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Didn't think Jose would wash Conor 100% healthy so with that apparently badly injured rib, I give Conor even more of a chance. Seems like analysts and fighters are starting to get with the idea that Jose will lose his title. The latest being Rashad and Weidman

Seeing Chad hang in there for 5 rounds standing up, without even threatening takedowns factors in big for me. Conor's striking is superior to Chad's
 
^Aldo's been talking about retiring so that could be it.

So how many of you are ready to pay $80 for the official Reebok/UFC fight night jerseys haha?
 
Now im conflicted. Wanted Connor to beat the hell out of Aldo, but Mendes is one of my favorites and a local guy so i can't root against him
 
There is literally no reason Mendes should be the choice over Frankie 
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 Pathetic by the UFC. And even more pathetic that this is for the interim title. Complete trash

"At the end of the day we looked also at…look, Mendez is formally ranked No. 1 ahead of McGregor," he said. "It would have been a little weird if we picked Frankie and then Chad would say, but I’m number one. Not that we always go distinctly by one, two or three, but both guys were available, and he was number one and Frankie was number two. I think looking at Mendes’ past performances [helped]. That fight last fall against Aldo [at UFC 179] was one of the great fights in UFC history. In his last fight against Lamas he blew right through the guy. And it was like, you know what, he’s got the momentum we feel like, and we feel like he deserves it. 

"And quite honestly, it was funny because I was literally sitting in my office, and I was on Twitter or something and I think [MMA Fighting’s] Luke Thomas tweeted something like, ‘one thing I know is not going to happen today is they’re not going to announce that Mendes is the replacement.’ And I was like, it’s Mendes."
 
McGoat FTW.

He won the fight mentally and got Aldo shook. I train UFC too and I never cried at the gym unlike Aldo.
 
Fertitta spinning his wheels :lol:

Chad "#1 Contender" (again a joke that they rank him over Edgar in their division but only Edgar appears on the P4P list).

But when it was convenient, they had the #3 guy (McGregor) fighting for the belt.

I like Mendes. It hadn't even occured to me that he'd get picked because he might be a....."better" match up for Conor.

Then I started to see a few people mention it online, and when they made it an Interim title fight because one dude is out for maybe a month.....**** seems fishy.
 
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UFC website officially ranks Frankie as the #1 contender and Chad #2 
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No matter what the underlying motives are, it's a damn farce. Frankie should be fighting, period
 
One thing I will say is it's business. I understood it when they picked Conor when they announced him getting the shot.

Chad and Conor have more history.

Frankie's problem is he's a respectable guy who other fighters respect.

That TUF season was terrible because of the mutual respect between he and BJ.

I think Conor has a bit of that for him as well. He expected Frankie to step in for Aldo.

They were selling Conor/Aldo as a bad blood fight and they can still do that with Mendes.

Pretty much impossible with Edgar.

Actions don't always speak louder than words :lol:
 
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