Metal Reviews

I love seeing the guy who runs his mouth get beat down so think I'll watch that one if I'm home at the time otherwise may have to record it

man I have missed so much of what's been happening in the UFC I only recognise a handful of current names like GSP, Anderson Silva um actually I think that's pretty much it

It's a good start-off point if you wanna get back into it. The lightweight champ, two promising young guys in MacDonald and Gustafsson, two legends in Shogun and BJ Penn... They're all high profile fighters.

I saw Penn's fight from UFC 127 (don't quote me on the seven it was a "classic card" thing on Fuel) haven't seen any of the other dudes fights though

suppose the big question in the UFC is who will be Anderson Silva's next victim

and how long will the TKO take...

Anderson only fights once or twice a year so it will be a while. I know the UFC wants GSP to fight him which would probably be the biggest fight in MMA history. We'll see if it happens, GSP doesn't seem very enthustiastic about it. If not, Anderson could fight Michael Bisping or Chris Weidman. Still, I wouldn't expect much before the start of spring.

I personally want to see Belfort get another crack at Silva. He won't get caught with a front kick again (you'd like to hope) and he did hit Silva a couple times early on. I think he'd have something to prove in a rematch, and if fight went to the ground imagine how beautiful it would be to watch two black belts out jiu-jitsu each other. Silva would still win, but it would be a much better fight methinks. Vitor needs to beat Bisping first.

Bisping also claims that he is the unofficial Strikeforce Middleweight Champion, says he sparred with Luke Rockhold and said "...let's jus say I'm the new Strikeforce middleweight champion."

Bisping is a funny guy and doesn't deserve the hate he gets. Would still get schooled by The Spider.

It doesn't mean I don't want to see him try.

Needs to beat The Phenom first. Which I don't think he will.

Silva is almost the perfect fighter, outstanding stand up, and a terrific ground gamefrom the fights of his I've youtubed I'd say it will take something extraordinary to beat him

Even when he loses he knocks his opponents out.

Look up his first fight against Yushin Okami. It's ridiculous.

Interim UFC Bantamweight Champion Renan Barao will defend his title for the first time against Michael McDonald sometime in early 2013. McDonald has not fought in a year, but is 4-0 in the UFC and coming off a huge first round KO of former WEC Bantamweight champ Miguel Torres. Barao himself is riding a 29 fight win streak, which is unheard of nowadays.

This is happeneing because UFC Bantamweight Champion Dominic "The Dominator" Cruz will need a second surgery to repair his torn ACL after the first attempt didn't take. He will be out at least another 9 months.

Stefan Struve will finally fight Mark Hunt at UFC on Fuel TV 8. They were suppose to fight at UFC 146 but Hunt got hurt and hasn't been heard from since, until now. Struve has defeated Lavar Johnson (first round armbar) and Stipe Miocic (2nd round TKO) since. Struve pulls this off I'd say he's a top 10 heavyweight. Hunt wins, he's 4-1 in the UFC. Pretty big fight for the middle tier guys.

Struve is a badass. He's got it in the bag. Sadly, I don't have Fuel... Maybe I'll be around a bw3s at that point.

Do enough people here know the divisions to make their own personal top 10 or top 5 maybe? Break it down by weight class. Would be cool to know where everybody ranks the top fighters.

I could give it a go.. I won't be able to name 10 in the new weight classes, probably only a couple. And I don't have a very good eye for talent outside of the UFC, so my picks will generally be UFC or ex-UFC fighters.

Let's just keep it in th UFC and try for 5 per weight class. Keep it simple. If you can only think of 3, so be it.

Well I already wrote down 10 where I could think of 10 :)

* Heavyweight
Junior Dos Santos
Cain Velasquez
Alistar Overeem
Daniel Cormier
Fabricio Werdum
Frank Mir
Big Nog
Antonio Silva
Stefan Struve
Travis Browne

* Light Heavyweight
Jon Jones
Lyoto Machida
Rashad Evans
Alex Gustafsson
Shogun Rua
Dan Henderson
Ryan Bader
Phil Davis
Glover Teixeira
Lil' Nog

* Middleweight
Anderson Silva
Chael Sonnen
Chris Weidman
Vitor Belfort
Michael Bisping
Yushin Okami
Mark Munoz
Alan Belcher
Brian Stann

* Welterweight
GSP
Carlos Condit
Johnny Hendricks
Nick Diaz
Jon Fitch
Erick Silva
Rory MacDonald
Jake Ellenberger
Josh Koscheck
Martin Kampmann

* Lightweight
Benson Henderson
Frankie Edgar
Gray Maynard
Nate Diaz
Jim Miller
Clay Guida
Anthony Pettis
Gilbert Melendez (Not sure where to put him.. Strikeforce Champ)
Donald Cerrone
Melvin Guillard

* Featherweight
José Aldo
Chad Mendes
Korean Zombie (lack of knowledge really starting to show...)

* Bantamweight
Dominick Cruz
Renan Barao
Urijah Faber
Mayday McDonald
Brad Pickett

* Flyweight
Demetrious Johnson
John Dodson
Ian Mccall
Joseph Benavidez

oh some more names I recognise: Evans, Faber, Edgar and Koscheck

UFC only:

Heavyweight:
Junior Dos Santos
Cain Velasquez
Alistair Overeem
Febricio Werdum
Frank Mir
Antonio Silva
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
Stefan Struve
Travis Browne
Roy Nelson

Light Heavyweights:
Jon Jones
Lyoto Machida
Dan Henderson
Rashad Evans
Mauricio Rua
Glover Teixeira
Alexander Gustafsson
Phil Davis
Antonio Rogerio Noguiera
Forrest Griffin

Middleweights:
Anderson Silva
Chael Sonnen
Chris Weidman
Vitor Belfort
Michael Bisping
Brian Stann
Tim Boetsch
Yushin Okami
Alan Belcher
Rousimir Palhares

Welterweight:
Georges St. Pierre
Carlos Condit
Johnny Hendricks
Nick Diaz
Jon Fitch
Josh Koscheck
Rory MacDonald
Jake Ellenberger
Martin Kampmann
Erick Silva

Lightweight:
Frankie Edgar
Benson Henderson
Nate Diaz
Anthony Pettis
Donald Cerrone
Gray Maynard
Jim Miller
Joe Lauzon
Raphael dos Anjos
TJ Grant

Featherweights:
Jose Aldo
Erik Koch
Chad Mendes
Chan Sung Jung
Dustin Poirier
Ricardo Lamas
Cub Swanson
Diego Nunes
Dennis Siver
Diego Brandao

Bantamweights:
Dominic Cruz
Renan Barao
Michael McDonald
Urijah Faber
Brad Pickett
Mike Easton
Eddie Wineland
Ivan Menjivar
Yves Jabouin
Brian Bowles

Flyweights:
Demetrius Johnson
John Dodson
Joseph Benavidez
Ian McCall
Louis Gaudinot
John Lineker
Jussier da Silva
Chris Cariaso
Yasuhiro Urushitani
John Moraga

Damn, harder than I thought. As soon as Strikeforce folds into the UFC, they will change.

Forrest Griffin hurt, tore his ACL and MCL, out of his fight with Phil Davis at UFC 155. And will probably be out the majority of 2013.

Umm why he don't just quit after that?

He should of quit after Shogun made him his bitch at UFC 134.