Dana White talks Takanori Gomi:
"Kenny Florian is one of the top lightweight fighters. If Gomi beats Kenny, that's going to get a lot of attention from many people - including BJ Penn.
"But BJ has a fight with Frankie Edgar in Abu Dhabi on 4/12 and Gomi still needs to fight Kenny. So until that happens we can't make a decision. But I'll tell you, if Gomi beats Kenny, I definitely will consider a match with BJ."
HT: sportsnavi.yahoo.co.jp (translated by fightersonlymagazine.co.uk)
UFC Fight Night 21: Florian vs. Gomi coverage
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florian is & will always be #2
1 & 2 are going to stay the same for a while. bj will be 1 and florian can’t lose.
- can be those boring edgar-sherk & griffin guys.
Haha, if you take Gomi’s hair, and put it on Kenny, the resemblance is uncanny.
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by itsallgood013 on Feb 25, 2010 10:28 PM EST up reply actions
So does BJ and Dana.
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by Matthew Roth on Feb 25, 2010 4:08 PM EST up reply actions
I'm still relatively new to MMA
but didn’t BJ starch Gomi already, back when he didn’t train?
Did BJ win? Yeah, but neither of them were really training and Gomi remains the only guy to take BJ down at LW if I remember correctly.
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by lowellthehammer on Feb 25, 2010 4:26 PM EST up reply actions
Yes, but that was also before Gomi went on the run that really made him a star. He was actually coming off a Shooto loss at the time.
If I remember correctly though it was still a huge matchup. BJ was coming off that disappointing draw with Uno. People still considered it to be the number 1 vs the number 2 lightweight. Did Gomi look better afterward? Yes. Has BJ looked better since? Yes. But it was still a huge match between two top lightweights.
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Henderson: “I beat Belfort like two years ago.”
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Something tells me that he is not aware that BJ Penn already defeated Gomi a few years back.
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If Kenny beats Gomi there fucked. Edgar was kind of a stretch and a rematch with Kenny is too soon. Gomi or bust at this point.
"Frank Mir had a horseshoe up his ass. I told him a year ago. I pulled it out of him and I beat him over the head with it." Brock Lesnar
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Hopefully it can set up a “cleaned out division” scenario and we can see BJ make a run at GSP again which he has made clear is something he wants to do. BJ v any top WW makes for a great and marketable fight:)
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They’re not really fucked, they have a legit contender in Maynard despite the fact that he’s not the best option. You also have George Alphabet who is one more legit win away from a shot.
Whenever things look like they’re over, a legit contender tends to emerge.
If they are really set on a Gomi/BJ match I don’t know why they didn’t make this fight in the first place. Maynard is stylistically perfect for Gomi to get an impressive win and market a title shot. Maybe they don’t want him fighting BJ again, because why else put him against Kenny?
Maybe they just wanted to make a great fight? Because Florian/Gomi is definitely a great fight.
by Worldisart on Feb 25, 2010 7:05 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
I have a love/hate relationship with this fight. I love the idea the Florian taking on Gomi, but I hate the idea that Gomi might be derailed from a title shot by Florian (and vice versa).
Well I think Kenny is kind of in a Rich Franklin scenario right now. He’s not going to beat BJ ever. He might win enough to get a second chance but its kind of futile. So now I just want to see him fight the guys I’ve always wanted to see him fight. Guys like Gomi, Sanchez, the Guida fight fit there, Aoki (in my dreams).
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poor Kenny,
that pic makes him look like a fat kid trying to hide his moobs….
now, if he could just do Blue Steel a little more convincingly…..
An non-training BJ Penn decisively beat a non-training Gomi 7 years ago. BJ Penn trained by Skynet the Marinovich Brothers would absolutely wreck the Gomi that fought Tony Hervey in October.
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gomi is not gonna beat kenny
kenny is by far the #2 lightweight fighter in the world the way bj is by far the #1 lightweight fighter in the world
with a different strategy however i could see kenny giving bj a better fight then what he gave him in august
by milk72 on Feb 25, 2010 6:52 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
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