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McBottery -

...people wanted Anderson Silva vs Matt Hughes?

Yes. Alot of talk and wanting it. Which is crazylooking back. Same thing will be said 5-8 years from now about people wanting to see GSP and Anderson. People will look back and realize just how retarded it is wanting to see that fight. Total mismatch. Phone Post

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Condit/Lytle would have rocked.

 

I was still hoping for a Alves/Lytle rematch.

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Festus - 
McBottery -

...people wanted Anderson Silva vs Matt Hughes?

Yes. Alot of talk and wanting it. Which is crazylooking back. Same thing will be said 5-8 years from now about people wanting to see GSP and Anderson. People will look back and realize just how retarded it is wanting to see that fight. Total mismatch. Phone Post


huh? Hughes ran through Sakurai, and he may have been able to use the same strategy on Silva. Silva hadn't yet hit his peak yet, and that was Hughes in his prime.

Chonan beat Silva in Pride, yet Hughes beating him in that same period is a total mismatch? Ok...

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McBottery - 


...people wanted Anderson Silva vs Matt Hughes?


From Sherdog:

The Team Miletich product and “The Spider” were scheduled to lock horns at UFC 36 in Las Vegas. Hughes had captured the welterweight strap with a second-round slam KO of Carlos Newton at UFC 34 and was just beginning to establish himself as one of the most dominant 170-pound champions in the promotion’s history. Silva, who was then Shooto’s welterweight ruler, was a more slender version of the fearsome striker he is today.

Silva instead signed with Pride Fighting Championships, where he suffered the last two legitimate setbacks of his career. His UFC debut would not come until four years later.

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Festus -
McBottery -

...people wanted Anderson Silva vs Matt Hughes?

Yes. Alot of talk and wanting it. Which is crazylooking back. Same thing will be said 5-8 years from now about people wanting to see GSP and Anderson. People will look back and realize just how retarded it is wanting to see that fight. Total mismatch. Phone Post

If that's a major mismatch Silva might as well retir Phone Post

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Hemlock - I will not go to Sherdog, or ESPN, or any bath house, or halfway house, or ANY place Josh Gross has left his trail of slime.

I'll vote that up Phone Post

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Agree completely.

To me, the fighter this most applies to right now is Anderson. A fighter only has so many fights in him and I think too many of his have been spent on overmatched MWs.

Silva vs Jones (not GSP) is a "fight of the decade" type fight and it would be tragic if we never get to see it. Making this fight happen should be Dana's absolute #1 priority IMHO. Phone Post

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Back in the day the best fight that never happened was Don Frye vs. Marco Ruas (around UFC 13!) These 2 were so evenly matched and about the same height and weight. At the time they were probably the most well rounded mixed martial artists on the planet.
Boxing - Tie
kicks - Ruas
Wrestling - Frye
BJJ - Ruas

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bjws -
McBottery - 

...people wanted Anderson Silva vs Matt Hughes?


That was what I was thinking too.

Yeah this caught me off guard. I know they were both 170ers for a while, but I never heard any outcry for this match until this list. Phone Post

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Let's be having it!!! Phone Post

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Rabid Bunyip - 
Hemlock - I will not go to Sherdog, or ESPN, or any bath house, or halfway house, or ANY place Josh Gross has left his trail of slime.

Ugh - Sherdog. Poor dears.

I'm not being condescending - I'm too busy thinking about far more important things they wouldn't understand

I like Sherslob's FightFinder. It is easy to use and complete for my purposes.

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Can't believe everyone missed the best fight that never happened :

Royce Gracie v Mark Kerr in Pride.

Royce probably would have got SMASHED, no pun intended, but with that 10 min first Rnd, who knows if Royce withstood the 1st 5 mins maybe Kerr blows his wad and ends up sleeping. Phone Post

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Rickson vs Sakuaba shoulda been number 1 - the amount ad nauseum arguments and debates that raged throughout the interwebs begging that this fight be signed woulda made couture vs fedor look like a barnyard fight. Phone Post

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Ditto on Rickson vs Sak. The most talked about "what if" fight in the history of MMA. Too bad we never got to see it.

Nowadays Anderson vs Bones really needs to happen. I will be so pissed if we don't get. Total waste of an iconic fight if Dana can't get them to sign. Phone Post

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tito vs big nog was talked about endlessly as was fedor vs couture, hughes vs sakuraba was the fight i wanted

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Vitor/Frank Shamrock? That would have been EPIC!

Randleman/Vitor would of been awesome as well.

Fedor/Shogun would of been too violent if that fight would have been made.

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I always wanted to see Sergei vs Fedor as well.

Sergei was really lean back then, had possibly the best Boxing in MMA alongside Arlovski and posed a major threat to Fedor.

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Ruas vs. Fry

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I can't believe nobody is talking about Tito vs Dana! Phone Post

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Randleman-Tito
Saku-Frank Sham
Baroni-Davis Phone Post