Leben and Hughes are not even remotely similar fighters. Hughes stands as good as a chance as anybody else south of 205 once its on the ground; Filho and GSP are the only ones with similarly dominant allaround top games, but overall its just too much. It would probably go alot like Lutter or Marquart vs Silva.
:rofl I just wanted to see if everyone else thought this fight was on the horizon not what idiots have signed up to ESB recently.
we may even see GSP move up soon in weight. if he kills Serra and defends a couple times he may want the challenge of going up in weight. if both these men are still champs in a year or so i woundnèt be surprised at a GSP vs Silva match.
i dont think that sounds crazy at all, i mean ur talking about a guy who fought machida at heavy weight and went toe to toe with him, if any body in the world has the style to beat silva its bj, only problem is hes too small, but you know he would fight him, he used to talk about wanting to fight wanderlei when he left the ufc for a few years...bj is nuts thats why we like him
BJ Penn v Anderson Silva could be interesting, but that is too much of a jump in weight for Penn. He did not look good against Machida and would probably be bloated and not properly conditioned at middleweight against Silva. It seems to me, that unless Silva moves up in weight, his biggest threat will come from GSP or Hughes moving up from welterweight. Unless something happens and we see Renzo Gracie or Frank Shamrock in the UFC, then there aren't too many challengers on the horizon for Silva.
BJ is interesting moreso than GSP because his top game is unbelievable...He needs to take Silva down and he may have a shot of doing that. Staying on top could be difficult just because of the size difference. He needs to be active because if they keep standing this **** up.. even with his iron head..hed get KTFO.. BTW again, Hughes has no chance
