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God I hope Sherk doesnt get a title hsot anytime soon! Who really wants to see a boring champion who defends his title once a year.

Sherk knows he will never hold the title as long as BJ is around, so he is making plans to capture the vacant title…..What a chump!

I would like too see Sherk vs. Tyson Griffin, neither can finish a fight, so lets find out who the supperior dry humper is. I dont mean to hate3 on Tyosn, Although he cant finish a fight to save his life, his matches are usually entertaining.

I’m sorry man but Sherk has legit plans. Penn hardly wants to stay around in the LW division which fires me up a bit as well. Sherk is a straight competitor and you know he’d face Penn again. I’d also like to state that he doesn’t have the most exciting fighting style but his fights are exciting. He fights to the other guys pace and beats them that way so yeah he’s a bit of a dry humper but he takes a beating to win. I also think there is a chance Sherk could beat BJ as well, he had a strong game plan and stuck to it even in the end when he should have switched it up. He tried standing with Penn to tire him out when in the third he should have started shooting. He even looked safe until the very end of the round. I really just want to see a champion who deserves his belt, and if BJ doesn’t want to stick around at LW to clean out the division I don’t see why Sherk shouldn’t. He’d definetly clean the LW division out pretty good. And if you think BJ is good enough to beat down GSP then LW wouldn’t even be considered a challenge for Penn so there would be no point in him staying at that weight unless he wanted to hold two belts at once which would mean he would be holding up one belt for a good amount of time while he defended the other. The points are a little backward right?

Sorry, but I dont think Sherk could ever defeat BJ Penn. I just dont think that he is capable of it. BJ Penn made Sherk look like Caol Uno!

I would like to see Sherks wrestling nuetralized by gray maynard!

clementi has been on a role as of late. it would be a good fight. clementi has ALOT of experiance. thats the great thing about the 155 division. there’s SOOO many talented fighters! guida vs sherk would be an awesome fight as well.

gray isn’t a “lay and prey” fighter. i agree sherk likes to fight like that, sometimes. sherk and florian had a pretty good fight. gray and frankie had an awesome fight. they were going 100 miles per hour the entire time and they fought at high elevation. who’s to say that gray and sherk wouldn’t have a good fight. the only lay and prey fighter i can’t stand to watch is lyoto, but i’m a mma fan so i’ll watch lyoto’s fights anyways. but i’m usually shouting at my tv screen the entire time! lol!

We are in agreement with Lyoto, but Fitch’s fights are kinda boring too.

true that! fitch’s fight are really boring. i’m sure gsp will add some excitement to the fight. i’m pissed that fitch was able to tie royce gracie’s win streak. he won’t be able to get past gsp, but crazier things have happened before…

GSP is the only reason that fight will be exciting. It’s too bad that a big 6’0" strong wrestler is so boring. Crazy thing do happen (Serra/GSP-1) But hopefully GSP stays in the zone he’s in.

i questioned gsp’s mental strenght when he fought serra the second time, but he proved me wrong. yeah if gsp stays in the zone he’s in, not alot of people can touch him. if/when bj vs. gsp 2 happens, it will be a great fight.

What is with all you Machida Haters. The guy is unbeaten and he does not fight cans. He turned Karate into a effective style in the octagon. Give the guy some RESPECT!!!! He will be champ before the end of 09

I think Sherk just respected BJ’s ground game so much that he didn’t want to go to the mat while BJ was still fresh. He made such a big deal about cardio that I think he wanted to tire BJ out on his feet before taking him down so he would be too tired to pull off textbook submissions. The plan back fired because Sherk thought his standup could hang with BJ’s and we all saw that it couldn’t.
 He will be a very tough opponent for any lightweight not name BJ Penn and I know none of them are jumping around like "I"ll fight him! I’ll fight him, because losing will only push them deeper down the ladder and no one wants that.

Sucks to be a lightweight or a middleweight. Lightweight you got Penn with the Sherk gatekeeper. Middleweight you got Silva with a Franklin / Henderson gatekeeping combo. Wow!!!

WORD!

You notice there is no mention of him wanting to fight BJ

i totally agree with you, GETRAWBC. it sucks to say, but the lightweight/middleweight divisions is not a good place to be right now. you’ll definitely get pummelled before know it.

I was actually impressed with the speed of Sherk’s hands, as well as his combo’s. Problem is he has those t-rex arms. I thought B.J. didn’t look as fast as Sherk did when they were exchanging, but it didn’t matter since Sherk had a very difficult time closing the distance, and B.J. could just sit back and jab. I think B.J. is the better fighter, but I still would have rather seen Sherk go for more takedowns and not try to prove his stand up in the most important fight of his career.

I’m nominating “Sherks T-Rex arms” as comment of the day!!! LMAO....×2!!!!!!

why do people keep saying that? Sherk COULDNT take BJ down. I wouldve loved to see a ground war between the two as well but Sherks takedowns just arent good enough to get him there. He was overmatched. Even GSP had a hard time getting BJ down, and GSP has the best TD’s in MMA, second to Koscheck.

I don’t know if you have ever seen Sherk’s takedowns man. I’m not going to say this is where he got his nickname the muscle shark from but I believe it is. He looks like a shark jumping out of water when he does a body lock takedown. You can even check out the Hermes fight cause the takedowns there were impressive. Somebody already said it best that Sherk just respected BJ’s ground game too much to want to go for the takedown. Sherk is overly aggressive at that weight class and even more so than GSP or Kos. They have better style takedowns but Sherks are usually just dominating.

UTAPOUT, glad to see there’s someone else that understands… Sherk could not take BJ down! Sherk would have been beaten even quicker in trying to force that takedown. It takes a lot of energy to take someone down and drains even more energy when a fighter doesn’t get a takedown. Even Sherk would get tired quickly.

Smokes I understand what you are saying, but BJ is too much of an elusive fighter for Sherk to get in close enough for a TD. Everytime he stepped inside the pocket he got nailed with a jab or a combo. Sherk has a fast shot from the outside but BJ has got freakish reflexes, and the best sprawl around. BTW, comparing BJ to Franca is like apples and oranges.

I think I remember Dana saying that if he beat the winner of Florian/Huerta, he would consider that cleaning out the division, and he could move up to fight.

Because if he wants to create a grudge match using TUF then it’ll hold two belts up for 8 months and on top of that the second belt not being defended at the end of that time would be held up for another 4 months because of Penn needing time to rest after defending a title. Just seems like too much work on Dana’s part. He’ll probably do the interm title deal tho

There are so many good fighters at 155 right now. It would be a very bad time for BJ to jump to 170. A. Silva can discuss going to 205 because there isn’t anyone worthy of getting a title shot at 185.

lol no one is at bj’s level! sherk was the closest, and we saw how that ended!!

thats true. bj hasn’t cleaned out the 155 division like AS has cleaned out the 185 division. but i really want to see bj vs gsp 2. i still think ufc should have a triple threat match. bj vs gsp vs a. silva, winner take all. that would be crazy!! lol!

Linx: I agree that I dont think Dana wants any fighter to hold 2 UFC titles at the same time. When would they defend there titles?

Linx: Thanks for stating that. I’ve been saying that for ages now!

Thanks Winner by Strikes.

I think it is, trust me to post the intelligent MMA post :)

When???

No Hughes didnt!! LMAO!!! Just like ha always asks for the Hallman rematch right LoL!!!!

I dont hate him since he displayed that tasty stand up, he should use it more often. I never sad Faber would win, just that i think he should move up, id like to see him against a lot of 155ers but you’re right, maybe Sher would be a little much. At least to start for sure.

good call…i misinterpreted you. I guess Ill have to go back to never disagreeing with your insights!

Well, more power to the two of you. As for me, I’m going to paint my kitchen and make sure it dries evenly next time Sherk fights.