Not at all. Bobby Knuckles' TDD is way too good for Weidman, who's not the wrestler Romero is. He'd shoot for panic takedowns, get stuffed, and get KO'd inside 2 rounds. Weidman is no match for the Reaper.
The Chris lost to Rockhold. Does that mean rockhold should get the shot. They both lost to Romero, let’s give him another shot then.
“Obviously for me that would be the best case is to fight for the title. Fighting Whittaker, that’s a guy I match up well with and that’s a guy I feel I can go out there and finish,” said Weidman on a recent edition of The MMA Hour, while declaring that he is the most decorated fighter in the division, who also happens to hold the most title defenses.
“I feel I am the most decorated guy in the division, I’ve had the most title defenses. I had a rough patch, I went undefeated my whole career, I lost one, happened to lose three in a row. My mind, I felt like it wasn’t in the fight spot,” he said. “I came back, got myself where I needed to be, got my mind back and I went out there and beat one of the top contenders, Kelvin Gastelum. I feel like I dominated the fight and went out there and finished him. I feel like you’re only as good as your last fight and I finished the other guy that we’re talking about in my last fight. I think I definitely deserve shot at the title. It will be a good fight.”
About that three-fight losing streak he went through prior to beating Kelvin, Chris wants you to overlook that at the moment and instead focus on his whole body of work.
“If you’re going to start doing that, you are picking what is the worst look for me. If you’re going to go back, look at my whole career. If you’re going to start with my first losses, it’s going to look bad,” expressed Chris. “But if you look at my whole career, I’ve fought only the best guys in the world since I’ve been in UFC and I’ve done pretty damn good, have the most title defenses and I went through a little rough patch and I climbed my way out of it, I didn’t have any rough patches before that,” he said.
There’s a lot of losses in Gastelum’s career that don’t look so good. We have one common, we fought each other so that answers the question. I went out there and I finished him, he had the same opportunity and he went out there and lost to me, so...”
https://www.mmamania.com/2018/6/12/...ecorated-middleweight-most-title-defenses-mma
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He didn't cheat, but he milked the shit out of the clock by pretending that he was hurt. Chris fucked it up. It was better for him, Moose was already dismantling him.
Kelvin has won two consecutive fights since then. Even if he lost to Chris he's more deserving. Seeing Weidman fight Whittaker for a title now after all this inactivity is just lame.
Exactly this. 1-3 guys don't get title shots.
It's an odd situation, but I would still give it to Kelvin simply because he's fought two more times since then. The UFC has to reward fighters who stay active or they're just going to create more Nate Diaz and Conor McGregor situations with fighters believing they can make more money by doing nothing.
Gastellum. Obviously. He’s 2-1 and won his last 2 in the past year. Weidman is 1-0 in the past year but hasn’t fought in 11 months, and 0-3 in the 2.5 years before that.
