Alves-Sanchez Fight Off

The Thiago Alves vs. Diego Sanchez match earmarked for 10/18 in Birmingham, England is now off. The Thiago Silva vs. Ryoto (Lyoto) Machida match announced yesterday was to take its place.

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Grr. I was really looking forward to some free TV Pitbull whoop@ss. Oh well, Diego's thanking his lucky stars.

Hopefully they get Alves on another card soon. He's really got mementum right now.

ahh that sucks. i was wanting the Diego and Alves fight more. hmmm...

Hopefully Dana will just stop being butthurt from watching Thiago destroy Hughes and give him the next title shot like he should get. Matt and Thiago were both way about 170 at fight time so I dont get how people dismiss Thiagos win as "not as welterweight" but catchweight...so what? he beat 2 top 10s in a row in the WW division.

Thiago was gonna knock Diego out anyway and it would have been sweet.

all that arguing for nothing...

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Posted by jiujitsufreak74

all that arguing for nothing...

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Nah..I think it'll happen, just not for free. Probably in one of the PPV that follows, unless it got canceled for another reason (injury, or dont put either one down in the standings)

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Posted by Quasar

Hopefully Dana will just stop being butthurt from watching Thiago destroy Hughes and give him the next title shot like he should get. Matt and Thiago were both way about 170 at fight time so I dont get how people dismiss Thiagos win as "not as welterweight" but catchweight...so what? he beat 2 top 10s in a row in the WW division.

Thiago was gonna knock Diego out anyway and it would have been sweet.

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It wasn't a welterweight fight. He struggles to make weight, and was caught using Diuretics before trying to cut weight. If he continues to struggle to make weight, even with one of the best camps in the world, he needs to consider moving to middleweight.

Yeah

I had my doubts because Playground had their pictures up but UFC.com didn't that is why my forum headline said "...is this legit". I guess not. But I bet it will happen sooner or later. They are great challenges for each other.

JJfreak
If it's only postponed I'm still good for that av bet.

i really hope they add this to ufc 90 or headline a fight night w/ it

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Posted by Quasar

Hopefully Dana will just stop being butthurt from watching Thiago destroy Hughes and give him the next title shot like he should get. Matt and Thiago were both way about 170 at fight time so I dont get how people dismiss Thiagos win as "not as welterweight" but catchweight...so what? he beat 2 top 10s in a row in the WW division.

Thiago was gonna knock Diego out anyway and it would have been sweet.

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It wasn't a welterweight fight. He struggles to make weight, and was caught using Diuretics before trying to cut weight. If he continues to struggle to make weight, even with one of the best camps in the world, he needs to consider moving to middleweight.

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maybe he does need to move idk, tibau looks just as big and he makes 155 with relative ease

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Posted by gartface

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Posted by Quasar

Hopefully Dana will just stop being butthurt from watching Thiago destroy Hughes and give him the next title shot like he should get. Matt and Thiago were both way about 170 at fight time so I dont get how people dismiss Thiagos win as "not as welterweight" but catchweight...so what? he beat 2 top 10s in a row in the WW division.

Thiago was gonna knock Diego out anyway and it would have been sweet.

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It wasn't a welterweight fight. He struggles to make weight, and was caught using Diuretics before trying to cut weight. If he continues to struggle to make weight, even with one of the best camps in the world, he needs to consider moving to middleweight.

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That is so true.
You know what's crazy? Thiago walks around at about 195 lbs on a regular day and Diego says he's a lean 177. When he needs to cut wait he just takes a shit. Still would be a great match up regardless of the size advantage. We all know Thiago can make weight but he struggles with or without the ankle injury/diuretics.

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Posted by Quasar

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Posted by gartface

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Posted by Quasar

Hopefully Dana will just stop being butthurt from watching Thiago destroy Hughes and give him the next title shot like he should get. Matt and Thiago were both way about 170 at fight time so I dont get how people dismiss Thiagos win as "not as welterweight" but catchweight...so what? he beat 2 top 10s in a row in the WW division.

Thiago was gonna knock Diego out anyway and it would have been sweet.

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It wasn't a welterweight fight. He struggles to make weight, and was caught using Diuretics before trying to cut weight. If he continues to struggle to make weight, even with one of the best camps in the world, he needs to consider moving to middleweight.

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maybe he does need to move idk, tibau looks just as big and he makes 155 with relative ease

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Gleison is actually an inch taller even.

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Posted by Quasar

Hopefully Dana will just stop being butthurt from watching Thiago destroy Hughes and give him the next title shot like he should get. Matt and Thiago were both way about 170 at fight time so I dont get how people dismiss Thiagos win as "not as welterweight" but catchweight...so what? he beat 2 top 10s in a row in the WW division.

Thiago was gonna knock Diego out anyway and it would have been sweet.

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It wasn't a welterweight fight. He struggles to make weight, and was caught using Diuretics before trying to cut weight. If he continues to struggle to make weight, even with one of the best camps in the world, he needs to consider moving to middleweight.

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he wasnt caught doing diuretics in his fight with Hughes, that was a different fight. After that he made weight for all of his following fights, except on his fight with Hughes, reason being was that he sprained his ankle previous to the fight, which made his weight go up to a level where he could not bring it back down to 170 in a healthy manner.

granted is not easy for him to cut weight, i dont think he needs to move to middleweight, he has made weight before, and i dont think he'll miss weight again.

I was, like most of you looking forward to this fight. Both guys are hungry, and would have been great. Hopefully they keep the matchup in the future.

Its a good thing for Sanchez that they called this fight off he was gonna get hurt in this fight by alves. Im actually really excited for thiago silva vs machida i think thiago will push the pace and machida wont be able to get away from him, were gonna see just how good machida really is in this fight.

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Posted by Quasar

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Posted by gartface

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Posted by Quasar

Hopefully Dana will just stop being butthurt from watching Thiago destroy Hughes and give him the next title shot like he should get. Matt and Thiago were both way about 170 at fight time so I dont get how people dismiss Thiagos win as "not as welterweight" but catchweight...so what? he beat 2 top 10s in a row in the WW division.

Thiago was gonna knock Diego out anyway and it would have been sweet.

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It wasn't a welterweight fight. He struggles to make weight, and was caught using Diuretics before trying to cut weight. If he continues to struggle to make weight, even with one of the best camps in the world, he needs to consider moving to middleweight.

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maybe he does need to move idk, tibau looks just as big and he makes 155 with relative ease

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that's a good point. they also are from the same camp: ATT.

they just scrapped the best fight on the card, ****** sucks.

Daayuum. This fight was genuinely going to be sick. I hope they put it on a differant card becouse this is kinda a dream match to me. I guess itl help my playground record if the fight doesnt happen though, becouse i really wont know who to pick.

too many fights plus too many good main card fights
i knew this would happen it just got bumped
it will still happen at ufc 90 or 91 in nov they needed to bump a fight and it had to be a fight with no euro fighters on it.
made perfect sense, even ufc.com never did annouce this fight yet
still is great card,,
davis vs kelly is back on main card

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Posted by gartface

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Posted by Quasar

Hopefully Dana will just stop being butthurt from watching Thiago destroy Hughes and give him the next title shot like he should get. Matt and Thiago were both way about 170 at fight time so I dont get how people dismiss Thiagos win as "not as welterweight" but catchweight...so what? he beat 2 top 10s in a row in the WW division.

Thiago was gonna knock Diego out anyway and it would have been sweet.

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It wasn't a welterweight fight. He struggles to make weight, and was caught using Diuretics before trying to cut weight. If he continues to struggle to make weight, even with one of the best camps in the world, he needs to consider moving to middleweight.

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he wasnt caught doing diuretics in his fight with Hughes, that was a different fight. After that he made weight for all of his following fights, except on his fight with Hughes, reason being was that he sprained his ankle previous to the fight, which made his weight go up to a level where he could not bring it back down to 170 in a healthy manner.

granted is not easy for him to cut weight, i dont think he needs to move to middleweight, he has made weight before, and i dont think he'll miss weight again.

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If the ankle was that big of a deal he would've backed out. With a camp like ATT there's no excuse for fighting and not making weight.

Man, this was looking like the best upcoming UFC card. Since it's for free I guess they decided it was too much. They shouldn't be scrapping fights for the England show. Considering their last debacle in England they should be bending over backwards to make this fight card the best possible, but instead they took the rug out from everyone.

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Posted by Quasar

Hopefully Dana will just stop being butthurt from watching Thiago destroy Hughes and give him the next title shot like he should get. Matt and Thiago were both way about 170 at fight time so I dont get how people dismiss Thiagos win as "not as welterweight" but catchweight...so what? he beat 2 top 10s in a row in the WW division.

Thiago was gonna knock Diego out anyway and it would have been sweet.

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It wasn't a welterweight fight. He struggles to make weight, and was caught using Diuretics before trying to cut weight. If he continues to struggle to make weight, even with one of the best camps in the world, he needs to consider moving to middleweight.

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he wasnt caught doing diuretics in his fight with Hughes, that was a different fight. After that he made weight for all of his following fights, except on his fight with Hughes, reason being was that he sprained his ankle previous to the fight, which made his weight go up to a level where he could not bring it back down to 170 in a healthy manner.

granted is not easy for him to cut weight, i dont think he needs to move to middleweight, he has made weight before, and i dont think he'll miss weight again.

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If the ankle was that big of a deal he would've backed out. With a camp like ATT there's no excuse for fighting and not making weight.

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Hes not gonna turn down the biggest fight of his career and fight a legend, Matt had the opportunity to postpone and didnt. I think he thought if Thiago won people would do exactly what there doing, downplaying his win for the weight issue.

gonna be a great fight, i have Thiago Alves in a 3rd round ko

that was one of the best Headline non Title fights ever. that sux, Silva Machida is alright

I'm not sure your all thinking right on this fight. I see Diego winning this fight all the way. Alves has always had trouble stuffing the takedowns. What's Diego's game? Taking people down and grounding and pounding them. Also Sanchez's striking game has also gotten alot better. Not that I think he'd stand and bang with him. But he's got to punch to set up those takedowns. I think Diego would win this fight by decision. All you Alves nutthuggers need to recognize...lol!

He looked pretty good stuffing Matt Hughes and Karo's takedowns.