I may not have written what I intended to, let me try again. The value is with Rampage, due to the fact that he is one of the only guys who has a chance to stand with Chuck. But I still think it would be a mistake to stand with him. Tito was scared of Chuck, you could tell just by watching.
Gabriel Gonzaga had fought nobody, and was beaten by the only decent figher he had faced(Werdum), and he came out and dominated a fight against Cro Cop. I was a bigger Cro Cop supporter than most, but he lost a fight that was set in front of him by Dana White with full intentions of getting him to a match with Couture. Cro Cop never had a shot in that thing, Gonzaga came out the aggressor and ended it in R1, simple as that. Fighting in the cage and fighting with ropes are two totally different things, and nobody will tell me differently. I think Pride and UFC are very different in the strategies one must use. So I don't think you can really say because Rampage beat Liddell in Pride that he will in turn beat him in UFC, IMO it doesn't work like that.
I think Fedor Emelianenko is the best HWT in the world and would dominate the UFC, as do many others. Then again, those are the same peopel whom thought Mirko Cro Cop would dominate UFC as well.
Nobody is going to see eye to eye on every fight.
And to say that the real money is in boxing is stupid. Everyone knows that the UFC is the new wave and boxing is falling by the wayside. I'm a big boxing fan and I have come to grips with it. People want to see "fighting" not boxing anymore.
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