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He couldn't beat his speed at LW, there is no way in hell he can beat Frankie's speed at FW. Also taking into account how much he went trough to make 155... did he even do a test cut at 145 before agreeing to this?

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UFC 165: Lensflare.

 

Here's the finalized card.

 

Main Card (PPV)

Jon Jones vs. Alexander Gustafsson
Renan Bar?o vs. Eddie Wineland
Brendan Schaub vs. Matt Mitrione
Francis Carmont vs. Constantinos Philippou
Pat Healy vs. Khabib Nurmagomedov

Preliminary Card (Fox Sports 1)

Mike Ricci vs. Myles Jury
Ivan Menjivar vs. Wilson Reis
Chris Clements vs. Stephen Thompson
Mitch Gagnon vs. Dustin Kimura

Preliminary Card (Facebook)

John Makdessi vs. Renee Forte
Jesse Ronson vs. Michel Prazeres
Roland Delorme vs. Alex Caceres
Nandor Guelmino vs. Daniel Omielanczuk

 

It's a very solid card. Bonus picture of Nandor

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Props to the UFC for giving him one more fight. And an hilariously bad one at that. Let's see if it can surpass the Soa vs Krylov threshold of badness.

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Gilbert picking Eddie and Schaub? For real? Eddie is an understandable pick since he's a strong BW, good chin, and throws thunder. But Schaub? He always tries to punch his way out of trouble with terrible results. Meathead got outgrappled by Cheick Kongo, but I think he can stop the shot and ring Schaub's bell.

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The UFC had previously announced that they would be doing a massive press tour for the rematch between Anderson Silva and Chris Weidman at UFC 168. The method of PR seemed to take a page out of the Floyd Mayweather vs. Canelo Alvarez tour that saw those fighters cross the country and go to Mexico to promote their bout.

It was a smart tactic for the UFC and something that is likely to help build up a very big fight.

Today, the UFC sent out the schedule with cities, times, dates and other details:

Monday, Sept. 23 ? Los Angeles, Calif. ? UFC Gym in Torrance, 4 p.m. PT: Q&A with UFC president Dana White, UFC? middleweight champion Chris Weidman and former middleweight champion Anderson Silva. Free and open to the public.

Tuesday, Sept. 24 ? Las Vegas, Nev. ? Main Lobby, MGM Grand Hotel & Casino, 11 a.m. PT: Press conference with UFC president Dana White, Weidman and Silva. Free and open to the public, streamed live on UFC.com.

Wednesday, Sept. 25 ? New York, N.Y. ? UFC Gym ? NYC John Street, 5 p.m. ET: Autograph signing with Weidman and Silva for the first 300 fans.

Thursday, Sept. 26 ? Bristol, Conn. ? ESPN Press Day

Friday, Sept. 27 ? Miami, Fla. ? Klipsch Ampitheater at Bayfront Park, 1 p.m. ET: Open workout with Weidman and Silva. Free and open to the public.

Sunday, Sept. 29 ? Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ? Clube dos Marimb?s, 1 p.m. BRT: Q&A with UFC president Dana White, Weidman and Silva. Free and open to the public.

Monday, Sept. 30 ? Sao Paulo, Brazil ? Press conference (location/details forthcoming) with UFC president Dana White, Weidman and Silva. Streamed live on UFC.com.

UFC 168 takes place December 28 from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Or just stands there flat footed before he lifts his arms and gets knocked out - unlikely coming from Mir though

 

Looking forward to seeing who's next in like for Barnett

 

Travis Browne vs. Josh Barnett heavyweight tilt added to UFC 168

 

As expected, the UFC 168 card is going to be stacked to the gills. It's the last PPV of the year, headlined by a sure money rematch. 

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UFC 168 receives Diego Brandao vs. Dustin Poirier, Uriah Hall vs. Chris Leben

 

Some weird matchmaking here. Brand?o is getting thrown into the deep end here, Poirier has proven time and again that he's the real deal and a future FW contender. As for Hall, this is really is last chance to win his place in the UFC. They're giving a totally shot Chris Leben and he should put him away with ease (probably Leben's retirement fight). And yet, I'm sure he'll find some way to disappoint us.

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Best case scenario is Bones wining but Bjornes putting up a balanced fight. That way the UFC keeps their golden boy but starts to build another potential star.

 

 

Even UFC have messed up judges!

 

The first quite explains the second one, the UFC is not ready to replace Jones as the "it" boy quite yet, especially not with a white boy, not with Silva having been demolished by a white boy already, gotta keep things equal!!

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