Originally posted by: LitesOutPHX
Date: June 25, 2012 at 04:44 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/who-is-next-for-maynard.47257/
mma_guru333 said:
LawrenceWesTerry said:
Give him the
criminally underrated
Gleison Tibau if he gets past undefeated Russian prospect Khabib Nurmagomedov in his next fight.
The guy is 7-2 in his last nine fights with wins over tough Lightweights in Jeremy Stephens, Kurt Pellegrino, and Rafael Dos Anjos, and those two losses are a controversial Split Decision loss to Melvin Guillard and a closely-contested bout with Jim Miller.
It's about time Gleison Tibau gets an opportunity to breakthrough into the upper echelon of the Lightweight Division, and I think it would be a sick fight.
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I love Tibau and agree that he's extremely underrated, but Maynard is about as bad a match-up as it gets for him, imo.
Now, I'm not saying I wouldn't want to see the fight, but I just don't think that ends well for Tibau.
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Nothing against him but, that would be a step down. He needs to have another top 5 guy