Rumor: Junior dos Santos vs. Justin McCully At UFC 101 or 102?
by Kelvin Hunt on Apr 2, 2009 3:17 PM EDT
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PrintThat's the rumor according to Junior dos Santos himself via Tatame:
“Probably I’ll be back in August, at UFC 101 or 102, and maybe against Justin McCully. They haven’t confirmed it yet, but spoke about it. He’s tough, fights for a long time, but I don’t know much about him. I’m training for a long time, but nothing hard yet."
What the hell...Justin McCully? April Fool's was yesterday right? How on earth could they match him up with McCully? I know it's not set in stone(at the moment) or whatever, but why would they even contemplate this matchup is beyond me. I understand you need to build fighters up and whatnot, but the two fighters he has beaten in the UFC are beyond McCully! Junior dos Santos publically called out Cheick Kongo right here last month. That's a much more logical fight then Justin McCully. Let that man fight the winner of Cheick Kongo/Antoni Hardonk.
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i thought mccully was moving to lhw? i know jake obrien did, maybe i’m getting them mixed up? mccully is a can. i agee kelvin, dos santos should fight the winner or loser of the kongo/hardonk fight(depending on how that fight goes). he could fight the loser as long as the fights not a blowout. either is a better fight for junior.
I think that since it’s still fairly early in his career it’s not really a problem that he’s beating up on guys like McCully. Besides, it’s not like there are a ton of HW fighters just waiting for fights.
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I feel you…but I also feel that a fighter should never take a fight that’s a step backwards either. If it’s not getting you any closer to a title fight then what’s the use…nahmean?
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I generally agree with you except if a fighter needs experience, wants to fight but no better opponents are available or the organization wants to push the fighter and get him some more exposure to the fans, which is what is happening here.
I wouldn’t have a problem with that….except…if this rumor comes to fruition…then the fight wouldn’t take place until August….Kongo is fighting in like 2 weeks…which would give them both madd time to prepare to fight one another in August instead of McCully.
(Provided he beats Hardonk of course)… :)
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Maybe they are planning on putting Kongo vs Carwin or Cain next. Carwin and Cain are on a level above dos santos I think. He hasn’t had enough cage time to truly see how good of a fighter he is. I’d like to see him have a couple more fights, hopefully going longer than two minutes or having him come back from diversity…..like Carwin after Gonzaga had him in a bad spot. I think they are still kind of trying to figure out if he’s the real deal or not.
Yeah but I don’t think at this point title contention is something he needs to worry about. I don’t think that people really need to be even thinking about their title shot (if any) until they’ve racked up three or four wins (considering they’re not some big name talent from another organization). Hell, look how long it’s taken Machida to get a title shot, and that was only because Rampage couldn’t do it!
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