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Cut and paste from a sherdog thread, source MMAweekly.

Matt Hughes vs BJ Penn for the welterweight title
David Loiseau vs Mike Swick
Jason Lambert vs Rashad Evans
Melvin Guillard vs Gabe Ruediger
Danny Abaddi vs Jorge Gurgel
Roger Huerta vs Jason Reichardt
 

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Nice to see Swick get a big fight.I think Evans sucks. Doesn't know how to finish people off. I think he trains down the street from me.
 

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TheRightSide said:
Nice to see Swick get a big fight.I think Evans sucks. Doesn't know how to finish people off. I think he trains down the street from me.

Evans is your classic grappler trying to learn MMA. Give him time, he could improve. Look how much Koschek improved this last fight. You are right though, I'd prefer to see Bisping.

Agree about Swick, that's a damn good fight. Have no clue why UFC is letting Abaddi fight on a PPV card. He'd get his ass kicked at the country fair smoker.
 

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WC Bias said:
Evans is your classic grappler trying to learn MMA. Give him time, he could improve. Look how much Koschek improved this last fight. You are right though, I'd prefer to see Bisping.

Agree about Swick, that's a damn good fight. Have no clue why UFC is letting Abaddi fight on a PPV card. He'd get his ass kicked at the country fair smoker.

Addabi has decent knockout skills. He'll probably just get caught in a submission but he should at least be an exciting fight. I'm tired of two grapplers who can't do standup fighting eachother. Maybe he'll provide a little excitement with a grappler-heavy card.
 

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im sooooo disappointed in the gsp pullout. that is one fight i really wanted to see. oh well with the liddell/ortiz fight shaping up in december maybe we get hughes/gsp for the big super bowl weekend card. can't complain about the replacement in penn but i feel hughes overall mma has improved greatly since his loss to penn a few years back. he was still basically a dominating wrestler then. i love hughes in this spot and although his line has been going up a little hopefully bj penn backers start laying some lumber. and what happened to sherk/florian for lw title? thought this was suppose to happen ufc 63. would also like to see bisping soon...hes a real talent. although he'll start off with heels i would like to see a bisping/griffen fight next year.
 

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Thanks for the card WC.

Swick/Loiseau should be fun as hell. I'll be rooting like hell for BJ, but Hughes should beat him like a drum. I agree that Rashad has a lot to learn, but he has got a chin made of granite. I've seen him get rocked and keep coming. He's an accurate puncher, too. Why does the UFC keep Gurgel around? Is it just to keep his best friend Franklin happy? He has never impressed me in the cage.


What are your guys thoughts on Franklin/Silva? Silva has blown me away in the fights I've seen, but that's not a lot. Is he a Chute Boxe guy? I'm a huge Franklin fan, but it seems seems like Silva's got the complete package.
 

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heres my take on franklin fight. he's coming off a broken hand. now he's getting a clean bill of health obviously cause he's cleared to fight. but they can easily break again. this is a scary situation imo for franklin. hell he might break his hand in training and the fight get cancelled or it happens during the fight and gets stopped to due injury. which i would hate to see happen. yes silva is a threat to franklin but i seen a few of his fights where he didnt look to good. one thing is for sure. silva is gonna bring it and we will see how much confidence franklin has in that hand.
 

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The key to Franklin's success is his varied attack. I've never seen anyone mix up strike like he does. Most guys seem to get into patterns of striking, but Franklin is constantly going after what the opponent is not defending against. Very smart and dangerous fighter. Since I've always seen him dominate though, my only question is if he can take a lot of punishment.
 

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franklin is very talented but he will get tested. i feel a "healthy" franklin can beat silva. crowd will no doubt be pro franklin as 80% of attendees really dont know who silva is.
 

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I will take the field agaisnt Danny Abaddi.....he is 2-2 and the one loss that nobody knows about was agaisnt one of the fighters at my gym... he caught him in armbar from the guard in the first round at a show in Alabama or Miss....i will ask him again....anyway im just not impressed with danny...danny as recently recieved training from Muhsin Corbbrey which is a fighter/trainer out of Hilton Head SC....Muhsin is a striking specialist that just got tapped out(by armbar) in his last fight for the 145lb Reality Fighting Belt.
Anyway, I look for Danny to get straight up dominated

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thanks for the info ship, i dont care for solomon either and hope this is the last time we see abaddi
 

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fivestarjake said:
thanks for the info ship, i dont care for solomon either and hope this is the last time we see abaddi

No problem....but who said anything about Solomon?
 

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well he was one that rubbed me the wrong way with his talking shit and then getting his ass ktfo. always felt kendall should have found a new team dagger partner. just saying alot of people dont want to see abaddi...i dont want to see solomon
 

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maybe a good fight would be 'Von Who' vs Danny.. lmao. i'll keep fading both.

I don't like Franklin taking Silva as his first fight off of injury.

wonder when Arlovski will be fighting again.. and who?
 

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