If it's going to be for a belt, I'd rather see Nogueira fight Sobral. I think they're both favored over Tito anyway, and at least they've got a couple solid wins recently as opposed to coming off a big loss.
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Originally Posted by bega  How's that different from Fedor. He had only one fight.
And before I get slammed for mentioning Tito and Fedor in the same sentence I want to say that Fedor has deserved to be crowned as a champ after only one fight |
Not slamming you, but pointing out Fedor was the standing champion of PRIDE FC and has no legitimate losses on his record...or even if you want to count the tourney cut, no losses in 8 years.
That's a little different than a steady decline in performance in the UFC and having been completely outclassed in his last fight.
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Originally Posted by thecoylewis It's funny that you say that because Ortiz owns a victory over the "real world champ."
It's also funny because Fedor owns 2 victories over the UFC's real world HW champ as well. |
I wouldn't compare them. Nog was already established as a fighter with a world class skillset, and Fedor beat him solidly. Forrest was still pretty green two and a half years ago, and Tito's win was a controversial split decision.
Other than his relentless self-promotion garnering more attention to Affliction with the mainstream media and TUF crowd, I honestly can't see anyone making a case for Tito getting a title shot for his next fight.
Conversely, I think doing so would open the door to a lot of legitimate criticism about the integrity of Affliction's belts. You can say what you want about Dana's integrity, but he's undeniably very deft with a soundbyte...and this would be giving him a slow pitch down the middle to hit out of the criticism park.
I think the best thing Affliction could do would be to sign a few other LHW's and set up a tourney...something a lot of fans want and that Dana has said will never happen in the UFC.
It would be just another illustration of Affliction bringing things to the fans that the UFC won't [or can't, in the case of Fedor...].
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