I do not see LYoto and anderson fighting they were from the sam camp and are good friends. Maybe they would put that all aside as professionals but not sure.

Like it or not, Cote deserves his shot. Its not Cote’s fault that the MW division is thin because Anderson Silva cleared it out. With Okami out, Cote is the next deserving contender.

I don’t see how Cote has a prayer against Anderson Silva, much less have desire to get in the cage with Silva…but, Cote’s earned the opportunity.

I think Cote will do better than Leben too, but mostly because I don’t think Leben landed a single punch. As I recall, he just basically played the part of punching bag in that fight.

In fairness, Leben was the first guy in the UFC who fought Anderson. I don’t think any of the fighters knew what a can of whoopass Anderson Silva would become.

Cote’s a good fighter with a strong chin. I see Silva as the heavy favorite, but I wouldn’t COMPLETELY rule out an upset, especially if Cote has a smart training camp.

By the way – Franklin should be fighting Henderson at this show. Screw the LHW experiment for Franklin, especially if it’s only for this fight. He can’t compete at 205 (I see Hamill KOing him)- the UFC should be marketing Hendo/Franklin along side Bisping/Leben.

Dude…Martin Kampmann, Danish Thai boxing champ, proven chin, slick submissions. Don’t think he would win but he would put on a much better showing than Cote…and I like Cote.

Hendo vs Chuck would have been sick! but Dan has said that he wants to stay at mw because he wants another shot at the spider.

NEWS Flash:

It was reported earlier today that both reigning IFL Middleweight Champion Dan Miller, and his brother Jim Miller, who also fights in the IFL, have both signed multi-fight deals with the UFC.

The contracts are both exclusive and span four fights. The financial specifics have not been released.

Yo Violent Mike not trying to have a dig but Cote has earned his title shot and deserves to fight Anderson Silva for the title whether anyone thinks he can win or not. I don’t think he can win but he deserves his title fight, yes Anderson is better on paper but fights aren’t judged on paper now are they. Just because we don’t expect people to win dosn’t mean they won’t. I’m pretty sure everyone expected Rampage to destroy Forrest, same with GSP and Serra 1 etc. Anything can in happen in a fight.

I guess I want to see Cote BEAT a top MW before getting a shot at the title. That was just Big Dog’s 2nd fight after his long hiatus.

Cote’s win streak consists of:

Decision win over Scott Smith
TKO over Kendall Grove
TKO over Drew McFedries
SPLIT Decision win over Almeida.

Big Dog looked SO weak in that fight, that Cote should be very dissapointed in himself that he couldn’t finish that fight in the 3rd.

Yes, 4 wins in the UFC is impressive, but why did Fitch need 9 wins to get a title shot?

oh yea Hendo’s 185 so Frank needs to drop down to 185 or Hendo move up to 205 to make this fight happen.

I would hope anyone posting on here would know who Yoshida is, i just don’t think anyone cares. At least Karo was a #1 contender at some point Yoshida isn’t even a has been, he’s a never was. If this were a grappling match it would be something to see and I would give the edge to Yoshida, but it isn’t. I mean come on, when the biggest win in your MMA career is against Mark Hunt maybe you should stick to being a trainer.

Well I really don’t care much about Jap fighters[except for Sakuraba and Genki Sudo I guess, as well as Kaz Nakamura ‘coz of his antics]. but for the rest, they all look the same!Except for Maria Ozawa of course, she’s the bomb!!

Of all of the fights, the one you want most is the Parisyan fight? Personally, I am looking forward to seeing Chuck break Evan’s undefeated streak. Also, Hendo and Franklin are just more exciting than Parisyan. But, at least the Parisyan fight, on paper, looks to be more entertaining than his last few fights.

randy might not get cleared to fight in time. who knows? july is almost over and thats when the hearing was supposed to be finalized and a ruling to be made.

Randy-Fedor might be the NYE fight.

that might even be better, save it for nye

Thats if Randy gets cleared!! it’s not a dead cert, Zuffa will have some very good lawyers.

question: I dont know anything about Contract law, but what would happen if Randy said screw the courts and just went and Fought Fedor in dREAM in Japan?

Poor Arlovski! I want to see the fight, but I hate to see Andre get abused and Manhandled! Poor Andre! Poor Andre!

i remember franca wanting to take a fight when he was banned and the problem was if he did he would not get reinstated witch would not matter to coulture since he would probally retire after the fight, i don’t know if the ufc could sue or not for working in japan that would be his only problem i think.

He would get sued…ie, monetarily fine going to the UFC. How much would be the question.

I am sure that zuffa would just sue the heck out of Randy and probably anybody else that was involved with the fight. I.e promoters, sponsors, managers and tv networks.

You could sue them for taping Randy up to not honoring his contract.

It would be very nasty, the only winners would be the lawyers – who would end up very rich.

Can American’s sue a japanese business?

Is there no jurisdiction wit contract Law?

Anybody can sue anybody in the world of business.

When a contact is signed, it specifies which contries laws apply to the contact.

Randys contract would (i think) be subject to US law, so Zuffa would sue them through the american courts.

Its like David beckham saying I’ve had enough of LA Galaxy and want to go play for Manchester United. He can’t just pack his bags and go. LA would sue Beckham AND Man Utd.

Makes sense,thanks for clearing that up

F*ck the system, let Randy fight!!

Look at franklins record halljam2. i know your a hater by the way you responded to that comment with out even looking at the records. franklin just likes to stand up like some other well rounded fighters. Anderson silva has great BJJ as well as BJ penn..but hey alway prefer to stand. unlike your palahres, maias, lutters, and almeida’ who have great ground game and just milk their entire career off that. henderson is no tapper he is only been submitted by the very best in the world…wat the crap man..are you that uninformed? henderson has been submitted by some of the truly best in noguiera (twice) and anderson silva. he has maded thru other good bjj artist in gracie, arona, gono, velfort, rua, sobral, and he did beat noguiera in their first encounter. SCHOOLED.

you should watch hendo vs nog, he escaped so many subs before getting caught it was insane.

Thanks man, I never saw that fight. I will do some searching for it. I checked him out on sherdog and it looks like he tapped to big Nog twice. Was it the most recent one? He was in a bad position against Anderson Silva but he tapped sooooo fast.

I’m pretty sure it was the first time they fought in 2002, pride 24 cold fury. Nog doesn’t actually get him till rd 3, but he escapes a crap load of subs in that fight.

And he tapped against A. Silva but he got rocked on the feet first, I don’t think Anderson would have taken his back and sunk in a choke if he hadn’t rocked him good first.

Don’t forget that great armbar that Rogerio Nogueira pulled on Henderson at the 2003 GP.

Chuck vs. Forrest would be one of the biggest selling UFC PPVs of all time. You know Dana’s got a raging hard-on just thinking about that fight.

thats funny, i cant see rich winning that fight, hamill is tough as nails

Hammil better keep his hands UP. Even in his last fight he was dropping his hands and getting nailed.