Middleweights Nate Marquardt and Wilson Gouveia to Meet at UFC 95 in London
Wilson Gouveia
Middleweight contenders Wilson Gouveia and Nate Marquardt will square off at UFC 95 on February 21st in London, England, MMAFrenzy.com has confirmed.
Despite four-straight wins at light heavyweight, Gouveia, who trains out of American Top Team, dropped to the 185-pound weight class following a second-round knockout to Goran Reljic in May. In his middleweight debut, Gouveia submitted Ryan Jensen in the second round. He was then matched up against proven middleweight Jason MacDonald and submitted him with strikes in the opening round. Despite the impressive victories in his first two fights in the new division, Gouveia failed to make weight for his bout against MacDonald and needs to prove in his upcoming matchup with Marquardt that he can consistently hit the 185-pound limit, which would be required for a potential future title shot.
A former Pancrase champion, Marquardt began his UFC career with four-straight victories and challenged Anderson Silva for the middleweight title at UFC 73 in July 2007, losing via TKO late in the opening round. After rebounding from his first loss in over four year with a win over Jeremy Horn, Marquardt lost a controversial bout against Thales Leites after being deducted 2 points for questionable infractions. He then bounced back with a 1-minute, 22-second TKO of Martin Kampmann in September at UFC 88.
The winner of the February matchup between Gouveia and Marquardt will put themselves in prime position to earn a shot at the middleweight belt in 2009.
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This is a interesting match up Gouveia owns the power and stand up edge , Marquardt owns the ground game edge
Someone better make weight this time..
Nate by powerbomb j/k
i dont agree i think marquardt owns the standup he has improved alot since fighting for the title…I mean he destroyed kampmann in pretty much a minute and kampmann is a danish world champion kickboxer…..marquardt by UD….i think it should be marquardt who gets the TUF coaching job if he wins bisping vs Nate is a much better fight and is really an even match…..plus nate is already a coach to his students so him being a coac would be good plus there both young…..i know marquardt said he wanted to do it but the ufc said its franklin or hendo……
number1 contender match imo and im going for nate via tko in the 2nd
I’d say, its a number one contender match if Gouveia makes weight, if he doesn’t they’ll be telling him to go back to 205. Even if Gouveia doesn’t make weight, if Marquardt does, and then wins he could be in number one contender status. There’s a lot of guys vying for that position right now though in that weight class, but they don’t have any of them fighting each other.
i have confidence that gouveia will make weight….almost everyone misses weight or gets close to missing it there first time changing weight classes….and gouveia is the first person ive seen since bisping to have a good showing for there first fight after changing weight classes……i definitly agree though the winner of this fight should fight the winner of lister/okami and the the winner of that match will fight the winner of silva/leites/meia/hendo/bisping whoever he ends up defending the title against…..IMO all of the ufc weight classes are now stacked
lw-penn,sherk,kenflo,maynard,guida,diaz,fisher,huerta,edgar,lauzon,franca,aurellio,griffin,clementi,guillard,stevenson,cole miller,jim miller,lil heathen,sam stout….and many more
ww- gsp,alves,kos,hazlett,swick,fitch,johnson,burns,davis,chonan,gono,hardy,hughes,serra,Dong Hyun,karo,BJ(maybe),Saunders,chris wilson,yoshida,markham….and many more
mdw-silva,hendo,maia,marquardt,gouveia,okami,lister,mcdonald,cote,cb dollaway,quarry,horwich,denis kang,leben,leitis,Massenzio,mcfederies,Palhares,goran reljic,amir,chael sonnen
LHW- forrest,rampage,rashad,liddell,wandi,machida,thiago silva,franklin,hamill,irvin,jardien,bonnar,jon jones,houstan alexander,eric schauffer,rua,coleman,boetch …and many more
HW-lesnar,big nog,mir,couture,carwin,cain,kongo,gonzaga,dos santos,neil grove,monson(maybe),herring,hardock,obrian,mccully,eddie sanchez,al turk,Wellisch
I too think Gouveia will make weight next time, but this was not his first fight at MW.
I agreethat all the weight classes are pretty stacked now.
Also, did you leave Brock off your HW list intentionally?
nope he’s got Lesnar first. I missed it too at first.
Good call my bad.
well gunslinger when u list them all like that i guess the mw division doesnt suck as big an amount of ass that i had previously thought. as for marquardt vs gouveia i see this being a stand up war cuz gouveia seems like although his jitz r solid(see fight against ryan jensen) he likes to keep it on the feet. and marquardt has some pretty good wrestling and u kno wat they say about good wrestlers it doesnt go to the ground unless they want it to. should b a sick fight
ya definitly could end up being a fight of the night or fight of the year canidate eventually
this is going to be a firme fight…i got to go with wilson on this one…i think he is going to run through a lot of fighters @ mw…until he meets a silva! if he does……
see i like gouveia in a fight with silva….if gouveia can get it to the ground he might have a chance…ill say this though if neither leites or maia can sub anderson then no one is…though i think given a second chance hendo would obliderate silva…..he just needs to follow his game plan for the whole fight instead of just one round next time
kris,are blog posts going to be allowed before ufc 92?
User blogs? They sure will! Hopefully in the next 48-hours…
yes…sweet thanks!
No problem, gonna try my best to have them done tonight but we’ll see.
i agree fr but id say there even on the gorund hendo’s wrestling should have won him that fight but im still waiting for someone to realize that silva can not lose standing and i think maia knows that and thats why i think maia would take him down fast and sub him
Gun I see what you are saying, but i also believe that Maia’s takedowns arent very strong, persistant yes strong not so much (when i state strong look at Hendo’s takedowns or KOS or GSP explosive if you will) which without that strong takedown i believe that Silva has a better chance of stuffing it than the others but in Maia’s persistance he most likely would be able to take Silva down… What happens after that is anyones guess
well i see wat your saying about the strong takedowns but i mean does it even need to be strong i mean travis lutter took down silva with a ankle pick…if a gassed lutter can ankle pick silva then im pretty sure that maia can get him down….but maia has to win one more fight first i say if lister beats okami which he will imo make it lister/maia that would be a ground match for the ages
True on the Lutter point, I thought tho that Silva wanted to go to the ground on a few of those takedowns, but the ankle pick one he just got taken down, and if that were the case with Maia, Silva would be on his back cheers
Per BE, Anderson Silva v Thales Leites April 17th in Canada
ya but even henderson got wobbled from anderson’s standup anderson was almost the first guy to ko henderson…..hendo should have taken it to the ground at the begining of the second also…..the thing with anderson is he has horrible takedown defense and he can be subbed alot of times…..those are his two weakness’s so my guess is if maia gets a chance at silvas title we will have a new champ maia has ways to takedown anyone and is imo the best mma submission artist…he’s transitioned his jits to work perfectly for mma……andersons 2009 doesnt look easy IMO
Gun, every man has their weakness, about four years ago most definately it was Silva’s subb defense (not that his JJ on the ground but his sub defense was lacking) now his JJ is really underrated and this has been shown since his arrival in the UFC… Maia, Leites definately are really good fighters and im not taking anything away from them, yet if they get KO’D standing up they wont have an oppritunity to sub Silva, if it does go to the ground he has his work cut out for him but he is more than compentant to stay outta trouble..
Now you say he has horrible takedown defense, I would say yes and no.. if you notice he has a tendoncey to pull guard yet not like others pull guard for him being so tall and lanky for the division he pulls guard and works the body triangle then moves towards sweeps, thats just the way i see his BJJ game… also Silva is one of the 3 men to ever sub Hendo, do you really think that going to the ground would be wise, hey i enjoy Hendo just like everyone else, but in reality Anderson Silva is the better fighter standing and with subs just my opionion my friend….