Melendez would not stand a chance in the UFC. He has not fought anyone special (with the exception of Guida). You heard me, Akoi sucks ass and is an embarrassment to MMA. Gil would get owned by:

Edgar...
Maynard...
Pettis... (That Showtime Kick ROCKED!!)
Florian...
Cole Miller....
Guida (Todays Version)....
Duhnam...
Jim Miller.....
Cerrone....


I could go on longer but I think I made my Point.


STAY IN STRIKEFORCE GIL, NO ONE WANTS YOU HERE!!

No UFC fighter would willingly go to Strikeforce unless they got cut.... or if someone was stupid and get taken by bait and hook for more money (Hendo)

@ccman. exactly. mma rankins are so subjective, but the people who fight in the ufc fight a lot more often than strikeforce. strikeforce is still growing (maybe), but if you want the recognition, you need to sign with the biggest promotion

@ ziggy. you are not fighting in a different sport but it is like saying a triple a pitcher would run thru the yankees. You might down one or 2 but evventually your gonna get lit up. Gil has not dealt with big league pressure nor competition. He is talking out of his ass.

Ummmm. He's right.

Jared b..since when is top ten competition lame...it is the competition. Don't blame Gsp if he makes them look lame.

Nick Diaz comenting on who Gsp fights? Diaz hasn't beaten a top ten ww in his entire career. All Gsp does is fight and beat top ten fighters.(Hughes2,Penn2,Fitch,Alves,Koshcheck2,Hardy)all ranked in the top 10 by every one when Gsp fought them, this is why he is always in the p4p discussion.The mighty Diaz is fighting Cyborg...yes Cyborg, I don't even think he is a top 100 fighter. If Diaz wants to fight the best ever he has to join the UFC( a la Shields) otherwise he shouldn't have anything to say,unless it is to acknowledge Gsp's unequivocal superiority.

Melendez wouldn't get past most of the UFC's gatekeepers. 3-5 fights and he's released.

So yeah, this is basically exactly what I was talking about in the Diaz article. The "UFC owns MMA" mentality that most people accept, which non-UFC fighters buck up against.

If you don't fight in the UFC, even if you're an elite fighter (Fedor, Melendez, Alvarez, Nick Diaz, Josh Barnett), and insinuate that you're uninterested in fighting in the UFC for any reason, any reason at all, it automatically compromises your status as a fighter in the eyes of most MMA fans.

For the unacquainted regular joe, and for the majority of long-time MMA fans, the UFC = MMA. They embody the gold standard. Fight outside of the UFC, and it's basically like you're fighting in a different sport altogether.

Aoki is 1 dimensional and looks bad anytime he leaves japan freak shows. He is only highly reguarded in grappling circles and by anti ufc types.

No. Just... no.

It didn't just "wind up" being Edgar. BJ likes to stand and trade more than work his jiu jitsu base and was winning fights with boxing, specifically his jab. Frankie can outbox him all day long, anybody who had watched either of them fight could've spotted it before Abu Dhabi (and if anybody cares, there's proof of me claiming Frankie would win this fight timestamped before the show). Add Frankie's strong wrestling base and BJ's seeming allergy to wrestling and you had a recipe for his undoing. Plus surfing in Hawaii and jumping off cliffs probably is no match for the intense cardio training a five round machine like Frankie does. BJ and Frankie would both pick apart Gil and make him look stupid.

I'm going to have to agree w/ Gil on this one. We know the UFC hype machine is responsible for making us believe that Florian could've actually beaten BJ, or Joe Daddy or Sanchez or whoever. Out of all these fighters who "fought through the ranks" of UFC LWs, one was bound to beat, it was eventually going to happen, it just ended up being Edgar. Just as w/ Brock, just becuase he beat Couture for the title, doesn't mean he could've beaten whoever or however many UFC HWs that were in front of him to get to Couture to begin w/. This kind of stuff is expected in regional promotions, or hell even SF because their roster isn't that deep. SF is donig the best they can w/ what they have, basically what the UFC did back in day when they didn't have the kind of money to have so many fighters under their payroll. For example when Maurice Smith became the BattleCade HW champ, he became the "number one contender" for the UFC HW title, or the F.Shamrock/E.Inoue winner fighting for in a UFC MW "title eliminator". SF is bascially letting the other promotions do the sifting for them. First they got Aoki, and now Kawijiri. They even tried getting Alvarez. Just because the UFC has the money to hype up lesser fighters, doesn't mean they really are the best. I'll use this example. When BJ moved to WW to fight GSP for the UFC WW title, should he have won, Dana White stated his next fight would be a WW title defense against Thiago Alves, leaving his LW return in limbo. So before BJ fought GSP (before 1/31/09) only 2 top 10 LWs fought at that time, Aoki and Alvarez, Aoki won. Giving Aoki (at that time) stakes at the claim of being the #1 LW in the world because BJ would not fight again at LW until Aug of that year. Aoki fought 1 LW bout, won, moved to WW, lost and then came back down to LW and won again all before Penn defended his title against Florian. Aoki would not lose at LW again until he fought Melendez. During Aokis LW run before he met Melendez, he captured the DREAM LW title defeating top 10 LW at the time Joachim Hansen, fought and beat Segonku LW champ Mizuto Hirota. Essentially (not officially) unifying those 2 titles, which he then lost to Melendez. Now making Melendez the unofficial unified LW champ. Im not gonna say Melendez can beat any and all of the UFC LWs, but if anyone has a strong case of being considered the #1 LW in the world, its Melendez.

@ Good Lookin

Your 100 mill check is in the mail. You should get it around the same time Ben gets around to sending out those shirts

Ceasar gracie loosly translates from portugese as "students really should be on lithium"

@twoleftfeet

holy shit it totally does

If you tattoo your own name really big on yourself, I don't care if you cure cancer... you're still a douchebag.

STRIKEFORCE: Its where the Weed at.

If you stare at gils nose for a couple of seconds it looks like he has two sets of nostrils. I found that way more interesting than what he had to say.

The fact is Melendez hasn't fought anybody except Aoki and he would be like #9 or #10 if the media didn't hate Zuffa so much. I think some of the UFC's gatekeepers even like Dennis Siver and Gleison Tibau would have something for him.

I do agree with Diaz that GSP has fought lame competition though, nobody impressive since Fitch in 2008, unfortunately for his argument, that includes GSP's forthcoming fight with his teammate.

You and me both, J-ebonics, you and me both..

Or shall I say "da bof of us, my nizzle, da bof of us".

i think ive figured it out..... SF GIVES these guys weed.....

think about it... Nick DIaz's limited comprehension and constant look of paranioa
in every interview.....

the last emperor's soft spoken look of mellowness

the REEMs constant cravings for horsemeat

Scott Cokers making a lopsided HVY Wght. tourney bracket
and his constant changing of plans. not to mention he never can give a strait answer about whats coming up....

Melendezs' obsurd comments about ufc lightwieghts?

dudes are fucking High all the time...

the only one that falls out of step is mayhem.....
they must be giving him angel dust as a substitute

you heard it here first folks

So I guess Gil doesn't count Edgar beating BJ in Abu Dhabi as fighting internationally...

@El Guacamole

I don't want you to think I wasn't flying over bushes and the like as a kid pretending to be Superfly Jimmy Snuka, because I totally did that shit.

www.jimmysnuka.com

Who the fuck is there at LW for Melendez to face? Go to the UFC homie, don't be scared.

Seriously? Thats just fucked.

The only top 10 LW Melendez has ever fought was Aoki. Seriously. Look that shit up. The only one.

(ans here we see that Last Russian Emperor posing with fellow foreign dignitary the Prince of Soulglow)

If Coker and that Icelandic wierdo could hash their BS out Eddie A. would shut this kid up REAL quick son!

Yeah, you lost to Josh Thompson. Just because you beat him back (while he was injured) doesn't make that loss magically disappear.

I already knew Fedor was the shit, but hanging out with Superfly Jimmy Snukka just reaffirms my belief..

Some rich bastard needs to start a free agent fight league and get the best to fight the best. I know it's easier said than done, but I gotta think he/she(shim)would recoup their investment within a show or three and start turning a profit shortly thereafter. No bullshit, pay them adequately, signed on a fight by fight basis. It's the age of the internet, the advertising would take care of itself. I guess what I'm trying to say is, can anybody spot me a hundred mill??

Man, im not saying GM is good as HE thinks he is but...he is pretty fucking good. I think he would be top 5 at the very least in the UFC!

I've been around a lot longer than all these young punks, so it's obvious I'm way better and can kick their asses. They're just too scared to come find my in my basement and challenge me.

Get your head out of your ass....Homie

Somebody should arrange a meeting between Gil and Leonard Garcia. Leonard could give some insight about the shit storm he walked into against a UFC debut fighter. Fucking DEBUT.

What the hell are the Gracie guys smoking?.....oh yeah.

If Clay Guida ever wins the UFC Lightweight strap then I guess he'd have some sort of a point, other than that I think George Sotiropoulos would shut his ass up. One thing we can all get from this is that Nick Diaz must have gotten hold of some good shit over there and is definitely passing it around.

TELL'M WHY YOU MAD SON!!

@ Melendez

Lol.