Firstly, I think Liddel will lose to Rashad so we won’t be needing this debate.

I’d much rather watch Chuck in action over Lyoto. There is a difference between “winning” and “NOT losing” and I’m afraid Machida’s fights represent the latter. I honestly get pretty bored watching Lyoto fight but hey… having said that, he still deserves a title shot before Chuck does.

Agreed 100% with what was just said^…

I cant see chuck beating Evans … I know chucks a banger and evans aint like taking hits… but i think he’ll win…

I think if he puts Evans away impressively, he could put his name in the hat of contenders…because really, other than Machida, the only other option to fight Forrest is Rampage and his legal stuff might take a while, so I could understand that logic, but I really don’t want to see Chuck with the belt again and I think he’d beat Forrest easily

In my opinion there are two possible ways to determine who gets the next title shot: either the winner of the Machida/Silva match gets the next title shot, or perhaps Chuck, if he does in fact win against Evans (which I personaly think he will), should fight the winner of that match to see who gets a title shot, being that Machida or Silva, although both are 13-0, haven’t beaten anyone that is in true title contention in the UFC. But by the way the two matches have been set date wise, it does seem to appear the UFC is banking on Chuck to win in order to give him time to train for a match up with Griffin for the big New Years Eve show. There is no way that either Machida or Silva would be able to take a fight in December after fighting in October.

Wow some folks actually giving Rashad a shot at winning?(I don’t think Chuck will walk thru him at all).

Unfortunately, I disagree with some of you, because I honestly don’t think Rashad will beat Chuck. And I DON’T LIKE Chuck’s punk ass. I just don’t see Rashad having tons of success taking Chuck down, and I don’t see him getting in the line of fire too much to throw blow with Lidell. A surprise high kick is not going to beat Chuck.

With that being said, I still think Machida should be granted a title shot first (since Rampage can’t get an immediate rematch due to legal wrangling). True, his style isn’t the most exciting, but I think he might be the ‘next in line’ at this point.

I like Machida but he needs to face stiffer competition…the only top 10 LHW he’s faced is Sokoudjou…granted he did submit him…he needs to beat someone like Wanderlei Silva…someone at least top 5 before a title shot IMO.