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[DrFever]

"I've got a couple more in me," he said when asked if he would keep fighting. "Let me go home and heal this up. I'll be back. I'll be back."

So who would like to see him fight if you got to pick his last two fights?

Feed him some young guy that's talking smack? Bring someone in from Japan? Set up an old school rematch?

[NinjaShogunRua]

Well, he is still under contract in K-1 so most likely it will be at K-1 Dynamite! or even after that. I know Sakuraba is rumored to be fighting Rickson, but if that doesn't go through I wouldn't mind seeing Saku vs Royce II. After that I don't really know.

[killerinstinct]

royce vs. rich franklin for the title and this is one i know will never happen ,but royce vs. rickson.

[Matt Boone]

I highly doubt Royce fights in the UFC again. If he does it'd probably be a legends match with Ken Shamrock, which would do huge business. Still, it wouldn't benefit the UFC other than a hot-shot main event designed simply to earn a few dollars and gain nothing going forward...well, unless you really load the undercard, but a Gracie-Shamrock III main event would cost a lot and with their budget for fighters, I doubt the undercard would be much more appealing in terms of name value than UFC 60 was on paper.

He'll probably fight in Japan once a year again at most, and the best we can hope for now is Royce-Saku II. I think he's learned his lesson about trying to challenge top competitors in UFC. He'll go back to some high dollar jobber matches in K-1's MMA show or something. Or do what most Gracie's do and quit fighting professionally, and claim to be stacking up a 400-0 record of fights no one has ever, or will ever see - but can't prove wrong. You know, Rickson and Cesar Gracie style. I'm sorry, that one was a bit low. I'll keep them up in the future, Mr. Alumni

[Bullet]

Originally Posted by Matt Boone

I highly doubt Royce fights in the UFC again. If he does it'd probably be a legends match with Ken Shamrock, which would do huge business. Still, it wouldn't benefit the UFC other than a hot-shot main event designed simply to earn a few dollars and gain nothing going forward...well, unless you really load the undercard, but a Gracie-Shamrock III main event would cost a lot and with their budget for fighters, I doubt the undercard would be much more appealing in terms of name value than UFC 60 was on paper.

He'll probably fight in Japan once a year again at most, and the best we can hope for now is Royce-Saku II. I think he's learned his lesson about trying to challenge top competitors in UFC. He'll go back to some high dollar jobber matches in K-1's MMA show or something. Or do what most Gracie's do and quit fighting professionally, and claim to be stacking up a 400-0 record of fights no one has ever, or will ever see - but can't prove wrong. You know, Rickson and Cesar Gracie style. I'm sorry, that one was a bit low. I'll keep them up in the future, Mr. Alumni

Y u hatin on rickson he is proberly da best mma fighter in history so keep it quite

[LethalStriker]

Rickson is probably the best BJJ practitioner of all time. But he hasn't fought anyone of significant to qualify as the best ever in MMA.

[Matt Boone]

Probably would be the key word, and why did you go with probably? Because you, like everyone else only knows what people say about him. You yourself have not seen all 400 of his flawless victories, you've seen at most the same 10 or 12 everyone else has, against absolute nobodies. Just being established as a jiu-jitsu master doesn't make you the best MMA fighter in history. It makes you "probably" the best MMA fighter in history.

[killerinstinct]

you know what matt your PROBABLY right!

[Matt Boone]

That was probably a pretty funny joke lol

[Anthony]

Yoshida and Saku