Justin Eilers deserves respect

The guy is 9-3. He really should be 10-2 because he beat Cabbage but got a bad decison.

Buentello catches him with a great shot and as usual all the experts around here label Justin a tomato can overnight.

Buentello was hurt at the time and couldn't take the fight. Thats why Justin got the shot.

Give the guy a break.

If your arguing they should have brought Ricco in well his last fight before ROTR was a loss as well.

How about Josh Barnett? Well his last fight was a loss as well.

I think its funny that everybody has just written Justin off. Anything can happen in MMA.

Josh and Ricco were at least x UFC champs.

I think Eilers would beat Ricco.

Eilers is a legit HW. I just don't think a fighter who lost his last fight should be fighting for a title. it takes away the legitmacy of the belt

eilers is one of my favorite up and coming fighters. that being said i would rather see ricco in there for a couple reasons. 1. ricco already beat arlovksi 2. i dont want eilers get another loss this quickly. this is where imo the ufc goes wrong, they throw their young talent to the wolves way to early.

cheers,

jj

this just in...it's the Interim Belt. Not a big deal.

lastcall has a good point people.Justin is good and he is getting a bad rep because of one KO.WTF is wrong with people on this forum?

"The guy is 9-3. He really should be 10-2 because he beat Cabbage but got a bad decison.

Buentello catches him with a great shot and as usual all the experts around here label Justin a tomato can overnight. "

I agree 100% with that.

He definitely deserves respect, but I think what most people are confused about is why he'd get a title shot after getting KO'd by a newcomer to the UFC in his last fight. Seems you can respect him and simultaneously feel others should be ahead of him in line for the shot against Arlovski.

you notice only non fighters call him a can....

TTT for a highly entertaining main event

He doesn't deserve respect. Everybody here is right. Oh, and I heard he's gay too.

Really, I don't get why people are so upset with him getting that shot. Sounds like an exciting match up. Eilers is a pretty damn athletic big guy with some sick KO power. Him and Buentello would probably be 5/10 with each other if they fought 10 times.

All fighters get my respect for getting in the cage. Justin has balls for taking the fight. I just think it is kinda one sided and to early for him. I think he will get beat and will put 100 bucks on it. Any takers?

Who is Justin Eilers?

I have never heard of him,so he must be over-rated.I don`t like him & probably never will. :-)

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I'm sure he's a good fighter, but it's not like it was a lucky shot from Buentello that KO'ed him. Paul was beating him up the entire fight and the KO was the natural consequence of the way the fight was going up to that point.

I believe the fight WAS offered to Ricco, but since Team Punishment doesn't really exist any more, Ricco didn't have anyone to train with and he thought it would be too much trouble and too much money to put a training camp together, especially since he wasn't to be paid a great deal of money.

Josh's loss was clearly a fluke, but as far as I know, his shoulder's still messed up.

Eilers appears to be overmatched by Arlovski, and it seems strange that Buentello is fighting on the same card against a lesser opponent.

Robin.

Oh I respect the hell out of him. That doesn't mean he isn't going to get the shit beat out of him by Arlovski but I definitely respect him for getting in there.

His getting a title shot is really a sad statement about the current HW division in the UFC than his deserving to be there. If Mir ever recovers from his accident and comes to back to fight Arlovski and loses, Arlovski will have to go to Pride for any real competition. Buentello might stand a chance, but outside of those two there is no one else remotely qualified to be in the ring with that man.

We shall see, they would not have put Paul in there if he wasn't up to
Andre's level. If all things are equal and they train just as hard for each
other, I'll take Andre.

I mean Justin......