin in less than a 12 month span.

Brock Beat Randy, then Mir beat Nog for the Interim title, then Brock Beat Mir in a time span of less than 9 months.

They are looking at 12 months from UFC 113, that's a long time. It fits the bill for an interim match.

GDP in the recent examples the interm fight was made before they knew what was going on.

this was a story a month ago. On that ESPN MMA internet show.

And Dana said no to the interim belt at that time.

Dana and Silva should have made Evans vs Lil Nog for the interim title as soon as they realized Shogun was going to be out for such a lengthy period.

Nobody would want that except for Lil Nog. Rashad has already earned a title shot, I don't see why he should have to beat another top 5 guy to keep it. Interim titles are incredibly stupid unless they have no idea when the guy is going to be back and it looks like a long time