Could Strikeforce Lightweight Fighters Compete With UFC Lightweights?
by Kelvin Hunt on Dec 15, 2009 11:00 AM EST
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Strikeforce lightweight champion Josh Thomson thinks so in the video above as he affirmed that he still thinks that he and Gilbert Melendez could be any other lightweights in the world aside from maybe BJ Penn. Strikeforce is building a solid lightweight division. They have fighters like Thomson, Melendez, Mitsuhiro Ishida, Billy Evangelista, and Victor "Shaolin" Ribeiro. It's possible that other lightweights from DREAM could make their Strikeforce debut in 2010. Roger Huerta could end up over there if he doesn't re-sign with the UFC. Think about fights like Melendez/Florian, Thomson/Maynard, or Evangelista/Edgar. Sound off in the comments sections.
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Evangelista would get destroyed in the UFC LW division
Thomson and Melendez could do okay, I could even see Melendez giving problems for Florian (who’s my #2 lw in the UFC)
by Charles Walker on Dec 15, 2009 11:25 AM EST reply actions
I’d like to see Melendez and Thomson in the UFC…Ribeiro’s sub game is nice…
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by Kelvin Hunt on Dec 15, 2009 11:52 AM EST up reply actions
Melendez Striking has improved
I’d like to see him fight B.J. Melendez has the reach advantage. Would be intrusting
Melendez and Thompson could hang in the UFC (mostly Melendez), but that’s about it. Even then though, saying that Strikeforce’s 155 division could compete with the UFC is just laughable.
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Melendez, Thompson and Reberio
would run through the WEC lightweights
by Erich Vowell on Dec 15, 2009 4:39 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah
Reberio has bad style match-ups with Henderson and Varner but Thomson and Melendez would murk WEC lightweights
by Erich Vowell on Dec 15, 2009 8:13 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
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