Big Foot Silva vs Big Country Nelson is on
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Big Country Draws Bigfoot at UFC 146
Big Country may be teasing a move down to light heavyweight, but it won’t happen before May 26 because he’s got a big test ahead of him at UFC 146.
Roy Nelson will face former Strikeforce heavyweight Antonio ‘Bigfoot’ Silva at UFC 146 in May as part of the card taking place in Las Vegas.
UFC officials confirmed the fight on Wednesday.
After a win over Mirko Cro Cop to close out 2011, Roy Nelson ran into another former Strikeforce competitor to kick off 2012 and things didn’t go as smoothly.
Nelson lost a unanimous decision to Fabricio Werdum at UFC 143, and now will hope to get back on the winning side of things when he returns in May. Nelson has recently teased through his Facebook page that if he gets to 100,000 ‘likes’ that he will drop down to light heavyweight, but it appears that plan is on hold until at least after UFC 146.
Facing Nelson in his UFC debut will be former Strikeforce competitor Antonio ‘Bigfoot’ Silva.
Silva started out 2011 with a dominant win over former top heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko, but came up short in his next bout against Olympian Daniel Cormier.
Now the big Brazilian will kick off his UFC career facing Nelson at UFC 146 in Las Vegas.
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killadakiller said:
I'm an idiot and accidentally voted for Roy Nelson. He will lose and be cut after this fight though. They aren't making s**t easy on him at all. Rough fight for Roy.
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I'm not impressed by neither one.
But right now i'm giving a small advantage to Roy. If BigFoot can't take Roy down to stay on top of him, there is a good chance that he'll get KO'd.
Roy can absorb punishment and he has heavy hands, that's all a fighter need to have a chance against bigfoot. Then you add good tdd and good jj, and Roy's chances become really good.
At first man I was all like Why they got Strikeforce guys pickin on Roy Nelson man. But then I remembered Roy has a chin and that Big foot guy dont. Well He has a chin alright but thats like some disease or somethin man but I mean he dont have a chin in the fightin sense you know what I mean man. So I see Roy winnin this one in the first man. I think he can take a few shots from Silva to get inside and lay a bomb that a put that big tall guy on his butt...Hell yeah.
smartigan said:
It's the wrong fight to sign on for if he's trying to get to 205
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I don't think he is trying to get to 205, you misunderstood. He made a bet with one of his friends, promising that he "would try" to cut down to 205lbs if 100,000 fans "Like" his page on Facebook.
When i first clicked he had 35k Likes, now he has 95k: www.facebook.com/RoyNelsonUFC . Let's say he had 20k likes in the beginning, then there's still 25k likes to go. But since he just signed a HW fight, i doubt that 25k ppl will "Like" it.
SilvaP4PKing said:
smartigan said:
It's the wrong fight to sign on for if he's trying to get to 205
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I don't think he is trying to get to 205, you misunderstood. He made a bet with one of his friends, promising that he "would try" to cut down to 205lbs if 100,000 fans "Like" his page on Facebook.
When i first clicked he had 35k Likes, now he has 95k: www.facebook.com/RoyNelsonUFC . Let's say he had 20k likes in the beginning, then there's still 25k likes to go. But since he just signed a HW fight, i doubt that 25k ppl will "Like" it.
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I didn't know about the Facebook thing,just heard he was trying to get to 205
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Neonep said:
Nelson's hands end this fight. Big Foot has a glass chin.
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he ate like 10 of fedor's decent shots. his chin's pretty good.
i give nelson the slight edge
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But he got dropped by Cormier twice and Mike Kyle from my knowledge. He for sure didn't get hit by a Fedor bomb cause if he did that fight would have ended earlier with a different outcome.
Yeah Kyle was extremely close to finishing him. Yeah yeah I know, horseshoes and hand grenades, but still - it demonstrated that he gets rocked fairly easily. I wasn't surprised in the slightest when Cormier dropped him, his chin is just not one of his strengths, and he'll need it if he can't get Nelson down - which is a very real possibiliy.
Roy all the way. Big Country is the better striker and probably the better grappler too. I just don't think that Big Foot is a top10-Fighter. Another fighter once said that Big Foot's only strenght is his giantness. Was is Chael Sonnen? Not sure anymore. But it's true!
Everytime i've seen Bigfoot stopped/dropped (roughly 3-4 times) its via the big right hand (hook) and this is roys bread and butter punch so Roy for sure can catch him but imo Big Foot should be able to get the win im sure he can take roy down and hold him and as good as roy is off his back i doubt he can sub bigfoot, with his reach also i think Big Foot can inflict some good GnP but another exciting match up for sure