Posts Tagged ‘opposed’
HOUSTON – Following a thrilling “Fight of the Night” victory over Leonard Garcia at Saturday’s UFC 136 event, Nam Phan said he’s open to a third match with the the slugger.
Read between the lines, though, and Phan clearly is ready to move on.
But thanks to Garcia’s crowd-pleasing style, he’s likely to stick around the UFC if a trilogy fight is considered, according to UFC president Dana White.
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Maybe there’s something to these Bellator vs. Strikeforce superfights, after all.
While Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney has openly lobbied for a matchup between
his company’s lightweight champion, Eddie Alvarez, and Strikeforce’s
155-pound kingpin Gilbert Melendez, Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker has yet
to commit to a potential superfight.
But with Rebney now publicly pushing for his champions Hector Lombard
and Ben Askren to face their Strikeforce counterparts – Ronaldo “Jacare”
Souza and Nick Diaz, respectively – Coker says it’s time for the
Bellator CEO to get serious if he’s ready to deal.
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UFC president Dana White says there’s still some work to be done, but he’s not opposed to a Georges St-Pierre vs Anderson Silva superfight…
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BOSTON – The UFC’s most-requested superfight is one step closer to becoming a reality.
At Saturday’s UFC Fan Expo Boston 2010, UFC president Dana White said
he’s slowly warming to the idea of a superfight between middleweight
kingpin Anderson Silva and current welterweight
champion Georges St-Pierre.
“They’ve got a couple of guys they’ve got to beat before we make that
fight, but I’m not opposed to making it,” White told a large crowd
gathered for a special Q&A session at the Hynes Event Center in
Boston.
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