Belfort vs. Lombard & Anderson vs. Rockhold

Cole1186

Striker v Striker

Champ v Champ

Yes/No? Thoughts?

JDS_over_REEM

misleading thread title. should have put thoughts in the title.

Yesterdays_Hero

Belfort/Lombard would be good. Rockhold/Anderson not so much (Although still better than Anderson vs Cung Le.. god forbid that ever happens). Aren't they putting together Rockhold vs Vitor?

Cole1186

Yesterdays_Hero said:

Belfort/Lombard would be good. Rockhold/Anderson not so much (Although still better than Anderson vs Le.. god forbid that ever happens). Aren't they putting together Rockhold vs Vitor?

That's the talk, yea. but I think it makes more sense if they have Belfort fight Lombard. Who wouldn't want to see the number 2 and number 3 striker go at it, toe to toe? Then we can see Anderson fight much sooner then he would have otherwise. Rockhold doesn't stand much of a chance vs Anderson, but he is still the Strikeforce champ, and they are folding all the best Strikeforce guys into the ufc... it just makes sense imo.


And sry bout misleading title, that wasnt my intention!

PunchBag

i agree with this matchup

Yesterdays_Hero

Cole1186 said:

Yesterdays_Hero said:

Belfort/Lombard would be good. Rockhold/Anderson not so much (Although still better than Anderson vs Le.. god forbid that ever happens). Aren't they putting together Rockhold vs Vitor?

That's the talk, yea. but I think it makes more sense if they have Belfort fight Lombard. Who wouldn't want to see the number 2 and number 3 striker go at it, toe to toe? Then we can see Anderson fight much sooner then he would have otherwise. Rockhold doesn't stand much of a chance vs Anderson, but he is still the Strikeforce champ, and they are folding all the best Strikeforce guys into the ufc... it just makes sense imo.


And sry bout misleading title, that wasnt my intention!

I don't think Anderson is inactive because of the lack of opponents but rather by choice. He wants to cherry pick his opponents at this stage.

I don't think Rockhold was ever big enough of a star to make the transition straight into a PPV headlining fight, he needs a couple of wins in my opinion.

cdaburnab

Rockholds name has NO value. Give him someone like Boetsh or Belcher first, not Vitor or Silva it's ridiculous.