News Roberto Soldic signs with ONE

[TorontoTO]

I know, but damn really wish to see him against some top UFC guys. A lot of interesting fight for him and us fans in the UFC.

Even Bellator would have had interesting bouts at WW, even Eblen vs. Soldic would be fun

 

[TorontoTO]

at least they are planning to do an event in Croatia soon.

People will show up to see Soldic fight whoever. They could do some nonsense like Soldic vs. Shinya and people would show up

 

[Hematom]

Well it sounded like he was very interested in other aspects of combat fighting and ONE is offering him those opportunities. But at the same time he is basically saying he cleared KSW out(which he did) but ONE doesn't have hardly anything to offer him. He should clean out ONE very quickly. Also it kind of sounded like he fell for the old wine and dine treatment the ONE gave him. Great for ONE but I'm not sure how fulfilled Soldic will be from an MMA standpoint after a few fights.

I'm hoping this is short like 3 or 4 fight deal with expiration date on the contract. The guy really should be in the UFC.

It's 10 fights deal

 

[Hematom]

Ya if it’s the usual ONE treatment, we will see him fight once a year, with every other year being some nonsense kickboxing/mixed rules bout

Soldic said that 3 fights per year clause is in his contract.

 

[TorontoTO]

Soldic said that 3 fights per year clause is in his contract.

Oh so we are getting more nonsense kickboxing/mixed rules bouts then I expected. Also everyone says 3 fights a year but that rarely happens nor is it enforced.

I don't see him fighting more then one MMA bout a year if that, since who would he fight?

 

[Hellowhosthat]

It's 10 fights deal

 

[TorontoTO]

Dw, 6-7 of those will be kickboxing/muay thai. You can go through 3 kickboxing/muay thai bouts in a couple of months

Hopefully he was smart and got his agent to get rid of the matching period after his contract ends

 

[TorontoTO]

If Roberto beats Aung La Nsang, he will be the greatest MMA fighter of all time

Maybe I am strange but I have zero interest in seeing MMA fighters cross over to Kickboxing/Boxing/Muay Thai or vice versa.

Like wow Conor is gonna obviously lose to Floyd, so interesting. DJ is gonna choke out a Muay Thai fighter with ease, wow who saw that coming. Like it's interesting when someone who is successful in other sports crosses over fully, ala Izzy or Alex Pereira, but for one offs?

 

[GueseGuy]

If Roberto beats Aung La Nsang, he will be the greatest MMA fighter of all time

Maybe I am strange but I have zero interest in seeing MMA fighters cross over to Kickboxing/Boxing/Muay Thai or vice versa.

Like wow Conor is gonna obviously lose to Floyd, so interesting. DJ is gonna choke out a Muay Thai fighter with ease, wow who saw that coming. Like it's interesting when someone who is successful in other sports crosses over fully, ala Izzy or Alex Pereira, but for one offs?

I don’t usually have any interest in this sort of thing either but I am curious to see if Soldic can be the champ in 3 different martial arts concurrently. That has never happened before.

 

[TorontoTO]

I don’t usually have any interest in this sort of thing either but I am curious to see if Soldic can be the champ in 3 different martial arts concurrently. That has never happened before.

Muay Thai above 155 is so bad.

 

[SokoudjouFanboy]

Even Bellator would have had interesting bouts at WW, even Eblen vs. Soldic would be fun

People act like Bellator in 2022 is still a wasteland where there are no interesting match ups and all of the champions should just go to the UFC the moment they can because they can't prove anything in Bellator.

 

[TorontoTO]

People act like Bellator in 2022 is still a wasteland where there are no interesting match ups and all of the champions should just go to the UFC the moment they can because they can't prove anything in Bellator.

MW is kinda a weird division where I think every organization is kinda light on quality fighters there

 

[skylolow]

People act like Bellator in 2022 is still a wasteland where there are no interesting match ups and all of the champions should just go to the UFC the moment they can because they can't prove anything in Bellator.

I will say Bellator has more to offer than ONE does for competition in MMA that is for sure. But overall UFC has more interesting matchups for him. Didn't seem like Bellator made much of any push to sign him. Also sounds like the UFC just more or less brought him out for an event and offered him a contract. ONE on other hand sounded like Chatri personally catered to his needs in person, offered a good contract to him, and will do an event in Croatia. Just made him feel more wanted at the end of the day.

 

[skylolow]

It's 10 fights deal

Well hopefully he can blow through that in 3 years and leave.

I can't even begin to think what 10 match ups they could give him in any combat sport that makes sense.

 

[TorontoTO]

Well hopefully he can blow through that in 3 years and leave.

I can't even begin to think what 10 match ups they could give him in any combat sport that makes sense.

I'm assuming Regian Eersel for the Kickboxing title, Reinier de Ridder, maybe Aung La Nsang as a tune up first fight, Eddie since it brings the UFC casuals attention to see him get KOd, and then.....

No way he goes up to face Roman Kryklia for the other kickboxing title since Roman is a giant. Imagine 5'10 Soldic against 6'6 Roman

 

[skylolow]

I'm assuming Regian Eersel for the Kickboxing title, Reinier de Ridder, maybe Aung La Nsang as a tune up first fight, Eddie since it brings the UFC casuals attention to see him get KOd, and then.....

No way he goes up to face Roman Kryklia for the other kickboxing title since Roman is a giant. Imagine 5'10 Soldic against 6'6 Roman

Basically that was about the only names I could come up with.

 

[TorontoTO]

Basically that was about the only names I could come up with.

The only issue is that Regian is a 170 guy, so no idea how Solidic makes that weight without heavy weigh cutting, but that's ONEs job to do some shenanigan weigh hydration testing.

If he makes that weight somehow, I guess he has the LW division with Christian Lee, Ok Rae Yoon, etc.

 

[SokoudjouFanboy]

I will say Bellator has more to offer than ONE does for competition in MMA that is for sure. But overall UFC has more interesting matchups for him. Didn't seem like Bellator made much of any push to sign him. Also sounds like the UFC just more or less brought him out for an event and offered him a contract. ONE on other hand sounded like Chatri personally catered to his needs in person, offered a good contract to him, and will do an event in Croatia. Just made him feel more wanted at the end of the day.

Why are Burns, Luque, Belal, Chimaev & Brady more interesting then Amasov, Storley, Koreshkov, Larkin & Jackson? I'm genuinely curious. I think all 10 hypothetical matchups are interesting. I didn't include Usman or Colby BTW because Usman will be gone and Colby would never fight Soldic.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Why are Burns, Luque, Belal, Chimaev & Brady more interesting then Amasov, Storley, Koreshkov, Larkin & Jackson? I'm genuinely curious. I think all 10 hypothetical matchups are interesting. I didn't include Usman or Colby BTW because Usman will be gone and Colby would never fight Soldic.

tbf watching your washing go round in the dryer is more interesting than Jason Jackson.

 

[jnes]

It's 10 fights deal

10 fights fuck, maybe he can do a few grappling matches to shave some of that off lol. Wish it was like 3 fights lol.

Abbasov, De Ridder and maybe like Sang for a nice showcase lol.