why saku? they could have the page fight in japan, both are big there and it would be epic as always. I just don’t understand one thing, if they wanted to go to japan why kill Pride? they could just keep using Pride for their japanese events…

great point Linx!

I hope that the UFC does go to Japan. I love the fans, the fighters and th culture.

Gomi vs. Huerta!!!!!!!

I’d be rooting for Gomi in that fight!

I don’t think that it is totally out of the realm of possibility to see a UFC in Japan. Whenever the UFC is held in England, they always throw some English scrubs on the card to round out the undercard and appeal to the local fans. Did all of them get multi fight contracts? Probably, but then Dana just cuts them after the fight.

Plus its not like all of the great iconic Japanese fighters all fight for one org which the UFC could cross promote with. They’d have to pull fighters from several organizations making it more difficult to accomplish.

And like I said yesterday upon hearing the news, this would probably be a combined UFC/WEC event since the best Japanese fighters fight below 155. The “Ultimate Zuffa Japan”

VM: U know me, I root for Gomi against anyone other than BJ Penn! lol

The UFC could also use Japan shows to make a UFC contract more appealing to FEDOR THE GOD!!! Its no secret that Fedor loves Japan.

Fedor vs. Brock in Japan would sell ZILLIONS! Fedor is beloved and Brock is as freakshowish as they come (in appearence) and we all know how the japanese love their freakshows.

If the UFC does want to expand to Japan, they will have to do it the right way and put out a mega card because the Japanese people are used to better cards then what the UFC puts out on a regular basis. their shockwave events used to feature about 5-8 great fights and a few freakshow fights. The UFC dopes have the assets to tAKE OVER Japanese mma, buyt they cant be cheap about it. A 1st card would have to look something like this:

Fedor vs. Brock or Cro Cop
Rampage vs. Sakuraba 3
Gomi vs./ Huerta
Kid vs. Faber

It will have to feature most of the former Pride stars!

Nothing owuld make me happier than the uFC expanding to Japan!

DREAM FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How could you possibly have that reaction? If you don’t think he’s #1, fine, but he’s without a question in the top 3 or 4. Don’t rate guys on how much you “like” them, rate them on how good they are. And I don’t think there’s anyone as talented as BJ.

LOL, some of you guys need to chill man. My reaction was for him supposedly being numero uno, not that he isn’t talented. If you knew how to interpret text you might have been able to catch that :) take a chill pill brow

So who do you think is number one???

Lesnar way overhyped, so he laid on top of herring for 15 minutes and had a great punch in the beginning. Doesn’t make him GREAT by any means. He’ll get picked apart by Randy.

Will he still be overhyped if he kills Randy in the octagon? Randy is most effective in the clinch up against the fence where he can control his opponent. He will NOT be able to do that with Brock.

you seem confident VM, I see it the other way around. If lesnar makes randy look like a n00b I’ll give him all the props, but how do you figure this with a guy that only has 3 fights, two against good opponents and being 1 and 1 between those two? Am I the only one who noticed he couldn’t do much with hearing? It was all power, that’s all he has. Now he’ll face randy and if by any miracles he gets pa$$ed him, he’ll take on a ground wizard even greater than the one he lost to with the exception that this ground wizard has great boxing skills. This is just hype, I can’t believe all you guys are buying into it…

i am with you on this linx, he beat herring a tough but not ranked fighter by holding himn down and landing a couple punches, thats good but does it make him a elite or great fighter?he is still far from that and i hope randy puts him back down where he belongs.

I don’t know linx and roy, I just can’t see where Randy can take this fight. He isn’t going to get the standup, he won’t take Brock down and keep him there long enough to do any damage, he most certainly won’t sub him, and if he does use his dirty boxing (which is probably his only slim hope) Brock will simply outmuscle him. Granted, Randy is a MASTER gameplanner, and he will need a brilliant gameplan to win.

I am not guaranteeing a Lesnar victory, but I think he has a GREAT chance at winning. Randy was never that good at beating the larger HW’s and Brock is as big and strong as they come. Plus, Randy is like 7 years older now then when he fought and lost to Barnett and company.

Heath Herring has a lot of MMA experience and he was not able to to a single thing to Brock. If he had landed a punch or two, or threw up a submission attempt, or even two, then I would think differently. But he couldnt do a thing.

Believe me, I will be rooting for Randy, but already put some $ on Brock at Even money – too good to pass up, and those lines changed quickly.

I think that the way Mir beat Lesnar is going to be the only way of beating him, otherwise he will win decision after decision, a la Sean Sherk, by taking down his opponent and keeping them there. Right now, I got Mir, Nog, Gonzaga, and Werdum as the fighters that can beat Brock. But then again, you probably don’t need a world class guard to beat Brock, so we’ll see what Randy got off his back in November.

roy and Linx: I don not think that beating Herring makes brock a great fighter just yet but I do think it makes Brock a really bad stylistic match up for Couture. Its no secret that the Big heavyweight wretslers have been known to give Couture Problems. Well now he is getting the biggest and most agile of them all and at Randy’s age, I think its a horrible idea and the UFC’s way of defusing the Fedor fight and building Lesnar into a star at the expense of Couture. Brock will get better and better but until then he can survive and win on Brute strength/agility and his wrestling game. Herring couldnt do a single thing but turtle up. Once couture starts tasting the power, I think Randy will FOLD! Herring isnt the BEST fighter, but he is as tough as they come so he took a beating from Brock and made it to a decision. NOt a lot of HW will be tough enough to do that. Randy will not be able to withstand that kind of beating fgor 25 minutes. Its just a bad match up for Randy. It wont mean that Randy is not the better fighter, it will just mean that Randy can’t beat Brock. There is a difference. Like Mike said only the jits guys will beat Brock. Randy’s isn’t good enough IMO.

Randy can still beat top fighters (strikers) like Kongo, cro Cop, Sylvia and he will have a shot against guys like Werdum, Arlovski. But he cant beat guys like Fedor, Barnett, Nogueira or even lesnar. Not saying Brock belongs in the same list as those legends, just that he is a bad match up for couture. I always thought Randy was a better Light heavyweight then Heavyweight!

I would actually like to see a Herring vs. Couture match up. I think it would be a pretty good fight.

i agree with you on the match up, its not ideal for coulture stlyes make fights, at this point brock is so big and strong with that alone he could beat a top guy but still loose to a low level fighter with the right skill set. i just don’t think he is a elite fighter yet and may never be, as far as stand up i think he has a ton of power but that does not mean he is a great striker and on the ground against herring he could have done so much more but didn’t,it will be tough for any wrestler to beat brock but if anyone can do it it will be randy and i still see werdum or nog beating lesnar

I agree Roy, I’m sorry but all I see when I look at brock is power and nothing more. and he proved this against heath that all he has is power. That’s not going to take you far in this game. He could end up running through randy, there sure is a chance, but I just don’t think it will happen. Anyway, I hope I’m wrong because I don’t like randy for all the sh*t he tried to pull, but I just have to be realistic here.

Agree 100% with linx, this guy has shown nothing but brute strength. he did next to nothing when he had Herring in dominant positions, he showed no ability to choke when he had his back, had no idea how to put his hooks in and lets be real…ANYONE that large is going to pack a punch. Not saying the guy won’t be a factor but I’m not jumping on the bandwagon just yet, he’s done nothing overly impressive…

as a side note, everyone said there was no way Couture was going to control Gabe the way he did everyone else and we all saw what happened there…
I’ve stopped betting against Randy after losing my last 2, haha