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Originally Posted by taadland
oh is that how it was...i was certain it was because of his popularity. (gained through the first show)not his outstanding fights. (1 win vs overrated and out of shape rua, and other than that he had never beat anybody in the top 20...that doesn't= title shot!!!) that shogun forrest fight wasn't contention for the LHW title shot. that fight was suppose to be a stepping stone for mauricio to get chuck plain and simple. that fight had nothing to do with why forrest got a title shot. rampage would have fought once more before sat. if he didn't have to wait for the show to end, and i gaurantee you it wouldn't have been forrest. dude you better learn your game before you make brash statements of idiocracy. do you know anything? beating shogun rua did not make forrest the #1 contender bro. you never get a title shot based off one fight. and look at forrest's last four...dude learn your shit
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If Griffin wasn't popular, the UFC might not have given him his title shot, but he did earn it by beating the number 1 LHW in the world at the time. And yes, Shogun was ranked number 1 on almost ever rankings list at the time. You have to learn your shit in this case.
Who should have been the number 1 contender at the time? Remember, at that point, Machida had not beaten Sokky yet and Liddell just lost to Jardine. Forrest was the only one who had a legitimate reason to get the title shot.
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Originally Posted by taadland
oh sorry waawwweeweeee....i see you were born in 1990 so you would have been six when i started watching mma... so it makes sense to me why you don't know anything about the sport, and why you make statements like shogun was the #1 LHW in the world when forrest and him faught him that's why he got the title shot. first of all page was #1, and if you were one of the people considering shogun to the best in the lhw division, at the time forrest beat him, can you tell me why? was it cause the shogun had highlight knockouts under pride rules? Or was cause of his 16 wins you probably know of 2 that he beat? Or was cause he had 1 win in 2007? Or was it that in 2006 his best win out of his 3-1 record that year was against an over the hill randleman, and his loss was against an over the hill coleman? i don't know where you get your rankings from but any legit fan knows that rankings go alot farther than potential, and talent.
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I don't know anything about the sport? You can insult me, I don't care, but that's just not true.
Shogun was number 1 at the time because he was destroying everyone he fought (including Rampage) and his most recent loss was due to an accidental arm break. He was widely considered number 1 by every legitimate MMA site.