Stephan, over at mmatoronto.com, had a nice catch yesterday regarding the upcoming Pride Lightweight 2007 Grand Prix.
If you take a look at the Pride LWGP poster, you will see the faces of both Matt Hughes and Diego Sanchez. As Stephan noted, the Pride LWGP traditionally has been held at a 160 lbs. weight limit, but now with the recent purchase of Pride by the Fertita’s it looks like the new weight limit will perhaps be at 170 lbs.
The other fighters to appear on the poster are:
- Takanori Gomi
- Luiz Buscape
- Marcus Aurelio
- Luiz Azevedo
- Gilbert Melendez
- Joachim Hansen
- Tatsuya Kawajiri
- Mitsuhiro Ishida
- Shin’ya Aoki
- Hayato “Mach” Sakurai
The opening round of the Lightweight Grand Prix is currently scheduled to begin in May. With Diego just having fought this past April 7, I wonder if he truly will be fighting in the Grand Prix; perhaps he will just fight on the second night of the opening round?
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@BV…. nicely said…. as usual
@Amir
You’re presuming that I don’t like Serra…. I really admire the guy, and have been recognizing his knowledge of MMA for many years.
However, he’s not only been fighting for 7 years! Just because the first date you see on Sherdog is August 1999, you are making a bad assumption.
That’s when he won the the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu gold medal at the 1999 World Championships, not when he “started” fighting. He is a submission master….Renzo’s #1.
But……still no where close to being the best in the world by any means…
OR U KNOW WHAT I BET DIEGO CONVINCED GSP TO TAKE A COUPLE HITS OF THE MARY JANE AND IT SCREWED UP GEORGE CUZ HE NEVER DOES IT TO THE POINT WHERE HE WANT MESSED UP LOL…
MATT SERRA DESERVES TO BE IN THE NUMBER 10 SPOT MAYBE EVEN NUMBER 9 NOT NUMBER 1 LOL
I would like to see Henderson fight Anderson Silva or Rich Franklin, that would be an awesome fight.. get some agressive competition going on in that division because really, it’s not too exciting at the moment…
I would definately be interested in watching Hollywood totally destroy the spider.
SERRA WILL LOSE HIS FIRST TITLE DEFENSE.
I AGREE STEVEO
Thank you Stevo. That’s all I’ve been trying to say.
These are fights worth paying bucks for, they don’t even need to be title fights, like I would like to see a rematch of Penn vc St. Pierre .. and perhaps Kendall Grove vs Matt Hughes, (perhaps in a year or so when Kendall develops a little more).
@@@@@@@@@@@DENNIS
YO DUDE Y DO YOU THINK GSP LOST HIS FIRST TITLE DEFENSE?????????????
@PAtrick
….very simple mon ami, he let Serra fight his fight.
…the same reason Hughes, Franklin and Silvia lost.
If Rush would have set the pace, he would have won.
Just look back at the tapes….. look close at the champion’s eyes and facial expressions. In every case, they had the “deer in the headlights” expression.
Like it was their first fight…clearly, none of their heads were in the octagon.
I think that’s the real reason for the ICEMAN’s winning streak of knockouts….
Chuck’s lets his opponent believe that they are setting the pace, so they wind up inevitably charging into his defense, and getting knocked out.
Chuck’s pace IS his defense……so his opponents never really get to set the pace from face up into the lights.
yup! like dennis said, they didnt fight their fight, you also said that in another post dennis, and really thats wats up. YOU NEED A GAMEPLAN, i think GSP went into that fight prepared for anything and he was waiting for the right opportunity, that was the wrong gameplan for this fight. Hughes too, he just went out there prepared for anything and waited to see what would happen. you have to KNOW what will happen and MAKE it happen! go out there and do what you have already planned to do, even if your a better fighter, if you dont have a strategy your at a disadvantage.
yup!
Right before GSP got knocked silly he was watching the clock. I think he was planning to fight a longer fight, maybe into the 3rd or 4th round and his mindset was on that, he was ready for the round to end and Serra was ready to win the fight in that round. The other observation I made, and it could be absolutely nothing, was that GSP spit a ton of water in the octagon, (as is his “thing”) before the fight, and he slipped during the fight, could he have actually slipped on the water he spit before the fight? Funny if that happened.
i dont know but serra shouldnt be number one but did any one see the african assasin ko arona the guys a beast next josh thompson in my opinion has to be the sorriest sack hes big for nothing i dont know i just hate that guy thought i should say it here
hey hillbilly u never explained why u stole my idea on linland being number one on mmaweekly whats up with that at least give me credit
i know this is going back a few posts but i was wondering about this so i had to ask. dennis mentioned the lightweights he would like to see from the ufc and said all ufc lightweights but the pride lightweight div. is 160lbs and your more likely to ufc welterweights then lightweights get in to it. i was just wondering if you just wanted to see those guys fight in it or were you just having a brain ****?
i think the line up they have now is pretty good but i would like to see a few more ufc fighters just because i think pride has real good fighters in there that dont match up well against hughes or sanchez. i think melendez or gomi could knock out hughes. also i noticed that there is not enough fighters on the poster for a GP they need four less or four more. lets hope its four more and they are from the ufc that would be 6 ufc and 10 pride. my picks from ufc would be hughes, sanchez, parisyan, st.pierre, huerta, and joe stevenson.
@dr j
do you have any word on when sherk is gonna be finished building his new bionic shoulder and defend that gawd damn lightweight title?
@RJ
according to “The Shreveport Times” March 17, Sean states that he’ll be ready to fight in a month or so…..
Rough translation: Come April….just waiting to beat up on GSP.
@MMAkansas
I noticed the same thing…
@Diik
..so………it was YOUR IDEA for Matt to be #1???
@RJ
…regarding PGP’07……… the more the merrier!
Let’s put Sean in there too!
@RJ,
I think the Sean Sherk vs Hermes Franca matchup is currently tentatively scheduled for UFC 72 in July
LOL DOES THAT MEAN THAT THE MUSCLE SHARK IS GOING TO LOSE ANY FIGHT?
YO DOC
SO FLORIDA IS DIFFERENT THAN NEVADA
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YO WHATS UR OUTLOOK ON THE FEDOR LINLAND FIGHT
@Patrick,
I think you’ve got to go with Fedor naturally. Lindland normally fights at 185 and will be fighting Fedor at Heavyweight. Plus, Fedor is the best fighter in the world right now. I think it will still be a good fight.
DOC
DO U STILL SHERK STAYING THE CHAMP?
Yeah, I think Sherk will be able to beat Franca. Franca has had a nice run lately but I dont think he’ll be able to deal with Sherk on the ground.
AH HELL NO HE WONT
YO DOC
WHAT ABOUT FEDORS BROTHER ALEX’S FIGHT SATURDAY??
YO WHERES EVERYONE AT TODAY?
Fedor will spank Linland in the first round. This is the biggest joke ever! Who organized this fight………………….Tito?
Sorry Diik,
Didn’t mean to dis Tito, or make any discriminatory remarks about the “little people”….
Serra is only “stature challanged”
WHAT DENNIS LIKE GSP WAS SUPPOSE TO SPANK SERRA I DUNNO?
…and Tito, like Rampage & Melvin, is only ” integrity challenged”.
@Patrick
No, what Serra did GSP is a massage with a happy ending, compared to what Fedor will do Linland.
I think it’ll be more along the lines of what a Pitbull would do a pork chop.
LOL HERES THE BIG QUESTION DENNIS
WHAT ABOUT THE PITBULL AND HIS UPCOMING FIGHT
@Patrick
That’s another one that I will not make a bet on. Could go either way.
GOMI LOOKS LIKE HE HAS DOWNS SYNDROME IN THAT PIC LOL
HILLBILLY
u might make fun of me all u want be that facts are i was the first one to say linland shouldnt be number one on mmaweekly and u waited a couple of weeks then u stole my idea so im flatered
Soooo…. Hey how’s Tim the Maniac Syliva doing lately? Is he gonna retire with that back injury or is he gonna entertain us by getting knocked out by CroCop or any one of the new HW fighters that are coming his way very soon? I know Tim is EVERYONE’S favorite guy to post about, but I thought I would break things up… lol
I’d rather talk about this \/
Bad Blood: Dana White vs. Tito Ortiz airs Thursday, 11 p.m. ET/PT following the second episode of The Ultimate Fighter 5. Replays air Friday at midnight and Saturday at 2 p.m.
If Dana lands anything at all, Tito should just quit!
@Dennis,
The fight betweeen Dana and Tito never happened. Tito never showed up to the weigh-ins and the NSAC called the whole thing off.
This stupid show on Spike on Thursday is just all the training and build-up crap that they had already filmed. The fight never took place.
Hey Doc,
Yea, I heard that too, that Tito backed out because he was afraid Dana would hurt him before his big fight with Evans…..
but SPIKE was still advertising it last night!?!?!?!