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Top 5 In Each Class That Should Make UFC Debuts
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BlazinSaddle
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top 5 in each class or top 1 in each class (dosnt include featherwight)
Heavyweight...Fedor, Aleks, Rothwell, N. Grove, A. Silva, Hunt
Light Heavyweight...Manhoef, Arona, Lil Nog, Hamman, Teixeira
Middleweight...Cung Le, Misaki, Akiyama, Filho, Lombard, Mousasi
Welterweight...Pyle, Shields, Markham, Azeredo, Daley, Alvarez
Lightweight...JZ, Kawajiri, Gomi, Kid, Hellboy, Ribeiro, Melendez
i missed quite a few, what are your top 5 or top 1 in each class
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Post #1 2/7/08 9:54:56PM
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babalu2720
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Career record: 227-120
Season: 48-22 (#352)
Location: Massachusetts
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If I had to choose one from eac class I'd go
HW-Bigfoot Silva
LHW-Arona
MW-Mousasi
WW-Semtex Daley
LW-JZ, without a doubt
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Post #2 2/7/08 9:58:46PM
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d_block07
MMA Regular
Career record: 139-64
Season: 2-4 (#8870)
Location: Bethesda MD
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HW - fedor
LHW - Arona
MW - Dennis Kang
WW - shields (without a doubt)
LW - Gomi
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Post #3 2/7/08 10:05:15PM
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NatedawgThaM
MMA Sensei
Career record: 150-91
Season: 44-24 (#1353)
Location: New Providence, Pa
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HW- Fedor: Shut all the UFC redneck fans up[
LHW- Manhoef: Exciting as crap and would make a huge impact and the crowd would love him.
MW- Fhilo: We all want to see him vs Anderson, hopefully he don't bump up because I can't see him doing to well.
WW- Jake Shields: Easily Top 5 in the world, Best not in the UFC.
LW- JZ Calvan hands down, the greatest LW fighter.
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Post #4 2/7/08 10:09:37PM
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Pookie
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Season: 52-18 (#56)
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GZ, Kid, and Aoki... 
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Post #5 2/7/08 10:26:57PM
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RIP Evan Tanner 1971-2008
Career record: 108-58
Season: 44-26 (#796)
Location: Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
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hw- emelianenko brothers
lhw- rogerio nogueira, arona
mw- kang, akiyama
ww- shields, pyle
lw- melendez, sakurai
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Post #6 2/7/08 11:07:37PM
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BlazinSaddle
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Posted by Gipper
sakurai
sakurai fought hughes in the ufc
but i want him to come back too 
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Post #7 2/7/08 11:22:05PM
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gartface
MMA Sensei
Career record: 147-96
Season: 51-19 (#178)
Location: Flo-town, SC
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HW: Aleks, Fedor (or the return of Josh Barnett)
LHW: Lil Nog, Doug Marshall
MW: Kang, Filho
WW: Jake Shields
LW: Aoki, JZ, Kid
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Post #8 2/8/08 12:33:29AM
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Lay_N_Pray
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I will not be happy until Syar Bahadurzada makes it into the UFC
He is explosive and dangerous for any middleweight, and he is middle eastern which would bring a new look to the octagon
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Post #9 2/8/08 12:58:22AM
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fullerene
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Career record: 184-92
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Great first set of picks--kind of takes the originality out of mine, so I'll add a couple of non-supported (by the UFC) weight classes:
SuperHeavyweight...A Silva, Sapp, Choi, Hunt, Thompson
Heavyweight...Fedor, Aleks, Fujita, Ogawa, Kimbo (I admit it)
Light Heavyweight...Yoshida, Overeem, Manhoef, Arona, Lil Nog
Middleweight...Cung Le, Misaki, Akiyama, Filho, Kang
Welterweight...Pyle, Shields, Condit, Aoki, Marcelo Garcia
Lightweight...JZ, Gomi, Hellboy, Melendez, Noons
Featherweight...Kid, Kawajiri, Ribiero, Cintron (I admit it)
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Post #10 2/8/08 10:30:14AM
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MMAnomale
MMA Regular
Career record: 73-28
Season: 3-0 (#8809)
Location: Huntington, WV
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Posted by babalu2720
If I had to choose one from eac class I'd go
HW-Bigfoot Silva
LHW-Arona
MW-Mousasi
WW-Semtex Daley
LW-JZ, without a doubt
Paul Symtex Daley is badass. His elbows are so vicious. He's fun to watch. It'll be interesting to see 'Bigfoot' Silva fight some better competition. He moves great for his size and has tremendous potential, absolutely tremendous. He's still fairly young and will continue to develop and improve and will be fun to watch these next few years.
Depending on what happens with A.Silva/Hendo, the UFC should consider some options. If Hendo wins, then Franklin should get a shot at him. Hell, if Hendo loses, him and Franklin should fight. But they need to consider some more fighters. I know Zuffa owns the WEC, put Paulo Filho needs to be in the UFC's MW division. Also, they need to get Denis Kang. He's a great all-around fighter and would pose a threat to many fighters in that weight division. Not to mention the UFC getting many other fighters, including many lightweights, getting Gomi, Fedor (they can't get Aleks, but they can get the younger brother), and possibly Rothwell and Horadecki from the IFL. Although you know the IFL is paying them two damn well to keep them because they know that they are their bread and butter in those two divisions. Also, 'Bigfoot' Silva should come join the ranks of the UFC Big Boys. There's many fighters that I would like to see fight eachother. The UFC has the leg up on having the best collection of great fighters, but if they aren't careful, and pay their fighters better, their going to keep losing fighters. At first, fighters are just excited to be in the "Big Show" but after a while they realize that they are being underpaid. Compared to what the UFC makes, after the overhead (renting out the arenas, PPV time, etc) they make a fortune in PPV sales, ticket-sales, clothing and apparrel sales, etc. They could easily afford to practically double all the fighters' wages and still being making a fortune. Eventually, the fighters will probably try and start a union. I don't know how the hell I got so far off the original topic. Sorry.
Last edited 2/8/08 2:00PM by MMAnomale
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Post #11 2/8/08 1:52:28PM
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Cladrix
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Great Post........
HW: Fedor (of coarse) Barnett
LHW: Manhoef (the guy is a beast and a very exciting fighter)
MW: Kang, Filho, Misaki, and Akiyama
WW: Shields and Nick Diaz to make a comeback
LW: JZ, Aoki, Gomi, Kawajiri, Hellboy Hanson, Ishida, Melendez
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Post #12 2/8/08 1:59:32PM
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MMAnomale
MMA Regular
Career record: 73-28
Season: 3-0 (#8809)
Location: Huntington, WV
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Doug "The Rhino" Marshall?? Come on. When they (the WEC) throws Mr. Marine at him, Doug'll lose. There's too many damn good LHW's in the UFC for Marshall to come. He should stay in the WEC.
I would, though, like to see James "The Collosus" (formerly "The Debt Collector" Thompson come to the UFC. He has a fight coming up. He's just fun to watch. He's a crazy SOB.
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Post #13 2/8/08 2:05:38PM
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gsquat
MMA Sensei
Career record: 121-77
Season: 47-23 (#266)
Location: TC, MI
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Firstly, Fedor and Van Damme shouldn't have their heads touching in the avatar above. 
I can't name five in each class but here are the ones I'd love to see.
#1 Cung Le- One of my favorite fighters. Le would kick supreme ass in the WW division. His confidence and striking is like none I've ever seen. Better than Anderson's even.
#2 Either Emelianenko- Its where they need to be. Obviously Fedor more than Aleksander, but I think one would lead to the other.
#3 Kevin Ferguson- Although bad for MMA when he's not in it, people would still love to see him fight some top heavyweights. My guess; the same thing that happened to Lesnar.
#4 Bob Sapp- (Although no room due to weight divisions) Once again, people love to watch heavyweights. And I love to watch giant babies like Sapp get beat on by actual MMA fighters.
#5 Takanori Gomi- Lets see if he's the real deal or not against some tried and proven lightweight fighters.
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Post #14 2/8/08 2:18:04PM
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BlazinSaddle
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Posted by gsquat
#1 Cung Le- One of my favorite fighters. Le would kick supreme ass in the WW division. His confidence and striking is like none I've ever seen. Better than Anderson's even.
you meant middleweight right? no way cung le makes 170
second i dont know that cung's striking is better we might not find out, i think someday if he feels like he has all the skills to deal with UFC fighters he'll make his way over there, hes just too dam exciting not to be there, silva vs le is more interesting to me than hendo vs silva honestly, especially when cung gets more experience or his first loss if he ever does lose
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Post #15 2/8/08 2:22:41PM
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