Merab vs Sandhagen

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Sean O'Malley will probably get the rematch, but I would love to see that fight.

Especially since Merab has already cleared out the division.

It would be a fresh matchup for him, and Sandhagen, on top of everything, has great cardio.

It sucks when someone starts winning a lot because some people tend to think they are invincible and that, mathematically, if fighter A lost to B, they will logically lose to C as well.

However, Sandhagen has his unique traits and deserved to have this chance and be tested against Merab.
 
I don't want to see O'malley get humped for 5 rounds again.

Whoever fights Merab next needs to train for 3 round sprint to knock Merab out.

You're not going to outlast 5 rounds against him.
 
FreedomCricket said:
No thanks. Pantoja has nothing for Merab.

Let Merab fight Cory. Then fight Ilia at 145.
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I think he may have the cardio to compete at least. I just don't know who else. I would love to see him humiliate sugar again but at 135 why Cory. He just lost to Umar convincingly.
 
Sandhagen needs to do only wrestling training for his camp against merab forget striking
 
AMAZINGUFC said:
Sean O'Malley will probably get the rematch, but I would love to see that fight.

Especially since Merab has already cleared out the division.

It would be a fresh matchup for him, and Sandhagen, on top of everything, has great cardio.

It sucks when someone starts winning a lot because some people tend to think they are invincible and that, mathematically, if fighter A lost to B, they will logically lose to C as well.

However, Sandhagen has his unique traits and deserved to have this chance and be tested against Merab.
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No. Wtf. Sandhagen has nowhere close to earned it.

Yan is before him.
 
AMAZINGUFC said:
Sean O'Malley will probably get the rematch, but I would love to see that fight.

Especially since Merab has already cleared out the division.

It would be a fresh matchup for him, and Sandhagen, on top of everything, has great cardio.

It sucks when someone starts winning a lot because some people tend to think they are invincible and that, mathematically, if fighter A lost to B, they will logically lose to C as well.

However, Sandhagen has his unique traits and deserved to have this chance and be tested against Merab.
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How does Sandhagen deserve it? In anyway?
 
Southpoor97 said:
How does Sandhagen deserve it? In anyway?
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Fresh match up at least. Nobody wants to see O’Malley flop around like a fish out of water for 5 rounds again. I’d rather see the Umar rematch than that.
 
moosaev said:
Fresh match up at least. Nobody wants to see O’Malley flop around like a fish out of water for 5 rounds again. I’d rather see the Umar rematch than that.
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I don’t want to see Cory Sandhagen either. He just easily lost to Umar. Him against Merab is even less compelling than O Malley. At least o Malley could put him out.

He’s worse than Umar, O’Malley, and Yan and he’s coming off a loss. He has 4 losses at BW and never a top 5 win. It’s just nonsense. He already got gifted an interim shot after losing to TJ.
 
Yan should be next. Or some combo of

O Malley, Umar, Yan for no.1 contender fight
 
Southpoor97 said:
I don’t want to see Cory Sandhagen either. He just easily lost to Umar. Him against Merab is even less compelling than O Malley. At least o Malley could put him out.

He’s worse than Umar, O’Malley, and Yan and he’s coming off a loss. He has 4 losses at BW and never a top 5 win. It’s just nonsense. He already got gifted an interim shot after losing to TJ.
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Bro, Suga Sean KO'ing Merab is fool’s gold lol. It’ll never happen. It’s like Conor KO’ing Khabib, possible in theory but extremely unlikely. What’s worse is that matchup is just boring, Merab-O’Malley was a horrible fight. Sandhagen-Merab might be entertaining even if Sandhagen loses, styles make fights.
 
Pantoja, now with 3 title defences, moving up to challenge, is an interesting idea. Petr Yan should logically be the next one though if everyone’s sticking to their current divisions. My personal preference would be Cory Sandhagen but he’ll probably get an eliminator next.
 
omalley isnt getting anywhere near that belt for a while. he cant wrestle. at least umar defended a shit load of takedowns and wasnt really controlled on the ground at all. omalley would have been taken down and controlled on the vast majority of merabs attempts last night. the merab from last night who wasnt even 100% healthy fucks up omalley worse than the first fight.
 
Sandhagen isn’t the right style to beat Merab. Sanghagen needs to run it back with Yadong. I thought he got really lucky with that cut stoppage
 
AmonTobin said:
Pantoja, now with 3 title defences, moving up to challenge, is an interesting idea. Petr Yan should logically be the next one though if everyone’s sticking to their current divisions. My personal preference would be Cory Sandhagen but he’ll probably get an eliminator next.
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This makes the sport become complete nonsense if we just make match ups based on what’s fresh etc. even when fighters have come off loss and don’t deserve it.

It’s completely ridiculous for Sandhagen to get a shot when he has several guys ahead of him coming off wins who have also beaten him. Makes the sport silly.
 
Unfortunately, Sandhagen lacks the defensive grappling to consistently & effectively ward off that onslaught. The ghost of TJ was able to neutralize him despite that fight being shit and having no real "winner", per se.
 
Merab doesn't control the ground well and is short, it will take him 25 minutes to escape Cory's lethal knees, and he has also improved a lot in wrestling, Umar had to win standing up.

At least it's an unprecedented fight in a swept division.
 
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