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Originally Posted by Halebop
This fight has been by far the fight I have most looked forward too for a long time. Sherk at 155...WOW. I don't think BJ can stuff Sherk's takedown's at all. I also don't think Sherk is going to give BJ anytime to get any striking going. Look what he did to Florian. I wouldn't be surprised if BJ doesn't injure himself again while scrambling from the bottom ala his Hughes rematch. I know how good BJ is at defending the takedown but Sherk at 155 is far more explosive then Hughes at 170. As much as I want BJ to win, I don't see it happening. I think we are going to see 25 mins of Sherk looking busy on top of Penn without doing any significant damage. I am afraid that on Sunday morning we will all be saying "If only BJ could have kept it standing for a little bit...."
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We've seen Sherk fight at 155 before, so I'm a little confused by the "shock and awe" of it happening again.
Randy Couture said he had problems taking down BJ (keep in mind that randy walks around 200 and BJ is around 170) ... it took Matt Hughes two full rounds to get him to the ground (and Hughes is generally considered a stronger wrestler than Sherk) see their fight together here:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XCZPDVD1