UFC 102: Couture vs Nogueira

[goh]

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I generally find the local sports writer John Canzano to be a complete idiot, and thankfully, with the following article he did nothing to make me think otherwise. The guy is a complete idiot, he writes articles about the Blazers normally that are just completely void of any original thought and now hes bashing UFC because apparently John cant take the violence of it all. I question how a so called "reporter" doesnt know what hes going to watch before he signs on to do it, but leave it to this idiot to figure out how to accomplish that. Anyways, here is the article...

http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/ore...ting_cham.html

To prove himself even more the fool the first reply he makes in the comments:

(REPLY FROM JC:You really want to equate wrestling, football and soccer with the acceptance of kneeing an already defenseless guy in the face? That's a kill shot in UFC, and you'd celebrate it. But I wouldn't.)

Of course as we all know knees to the face of a fighter considered to be on the ground,the only time they would be defenseless,are illegal.

[The Chef]

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Well there you go, I guess they did bring a bucket in for him, somehow I didnt see it and that was probably because I was watching the replays overhead and not watching him consistently....

[MachoMyers]

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And that's fine. If Silva wants superfights to expand his legacy, I've got no problem with that. But he's got no business with the MW title then. A fighter shouldn't be able to be champion of a division if he's only going to defend his belt once in a year when he's completely healthy.

If he hadn't dismantled both Marquardt and Hendo already I could see your argument. How either of those fighters are going to handle Silva now is beyond me.

I think the winner of a Marquardt/Hendo fight defintely deserves to fight Silva again but to say they both deserve it now is, in my opinion, a bit much.

[Wet Bandit]

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I think the winner of a Marquardt/Hendo fight defintely deserves to fight Silva again but to say they both deserve it now is, in my opinion, a bit much.

Fine, then let Hendo fight someone else first, but there's no possible way Marquardt is not deserving of a title shot. Since losing to Silva two years ago, he's dominated Jeremy Horn, Thales Leites, Martin Kampmann, Wilson Gouveia, and Demian Maia. That's insane.

[thelasthurtknee]

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I totally agree, he's holding the MW title hostage when both Henderson and Marquardt deserve a crack at it. The only way those two should fight each other would be if Silva abandons the belt and moves up in weight. Otherwise give Henderson a shot and have Marquardt face the winner.

silva isnt holding anything hostage. he doesnt pick when or who.

[Wet Bandit]

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silva isnt holding anything hostage. he doesnt pick when or who.

Except that's exactly what him and his management are trying to do. They've been very vocal saying that Silva wants to rest until the MW division sorts itself out, that Marquardt and Hendo should fight to determine who gets a title shot. Silva's manager even went as far as to say the UFC should create an interim MW title for the winner or Marquardt/Hendo.

This about that. The healthy MW champ is so disinterested in defending his title that his manager is suggesting the UFC create an interim UFC title. That's ridiculous.

[The Chef]

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Except that's exactly what him and his management are trying to do. They've been very vocal saying that Silva wants to rest until the MW division sorts itself out, that Marquardt and Hendo should fight to determine who gets a title shot. Silva's manager even went as far as to say the UFC should create an interim MW title for the winner or Marquardt/Hendo.

This about that. The healthy MW champ is so disinterested in defending his title that his manager is suggesting the UFC create an interim UFC title. That's ridiculous.

Couldnt agree with you more, Silva needs to fight either Hendo or Nate and get it over with, if he doesnt want to do that then abandon the title and focus on LHW but if thats the case then he better be prepared to fight Machida at some point.

[allBthere]

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Couldnt agree with you more, Silva needs to fight either Hendo or Nate and get it over with, if he doesnt want to do that then abandon the title and focus on LHW but if thats the case then he better be prepared to fight Machida at some point.

his interest looked peaked to me after he knocked the crap out of mia...silva look like that really woke him up...maybe he would be interested in that now after seeing that.

After all...look at how Silva fought thales laites...and compare that to how Nate fought Maia ---- maia is more of a bjj threat than laites and nate just anhilated him.

I'm just saying that because Nate's people could use that to spin attention away from his previous loss to silva.