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Martin Kampman
Diego Sanchez
Mark Munoz
CB Dollaway
Chris Weidman
Alsseo Sakara
Brian Bowels
Damicio Page
Cyrille Diabaté
Steve Cantwell
Danny Castillo
Joe Stevensen
Shane Roller
Thiago Tavarez
Takeya Mizugaki
Rousimar Palhares
Igor Pokrajac

Martin Kampman - Carlos Condit
Diego Sanchez - Matt Serra
Mark Munoz - Michael Bisping
CB Dollaway - Kyle Noke
Chris Weidman - Kendall Grove
Alsseo Sakara - Court McGee
Brian Bowels - Scott Jorgensen
Damicio Page - Charlie Valencia
Cyrille Diabaté - Stephan Bonnar
Steve Cantwell - Tomasz Drwal
Danny Castillo - Rafael dos Anjos
Joe Stevensen - Vitor Ribeiro
Shane Roller - Sam Stout
Thiago Tavarez - Bart Palaszewski
Takeya Mizugaki - Michael McDonald
Rousimar Palhares - Dan Miller
Igor Pokrajac - Ricardo Romero

Martin Kampman-Alves vs Story winner- broke hand might take time
Diego Sanchez-Koscheck rematch
Mark Munoz-Marquart vs Akiyama winner
CB Dollaway-Weidman
Chris Weidman-CB
Brian Bowels-Faber vs Wineland loser
Rousimar Palhares-Maia

I'm still fighting the cob webs. I'll do the rest later.

Martin Kampman -- Dong Hyun Kim [Kim is on a tear and Kampmann deserves to be the guy that ends it]
Diego Sanchez -- Carlos Condit [probably teammates now so who knows if this is possible, but a win for Condit could earn him a much-deserved title shot]
Mark Munoz -- Vitor Belfort [Belfort against another Black House guy]
CB Dollaway -- Nick Ring [two TUF guys with differing styles]
Chris Weidman -- Rousimar Palhares [Weidman could be a force in the division and Palhares is a good gatekeeper]
Alsseo Sakara -- Jorge Rivera [two vets coming off disappointing losses; fireworks]
Brian Bowels -- Wagnney Fabiano [were scheduled to fight, would like to see Bowles vs. Benevedez more]
Damicio Page -- Kid Yamamoto [two good names with little futures in the division, would be exciting]
Cyrille Diabaté -- Kyle Kingsbury
Steve Cantwell -- cut [he's dropped too many and his best performance was a loss to an over-hyped Luis Cane]
Danny Castillo -- Sam Stout
Joe Stevensen -- cut [three straight is too much]
Shane Roller -- Nick Lentz [Lentz needs to be stopped and Roller is the guy to do it]
Thiago Tavarez -- Paul Kelly [similar careers, never seem to win big fights]
Takeya Mizugaki -- Antonio Banuelos
Rousimar Palhares -- Chris Wiedman
Dave Branch -- Court McGee
Igor Pokrajac -- Fabio Maldonado

Paul Harris was completely forgotten about on this card lol

boomer sooner wrote:

Martin Kampman -- Dong Hyun Kim [Kim is on a tear and Kampmann deserves to be the guy that ends it]
Diego Sanchez -- Carlos Condit [probably teammates now so who knows if this is possible, but a win for Condit could earn him a much-deserved title shot]
Mark Munoz -- Vitor Belfort [Belfort against another Black House guy]CB Dollaway -- Nick Ring [two TUF guys with differing styles]
Chris Weidman -- Rousimar Palhares [Weidman could be a force in the division and Palhares is a good gatekeeper]
Alsseo Sakara -- Jorge Rivera [two vets coming off disappointing losses; fireworks]
Brian Bowels -- Wagnney Fabiano [were scheduled to fight, would like to see Bowles vs. Benevedez more]
Damicio Page -- Kid Yamamoto [two good names with little futures in the division, would be exciting]
Cyrille Diabaté -- Kyle Kingsbury
Steve Cantwell -- cut [he's dropped too many and his best performance was a loss to an over-hyped Luis Cane]
Danny Castillo -- Sam Stout
Joe Stevensen -- cut [three straight is too much]
Shane Roller -- Nick Lentz [Lentz needs to be stopped and Roller is the guy to do it]
Thiago Tavarez -- Paul Kelly [similar careers, never seem to win big fights]
Takeya Mizugaki -- Antonio Banuelos
Rousimar Palhares -- Chris Wiedman
Dave Branch -- Court McGee
Igor Pokrajac -- Fabio Maldonado

Diego Sanchez does not deserve jack shit. That dude is overhyped. His over aggressive psycho mentality makes people think he is a bamf. He is good, dont get me wrong, but he is not elite. I see him and Michael Bisping being at the same level, in their respected divisions. Also, I think Munoz is still green. Vitor would punish him, and that could derail his career. Something the UFC tends to do, throw the future of their sport to the wolves and ruin their career. The rest is good.

jewzilla wrote:

boomer sooner wrote:

Martin Kampman -- Dong Hyun Kim [Kim is on a tear and Kampmann deserves to be the guy that ends it]
Diego Sanchez -- Carlos Condit [probably teammates now so who knows if this is possible, but a win for Condit could earn him a much-deserved title shot]
Mark Munoz -- Vitor Belfort [Belfort against another Black House guy]CB Dollaway -- Nick Ring [two TUF guys with differing styles]
Chris Weidman -- Rousimar Palhares [Weidman could be a force in the division and Palhares is a good gatekeeper]
Alsseo Sakara -- Jorge Rivera [two vets coming off disappointing losses; fireworks]
Brian Bowels -- Wagnney Fabiano [were scheduled to fight, would like to see Bowles vs. Benevedez more]
Damicio Page -- Kid Yamamoto [two good names with little futures in the division, would be exciting]
Cyrille Diabaté -- Kyle Kingsbury
Steve Cantwell -- cut [he's dropped too many and his best performance was a loss to an over-hyped Luis Cane]
Danny Castillo -- Sam Stout
Joe Stevensen -- cut [three straight is too much]
Shane Roller -- Nick Lentz [Lentz needs to be stopped and Roller is the guy to do it]
Thiago Tavarez -- Paul Kelly [similar careers, never seem to win big fights]
Takeya Mizugaki -- Antonio Banuelos
Rousimar Palhares -- Chris Wiedman
Dave Branch -- Court McGee
Igor Pokrajac -- Fabio Maldonado

Diego Sanchez does not deserve jack shit. That dude is overhyped. His over aggressive psycho mentality makes people think he is a bamf. He is good, dont get me wrong, but he is not elite. I see him and Michael Bisping being at the same level, in their respected divisions. Also, I think Munoz is still green. Vitor would punish him, and that could derail his career. Something the UFC tends to do, throw the future of their sport to the wolves and ruin their career. The rest is good.

Disagree
GSP fought Hughes in his 3rd fight.
Carwin fought Gonzaga (former title contender) in his 3rd fight.
Bader fought Jardine (former top 10) & Lil Nog in his 2nd and 3rd fight.
Lesnar fought Couture(title) in his 3rd fight.
Cain fought Big Nog & Lesnar(title) in his 6th and 7th fights
JDS fought Werdum in his 1st fight
Aldo fought Brown(title) in his 6th fight
Pettis fought Bendo(title) in his 6th fight

Munoz is 33 with 9 fights with the WEC/UFC. It's either make a run now or never IMO.

Farmer1906 wrote:

jewzilla wrote:

boomer sooner wrote:

Martin Kampman -- Dong Hyun Kim [Kim is on a tear and Kampmann deserves to be the guy that ends it]
Diego Sanchez -- Carlos Condit [probably teammates now so who knows if this is possible, but a win for Condit could earn him a much-deserved title shot]
Mark Munoz -- Vitor Belfort [Belfort against another Black House guy]CB Dollaway -- Nick Ring [two TUF guys with differing styles]
Chris Weidman -- Rousimar Palhares [Weidman could be a force in the division and Palhares is a good gatekeeper]
Alsseo Sakara -- Jorge Rivera [two vets coming off disappointing losses; fireworks]
Brian Bowels -- Wagnney Fabiano [were scheduled to fight, would like to see Bowles vs. Benevedez more]
Damicio Page -- Kid Yamamoto [two good names with little futures in the division, would be exciting]
Cyrille Diabaté -- Kyle Kingsbury
Steve Cantwell -- cut [he's dropped too many and his best performance was a loss to an over-hyped Luis Cane]
Danny Castillo -- Sam Stout
Joe Stevensen -- cut [three straight is too much]
Shane Roller -- Nick Lentz [Lentz needs to be stopped and Roller is the guy to do it]
Thiago Tavarez -- Paul Kelly [similar careers, never seem to win big fights]
Takeya Mizugaki -- Antonio Banuelos
Rousimar Palhares -- Chris Wiedman
Dave Branch -- Court McGee
Igor Pokrajac -- Fabio Maldonado

Diego Sanchez does not deserve jack shit. That dude is overhyped. His over aggressive psycho mentality makes people think he is a bamf. He is good, dont get me wrong, but he is not elite. I see him and Michael Bisping being at the same level, in their respected divisions. Also, I think Munoz is still green. Vitor would punish him, and that could derail his career. Something the UFC tends to do, throw the future of their sport to the wolves and ruin their career. The rest is good.

Disagree
GSP fought Hughes in his 3rd fight.
Carwin fought Gonzaga (former title contender) in his 3rd fight.
Bader fought Jardine (former top 10) & Lil Nog in his 2nd and 3rd fight.
Lesnar fought Couture(title) in his 3rd fight.
Cain fought Big Nog & Lesnar(title) in his 6th and 7th fights
JDS fought Werdum in his 1st fight
Aldo fought Brown(title) in his 6th fight
Pettis fought Bendo(title) in his 6th fight

Munoz is 33 with 9 fights with the WEC/UFC. It's either make a run now or never IMO.

I knew Id catch some heat after I posted it. I guess what Im trying to say, is Vitor seems to be a giant leap from CB Dolloway, for Munoz. Might just be me. Also, all of those fighters you mentioned managed to flourish in the UFC, but, I believe there are a bunch of other fighters that go tossed into the mix way too soon, lost, and are now irrelevant.

Munoz lost a split dec to now #1 contender Okami just a couple fights ago. I don't think Vitor would be a major step up from Okami.

OU wrote:

Munoz lost a split dec to now #1 contender Okami just a couple fights ago. I don't think Vitor would be a major step up from Okami.

If I remember correctly, that fight consisted of Munoz going for sloppy takedowns, and Okami stuffing him? Vitor Belfort seems to be a different animal. It is just my opinion though. EVERYBODY HATES ON THE JEW lol.

jewzilla wrote:

OU wrote:

Munoz lost a split dec to now #1 contender Okami just a couple fights ago. I don't think Vitor would be a major step up from Okami.

If I remember correctly, that fight consisted of Munoz going for sloppy takedowns, and Okami stuffing him? Vitor Belfort seems to be a different animal. It is just my opinion though. EVERYBODY HATES ON THE JEW lol.

LOL, I'm just saying he has fought some top competition before. He did well enough against Okami that one judge gave him the fight.

jewzilla wrote:

Farmer1906 wrote:

jewzilla wrote:

boomer sooner wrote:

Martin Kampman -- Dong Hyun Kim [Kim is on a tear and Kampmann deserves to be the guy that ends it]
Diego Sanchez -- Carlos Condit [probably teammates now so who knows if this is possible, but a win for Condit could earn him a much-deserved title shot]
Mark Munoz -- Vitor Belfort [Belfort against another Black House guy]CB Dollaway -- Nick Ring [two TUF guys with differing styles]
Chris Weidman -- Rousimar Palhares [Weidman could be a force in the division and Palhares is a good gatekeeper]
Alsseo Sakara -- Jorge Rivera [two vets coming off disappointing losses; fireworks]
Brian Bowels -- Wagnney Fabiano [were scheduled to fight, would like to see Bowles vs. Benevedez more]
Damicio Page -- Kid Yamamoto [two good names with little futures in the division, would be exciting]
Cyrille Diabaté -- Kyle Kingsbury
Steve Cantwell -- cut [he's dropped too many and his best performance was a loss to an over-hyped Luis Cane]
Danny Castillo -- Sam Stout
Joe Stevensen -- cut [three straight is too much]
Shane Roller -- Nick Lentz [Lentz needs to be stopped and Roller is the guy to do it]
Thiago Tavarez -- Paul Kelly [similar careers, never seem to win big fights]
Takeya Mizugaki -- Antonio Banuelos
Rousimar Palhares -- Chris Wiedman
Dave Branch -- Court McGee
Igor Pokrajac -- Fabio Maldonado

Diego Sanchez does not deserve jack shit. That dude is overhyped. His over aggressive psycho mentality makes people think he is a bamf. He is good, dont get me wrong, but he is not elite. I see him and Michael Bisping being at the same level, in their respected divisions. Also, I think Munoz is still green. Vitor would punish him, and that could derail his career. Something the UFC tends to do, throw the future of their sport to the wolves and ruin their career. The rest is good.

Disagree
GSP fought Hughes in his 3rd fight.
Carwin fought Gonzaga (former title contender) in his 3rd fight.
Bader fought Jardine (former top 10) & Lil Nog in his 2nd and 3rd fight.
Lesnar fought Couture(title) in his 3rd fight.
Cain fought Big Nog & Lesnar(title) in his 6th and 7th fights
JDS fought Werdum in his 1st fight
Aldo fought Brown(title) in his 6th fight
Pettis fought Bendo(title) in his 6th fight

Munoz is 33 with 9 fights with the WEC/UFC. It's either make a run now or never IMO.

I knew Id catch some heat after I posted it. I guess what Im trying to say, is Vitor seems to be a giant leap from CB Dolloway, for Munoz. Might just be me. Also, all of those fighters you mentioned managed to flourish in the UFC, but, I believe there are a bunch of other fighters that go tossed into the mix way too soon, lost, and are now irrelevant.

I think that has more to do with them not being that good. The cream rises to the top. That's why even though GSP lost to Hughes in his 3rd UFC fight he still went on to be one of the greatest ever.

Bader has an idea who he wants next.

Quote :

"I want to be in there, just kind of waiting on who I'm fight, really, there's nothing else to it. Hopefully I'll know in a couple of weeks but I want to get back in there and get going and kind of scratch the last fight out of my mind. Get hardcore training going again and have somebody to look forward to fighting. ... I want to fight whoever the top guys are. The guys that are out there right now that don't really have fights are Franklin, Tito and Bonnar. Any one of them, it doesn't matter to me."

OU wrote:

Bader has an idea who he wants next.

Quote :

"I want to be in there, just kind of waiting on who I'm fight, really, there's nothing else to it. Hopefully I'll know in a couple of weeks but I want to get back in there and get going and kind of scratch the last fight out of my mind. Get hardcore training going again and have somebody to look forward to fighting. ... I want to fight whoever the top guys are. The guys that are out there right now that don't really have fights are Franklin, Tito and Bonnar. Any one of them, it doesn't matter to me."

Talk about living in the past. I realize he wants a fight with a name opponent to get himself back in the mix and recover from the loss but to call Bonnar, Rich, and Tito top guys? Rich is probably the top ranked of either of the three and he's not even close to being top ten right now. He'd be better off fighting Forest if he's looking for a big name on the low end of the top ten.

Ludo wrote:

OU wrote:

Bader has an idea who he wants next.

Quote :

"I want to be in there, just kind of waiting on who I'm fight, really, there's nothing else to it. Hopefully I'll know in a couple of weeks but I want to get back in there and get going and kind of scratch the last fight out of my mind. Get hardcore training going again and have somebody to look forward to fighting. ... I want to fight whoever the top guys are. The guys that are out there right now that don't really have fights are Franklin, Tito and Bonnar. Any one of them, it doesn't matter to me."

Talk about living in the past. I realize he wants a fight with a name opponent to get himself back in the mix and recover from the loss but to call Bonnar, Rich, and Tito top guys? Rich is probably the top ranked of either of the three and he's not even close to being top ten right now. He'd be better off fighting Forest if he's looking for a big name on the low end of the top ten.

I think the winner of Bader-Franklin would get serious top 10 consideration.

Ludo wrote:

OU wrote:

Bader has an idea who he wants next.

Quote :

"I want to be in there, just kind of waiting on who I'm fight, really, there's nothing else to it. Hopefully I'll know in a couple of weeks but I want to get back in there and get going and kind of scratch the last fight out of my mind. Get hardcore training going again and have somebody to look forward to fighting. ... I want to fight whoever the top guys are. The guys that are out there right now that don't really have fights are Franklin, Tito and Bonnar. Any one of them, it doesn't matter to me."

Talk about living in the past. I realize he wants a fight with a name opponent to get himself back in the mix and recover from the loss but to call Bonnar, Rich, and Tito top guys? Rich is probably the top ranked of either of the three and he's not even close to being top ten right now. He'd be better off fighting Forest if he's looking for a big name on the low end of the top ten.

I think he wants to get back in there pretty quickly and most people are booked up right now. Forrest will still be out a while with that broken foot probably. Thiago is available if this drug test shit gets sorted out

http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2011/3/8/2037384/ryan-bader-calls-out-rich-franklin-and-stephan-bonnar

Quote :

"Tito (Ortiz) is probably not going to happen. In that interview they were asking who I thought I would fight and I said either Tito, (Rich) Franklin or (Stephan) Bonnar because those are the guys that are open. Those are the three guys who don’t have fights or that aren’t injured at this time. People blow it up like I called Tito out. I’d like to fight him but I don’t think he will."

Kind of funny how Bader goes out of his way to say he isn't "calling out" Tito. But then goes on to say Tito wouldn't want to fight him.

he's lucky tito has a broken skull and no spine...

Tito still wants Forrest. Might be the only fight he won't pull out of.
http://www.mmamania.com/2011/3/8/2037463/tito-ortiz-my-last-two-fights-against-forrest-griffin-have-been

Quote :

"Hopefully in May or June. It's up to Dana and the UFC to let the fight happen. I know people want to see me fight again, so let's do a Forrest-Ortiz three. He's a former world champion, our last two fights have been awesome – so let's just put on a three ... The last one I thought I won, but they gave it to him. So let's just make the third time better than the last two. I guess the fans will speak loudest, so let's make the fans make some noise ... I don't know why people [call me out]. They want to be famous? I guess me being as infamous as I am, these guys can get on me and the only way for them to be recognized is to fight a big name like me. I think it's cool. I think it's funny. Take your ticket and wait in line, and Forrest – I'll give you the No. 1 ticket."

Bigfoot vs Barnett?
"Bigfoot says I need to shut my mouth? You were the one who started talking jack ass. Let's see what you got, whenever you want to bring it." -Josh Barnett

"@joshlbarnett I born ready to fight garbage guys." -Antonio Silva

"@BigfootSilva Good for you! I'm glad you realized who your peers are. You're the biggest sack of garbage I've seen :-)" -Josh Barnett

http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2011/3/9/2037134/hows-taste-my-tweet-tweet-mixed-martial-arts-on-twitter-for-the-2nd