After reading this and Sonnen fighting JOnes after a Ultimate Fighter session I am really losing interest in the UFC.
Five more years of Silva ducking anyone that might be able to beat him, great.....
I also don't care about "defend your title" stuff that everyone is saying. I don't really care about belts, I would rather just see the best fights possible.
Jones fighting Silva's leftovers after Silva has destroyed them but Silva and Jones won't fight? WTF is wrong with the match making in the UFC. It is becoming a bit of a joke.
I would pay for Jones/Silva but there is no way I am paying to watch GSP/Silva or even go to a bar to support this PPV.
I don't understand why Anderson should HAVE to move up? He's the champ of the MW division and that is his only responsibility. Just because Anderson ran guys to the LHW division doesn't mean he has to go too.
I'm also on the "who cares about a superfight" bandwagon. I mean it's been talked about so long now that it has lost it's interest. It just doesn't make a lot of sense other than the UFC making the money off of it. If guys can't step up and beat these guys then why is it the champs' fault? What happens when a HW does the same thing? Where does he have to go?
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Favorite UFC Fighters:
HW-Cigano, Frank Mir, Cain Valasquez
LHW-Machida, Franklin, Jon Jones
MW-Maia, Gouveia, Anderson
WW-GSP, Hazelett ,Diaz
LW-BJ Penn, Huerta, Lauzon
I don't understand why Anderson should HAVE to move up? He's the champ of the MW division and that is his only responsibility. Just because Anderson ran guys to the LHW division doesn't mean he has to go too.
I'm also on the "who cares about a superfight" bandwagon. I mean it's been talked about so long now that it has lost it's interest. It just doesn't make a lot of sense other than the UFC making the money off of it. If guys can't step up and beat these guys then why is it the champs' fault? What happens when a HW does the same thing? Where does he have to go?
He has "stepped up" to fight other LHWs that he knows would be punching bags for him. Tries to pick and choose which MW he fights and wants to fight a WW that has never fought at MW before. Please explain this to me.
I am not paying to watch a non competitive main event. Anderson Silva versus most MW is not competitive. Anderson Silva versus most LHWs is not competitive. I don't think most other people want to pay $50 to see this either.
In a Monday interview with "Inside MMA" on AXS TV, Soares said he'd like to see a Silva vs. St-Pierre superfight as his client's next fight.
"At the end of the day, GSP is the greatest welterweight of all time," Soares said. "People argue back and forth who the greatest pound-for-pound fighter in the world is. Some people say it's Anderson, some people say it's Georges St-Pierre. So I think the way to settle it is to do a catch weight at 177 1/2, right down the middle, and see what happens.
"I think it'll be a fight that the fans want to see and it'll be a great fight."
Silva (33-4 MMA, 16-0 UFC) is coming off a first-round TKO win over Stephan Bonnar in a light heavyweight fight in the main event of UFC 153 earlier this month. The win kept him unbeaten in the UFC and was his third first-round knockout in fights at 205 pounds.
St-Pierre (22-2 MMA, 16-2 UFC) is getting ready to come back from a 19-month layoff. He returns next month in a title unification fight against interim champ Carlos Condit (28-5 MMA, 5-1 UFC) at UFC 154 in front of his home fans in Montreal.
If St-Pierre gets past Condit – he is a better than 3-to-1 favorite with oddsmakers – there has been widespread speculation that the UFC would try to make a fight between the two most dominant champions in the company and two of its biggest pay-per-view draws.
In fact, UFC President Dana White believes such a fight would be perfect for Cowboys Stadium in Dallas – where the promotion would have the potential to break its own North American attendance record of 55,000, which it set the last time St-Pierre fought at UFC 129 at Rogers Centre in Toronto.
But White also has another potential mega-fight in mind for Silva at some point, and that is against light heavyweight champ Jon Jones. Really, though, there is little doubt that White and the UFC would be just fine with either option.
"There are so many options for him right now," White said after UFC 153. "He never ceases to amaze. And like he says, there's a lot of talented guys now in that 185-pound division. But as he says, he's at this point in his career where there are some superfights there. The Georges St-Pierre fight is a big fight. I think the Jon Jones fight is a big fight."
An arm injury suffered in his win over Vitor Belfort will keep Jones idle until April, when he'll defend his title against Chael Sonnen after the two coach opposite each other on Season 17 of "The Ultimate Fighter." So that would appear to put a Silva-Jones fight more on the back burner than a possible Silva-GSP bout.
Waiting in the wings, potentially, for St-Pierre is the winner of the UFC 154 co-main event between Martin Kampmann and Johny Hendricks. For Silva, the options are greater. Michael Bisping remains a long-discussed candidate for a title shot, as does the winner of an upcoming fight between Chris Weidman and Tim Boetsch at UFC 155.
But it sounds like Soares is hoping for a St-Pierre win over Condit, and then a fight with Silva.
"Who knows what's next. Maybe after (a possible fight with St-Pierre), who knows. A possibility it could be (Jon Jones), or maybe even Bisping," Soares said. "There are so many different fighters out there that could potentially be big fights."
He has "stepped up" to fight other LHWs that he knows would be punching bags for him. Tries to pick and choose which MW he fights and wants to fight a WW that has never fought at MW before. Please explain this to me.
I am not paying to watch a non competitive main event. Anderson Silva versus most MW is not competitive. Anderson Silva versus most LHWs is not competitive. I don't think most other people want to pay $50 to see this either.
Who else is even "stepping up" to fight punching bags....no one. Most fighters are dropping down weight classes. Which fighters has Anderson been asked to fight and not fought? Show me where Dana has asked Anderson to fight Jones specifically? How did he pick and choose which MWs he fought when has has beaten every top contender that has been in there? Who has he ducked? I assume you are going to mention Weidman, but again...show me where he was offered the fight?
Easy explanation on the GSP fight...MONEY!! No other fight will make Anderson the amount of money that GSP would.
Personally, I have never paid 50 to watch any "main event." If the entire card is not worth it, then I don't get it.
So if most of Anderson's fights at MW and LHW aren't competitive, then what's the argument? Because I personally don't think the Jones fight is going to be any more competitive than the others....
We get too involved in all of the rumors and message board talk about who should fight who, etc....but when you come down to Dana coming to these fighters and saying "We are asking you to fight this guy" Anderson has fought them.
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Favorite UFC Fighters:
HW-Cigano, Frank Mir, Cain Valasquez
LHW-Machida, Franklin, Jon Jones
MW-Maia, Gouveia, Anderson
WW-GSP, Hazelett ,Diaz
LW-BJ Penn, Huerta, Lauzon
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