fedor will fight sylvia

Business wise, there is a big battle between mma and boxing. Amongst fans, fighters and keyboard warriors. The big argument has always been that a mma fighter would get beaten by a boxer. Of course they are always talking about a boxing match, so they are probably correct. I for one don’t want them to see RJJ put away AS and then run their mouths about it, all the while ignoring the fact that AS would school him in a mma fight.

Also, many boxing fans have held their ground in not becoming mma fans. Seeing a top mma fighter beaten down, probably will make it easier for them to stay as boxing only fans.

The only way i see this working, would be if RJJ agreed to do a mma match 6 months after the boxing match.

Personally, I am a fan of both boxing and mma and I don’t see why there is this nonexistent rule that you must be one or the other.

As for the Silva RJJ fight……come one, do all you people championing the smart decision by Dana honestly not want to see this? I think Anderson’d do better than anyone gives him credit for. It is a gimme though, that he’d lose.

But how about level the playing field…..RJJ has stated he’s got no ground game at all……ok, what about modified rules? What’s so wrong about having a special rules kickboxing match in the cage? We see it all the time when two strikers want to prove who’s got better hands. But it won’t happen unless Silva goes out and does it on his own with RJJ and Don King. From his statements, that’s what’ll happen. I guess.

WEC: 125, 135, 145, 160, 170, & female division

UFC: 155, 170, 185, 205, heavyweight.

I agree he should take the few fighter in 205 & 185 from the WEC and put the into the UFC. That makes sense since the UFC’s 205 class is stacked and the 185 is much bigger and better than freaking chael sonnen and paul filho.

Also, babulo and arlovski need to come back. especially since the loss of randy and tim and since there’s no chance of signing fedor or josh barnett.

The only thing I think dana needs to reconsider is letting anderson silva box roy jones jr. I understand that dana doesn’t want silva getting knocked the hell out in a boxing match because that makes the UFC and MMA all together look bad. Maybe they should meet halfway and have a kickboxing match like in K-1.

p.s. have din thomas go to the wec too.

And RJJ would destroy Silva in a boxing match. Why would Dana want to risk a top headliner for that crap?

And ditto on the Hitler comment.

Danny, I posted elsewhere that I thought the UFC should have some WEC titlefights on their ppvs occasionally. The Faber/Pulver fight would have been perfect. It could have been a nice payday for those guys and generate more interest in the WEC. I don’t know that they need to incorporate the whole WEC, but a few showcases would be great, imo. Robinson and Gurgel are pretty big lws, so I’m not sure how the cut would effect them, but Crane needs to drop for sure, though i know he has at least 1 more fight coming in the UFC. Damn, he looked small compared to Huerta and Pelligrino.

this is coming from a jew.

i suppose they were bound to drop the bigger divisions of the wec eventually. i dont expect to see much out of some of those fighters in the ufc though. sonnen has been around that block already. filho and silva wont fight each other (and doesnt filho wanna fight at light heavyweight anyway?), and marshall… well, yeah. i could see stann being a threat eventually, so hopefully they build him up slow, and let him progress against some other up-and-comers.

will be interesting to see if they will dissolve the welterweights (i like condit’s chances), and lightweights as well. might leave the wec kinda thin. unless they add a flyweight (125) division, but who’s gonna fight in that? 12 year olds?

You idiotic child. Comparing a sports figurehead to the atrocities of Hitler….

You do understand that without Dana, and to a lesser extent, the Fertittas, MMA in the US would not exist right? Like none. Kids wouldn’t be taking BJJ classes instead of TKD, and if you look at from the right perspective, there probably wouldn’t be MMA in general since PRIDE’s undoing was the loss of a TV deal and the belief they were tied to the Japanese mob. So the UFC dies after SEG fails, PRIDE dies after their last show, and you don’t have any website to post you’re asinine opinion.

Without Dana, most of these guys would be getting the piss beat out of them in bar fights.

If he let Silva fight Jones in boxing, Silva would get killed. He did the right thing.

Way to keep things in perspective.