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[Dominus]

Part of an interview with MMAWeekly.com

ST: Let’s come back to the combat sports world. Why did you challenge Tim Sylvia a few months ago?

JL: First of all I am a man of challenge. Then I heard several times and I also read on MMA forums that Sylvia was a “deadly striker”. I was also amazed by him wearing big and ugly sunglasses after one of his fights. So, this challenge was true, but also a joke, I was teasing him a little bit about those horrible sunglasses! (laughs) But yes, I definitely want to fight him under MMA rules. I respect him like I respect other fighters.

I was also surprised to see him get two victories over Arlovski. Congrats to him. My guys said too that he won against Monson. They said it was a boring fight. He was keeping the distance with his “deadly jab”. (laughs)

He is tall, but he doesn’t have half of Choi Hong-man’s skills. (laughs)

Sylvia is a joke. I don’t like to talk trash, but I honestly believe I will beat his ass. I will crush him. I laugh at people thinking Sylvia has good stand up! I would love to show that he is a bad champion.

[Afro]

LeBanner >>>>>> Tim Sylvia

[Dsm634]

Originally Posted by Afro Samurai

LeBanner >>>>>> Tim Sylvia

I agree.

Nearly anyone > Sylvia

[gracie jui-jitsu guy]

LeBanner would destroy him.

[jesusatemyhotdog]

If they were to fight, I am willing to bet Sylvia's only goal would be to shoot and lay n pray. Instead of 5 minutes of popping his tree branch into a man's skull and circling out, we would get 5 minutes of half-assed elbows followed my smothering.
Either way, the fans win. (does sarcasm come accross on the internet?)

[Jza]

Who's Lebanner? is that a bad question to ask lol

[jesusatemyhotdog]

http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/f...FighterID=3423
That is his MMA profile, however he is a K-1 kickboxer, one of the top two or three heavyweights in the world.

[Luis Cruz]

A very good K-1 fighter. He dismantled Don Frye in a K-1 bout, actually quite scary how bad he beat him. JLB has his fight with Schilt coming up, if he wants to show that he can topple a big guy here's his chance and Schilt is definately a better striker than Sylvia so i think Sylvia would actually be an easier match for him. This is real old news anyways, this has been talked about for months and should be a dead issue since Dana said he has no interest in someone whose under contract with another organization. Let me add i was the first to fuel this rivalry, i played instigator. On my old website i did an interview with JLB off of rumors that he didn't like Sylvia and then the following week i had a counter argument with Tim. That got some serious ratings for me. lol

[Ubermensch]

I would love JLB to come over after his contract is over and take the belt even though I like Tim I like JLB better and JLB needs to win some kind of belt in his career Don't want him to be the Dan Marino of MMA and Kickboxing.

[Dominus]

Originally Posted by Luis Cruz

A very good K-1 fighter. He dismantled Don Frye in a K-1 bout, actually quite scary how bad he beat him. JLB has his fight with Schilt coming up, if he wants to show that he can topple a big guy here's his chance and Schilt is definately a better striker than Sylvia so i think Sylvia would actually be an easier match for him. This is real old news anyways, this has been talked about for months and should be a dead issue since Dana said he has no interest in someone whose under contract with another organization. Let me add i was the first to fuel this rivalry, i played instigator. On my old website i did an interview with JLB off of rumors that he didn't like Sylvia and then the following week i had a counter argument with Tim. That got some serious ratings for me. lol

Sorry it wasn't fresh enough news, I guess everyone already knows about this. Sorry to waste all your time.