UFC 75-Champion vs Champion Card Thread

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Auch Stephen Quadros hat mal wieder ein Preview geschrieben zu dem Main Event von UFC 75:

UFC® Light-heavyweight Championship
Quinton Jackson (champion) vs. Dan Henderson (challenger)

Pride Middleweight Championship (sic)
Dan Henderson (champion) vs. Quinton Jackson (challenger)

Champion versus champion…that sounds great on paper. And it IS true to a certain extent. But it seems that this will be one of only three possible “unification” matches between the UFC® and “the organization formerly known as Pride”. Heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko and ”lightweight” (160 pounds) Takanori Gomi are the only remaining Pride champions in existence, besides Dan Henderson (who holds both the Pride 183 AND 205 pound titles), who have not lost their titles inside the ring (or now cage since the UFC® took things over). But since it realistically looks like there may not ever be another actual Pride show (the Fertitta brothers, who own Zuffa, which is the “parent company” of the UFC®, purchased Pride on March 27, 2007), these perceived “unification” matches are basically a ‘one-time-only’ type of deal for the convenience and benefit of the current bureaucracy. And if there are no more Pride events then the “winning” of the Pride belt now will only be a technicality, a historic footnote that lumps that Atlantis-esque organization’s now mythical former legacy in with that of the UFC®.

Hier geht es weiter

Stephen Quadros UFC 75 Preview