ahhh boooo, i wanted to see these 2 beast beat the **** out of each other. Silva has no other challenge at middleweight. Sonen-munoz winner will be interesting but he already defeated sonen. Bones vs P4P king would have been an awesome fight.
This is not a money making fight for Dana, hence its a business decision. Silva loses, there goes his future ppvs. Jones loses there goes his future cash cows luster.
Wrong about Silva. He is 37 and running out of MW challengers. Makes more sense to put him in a big catch weight fight and cash in before he starts looking shot, loses due to lack of motivation or retires.
Well relatively speaking Silva is a draw as compared to an Edgar vs. ?? main event. Plus, Hes got that Sonnen fight that might be the biggest rematch ever, then maybe Hendo can get a shot. I would assume that at the very tail end, Dana would sacrifice Silva to Jones.
This. And I think White knows Jones would kill Silva. That and one loses a bit of marketabilty when they get beat up. Dana doesn't want to tarnish his stars by matching them against each other.
Well imagine that a PROMOTION protecting it's cash cows. Sounds like boxing??!!?! :think Dana isn't stupid. This **** is business. He has a guy at 205 that is unlikely to loose in his weight division for a LONG time. Why put him in with Silva when Silva would humiliate him?
Personally i think Jones has no answer whatsoever for Silva's striking. Silva is the only last high level striker in the UFC much less for MMA. His pedigree is proven.
Like I say Machida is a better striker than jones. Don't mean ****. Anderson is a MUCH better striker than Travis Lutter, different level all together: not even close. But if Bones had Anderson in some of the positions Lutter did he'd look like hamburger. Anderson is a better striker than Sonnen, look how that went down. Jones takes this fight easy.
Dana now likes the idea of strong champions and has no business forcing big fights like gsp vs silva or silva vs jones or eventually jones vs jds for example. Maybe he sees it as hurting his business. I want to see these fights but Dana has gone cold on them and sees big money in dominant champs who are the face of the UFC.
If Anderson couldn't stop Chael Sonnen from taking him down 5 seconds into each round, how is he going to stop a guy who ragdolls men like Hamill, Bader and Shogun? What exactly makes you think that Bones would be keen to stay on his feet and trade with Anderson? Why wouldn't he just throw him down to the ground, where Jones' biggest strengths play right into Anderson's biggest weaknesses? Which is it? Is Jones going to choose to stand in front of Anderson and wait for Silva to land something, or is Anderson going to be able to stuff Jones' takedowns when decorated wrestlers twice his size get thrown around like children? For all your knowledge of MMA, you make a lot of blanket statements and offer nothing at all to back them up except "This is the Word of Scurla." Honestly, what is going to stop Jones from taking the Sonnen gameplan, and adding vicious fight-ending elbows to it? :hat