Shogun Vs. Rampage In December?
by Kelvin Hunt on Aug 13, 2008 1:29 PM EDT
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I know I'm just a tad late with this bit of news, but some of the casual fans may not be aware.
According to MMAmania:
But if comments made by Mauricio "Shogun" Rua (16-3) at a recent training seminar are any indication, PRIDE may in fact live again.
At least for one night in December.
Rua, winner of the PRIDE 2005 middleweight grand prix, informed a very unsuspecting but grateful crowd that he was indeed anticipating a December return and hopeful that his opponent would be former UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton "Rampage" Jackson (28-7) ??" not Mark Coleman as previously reported.
The same Quinton Jackson who was knocked out in devastating fashion by Rua at PRIDE Total Elimination 2005.
Well, first of all it would be great to see both of these fighters back in the cage given the circumstances with both of them. Shogun with all his injuries and Rampage with his legal troubles. This fight makes a lot of sense at this point, being that it would be easy to promote and would definitely cause some shuffling in the LHW division. I have no idea why Shogun/Mark Coleman was even being discussed. I know they fought in PRIDE and all the controversy surrounding the fight, but that would have been a very insignificant fight. I think Rampage's court date is set for August 15th, so at that point things will be more clear in terms of this fight happening or not. Stay tuned as I keep you updated with the lastest.
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In my opinion, Shogun will be the Shogun everyone was used to seeing in Pride, not the Shogun that fought Griffin, and beat Rampage.
And I totaly agree about the Shogun/Coleman fight. It also still baffles me that they were gonna put Coleman against Lesnar. Are they literally trying to kill Mark Coleman? These matchups would have been as pointless as Tito vs Shamrock. Yeah there was a beef between the two, but did anyone really think Shamrock had any chance in hell against Ortiz?
by El_Felix on Aug 13, 2008 1:49 PM EDT reply actions
You hear Southworth is gonna fight Babalu for his Southworths title at the Strikrforce show at the Playboy Masion in September? Poor Southworth.
by El_Felix on Aug 13, 2008 1:51 PM EDT reply actions
I think Shogun hasn’t looked nearly as good since he broke his arm…I mean I saw the fight he had with Nakamura and Nak was winning on the feet!!!! And Cyrille Diabate was definitely dismantling Shogun on the feet….Shogun would definitely have to take Rampage down and do damage from there and I don’t see that happening…and as far as the clinch goes…Rampage looks like he’s still susceptible to it but with the cage he’d be able to possibly push Shogun off him or clinch up with him to close the distance and not eat too many knees
I’d rather see the Wand fight because that would/could lead to the next title fight with that winner, I think Shogun would kinda need another fight even if he did beat Rampage unless he just destroyed him
by Charles Walker on Aug 13, 2008 3:47 PM EDT reply actions
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