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Woodley for one...?

All of them are superfights, absolutely - and the one with Bisping, if done correctly, could be astounding.

Both long-tenured, superstars of the sport and have ventured into films, etc. Very exciting.

Awesome fight tonight. Glad the Black Beast kept his shyt together.... (Hehe) and was able to get the win. Yamasaki let it go a little bit there but whatever. Derrick lived up to his nickname tonight for sure. My girl Randa Markos got the split too so that's killer.

The Black Beast KO'd Browne twice... once in the fight - and again in that post-fight interview. Ouch!!

Sad for Holly Holm.

Loving Derrick Lewis. He reminds me of Shaq in some ways. Physically, because he does things a man his size normally doesn't do like high roundhouse kicks (in Shaq's case he was super quick yet powerful). He also reminds of me of Shaq off the court because of the way he talks and his trash talking.

Also, I can't wait for UFC 209! Hoping Khabib wins.

Yeah - I do think she deserved the decision (and title) against Randamie though... looks like quite a lot of people did too (more actually had Holm winning than Randamie!):

mmadecisions.com/decision/7773/Germaine-de-Randamie-vs-Holly-Holm

I'm hoping they can fit in Randamie/Holm 2, with the winner to fight Cyborg.

OK Haunted... we get it - you're not a Bisping fan, lol.

I LOVE it... GSP coming back to fight for the MW title - it's going to be huge! And Bisping has said he wasn't offered the Romero fight, so what's he meant to do? Refuse a massive a fight and payday? Besides, they can always have an interim title-fight (Romero Vs Jacare) with the winners to meet, if need be.

From Bisping:

“The only reason I’m saying Georges St-Pierre is because I know he wants to fight me, and I was offered a fight with him. That’s the only reason he’s in my mind,” “If I wasn’t offered a fight with him [in 2016], I wouldn’t be thinking Georges St-Pierre. But that just got that carrot dangled in front of my face of a several-million-dollar payday. Call me stupid, but I want that f*cking carrot. I want that several million dollars in my bank account. I want it for my children’s sake, for my family, for when I’m retired so we can still live a good life.

“That’s why I’m doing it. Not because I’m trying to rob the UFC, or rob the fans of the No. 1 contender, or do wrong to Yoel Romero. I want it for my family’s sake. So in a perfect world, I fight Georges St-Pierre, I will beat Georges St-Pierre, I will not be injured in that fight Georges because Georges never injures anybody in a fight, and then I will do a quick turnaround, within six weeks I will fight Yoel Romero. That’s what he wants, that’s what he’ll get. I’ll guarantee you right now, hand on my heart.”

...no worries. Yes, I am from England - and Bisping has done a great deal for MMA in this country, so I'll happily admit to being biased. I've actually met him too and he came across as a pretty cool, down-to-earth guy.

If he beat GSP, then I'd fully expect Bisping to fight Romero. Obviously he wanted to fight GSP over Romero, as it's the far bigger fight and a LOT more rewarding financially... all the people complaining really should put themselves in the same situation. And the fact is, if the UFC wanted Bisping to fight Romero instead, he'd be fighting Romero...

I'm not excusing the UFC either. They've mistreated Romero the same way they have Aldo and Souza. What do they all have in common? Bad English and generally not very marketable. Aldo was undefeated for 10 years, loses on a fluke, and didn't get an immediate rematch. Rousey had a rematch granted before she even got up off the mat. She leaves for a year and still gets to come back and fight for the title. Souza is a ing beast and still doesn't get a title shot.

But in spite of the UFC's bias towards unmarketable fighters, any time TWO fighters want to fight each other, it ends up happening. Romero wanted to fight. If Bisping really wanted to fight him, the UFC would not have had any choice. Instead, he starts bitching about Romero's past (despite the fact that Romero tested clean before and after the Weidman fight). And then when the pressure got too much, he had to deal with his "knee injury". But now that GSP is in the mix, he's all about taking a new fight now. He ducked Romero. Straight up. You can spin it and sugar coat it all you want, but the bottom line is he ducked him. 

Hell, he would have never even beaten Silva if that fight wasn't in the UK. He lucked out versus Rockhold. Of course I blame Luke for taking him too lightly. But afterward, Bisping didn't want to hear anything about the rubber match with Rockhold. He knew he stole one and got Rockhold's attention. But he wanted to ride it out. He then got his ass knocked to the ground twice by a 46 year old Hendo. 

My dislike of Bisping didn't grow in a vacuum. He's hands down the LUCKIEST fighter in MMA history. His cinderella bubble has grown bigger in the last 3 fights. He straight up ducks Romero, but has no problem fighting a GSP who's been out 4 years and is moving to a new weight class. You say it's okay because he does it for his family and anyone else would do the same? Piss on that logic. If that's what he's doing, fine. But don't tell me that it's okay or I should respect him because other people would do the same. He's a competitive fighter. He should want to fight the people who deserve to fight him. How the hell does GSP deserve to fight him more than Romero? It's all politics.

I'm sure he's done a lot for the UK. That's fine. I'm not worried about who he is as a person. I'm talking about him as a fighter. I think he's overrated and on a lucky ass run that will undoubtedly end in 2017, barring another "injury" of course. Now, if you don't feel that way, that's cool. We all like who we like. Now I'm all about discussing MMA with you. But if you want to attack me as a person or any other desperate attempt to dodge the topic at hand, don't bother. I won't respond.

Also, I want to mention one more time that I blame the UFC as well. They have been doing some shady sh*t. At the moment I feel like they're very worried about Khabib. They tried to dodge any talk of him and McGregor back in November. But it's inevitable if Khabib wins this weekend. I think UFC is afraid because his takedown ability is better than anyone McGregor has ever faced and we all know McGregor isn't great on the ground (to his credit though he hardly lets himself get there). He's one of the few people who can beat Conor, but again he doesn't have much going marketability-wise. Same with the Soldier of God. And finally, don't even get me started on Souza. WTF does that dude need to do to get his shot?