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But James Steele is acting like there is a obv number one contender who is getting fucked here.. Other than Hendo, there is no clear cut contender.. Sonnen is still a highly ranked fight with a huge draw and no one to fight.. As Vic said, this fight will be huge and the lead up, will prolly be the best season of TUF in a long time.. They get a huge main event and save their tv series all with one match..
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Chael's success against Silva came from him not believing the hype and stalking Silva down.. No one has done that to Bones yet.. Not saying Sonnen is gonna win, but acting like he has no chance is foolish..
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What has Chael Sonnen done in the recent past to deserve a Light Heavyweight title shot other than losing to the best fighter in the world twice and being able to talk people into the building? Besides, you are completely missing my point. UFC will never break past boxing if it continues to just play buyrate bingo with its matchmaking. It works now, but hasn't Dana and co. said they want UFC to become ingrained into sports culture like the other major sports leagues? You can't do that when their is no unbiased process for determining who gets what oppurtunities. Yes, bigger market teams get better time slots or what have you but they aren't guaranteed a playoff spot or anything just because they were barely above .500 or upset a really good team in Week 3.
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Anyone who has fought at 205 and won at 205 since 2008.
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Is Hendo's injury so bad that there is no way he could have a full camp before the fight?
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Like NBT said, Chael/Jones is manufactured and is just a ratings ploy for a reality show on its last legs because UFC drove it into the ground and hoping the best shit talker can build enough hype. It has nothing to do with Chael Sonnen being one of the best light heavyweight fighters in the world to earn this title shot.
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He has a torn meniscus..
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UFC has consistently done this and this will keep them from ever breaking through and being a legitimate sports league on the highest level. UFC has a good market and fan base and will keep them for the most part, but they have stretched themselves too thin and they need to find a way to build fights that people will either pay to see or watch on free TV without being about who is the most marketable or talks the most shit.
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I can definantly see why they are doing it.. They did the same thing with Randy Couture coming in to beat Sylvia and letting Brock Lesnar fight for a title with under 5 pro fights.. Even letting him compete in the UFC with only one pro fight.. All those decisions were good ones.. |
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Would it be that hard to move the fight a little later and have Chael at least fight 1 fight at 205 before giving him a title shot?
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This is just like when Penn moved up to fight Hughes at 170lbs.. He was an elite 155lbs mainstay and they let him move up to go after Hughes WW Title..
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Penn had beaten Hughes before at that weight class though and had been pretty successful before that barring a couple of fights.
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Get the fuck out of here with that bullshit.. |
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It's not bullshit. It's fucking reality. If that is how they want to be run, then they have pretty much grown as much as they are going to grow. I'm in here talking about it, but I've never ordered a UFC PPV. That is the whole point, right? Get more and more people interested enough in the sport to follow it like they do the the NFL or whatever and plop down $50 bucks every once in awhile.
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and Chael is 5-2 in his last 7 with the 2 losses coming against the greatest fighter of all time and they include wins over 2 previous middleweight title contenders, 1 of whom is the current Strikeforce 170lbs champion and 2 potential/touted 185 contenders who are regarded as "top class" fighters. You're talking like it's Jason Brilz or somebody that has been slotted in to face JBJ or something.
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Penn lost the inaugural UFC LW Title fight, then came back to beat some LW contenders before getting the shot at the WW Title.. The only thing that seperates these two storylines (besides 9 years) was the fact that Chael got a second shot at the MW title while Penn only got the one shot at Pulver..
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Chael is 5-3 in his last 8 fights. He lost twice to the best MMA fighter in the world, but one of them was REALLY CLOSE so let's throw him in there with potentially the 2nd best fighter in the world (if not the best fighter in the world). Makes no sense other than Chael turning a PR nightmare into an opportunity for him. It is a fucking joke. |
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UFC doing this is more like when the NFL gives good teams nationally televised primetime slots against other teams that draw big numbers.. Which they do with SNF, MNF, and the TWO flex games on every team's schedule every fucking year.. |
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My point is people like me look at this shit and see it very similar to boxing. We all know boxing is full of bullshit and is in shambles other than a 2 fighters who won't fight each other.
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p.s. Penn had NEVER COMPETED at welterweight before he moved up to fight Hughes at UFC 47, FYI.. |
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Can y'all seriously not understand where a casual fan is coming from with this? UFC tells me how they are the fastest growing sport in the world and how they are the hottest league in all of sports. They tell me they are nothing like boxing that is generally looked at with a suspicious eye, but then they turn around and give a good fighter a title shot out of nowhere other than he took advantage of a PR opportunity? I can't take UFC seriously when they do this shit and they have always done it which is why I have never taken them as seriously as I do "real sports leagues" that they claim to be like.
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There are millions of things that go into matchmaking.. And yes, marketablity is a big one.. Dana White has always said he makes fights the fans want to see.. After the UFC 151 shitfest, the fans want to see this fight.. Jones needs this fight b/c he turned it down and looked weak for it.. Sonnen needs this fight b/c of the losses to Silva.. The UFC needs this fight for their quarter year superfight.. And I , for one, am looking forward to it..
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It doesn't matter if I do or don't. Most jackasses don't know what they are talking about with any sport. Perception is reality, and for a sport trying to expand and grow into one of the major mainstay sports in the world they need to make better decisions regarding the sanctity of their championships. If the championships don't really matter because you'll just throw the best draw out there anyway then whats the fucking point of the whole thing?
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63 was their second fight.. Why would I be talking bout that one when I'm making a case for guys getting title shots first off why moving up a weight class??
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Somebody had said something about Chael fighting at LHW before and then moving around weight classes and now he is going back to LHW. Thought that was the context.
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Send it to them. I'm sure Dana will cuss me out like the unprofessional twat he is and then talk about how he could whoop my ass.
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