Fights To Make After UFC 165

[TKJ]

Stephan Thompson v Sean Pierce

Wilson Reis v Brad Pickett

Myles Jury v Jim Miller

Pat Healy v Melendez/Sanchez loser - Solid fight between two fighter who are coming off of high level losses. Lets see who deserves to still be in the contender conversations.

Khabib Nurmagomedov v Benson Henderson - Nurmagomedov asked for a title shot after his win over Healy. Lets see if he's really on that level. The way I figure, the winner of this fight would find themselves in a #1 contender fight.

Costas Philippou v Tom Watson - Two fighters looking to remain relevant.

Francis Carmont v Yushin Okami - See how good Carmont's grappling really is.

Matt Mitrione v GG/Jordan loser - Why not?

Brendan Schaub v GG/Jordan winner - Seems right with where they all are in their careers right now.

Eddie Wineland v Bryan Caraway - A Couple guys floating a round that top 10 spot.

Renan Barao v Dominick Cruz - Hopefully this fight can finally happen and we can unify the belts.

Jon Jones v Alexander Gustafsson II - Make it happen.

 

[Drake]

Wineland & Caraway.......?!

 

[Matthew Fedler]

Jones vs Texeira
Gustafsson vs Nogueira
Barao vs Cruz
Wineland vs Easton
Schaub vs Miocic
Mitrione vs Vera
Carmont vs Boetsch
Costa vs Rockhold
Khabib vs RDA
Healy vs Melendez/Sanchez loser

 

[Jawth]

I'm a Jury fan, but no way he deserves Miller after a performance like that.

 

[matrat103]

Jon Jones vs. Glover Teixieira
Alexander Gustafsson vs. Diet Nog or Gegard Mousasi
Renan Barao vs. Dominick Cruz
Eddie Wineland vs. Yuri Alcantara
Brendan Schaub vs. Stipe Miocic
Matt Mitrione vs. Pat Barry (Something tells me they're buddies but I also know Barry doesn't seem to have an issue with that).
Francis Carmont vs. Yushin Okami
Costa Philippou vs. Luke Rockhold
Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Rafael dos Anjos
Pat Healy vs. Jamie Varner

Myles Jury vs. Isaac Vallie-Flagg
Mike Ricci vs. Joe Proctor
Wilson Reis vs. Mitch Gagnon
Ivan Menjivar vs. Johnny Bedford
Stephen Thompson vs. Lim Hyun-Gyu
Chris Clements vs. Justin Edwards
Dustin Kimura vs. Hugo Viana

John Makdessi vs. Piotr Hallman
Renee Forte vs. Ryan Couture
Michael Prazeres vs. Mark Bocek
Jesse Ronson vs. Ramsey Nijem
Alex Caceres vs. Bryan Caraway
Roland Delorme vs. Vaughan Lee
Daniel Omielańczuk vs. Geronimo dos Santos
Nandor Guelmino vs. Shane del Rosario

 

[Kungzlatan]

Gus vs Nog or Mousassi!? Thats crazy... they are way under his level at this point.

 

[matrat103]

Gus vs Nog or Mousassi!? Thats crazy... they are way under his level at this point.

1) He's already had scheduled fights against both of them that fell through.

2) Who else is there? Rashad, Hendo, and Chael are all booked, Alex and Davis train together, Glover is fighting Jones next, and Machida is dropping to 185. It's one of those two or Bader, and at least Nog and Mousasi are on winning streaks.