Diego Sanchez Will Get The Winner Of Kenny Florian/BJ Penn For A Shot At UFC Lightweight Title
by Kelvin Hunt on Jul 1, 2009 6:24 PM EDT
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PrintAccording to Kevin Iole's mailbag:
Diego will get the next title shot against the winner of the B.J. Penn-Kenny Florian fight at UFC 101 on Aug. 8 in Philadelphia. While I agree with you that Maynard is deserving, Sanchez is a former "Ultimate Fighter" winner and is 10-2 in the UFC, not counting his wins on TUF 1. While I wouldn’t be opposed to having Maynard and Sanchez fight and seeing that winner get the title shot, I believe Sanchez has won enough fights and waited a long enough time to deserve the next chance.
I agree with Iole's sentiments here in that I think Maynard is deserving as well, but is getting passed over because Sanchez has more name recognition. This is especially the case after the performance he turned in at the TUF 9 Finale with almost 3 million people seeing him fight. Also, they may very well meet in the future depending on the outcome of Florian/Penn and the winner of that fight against Sanchez. So it's not really a big deal I suppose, because Maynard could use some more experience and training in the mean time to make his game a bit more well rounded. How to you see Sanchez doing against either Florian or Penn?
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i called it! lol! like it was a tough call. i figured they would go with diego’s marketability over maynard, who is still somewhat unknown to the casual fans. whoever it is bj/diego-kenny/diego, it’s gonna be a classic! BOOM!
Sanchez could very well rough Florian up on the ground, he’s a humongous LW… he’ll get killed in the stand up against BJ though, not being able to take him down (at least not until BJ starts gassing).
Bloody hell.
thats the key for diego against bj, should it go that way, take bj into the later rounds. i think diego has the chin and definetlet the cardio to do it. i will really have to think out kenny/diego 2 if that fight happens. if kenny upsets bj, it will be hard top pick against him. :)
by bdw on Jul 1, 2009 7:08 PM EDT up reply actions
I don’t think Diego has any more of a chance getting a belt than Koscheck does a welterweight. Yeah, he’ll [mostly] beat down a lot of rising contenders but he’s no one who’s ever going to capture a title.
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I disagree, because Diego uses more of his tools depending on his opponent…unlike Koshcheck who has become a straight banger all the time now.
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Diego beats both BJ or Kenny.
He has more tools and uses them when he has to. He has more power than Kenny and his cardio alone will make BJ quit again.
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