IggyPride00 wrote:
speedrush1189 wrote:
LTrain23 wrote:
speedrush1189 wrote:
Good night Machida. Dear lord look at that eye!!!
Who does Shogun get for his first title defense?? Evans/Rampage winner? Anderson Silva moving up for a title shot? Jake Shield??
I could be wrong, but I think it's pretty much settled that the winner of Rampage/Evans gets the first title shot..
(Let's go Rampage!)
I don't know if anybody has been following those two on twitter, but they have some great exchanges amongst one another--borderline hilarious trash talk.
I kind of figure that the fight was meant to determine who would get the title shot. If Jake Shields comes over he could be second in line if he wins his first fight.
Not sure if Silva will ever be given a shot at the LHW title or if its more likely he fights GSP down a division. I think Dana is kind of forced to make Silva move outside middleweight at this point. No one there can stay with Silva and Silva refuses to fight them yielding boring fights.
You could say the same thing about GSP. No on in that division can touch him, but he won't go up in weight. Dana just needs to tell him and Silva they're fighting, and that they can work the weight out among themselves if they want to be bitches and refuse to go up or down.
GSP could easily go up to middleweight IMO. He looks very, very lean at 170. He normally walks around at like 185-190 I believe so he can fight at that weight. Silva already looks very lean at 185. IDK that he could get down to 170 without seriously compromising his strength.
185 seems like a fine weight. If not, make it a catch weight fight. Either way, we have two guys in their prime wasting away while the rest of the division is down.
Oh, and sticking to the topic of tonight I would just like to point out again how messed up that eye was.