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[Colossal Spoons]

And GSP showed how weak his takedown defense is. Nice guy though lol

 

[misjuevos]

vid of penn at hughes house, pretty cool to see them training together
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[TheVileOne]

Matt Hughes and BJ Penn are having a bromance!

 

[SuperSoldier985]

After talking to a source close to the situation MMABay.co.uk can reveal that Strikeforce heavyweight champion, Alistair Overeem is on the verge of putting pen to paper on an exclusive deal to fight inside the UFC’s octagon with his debut likely to come in December.

We spoke to a source close to “The Reem” earlier today and they explained that the wheels were in motion for the Dutchman to headline the UFC 140 card in Toronto, Ontario, Canada opposite former UFC heavyweight champion, Brock Lesnar.​

http://www.mmabay.co.uk/2011/08/16/rumour-ufc-140-%E2%80%93-alistair-overeem-could-make-his-octagon-debut-against-brock-lesnar-on-december-10th-in-toronto/

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Overeem/Lesnar already!? I hoped they wouldn't pull the trigger on that cash cow fight so early but Zuffa will be Zuffa.

 

[Mace Bloodstone]

Alistair fighting in December is possible, that's about it.... Has Brock even had surgery yet?

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Brock lives in the woods now

 

[misjuevos]

gilbert melendez, jake ellenberger, alan belcher are gonna be on inside mma this week, just a heads up. it's an hour long mma talk show on hdnet if you are wondering. or you can always watch it on their website the next day.

 

[E-Man]

They really need to get Gil in there to fight the winner of Edgar/Maynard. The 155 title situation is full of great contenders, but none of them have separated themselves from the pack yet. Melendez IMO is already worth a title shot because he has a legit claim to being the top guy at 155. If not then he can fight Guillard, Bendo, or Guida for the title shot. So many great match-ups in the UFC for that guy.

 

[B]

Alistair fighting in December is possible, that's about it.... Has Brock even had surgery yet?

Lesnar had surgery the week he pulled out off the Dos Santos fight.

From what I understand the surgery was very serious & I thought I read Dana White saying that Lesnar would be lucky to be fighting in the first half off 2012.

He'll need to make sure he is at 100%, going in to fight someone like Overeem when the biggest hole in his game is his striking is something you don't want to be doing if you are only about 70%.

On paper this is a bad matchup for both guys. Lesnar has struggled against guys with good striking/power & Overeem has never faced a wrestler of Lesnar's ability/calibre before.

 

[B]

http://www.mmafighting.com/video/dana-white-ufc-133-post-fight-interview/

This is a good watch from Dana White if anyone has a free 10 minutes to kill.

The last, I dunno 4 minutes of a 10 minute interview about UFC 133 he is ranting about Fedor & the 'crazy Russian fans' of his & talks about what he did to try to get Fedor into the UFC and how hes happy now that Fedor didn't accept the deal.

To give you a hint on the tone of the interview his opening comment about the deal was this: "Yea, I flew to some ****ed up island in the middle of nowhere.."

 

[misjuevos]

http://video.msn.com?vid=f1d310e0-7...9&mkt=en-us&src=FLPl:shareBar:permalink:uuids

dana and lorenza doing interview with fox about their new deal

 

[Paroxysm]

Dana White on Lesnar's return.

"Brock's gonna get back in the gym in September. Start training again, cause he hasn't done anything since his surgery -- training wise. Brock will probably be back the first of the year."
http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2011/8/18/2371294/brock-lesnar-expected-to-return-to-ufc-in-2012

 

[Mace Bloodstone]

Dana White on Lesnar's return.

"Brock's gonna get back in the gym in September. Start training again, cause he hasn't done anything since his surgery -- training wise. Brock will probably be back the first of the year."
http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2011/8/18/2371294/brock-lesnar-expected-to-return-to-ufc-in-2012

"Frank Mir has been linked as the most likely opponent"

I've already seen this sh**!

 

[Dr. Evil]

http://video.msn.com?vid=f1d310e0-7...9&mkt=en-us&src=FLPl:shareBar:permalink:uuids

dana and lorenza doing interview with fox about their new deal

*Waits for Bill O'Reilly to bash his parent company for making this move*

 

[Mace Bloodstone]

Brock

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[misjuevos]

"Frank Mir has been linked as the most likely opponent"

I've already seen this sh**!

that just shows how shallow not just their HW pool is but all HW pools anywhere. they only got a handful of HW fighters.

 

[misjuevos]

well new fox deal and gus johson is already mentioned as a prefight/postfight guy by the fox exec, lol. please put goldie and gus together.

 

[E-Man]

I don't want to see Brock fight Mir again. Give Brock Roy, or even someone like Travis Browne. Anyone but Mir. I don't want to see them fight again unless it's for the title.

 

[CrypticOne]

Why does the UFC love rematches?! I don't wanna see Lesnar/Mir again. But whatever....

 

[misjuevos]

why you ask, well because they can make money off people and hype the fight up easier. they have footage from the old fights. new fights are just speculation since they never fought before, so the hype is overdrive.

 

[Mace Bloodstone]

why you ask, well because they can make money off people and hype the fight up easier. they have footage from the old fights. new fights are just speculation since they never fought before, so the hype is overdrive.

I can see it already, brock tapping out in the first fight, some slomotion montage and then brock punching mir in the second while audio of joe rogan amped up.

 

[B]

**** sake not Lesnar/Mir III.. Lesnar's next fight will be his 8th Pro-MMA bout, if it is against Mir that will be 3 fights out of 8 against Mir. Hope Dana shows some common sense here, at this point those 2 fighting means nothing really. I know they hate each other, but there are alot of other fighters in MMA that have bad blood with another fighter & have not fought them 3 times inside 2/3 years.

Overeem would be a logical fight for Lesnar should he sign for the UFC/Zuffa again & the timing all aligns well. Really I have no interest in seeing Mir/Lesnar III already for the simple fact that neither have improved enough that would make this fight any different.

Mir doesn't have good enough takedown defense to stuff Brock's takedowns & even though he has increased his size, he still would get smoothered by Brock in whatever position he takes him to as Carwin proved against the cage. It would either be another TKO beating by Lesnar or a beating followed by a random submission win for Mir.. more likely the former I personally feel. Same old ****.

Lesnar should be fighting Overeem, Nelson, Noguera/Schaub or Kongo/Mitrione at this point & Mir should fight the other bouts winner or Overeem.

At the moment Mir is one of the only credible HW currently without a bout in the works.. that being said I still don't want to see it just yet. Wait until the result of the match actually means something.

 

[CrypticOne]

The UFC just hopes to have Brock get a win. I hope Mir knocks him. God knows, Brock is gonna be scared for the rest of his career to take a punch.

 

[Shogun89]

chances are the winner of Brock vs Mir 3 gets a title shot, unfortunately