Not sure what to blog about today so I thought I would play some fantasy booker for the UFC Heavyweight division. Right now what we have booked for the upcoming months is the following:
*Cain Velasquez vs Heath Herring at UFC 99 in June
*Frank Mir vs Brock Lesnar at UFC 100 in July
*Rodrigo Nogueira vs Randy Couture at UFC 102 in August
*Junior dos Santos vs Justin McCully at UFC 102 in August
Right now, in terms of marketability and name value, I would consider Mir, Lesnar, Nogueira, and Couture as the "A" level guys and Velasquez, dos Santos, Shane Carwin, and Cheick Kongo as the "B" level guys. Some point soon, the UFC is going to have to bump one of the B guys up to A level.
Mir and Lesnar obviously is for the undisputed title and the winner of that, there next challenger is probably determined by the Nogueira/Couture outcome. Especially if the two winners have not fought before. So if Mir and Couture both win, or if Lesnar and Nogueira both win, then that is pretty much guaranteed to be the next bout. It would be a lot harder to see Lesnar/Couture and Mir/Nogueira cause both have happened in the last 7 months and both were pretty one sided. And after that happens, you need to boost one of the next 4 guys up.
I am picking Velasquez to beat Herring and dos Santos to beat McCully both fairly easily. By process of elimination, that would mean I would love to see Shane Carwin vs Cheick Kongo fairly soon, maybe UFC 102 in August. Then after that, you should have three guys coming off wins, Velasquez (who would be 4-0 in the UFC by this point), dos Santos (3-0) and the winner of Carwin (would be 4-0)/Kongo (would be 8-2). You could math up any of those three together on the undercard of the winners of the Mir/Lesnar vs Couture/Nogueira car in November or December, and then after that, the winner of that fight gets the next shot at the UFC Heavyweight Title. I would prefer to see dos Santos vs Carwin/Kongo for the number one contender fight and keep Velasquez for the loser of Mir/Lesnar early in 2010.
So in summary, what I would like to see:
*Velasquez beats Herring and Dos Santos beats McCully.
Fight 1- Frank Mir vs Brock Lesnar for the Title in July
Fight 2- Rodrigo Nogueira vs Randy Couture in Aug
Fight 3- Shane Carwin vs Cheick Kongo in Aug
Fight 4- Winner of Fight 1 vs winner of Fight 2 for Title in Dec
Fight 5- Winner of Fight 3 vs Junior Dos Santos in Dec
Fight 6- Cain Velasquez vs Fight 1 loser in Jan
Fight 7- Winner of Fight 4 vs Winner of Fight 5 for Title in May
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