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Originally Posted by EddieP
the question is when is the last time chuck beat anybody good? besides randy that is............. depends on which rampage comes to fight........if he brings it,,i think he has a good chance to beat chuck....... wouldnt it be cool to see rampage pick chuck up and power slam him.. if chuck doesnt get the early ko it might be a long night for him......... rampage didnt just beat chuck he crushed him!!!,im sure chuck has been waiting a long time for this fight........see what happens either way i wouldnt bet alot on this fight,really want to see chuck vs prides best aka rua,henderson,thierry, the old wandy silva............im not a big chuck fan,,by years end i dont see him with the belt....even been talk of him fighting mirko,,, if chuck is smart which i think he is,,he wont ever agree to a fight with mirko.........he wont have to worry about a good sprawl or even be taken to the ground,,,,,,,,,mirko would take his head off standing..........just my thoughts after the last few cards nothing would surprise me,,, i love mma  |
If Rampage tries to stand with Chuck he's going to get knocked out, plain and simple, no way around it. Nobody can strike with Chuck, I'd have to think twice betting Emilianinko over Chuck in a stand-up fight. If it goes to the ground then Chuck is screwed because he just simply doesn't fight there, and I mean at all. His take down defense is just so good that he didn't even let an experienced grappler like Tito take him there, which was impressive. There's a reason Chuck has avenged all his previous losses, he is a smarter fighter than pretty much anyone else out there and learns from his losses. If you watch that last Liddell/Jackson fight, Chuck looks very out of his element. There was something weird about it and I don't expect that to be the case this time. With that said, I think the value still is with Rampage, but I wouldn't bet either side. But I think we've seen what happens when Pride fighters come to the octagon and think they will dominate. Mirko almost lost his ability to walk after stepping in with Gabriel Gonzaga, and to be honest, that fight was never close.
Chuck doesn't have to fight Mirko, why would he? He would be severely outweighed. And Mirko has to get back in to the contender picture before he worries about having Dana hand picking him matches again. He was basically handed a shot at Randy Couture and got KO'd in R1 against a guy that had no business being in a #1 contender fight. Nothing against Gonzaga, he was impressive, but he is still below guys like Andrei Arlovski, Tim Sylvia, and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira. And Wanderlei Silva was a bit overrated IMO, and was another reason I still think UFC > Pride. He came over and got tapped out by Tito fairly easily and never did anything in UFC.
I dunno, betting the favorite in these is never a good idea in my eyes. In a fight anyone can win so laying things like -250 and above is stupid.