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have a feeling vitor is going to put him out of his misery
No I mean they should be each other next opponent for their next 3 fights exclusively.You mean Ryan Spann....
The other thread is mostly shitting on Smith so I'm curious: How big of a mistmatch is this? I think Smith is out of his prime but even Prime Anthony Smith wouldn't last too long against Alex and holy shit the guy has 11 knock out losses. He is pretty decent on the ground but idk, I don't see him as strong as Jan who was able to get Alex on the ground. Smith doesn't look like the type who'd muscle Alex Pereira.
Is it this a massive mis match or you'd be surprised?
Fill in? Erceg was not a replacement was he? This fight was announced quite a while ago, I don't remember any other fight being scheduled for Pantoja.Erceg's getting his shot because they needed someone to fill in, and Hendo got his title shot because of the history between him and Bisping + a lot of other contenders higher up in the rankings were all injured or weren't coming off wins.
Only way Smith gets a title shot is if everyone in front of him suddenly can't fight for the title. That's basically how he got his title shot against Jones, so who knows, maybe it'll happen again lol.
Fill in? Erceg was not a replacement was he? This fight was announced quite a while ago, I don't remember any other fight being scheduled for Pantoja.
The History between Bisping and Hendo doesn't matter, There were guys like Whittaker, Romero and Souza at that time but Bisping defended against GSP and 46 year old Hendo. It would be like if they gave Duffy a shot at Conor when Conor was champ lol.
After Ank's beard is found 3 days later in Minnesota, who will be the next hope for the Poatan haters?Ankalaev vs Pereira, let's end this fairytale.
This is revisionist history. Romero was available a month after Bisping won the title, he was the obvious number one contender. Bisping ducked that fight hard and fought Hendo instead. Then Romero KO'd Weidman and did the iconic "See you soon boi". Then Bisping again ducked that fight to face a returning GSP. We all wanted to see Romero whoop Bisping's ass.As for Bisping. It was a shit choice, but I remember going pretty deep into it a while back, and there really was fuck all choices. Romero had popped for a banned substance in Jan 2016, and then Bisping won the belt in June. He eventually got 6 months and was out of that time frame. Still counted as a win for Romero in the end, so that put Souza on a 1 fight skid.
Whittaker still needed 1 more good win before a title shot. His best win around when Bisping got the belt was Hall or Natal, which weren't enough. He went on to beat Brunson and then Souza, who was enough, but he didn't fight Souza until 2017.
Everyone was sorta beating everyone else or injured and nothing really lined up for this magical little period for Bisping lol.
This is revisionist history. Romero was available a month after Bisping won the title, he was the obvious number one contender. Bisping ducked that fight hard and fought Hendo instead. Then Romero KO'd Weidman and did the iconic "See you soon boi". Then Bisping again ducked that fight to face a returning GSP. We all wanted to see Romero whoop Bisping's ass.