Five for Fighting – UFC 142 Jose Aldo Jr. vs. Chad Mendes

With UFC 142 in a books, also famous as UFC Rio 2: Electric Bugaloo, it’s time to play Joe Silva as matchmaker and figure out a 5 many constrained matchups for 5 fighters entrance out of an early claimant for best label of a year. As always we can review our play by play of a eventuality by clicking here and Shawn Smith’s 10 Thoughts on a label by clicking here.

Vitor Belfort vs. Wanderlai Silva – The dual are fighting after a finish of TUF Brazil and it’s easiest to make. Vitor right now is substantially a win divided from another shot during Anderson Silva and a win over a other middleweight Silva substantially creates it happen.

Edson Barboza vs. Donald Cerrone – This is a best knockout of 2012 and it would be tough to see something tip this in a subsequent 12 months. Barboza is only a torpedo during this indicate and needs a large step adult in foe after that. Cerrone would make for an engaging exam and a mount adult quarrel between a two. Dennis Siver, if he doesn’t dump to featherweight, would be another engaging exam as would be a crook of this week’s FX categorical eventuality or Clay Guida.

Rousimar Palhares vs. leader of Ed Herman/Clifford Starks – Palhares subsequent quarrel matchup will uncover us how distant a UFC thinks he is from a pretension shot. Herman would clearly be a collect here; another good matchup would be Brian Stann as well. The leader of Bisping/Maia on UFC On Fox 2 in a pretension eliminator, or a crook of Munoz/Sonnen, would be another indicator of how distant he is from removing a shot during Anderson Silva.

Jose Aldo Jr. vs. Chan Sung Jung – He’s a prohibited name, entrance off a discerning knockout of Hominick and a Twister acquiescence of Leonard Garcia. we can see them environment adult Aldo for another win on this though it’s only tough to find another matchup for him since he’s ripped by a multiplication already.

Gabriel Gonzaga vs. Stefan Struve – Is Gonzaga back? We don’t know. He’s finished adequate to get another quarrel to see if he has anything left; 15 months off might have gotten his conduct right. He did remove to a lot of good guys en track to being cut a initial time, including Junior Dos Santos and Brendan Schaub. Struve would be an engaging matchup physically. A debuting Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva could be an engaging matchup as good as a crook of a Strikeforce Grand Prix could assistance as well. Gonzaga still has a name and is still potentially a Top 20 heavyweight though he’s a gatekeeper to a Top 10 in his career.

• UFC 142: Vitor Belfort vs. Anthony “Rumble” Johnson [Preview] – Jan 14th, 2012
• UFC 142 Weigh In Results – Jan 13th, 2012
• Anthony “Rumble” Johnson Has Weight Snafu At UFC 142 – Jan 13th, 2012
• UFC 142 Weigh-ins – Jan 13th, 2012
• The Saving Strikeforce Draft – 20 Fighters Who Can Make The Promotion More Interesting – Jan 11th, 2012

Tags: Five for Fighting, UFC 142