Comments on: Ricardo Almeida vs. Jon Fitch Off UFC 106 After Almeida Injures Knee, Fitch Set For “Bigger Fight”

By: rusiandoeboi

rusiandoeboi — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:38:26 +0000

Alves Fitch 2 is the one i wanna see.
otherwise it’s gotta be someone that GSP hasn’t beaten, although sure KOS was a while ago now

By: jcohl

jcohl — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:09:30 +0000

And it earns you a nice TV contract with Fox Sports Net and NBC…

By: oldman420

oldman420 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:50:34 +0000

Thats why I love the Bellator tournament style championship. Best man wins and moves closer to the belt. Simple yet effective.

By: jazzkok

jazzkok — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:37:14 +0000

which is why dana and joe silva or anderson silva need to implement some sort of rankings in each weight class that way there would be no question who are the contenders and why.

By: Lex415

Lex415 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:25:38 +0000

“Franklinstein!” I love it.

By: ironfistpat

ironfistpat — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:21:10 +0000

hey look its hard for me to beleive too about franklin but lets face facts buddy. He was doin OK at 205 but now that this happened with vitor at a catchweight of 195….where does he go now? His only notable wins at 205(since shamrock in 05)are against hammill and lutter. Granted hammill is no joke but hardly a top ten fighter in a very stacked division. So you suggest that franklin remain at LHW and wait to be victimized by another younger, faster, hungier fighter? No….IMO he should just hang it up im sorry I dont see a real future for him at LHW or MW. Unless ace has an ace up his sleeve and can become the inbetweener for any fighters that wanna go up from 185 to 205 or vice versa

By: chrisl

chrisl — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:07:18 +0000

only way I’d call for franklin to retire is if he took a few more KO’s and started to look like” Franklinstein” instead of the guy we’re used to seeing go balls to the wall.

By: love4thedead

love4thedead — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:04:14 +0000

Ok it doesn’t make since and shouldn’t happen. I still it would be a fun match to watch. The ufc makes these kinda a matches all the time.

By: jcohl

jcohl — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:03:45 +0000

Waitaminute.
I’m following your train of thought when it comes to Hughes and Liddell retiring, but Rich Franklin?
Really?
The guy has fought Dan Henderson, Wanderlei Silva, and Vitor Belfort in the last 12 months, and because he won one fight, lost one fight, and lost what most consider a controverisal split decision, not to mention nearly losing his eye in the process, that constitutes grounds for retirement on Franklin’s part?
2 of those 3 fights were catchweight fights, taken as favors to Dana White, and against Wand Franklin snagged Fight of the Night honors.
How in any sort of reasonable or logical way does that justify anyone calling for Franklin to retire?
You look at Franklin’s record, and his only losses are Lyoto Machida, Anderson Silva, Hendo, and Vitor Belfort, who even Franklin has admitted he wasn’t 100% prepared for.

Maybe you want to think it thru before posting at a site like the frenZy, which has the highest level of MMA fan knowledgability in the sport, something nonsensical and to the effect of “Franklin should retire”…

By: chrisl

chrisl — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:52:33 +0000

i was about to say that… Fitch has nothing to gain by defeating Hughes and everything to lose.