Monte Cox Wants Tim Sylvia vs Hong Man Choi at DREAM's NYE Show

Not a big surprise here. Fight Choi and most likely get a win or get murdered by Overeem.
Cox is doing the right thing.

The bad part is… Sylvia might lose if Choi falls on his ass.

It’s better than fighting a no-name, but defeating Choi isn’t going to increase Tim’s reputation. Regardless, best of luck.

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The fight is already being marketed as "sloth “baby” ruthie vs. Choi"

I might be all by myself in being underwhelmed by this from a “smart management” perspective. I think the big flaw in the Mercer fight was it being a case of “He should beat this guy.” Fights like that don’t leave you a lot of room to look good, but can make you look like a complete fool.

Don’t get me wrong, this is obviously nowhere near as bad in that regard. I would just advise them to soberly consider the potential that Tim Sylvia could cap his year off by being Hong Man Choi’s slumpbuster.

Choi has got a dec victory over Semmy Schilt in K1. He’s bigger, stronger, longer reach and has some wrestling experience. I actually think Choi has better fights against big guys. Unless Big Tim takes this down, I have Choi winning the decision here.

Choi is a bit more of a threat than people are accepting here. He’s big and can strike. Certainly if Mercer can catch Sylvia so can Choi.

Go ahead and juice up while you’re there, Timmy. No, seriously, take some.

No matter what he does, Sylvia will never fight for a major North American promotion again. If he gets in shape, he still has the potential to be a top fighter, and no promoter wants the headache of having to explain why one of their top fighters (or god forbid champion) got KTFO’d by an extremely washed up boxer.

If I were Overeem or another top level heavyweight’s management, I’d avoid Sylvia like the plague. It’s the ultimate lose-lose fight. Beating him does nothing for your career, especially since it’s almost impossible to pwn him worse than Mercer already did, and losing to him would make you toxic to the UFC and Strikeforce.

While I realize why Tim Sylvia is an easy target, I’ve never completely understood the hate. The dude’s big, awkward and kinda goofy but why the hate? Anyhow, I think this match is a good choice for him at this point in his career. It’s probably one of the best matchups he can muster at this point, even though he should easily murder Choi.

War Choi!

… and all I can think is that too my knowledge Tim has never fought in a ring. Choi has fought his whole career in a ring, even notching a decent win over Schilt while only being KO’d once by Mighty Mo. This may not seem like much but Tim is not a ground fighter. He’s never taken a fight to the ground and he’s only done enough on the floor to get back up again. The ring is well known to favor strikers and in my opinion matching up Tim with another established striker that is just as slow and lumbering as he is can only end in disaster.

On the other hand, Choi has only beaten Ologun (who?!) and Jose Canseco in MMA.

I just can’t shake the feeling that Tim is gonna end up on the short end of the stick here.

They should add this fight to the Super Hulk Tourney somehow.

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/evander_holyfield_to_box_horse

Fighting HMC is a nessecary step in getting your career back on track.

While not the best in the MMA ring, Choi has shown some smarts in K-1. While a disputed decision, the fact that he was able to hang with Lebanner is proof enough that he can compete.

Given Sylvia’s sloppy kickboxing + jab style, this could be a good fight with Choi coming out on top. Since Sylvia will be smaller, he’s not going to be able to employ the jab against Choi. Bring this fight on, i’ll be watching.

While I agree with Monte’s thinking here I do have to wonder why he would say that publically? Is announcing you want the much much easier fight neccessarily the way to “revive” a career? It sort of sounds like Monte doesn’t have much faith in Tim and wants to cherry pick fights when he admits things like that publically.

Tim should want to fight Overeem because if he could beat the Strikeforce champion in Japan he would revive his career and open up doors in the US. A big win over Overeem could get him a real contract offer from Strikeforce/Showtime and may also get Dana’s attention too. I mean if he could beat Overeem there then a rematch on CBS/Showtime for the belt early next year would make sense as would the UFC signing him before they could get a chance at him. A win over HMC at best makes Tim a Superhulk alternate or sets him up to fight Sapp.

Anybody remember that Matt Hughes fight where Rich Franklin was his corner man? And then after Hughes has won, they’re all in the ring and Sylvia is wearing his championship belt. IDK, it just felt like the fucking nWo was in the ring.