There are some worst-case and best-case scenario’s here. First off for the Penn/ Edgar fight…Edgar will probably have the crispest boxing technique out of everyone that Penn has faced. I don’t think Edgar will be able to take down Penn…and I don’t think Penn will be able to KO Edgar within 3 rounds. I do think that Penn can get a late takedown..or score cumulative damage with his heavier hands for the win. As far as Silva/Maia…if Maia sticks to his bread and butter…he could do better then Lutter. Leites might have competed at the world championships for Bjj..but never won like Maia. Also Maia’s takedowns are obviously much better..as shown when he pulled that sacrifice throw against a world class wrestler in Sonnen. That’s all the best case scenario’s for the challengers. Worst case…Penn’s hands are way to heavy for the small Edgar..or Penn uses his world class grappling to run a ground clinic on Edgar. For Maia….we all seen the Marquardt fight…only I think Silva will play with him a little more before sealing his fate.

“Hey guys, who wants to see a classic striker vs. grappler battle? ”

No.

Not really.

Those kinds of oldschool gimmick fights really aren’t as interesting anymore as seeing 2 modern crosstrained MMA athletes throwing down IMO.

frankie WHO? it seems like the lightweight div has been cleaned by penn theyre throwing in a ho-humm fighter who’s win are mostly by decision. if the #1 contender cant finish his opponents before, the champ is going to ko him. obviously a penn victory.
and then another cocky gracie….”im bringing gracie jiu jitsu back”….that was decades ago…..mma has evolved, gracie can win against hughes but down the line, this might be his only, if not one of his few, wins in the octagon.

Renzo’s Christopher Walken is flawless.

@mma mafia – Amen. I loves me Hawaiian bros, but grove is just annoying. Hoping he gets KTFO for being annoying, and also for using a lame gangsta’d version of Anderson’s name.

@that guy – I am buying the hype. Just not for $45.

Renzo Gracie looks amped as hell.

“Ain’t nothin’ on two legs that I’m afraid of!!!!!”

I keep expecting him to bust out the “don’t you know who I am, bro??” Parisyan style.

I see two problems with asking us to pay $45 for the Cerrone-Henderson rematch:

1. We’ve already seen it.

2. It’s for a meaningless alphabet title.

Is anyone buying the hype?

@ danomite
Silva did apologize after the fight. Get your facts straight.

All this talk about this triple main event but I just wanna see that idiot Kendall Grove get smashed by Munoz so we don’t have to hear his stupid Hawaiian accent anymore. They’re only enough room in the UFC for one shit talking Hawaiian and it’s Baby Jay.

I don’t think Anderson really needed to apologize. He wasn’t the one who decided to pretend there were banana peels all over the floor during a title fight. Also, Cerrone is the man. I will be sacrificing many goats for his good fortune against Henderson.

Maybe Silva’s fight will turn out like the last time he fought a submission expert so these jackass fans that didn’t like the GSP/Hardy fight will remember what a real boring fight looks like. Oh, that reminds me of another reason Anderson Silva is a giant douche. GSP apologized to the fans after having what he considered a bad fight, while Anderson claimed that his fight with Leites was flawless and that the fans were just too dumb to appreciate what they were seeing.