He has to just take down Rogers and throw a finger punch at Arlovski’s glass chin. Too easy for him.

The reem wants to Avenge a loss and then lay Gaydor to rest.

Fedor takes it all, then retires. Hi guys, I’m new here waves hand flamboyantly :D

That the top 3 are all on one side making it impossible for the 2 best guys to fight for the belt

starting 2011 out with a throbbing penis! Really stoked for this tourny, but will be very cross with Babyface should he time his cycle wrong and mess up the entire god damn thing.

a tournament, this is what i was waiting for.
i think it’s brilliant cause the fans love it and it’s a good way to show the real champ.
i disagree that the champ is just a competetor and it’s a shame that there is no overeem – fedor final possible but still finally some clearence.

I wonder how Fedor’s pay is gonna work. If he doesnt lose, thats 3 times in a row they have to pay him and M1 $2,000,000+ or whatever they make.

They shouldve added Del rosario in his place the guy needs to fight to earn a living and he needs a top 10 guy or a big name at least so he can progress his career.

The winner of the tourney should go up vs the champ. Then again im not gonna be mad at all that its happening this way. I am fucken stoked but Rosario definitely needs some love. They should at least add him in incase someone gets injured.

Good to see a big name tournament again. As good as the ufc’s roster is it seems they have no interest in making things exciting like this despite the fact that if they did a bit of market fucking research they’d see that the majority of fans love tournaments/one off type matches like the Japanese do. When this is going on in Strikeforce we’ll be treated to, edgar-maynard 3 over at Dana towers, ooh, exciting!

The ufc needs more spice in the bedroom.

Fedor will beat Overeem based on his skill and experience. But I think Reem has a good chance to knock Fedor stupid and give him his first true KO/TKO loss.

Either way it’s more interesting than any fight that the UFC has up for this year.

 Yeah, The Reem is going to knock these dudes out.

So the winner on that side faces Barnett?

so fucking stupid.

and why even put Overeem vs Werdum in the first rd?

i think the idea of a tourney but man that bracket looks fucking dumb

Stupid! we won’t see Fedor vs Overeem in the final combat.

I think that they haven’t put the good match-ups, because with this, we won’t be seeing any of the top 4 in the finals, and instead see guys like Arloviski, Rodgers, Barnett at the final which is no way fair to the top 4 !!!

I have a question for Dana White: What if Fedor one this tournament, shall you still not consider him the #1 MMA fighter in the world?

does that make sense to anyone?

I would of thought that they would be on opposite sides in hopes for a final matchup between those 2 in the finals and not in the semis………………..

Is this all in one night? or spread out into a few different events?

I really want to see Fedor win it all because I wana see him fight 3 times against quality fighters and not have to wait 3 years for that to happen. Fedor vs Reem would be an easy fight for Fedor no way Reem could avoid being submitted in that one if not Ko’d. Fedor is so much better than all of these guys he got submitted by a very good jiu-jitsu HW one who also holds a win over Reem. No shame in that. He Ko’s Arlovski and Ko’d Rogers already. I don’t see either of them making the final though. Man this tourney is great because we get a ton of great fights. UFC will bad mouth it but UFC does not even have 8 good HW.

cain, brock, carwin, mir, jds, nelson….2 others guys who do not deserve it. what would be really awesome is a 16 man tourney between ufc and strikeforce. think of it brock vs fedor, cain vs reem, jds vs barnett, verdume vs mir, carwin vs rogers fun stuff

i’ve read most of the comments but not all so i apologize if someone already made this clear.. i was just as upset when the bracket was released, but when you consider the belt is on the line every fight, it does kind of make sense.. overeem will first defend his belt against werdum who deserves the next shot.. then his next defense will be against the fedor/silva winner, then the next defense will come from the winner of the other side of the bracket.. i hope barnett wins so overeem could beat 3 solid opponents this yr.. and yes, i think overeem is still champ next yr and HOPEFULLY negotiating with ufc..

Lopsided? Yeah, sure.

BUT

This means we’ll see Overeem/Werdum and likely Fedor/Overeem and Fedor or Overeem/Barnett.

Those are really the only fights I would want to see and if SF is gonna tickle the tournament to help produce those fights, I’m cool with that.

i don’t normally do this, but I HAVE to put this in CAPS.

WHY WOULD YOU SET IT UP WHERE IN THEORY FEDOR COULD FACE ARLOVSKI in the final?

Seriously. Arlovski did well to start but still ended up KO’d completely asleep by the close. WTF.
WHO RUNS THIS clown-@ss organization and makes decisions like this?

btw, I think Kharitonov will dismantle arlovski.
what we all want to see is overeem vs fabricio. fabricio could easily catch overreem again and sub him for the 2nd time.

overreem hasn’t faced any legit mma competition in awhile…i hope he’s been doing his jits in between all the cans he’s faced and training for K-1. b/c fabricio will take that arm home if he gets a chance. period. look how quickly he locked onto fedor and found the submission.