“When Eddie Sanchez is being talked about as a prospect there is definitely a problem.”

I 100% agree with both of these statements, I about shit when I saw that Sanchez made the main card at 79. I don’t know if your right about Lesnar though, and I really don’t understand why you don’t think athletic commissions won’t sanction him? You think that because he is a NCAA champion he is not on the same skill level?

“Smarten the fuck up”

Thank you Mayor Of Grammar.

then I read that quote and I think it is the best of them all.

Keep up the good work Mr. Cupitt. I love the content and am usually interested enough in the article to not overly criticize minor spelling errors.

Thats a lot of fighters! No he does not pretty much have them all. The UFC has most of the top fighters, but look at the world lightweight rankings, I can see 2 ufc fighters ranked, the rest are fighting in other organizations or are in Japan probably going to sign with M1 (thats just my opinion). Look at Andre and Tito, two big name fighters probably going somewhere else. Isn’t Arlovski from Belarus, former Soviet Union? I think Andre vs. Fedor would be an awesome fight and UFC will never do that one.
No Dana you’re not gonna get them all! You never will! There are too many good fighters! If the UFC had them all we would only see our favorite fighters fight once a year because every fighter needs their turn to fight. This sport is just too big for one organization so stop hating on all your competition because UFC is the biggest.

“crown an interim champion on February 2nd they should delay any challenges for a period of time to give the division time to come up with a few more names”

Instead of disparaging every heavyweight in the UFC, how about you sit long and hard and think of a real solution instead of being such a hater? Every fighter is marketable. Anything can be marketed. The whole art of marketing is based on perception. Why would it be so hard to create fiction?

And why build an entire division on one guy? A great 45 year old fighter?

I did use the spell check I did, and it highlighted nearly every word I wrote in red. Even words like end, and if were highlighted. So I went through and changed all the ones that stuck out. If I missed one I am human, if you want to point that out to me fine. If you tell me to smarten the fuck up while you do it and mock my education, I will tell you to get the fuck down from your high horse and shove your grammatical lessons up your arse.

You sir, are a grammar Nazi.

as i’ve said, i have great respect for the amount of work everyone puts into this site. i know it’s very difficult, and things happen on the fly. i tried to make a point being a bit sarcastic, and it didn’t work, i apologize again.

Seriously, we’re all doing the best we can here. Mistakes happen. If people won’t to help by pointing them out, I’m all for it. But corrections can be pointed out without attitude.

Simple grammatical, spelling, and syntax errors are always, and easily forgiven, but outright wrong, and incorrect use of the English Language when writing for a website that gets this amount of traffic, should not.

Sam Cupitt wrote “could of” and “would of”, because he didn’t know that when we speak “could’ve” or “would’ve”, while they may sound to his ears the way he originally wrote them in words, in reality, they are contractions of “could have” and “would have”, as anyone who has made it past 7th grade knows.

Some may say this is an idiotic point to argue, and i’ll accept that, but if I were writing for a website run by a well respected journalist, a website that is viewed by more than just hardcore mma fans like you and I, (i.e. those that come from CBS…) I’m damn sure that I would have more respect for myself as a writer, Sam Caplan as the main guy, and to my fellow mma fans that were reading what I wrote, to at *least* run a simple spell check before posting something that would be seen by so many, but that’s just me.

If there is any truth at all too it, it’s completely insane and speaks volumes about the heavyweight division.

Thank you Mayor Of Grammar.

no hostility indended. sorry if i stated myself too strongly for you.

and no one has broken my caps lock key, informal writing on the net (i.e. comments, emails) are usually done in all lower case letters in order to keep things, well, informal. had i really been meaning to get all angry, or make some kind of Serious Post i would’ve capitalized a few things.

anyway, “The UFC could of had…” still needs to be fixed to “could have” near top of the post.

Unfortunately the UFC will now have to give their younger heavyweights higher profile matchups perhaps before they are ready or proven. Guys like Lesnar, O’Brien and Carwin are certainly some of the better prospects in the divison but definitely should be given more time to develop but probably can’t be now. Besides coming to terms with Couture, Fedor or Arlovski there isn’t alot that can be done right now. The divison will have to have someone emerge like a Lesnar or O’Brien as legit right now, maybe with wins in their next matches that will happen. Certainly is extremely up-in-the-air for the division right now, but that is pretty much that case with heavyweights in fighting in general.