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Alright, a couple thoughts on a few of the posts above. Im fairly certain Couture had a hand in choosing Lesnar for this fight. Couture will get a percentage of the PPV buys and you have to believe that fight will generate a huge buyrate. Second, who else is he going to fight? Mir and Nog are the coaches of the next TUF and already scheduled to fight each other for the title at a future PPV, so they are out of the question. So Whos left? Kongo is injured I believe, Vera is down at 205, he already beat Gonzaga, the only person left is Werdum. You can make a good argument for him, but thats it. You have to believe Couture and Dana White would much rather take the much bigger payday from the Lesner fight. The fact is the UFC HW division just isnt very deep. Sucks for Werdum, but if he wins another fight or 2 they will have to give him his shot.
As for Rashad, while Im not a big fan, I dont have much of a problem with him getting the title fight. It was widely believed either the winner of Rashad/Chuck or Machida/Silva would fight Forrest. With Silva pulling out of the Machida fight at UFC 89 the winner of the other was going to get the title fight. Im sure the UFC isnt exactly thrilled with that fight.
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