Palelei's real test will come...

[rplende]

Yes! How about Gabriel Gonzaga or Josh Barnett?? Palelei is highly underrated in the rankings. He belongs in top 10! He would beat Mir and Big Nog easily enough!

 

[aus101]

Clearly Mark Hunt vs Soa Palelei is the fight to make.

Lol let the islander monsters fight themselves? I say a match with Struve.

 

[iloveufc123]

Next he'll beat a monster and then you'll cry over not facing a top 10 opponent

then he'll beat a top 10 and you'll cry he didn't beat a top 5

then he'll beat a top 5 and you'll cry because he's ahead of some other fighter you like in the rankings and he needs a #1 contender fight to prove it

then he'll get a title shot and you'll cry because he's not a big enough name to headline a PPV

Then when he loses the title fight you'll cry because Cain has been the champion too long and has cleaned out the division.

Hahaha nice

 

[benjaminbuttons]

Helwani retweeted Rothwell saying he wanted to fight Soa earlier. Sounds good to me.

 

[wearetheromans]

All of his losses have been to fighters smaller than himself though.

that's pretty much everyone except for maybe bigfoot silva

he cuts from like 290

 

[gevoudane]

Have him take Schaub's head off

 

[ngn21]

Helwani retweeted Rothwell saying he wanted to fight Soa earlier. Sounds good to me.

sounds good... he hasn't earned a fight with a guy like hunto... if soa can beat big ben maybe...

 

[HIMBOB]

All of his losses have been to fighters smaller than himself though.

Only times Cain has struggled is when fighting guys smaller than himself, ie JDS and Kongo.

 

[HIMBOB]

Champion : Cain Velasquez
1 Fabricio Werdum
2 Junior Dos Santos
3 Travis Browne
4 Antonio Silva
5 Josh Barnett
6 Alistair Overeem
7 Stipe Miocic
8 Mark Hunt
9 Roy Nelson
10 Frank Mir
11 Gabriel Gonzaga
12 Stefan Struve
13 Minotauro Nogueira
14 Brendan Schaub
15 Daniel (WTF am I doing here) Cormier


I'd say any one in the 9-15 range would be good.



Side note:
Love that Cromier is at 15th, undefeated with wins over 4, 5, 9 and 10.

 

[Lito Lapida]

Palelei vs. Antonio Silva

 

[TJC]

Soas test will come when someone who can take a punch takes him to the 2nd round.

This.

 

[Yolandabecool**]

..when he fights anyone the same/similar size. Krylov was a light heavyweight masquerading as a HW. Pat Barry is a HW dwarf. Potts is a decent size, but at six two and 247, he's nowhere near Soa's size - considering Soa cuts to get to 265.

He needs to take on a monster. Any ideas?

I saw Soa lose to LHW Cormier live. He'll lose to the top fighters regardless.

 

[Kimura123]

Palelei vs Gonzaga

 

[Codpiece]

Champion : Cain Velasquez
1 Fabricio Werdum
2 Junior Dos Santos
3 Travis Browne
4 Antonio Silva
5 Josh Barnett
6 Alistair Overeem
7 Stipe Miocic
8 Mark Hunt
9 Roy Nelson
10 Frank Mir
11 Gabriel Gonzaga
12 Stefan Struve
13 Minotauro Nogueira
14 Brendan Schaub
15 Daniel (WTF am I doing here) Cormier


I'd say any one in the 9-15 range would be good.



Side note:
Love that Cromier is at 15th, undefeated with wins over 4, 5, 9 and 10.

And fighting at LHW. I mean that's just weird.


Anyway, I don't know that Aussie fans crazily over rate Soa. Most don't really know who he is! I think he belongs somewhere in the top 14-20 at HW, and since he has won three on the trot in the UFC he should face someone with a little more name value. Rothwell has thrown his hat in the ring, that'd be fun.

 

[Bokelj]

..when he fights anyone the same/similar size. Krylov was a light heavyweight masquerading as a HW. Pat Barry is a HW dwarf. Potts is a decent size, but at six two and 247, he's nowhere near Soa's size - considering Soa cuts to get to 265.

He needs to take on a monster. Any ideas?

That's why he did so well against Cormier?

 

[Bokelj]

Palelei vs Gonzaga

I like this matchup

 

[The_Renaissance]

I like Soa but his three wins have come against bottom-level Hws.
His real test will come next, when he fights a better HW. I can see him fighting Jared Rosholt actually, probably as co-main event on the Oklahoma UFN card in the summer.

 

[RedDevilFedor]

He should fight JdS when he comes back. Problem solved.

 

[tkotom]

Palelei vs AbuSchabi is the way to go.

 

[SalvadorAllende]

Clearly Mark Hunt vs Soa Palelei is the fight to make.

That would be big.