MMA Thread

[Kuzzy Powers]

Forget the Olive Branch.. hook me up with some Olive Garden.

[Liquidrob]

http://mma.fanhouse.com/2009/07/21/overeem-withdraws-from-strikeforce-title-fight/

Alistair Overeem has been forced to withdraw from his scheduled August 15 Strikeforce heavyweight title fight against Fabricio Werdum. Strikeforce director of communications Mike Afromowitz confirmed the news with FanHouse on Tuesday.

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looks like Overeem wont be fighting, sucks, but would be nice for him to headline a card and give strikeforce another legit main event down the road

[clovett]

lmao bisping wants hendo rematch

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/other_sports/s/1126968_ufc_lions_roar_into_town

[SHOGUN]

http://mma.fanhouse.com/2009/07/21/o...e-title-fight/

Alistair Overeem has been forced to withdraw from his scheduled August 15 Strikeforce heavyweight title fight against Fabricio Werdum. Strikeforce director of communications Mike Afromowitz confirmed the news with FanHouse on Tuesday.

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looks like Overeem wont be fighting, sucks, but would be nice for him to headline a card and give strikeforce another legit main event down the road

WEAK. That spoils the Strikeforce event for me.

[clovett]

imo the card is still solid without the overeem fight, yeah it would have been sweet but im still gonna watch it

[Kuzzy Powers]

Someone will replace him on the card so it wont it shouldnt be as much of a let down. Woulda been sick to see that match-up tho.. a juiced up Overeem is always good times.

[Liquidrob]

Rogers vs Werdum for the title, Scott make it happen!

[CrimsonGhost56]

Rogers vs Werdum for the title, Scott make it happen!

what other choice do they have? besides bringing another figther in ... and i cant really think of any off the top of my head

[Steel Mamba]

horrible UFC match making cont.

http://mmamania.com/2009/07/23/michael-bisping-vs-wanderlei-silva-ufc-105-main-event-possible-for-nov-14/

Or simply just a way to get Wand back on track I suppose.

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

horrible UFC match making cont.

http://mmamania.com/2009/07/23/michael-bisping-vs-wanderlei-silva-ufc-105-main-event-possible-for-nov-14/

Or simply just a way to get Wand back on track I suppose.

Hows that horrible ?
Looks like a great matchup.

You know both guys are willing to strike and Wandy needs to fight someone at 185. Both guys need a win to stay relevant.
10x more interesting then Hendo/Franklin.

[Steel Mamba]

Hows that horrible ?
Looks like a great matchup.

You know both guys are willing to strike and Wandy needs to fight someone at 185. Both guys need a win to stay relevant.
10x more interesting then Hendo/Franklin.

Styles make fights. Hendo/Franklin as a rematch this soon isn't exciting, but stylistically they make for a much more interesting match. Wand vs Bisping isn't going to play out any different than Hendo vs Bisping did. It's a bad matchup of styles and two guys coming off of some devastating losses possibly headlining an event.

[CrimsonGhost56]

Styles make fights. Hendo/Franklin as a rematch this soon isn't exciting, but stylistically they make for a much more interesting match. Wand vs Bisping isn't going to play out any different than Hendo vs Bisping did. It's a bad matchup of styles and two guys coming off of some devastating losses possibly headlining an event.

its two guys who are going to come out swinging and someones getting their head knocked off. hows that a bad match?

[Steel Mamba]

its two guys who are going to come out swinging and someones getting their head knocked off. hows that a bad match?

Same reason the Hendo fight was a bad matchup. Bisping doesn't have an answer for any of their strengths making his opponent by far the favorite yet again. I just don't see how Bisping is going to make a fight out of it to make it a good watch. It's a fight that's going to stay standing, but Bisping just isn't technically sound enough to make it an interesting standup war like Franklin did with his match against Wand. It's just a bad mismatch, it wouldn't exactly be a bad undercard fight, but I don't see how it's main event material.

[BigBiss]

its two guys who are going to come out swinging and someones getting their head knocked off. hows that a bad match?

I would not call what Bisping dose coming out swinging

[Warner2BruceTD]

Same reason the Hendo fight was a bad matchup. Bisping doesn't have an answer for any of their strengths making his opponent by far the favorite yet again. I just don't see how Bisping is going to make a fight out of it to make it a good watch. It's a fight that's going to stay standing, but Bisping just isn't technically sound enough to make it an interesting standup war like Franklin did with his match against Wand. It's just a bad mismatch, it wouldn't exactly be a bad undercard fight, but I don't see how it's main event material.

I agree it's not a main event. It's a big problem Dana has right now (and he acknowledges it), because they run too many events, and have too few main event quality fights to put on them.

UFC has a deep roster, but it's relatively thin at the top (for the number of events they run) in terms of potential ME caliber guys.

They'd be fine if they cut back to 10 PPV's and 2 or 3 live TV's, but that isnt happening in the current climate.