I give up! You people need to lighten up!

1. Decision over Heath Herring.
2. Sub Win over Tim Sylvia, who put a beating on him for 20 minutes
3. KO loss to Frank Mir
4. A decision victory over Randy Couture (although great in his time, should never ever be considered a top tier fighter anymore)

Therefore what about this warrants him getting a shot? Junior deserves one before Nog. Realistically there are about 5 fighters at the top of the HW division, all deserving title shots in their own right. But you can’t put all your eggs in one basket. You have to save some room for future title bouts.

Carwin vs Mir is an excellent interim fight. If Carwin can win this one, he will have validated himself and proven to be deserving of the matchup with Lesnar when he’s healthy to unify the belts. Mir in the last 2 1/2 years has defeated Hardonck, Lesnar, Nogueira, and humiliated Kongo, with his only loss coming to Lesnar at 100. With a Mir victory, we get to see the rubber match.

In the event Lesnar doesn’t return, we can look forward to Carwin vs Dos Santos, Mir vs Velasquez, Nog vs Carwin, or Junior vs Mir. There are a lot of exciting HW matchups to come over the next 12 months or so.

DW can say whatever he wants and whose going to make him stick to his words? – the fans? words are just words until they are put on paper and agreed upon or when the words take action.

Once again DW, living the the American Dream…sayin’ what he likes whenever he likes it’s a free country baby!

P.S. I do not dislike DW if anything I envy him for having one of the best jobs in the world.

Junior could take Yvel down for an easy win, although he might get bitten, or the ref might get hit.

“At the end of the UFC 108 Countdown show that aired on Tuesday night, UFC President Dana White made an interesting comment about the importance of the heavyweight bout between Junior dos Santos and Gilbert Yvel.

“If Junior dos Santos goes in there and knocks this guy out, he’s there,” White said. “He’s ready for that title shot.”

Is that really true? Could dos Santos get a title shot in his next fight if he knocks Yvel out? “

king mah mah: I’m going to use a quote from Not Another Teen Movie.“Cry me a river dickface!” LOL

HAHHAHAHA! Love that quote. I say it all the time, which doesn’t make the wife too happy.

@D241 Dos Santos doesn’t want the title shot himself per say, he was campaigning for his buddy Big Nog. I’m not going over the many, many arguments why or why he shouldn’t get the title shot but there’s no extremely compelling, obvious reason he should. I personally believe there are more reason why Nog hasn’t earned it yet, but I feel the same about Mir so whatever. I said earlier that if anyone is getting snubbed, it has to be Cain Velasquez but he has his chance soon.

Your other ideas were the ones that sounded better in theory but would bomb completely in real life. Letting fans pick title shots would be ridiculous, because then it basically becomes a popularity contest. We’d be watching Chuck vs. Tito 39 this weekend if that were the case. The UFC picks the fights for us, and it’s their promotion. They don’t make us watch, and they don’t make the fighters fight for them (in the literal sense), so it’s fair that they run their end, and we enjoy our end. It’s like when you elect an official into power. They can now do whatever they feel like doing, and we have to trust them because we put them there in the first place.

And there will never be an absolute ranking system because everyone looks at things differently. Some people would look at Mir’s victory over Brock as a great victory because he pulled a slick sub from the brink of defeat and put him even higher. Some would just call him lucky and not count it as much of a win. Sorry to bust your balls and everything but I don’t think it would work.

Phew, carpel tunnel.

Is a fight that literally happened over a year ago Nogueira/Mir considered recent? That fight happened over a year ago-FACT

Shane Carwin and Junior Dos Santos have fought 3 times in UFC winning all three bouts-FACT
Shane Carwin has wins over Christian Wellisch , Neil Wain, and Gabriel Gonzaga
Junior Dos Santos has wins over Fabricio Werdum(who won his next fight), Stephon Struve(who won 3 fights after his loss to JDS), and Mirko Cro Cop.

Advantage thus far-JDS

Shane Carwin has fought 1 time in 2009 and given a title shot.-FACT
JDS has fought two times in 2009 and is not getting a title shot-FACT

Now the only argument to be made is that for purely marketing purposes only, Shane Carwin might be a better marketable fighter, he’s American, he’s big, he speaks English fluently.
UFC has been guilty numerous times of saying a fighter is top ten, top 5 in the world, but obviously UFC is biased and not even considering fighters not under their brand.

What I’d like to happen would be two things:
UFC polls the fans either online and/or over phone voting or text voting to see what match ups the fans want to see instead of UFC deciding for us.
2nd thing is an international ranking system where 5 unbiased mma experts who have no ties with any fight promotion rank every fighter based on certain criteria. Certain criteria also debatable but I’d like it to be based on opponents faced, performance in their fights, previous fights of fighters career.

I think Dos Santos needs to beat either Velasquez, Nog, or Carwin, and then he will be moved to the front of the line for a title shot.

I purposefully exclude Brock b/c he is still very sick. I hope he only focuses on getting better.

It should not be surprising at all anymore when fighters like Dos Santos, Edgar, Florian, Marquardt, and others truly earn there way to the top, but get snubbed or put on the back burner.

Yvel vs. JDS is a very exciting bout. The winner could possibly be one win away from fighting the (Interim) Champ after the Big Two fight’s happen in 2010. It sucks that Brock Lesnar went down but the UFC knows what they’re doing and I have faith that they’ll keep it exciting as usual.