Outside of Umar who do you see as the biggest BW threat to Merab?

[wolffanghameha]

Cory and Yan are slow builders in fights. They don't do their best work early. Cory in fairness didn't look tired (and I'd like to see Yan's adjustments, plus he said he was quite injured), but generally I think an early fast start is most dangerous for Merab. Like Moraes.
Give Bautista a title fight if he earns it, but I don't think he's dangerous enough early and then gets The Machined in the later rounds.

I think Song Yadong could be the guy. He's not the trickiest striker at BW and had trouble landing on Yan and Cory, but Merab's forward style suits Song more. Big power to get it done early. Very good conterwrestling, though I don't know how he'd handle Merab's chain wrestling variety. I can see him stuffing the early takedowns and landing big shots that hurt Merab.

 

[WoozyFailGuy]

It's going to end up being Zalal.
We'll be punished for calling Merab boring.