Does Rafael dos Anjos Deserve Another Fight In The UFC?
by Kelvin Hunt on Apr 3, 2009 10:45 AM EDT
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So I was thinking about this last night, but just got a chance to put my thoughts up. Normally when a fighter goes 0-2 in his first two fights inside the UFC, he's cut from the promotion. There are countless fighters that I could mention that've suffered this fate. Hell, there have been times when a fighter loses his debut and is cut from the promotion. Rafael dos Anjos has lost to Jeremy Stephens and Tyson Griffin. I felt that dos Anjos was winning the Stephens fight until he got hit with that Mortal Kombat uppercut out of nowhere. Regardless, he lost that fight and lost to Tyson Griffin the other night although he shined in a couple of spots in that fight. My question is simple. Even though dos Anjos has lost his first two fights in the UFC, does he deserve another fight inside the promotion? Would you like to see him fight again in the UFC? I would like to see him get another shot at it. The guy comes to fight, point blank period. There are no hugging for decisions, or any of that other nonsense we see from some fighters. This guy obviously is well versed in submissions, has a good chin, and is improving his standup(even though it's still sloppy at times). Give me your thoughts.
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The short answer: yes he does.
Put him against Junie Browning in a loser-leaves-the-UFC match.
Bloody hell.
Agreed, at least 1 more fight.
I’d love to see this. RdA would beat his ass so yeah, it would be entertaining.
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by xFenixKnightx on Apr 3, 2009 11:16 AM EDT up reply actions
i agree. dos anjos has alot of talent imo and his fight with tyson griffin was much closer than the scores indicated. he’d kill junie and we’s never have to talk about him again. 2 thumbs up!
by bdw on Apr 3, 2009 9:00 PM EDT up reply actions
I think he does deserve to stay…based on performance and competition. Stevens and Griffin are tough.
It’s not like he’s a punk who faced Dave Kaplan and got all kinds of special treatment or anything.
by The Real T-Bone on Apr 3, 2009 11:57 AM EDT reply actions
Do you have a way of telling who actually voted no?
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by xFenixKnightx on Apr 3, 2009 12:37 PM EDT up reply actions
No…we have a bunch of ‘lurkers’…people that read the blog…they’ll vote but generally will not comment for whatever reason…
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Yea
Thing is…after you register…that’s it…no more logging in and all that other stuff…I guess…I’ve have a ton of people register(join the blog) but never post a comment…lol.
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Yeah, but some people just don’t want to register. I didn’t even want to bother, until you told me that I could use my Yahoo ID, which is why I went from commenting regularly at the .net to zilch here at the .com.
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I was one of these lurkers once too. :P
C’mon guys, its safe. Come out and play lol!
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I’d say he deserves to hang out. Like Kelvin mentioned he was doing well before he got decapitated against Stephens, and he looked OK against Griffin. And really, getting decisioned out by Tyson Griffin isn’t exactly something that you can hold against a guy; he does it to damn-near everybody. I say give him one more fight, and see what happens.. I love the idea against Browning, but I believe that Junie has two losses before he gets cut.
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He has shown a lot of toughness and skill in his two fights, both going into the third round. He is a lot of fun to watch on the ground but he really needs to work on his striking. Tyson Griffin wouldn’t move right for a while in that match after the knee compression and he should’ve been able to tee off on him since he couldn’t avoid punches as much.
The LW division needs some more JJ-based or striking-based fighters to combat the majority of wrestling-based fighters that make up most of the division. Definitely keep him.
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