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Who would you like to see Rich Franklin fight next?

Franklins striking skills are a joke compaired to a top boxer......yes on the ground Taylor would lose and lose bad. I just don't think it would go to the ground.

Really? Strange I've never seen Jermain Taylor throw the types of elbows, kicks & knees that Franklin does. Standing or from ground positions.
 
I wont burst your bubble anymore. :thumb:

You're not bursting my bubble at all. I grew up around boxing. My father was a boxer and all that was on TV until the time I was 15 was boxing. Unfortunately it takes more than fast hands and fancy footwork to be successful in MMA, and it would take someone that is a true fan/student of both boxing and MMA to understand that.

There isn't a doubt in my mind that if Rich Franklin were to stand in the middle of the ring and trade blows with Jermaine Taylor that it would be at best a 30 second fight, but I'm pretty confident that wouldn't be Franklin's gameplan...
 
Taylor would win easily, I doubt he would even break a sweat.
 
Just stop. I mean really. You're ridiculous. Wow.
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You guys kill me, Taylor is a 160lb god, Franklin is a third rate athlete. No contest, Taylor would win easily.
 
He's middleweight champ in the UFC. Some of the only good fighters in his division include:

Chris Leben
Anderson Silva
David Terrell
Mike Swick
Kendall Grove
Jeremy Horn
Phil Baroni
Evan Tanner
David Loisseau

And that's being generous for some. I was gonna post a poll but I guess it took me too long. I personally would like to see him fight Mike Swick. He matches up well as he's very good all around like Rich.

Looks like my question just got answered. Rich Franklin vs. Anderson Silva @ UFC 64 10/14/06. Gonna be a slugfest.

http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=event.ppvhome
 
I saw Rich Franklin fight tonight, I have also watched him fight 2 other times. I have to say he would get owned by any top 15 boxer over 160lbs easily. Rich Franklin is a bum. This guy has 0 ground game and his striking skills are a joke.
 
I saw Rich Franklin fight tonight, I have also watched him fight 2 other times. I have to say he would get owned by any top 15 boxer over 160lbs easily. Rich Franklin is a bum. This guy has 0 ground game and his striking skills are a joke.

Yeah, he's only the middleweight champ of the world in the UFC. Who are you Mickey from Rocky. Get a life.
 
Yeah, he's only the middleweight champ of the world in the UFC. Who are you Mickey from Rocky. Get a life.

Franklin is the champ of the Bums....so what. Taylor is a world class athlete and the 2000 Olympic Bronze medalist and the undefeated undisputed Middle weight champ of the world. Again Franklin is a Bum. ;) Become a fan of a real sport son.


W 25 (17 ko's) | L 0 | D 1 | Total 26
 
He beat an over the hill Hopkins twice (controversially), couldn't beat his first real test in Winky and is now rumored to be fighting Sergio Mora from reality TV.
Hopkins is God and I thought he won at least one of the fights, I also thought Winky did enough top win. But Taylor would fair better against a MMA guy than Winky or Hopkins would......styles make fights.
 
Ken Shamrock.....who is very old and spent

David Loiseau

Ryoto Machida who kicked his ass
 
Ken Shamrock.....who is very old and spent

David Loiseau

Ryoto Machida who kicked his ass

Looks like you did some searching on Youtube because that fight has never been aired on TV. It was at the Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 3 years ago :laugh: . And Machida fights at 205 :thumb: . That was his only loss. And 1 loss in MMA is phenomenal considering most of the top fighters have 3, 4 & some even 10+ losses.
 
Chris Leben
Anderson Silva
David Terrell
Mike Swick
Kendall Grove
Jeremy Horn
Phil Baroni
Evan Tanner
David Loisseau

Tanner is out of the game for a bit.....he kinda went off the deep end.

Horn is his best mate and both have said they wont fight the other.

Grove just won his comp, and next he gets a title shot? I think not.

Swick is decent, but he needs to fight sme top comp (ala Silva) before getting in for the belt IMO.

Baroni will be fighting in PRIDE for awhile.

Leben won a fight recently, after being completely bitched by Silva...and his his comeback fight he fought exactly the same way he did when he fought Silva. For that reason, it would be fun to see him fighting for the belt, but when Rich tends to get injured a lot this match up needs to be more meaningful that a quick and thorough ass kicking of his opponent like when he fought and broke the nose of whatisface.

Anderson Silva is the challenger.
 
Looks like you did some searching on Youtube because that fight has never been aired on TV. It was at the Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 3 years ago :laugh: . And Machida fights at 205 :thumb: . That was his only loss. And 1 loss in MMA is phenomenal considering most of the top fighters have 3, 4 & some even 10+ losses.
Saw it on the net son......time for you to join the 21 century :thumb: The other two were on PPV, plus I saw him fight another time on PPV but dont remember who. Nice try son but your boy sucks ass as much as your posts do. :laugh:
 
he sux ass because he fought an extremely good fight a weightclass above his own? Almost every boxers record is padded with 90% bums so lets not get on with the who sux ass topic.....
 
he sux ass because he fought an extremely good fight a weightclass above his own? Almost every boxers record is padded with 90% bums so lets not get on with the who sux ass topic.....
Same with MMA, most suck so the records of the "champs" :laugh: are padded with bums.
 
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