Can Kenny Florian Overcome the "Number Two" Curse?

I say BJ finises Edgar, moves up to ww and kenflo and Maynard fight for the vacant title.

lets forget the whole WEC is a much lesser promotion fact and think about matchups, kenny vs aldo, kenny vs faber, kenny vs mike brown

three awesome fights right there even though kenny might be a tad too big to make that cut at full strength

Kenny has improves greatly but I would still like to see him fight some of the good wrestlers in the UFC. Id like to see him fight Gray Maynard or Tyson Griffin.

That’s only true if Florian wins.

I’d actually rather see Kenny fight Tyson Griffin than Maynard.

There’s no way Kenny beats BJ so long as Penn’s head is screwed-on straight. BJ is just flat-out a superior striker and grappler and has proven to be the most dominant lightweight in the history of the sport.

Kenny’s come a long, long way in his career since TUF but he’s actually older than BJ.
Is there really a lot of room for improvement for Kenny?

Ok, here’s the plan… After Jose destroys Faber in a few weeks, let him fight Florian for his next fight at LW. Winner fights BJ.

I don’t think the UFC is high on Gray as a contender anyway, and as I think Ken-Flo would beat him, it takes Gray out of the title equation.

Screw it, let the man get his rematch. He had a dumb strategy the first time, but he might do better a second. At least we see a concentrated effort on Kenny’s part to finish fights.

The only thing that ruined Kenny was the idiotic gameplan in the BJ fight, clearly he has gotten his shit together he looked the best he’s ever looked in his past 2 fights. Beating Guida and Gomi back to back and by submission shows that he has continued to improve since his loss and is 1 or 2 more quality wins away from earing another shot at BJ.

If he does that he’ll fail even worse, he can’t outwrestle BJ if he doesn’t pick him part and wear him down first like he did Gomi. Trying to bully BJ up against the fence and not letting his hands, elbows, knees and kicks go was the biggest WTF? i’ve seen in a fight since Sherk decided to box BJ in their title fight.

I like to see a fighter on the path to greatness work to avenge his losses. For Florian, who is 13-4, that means Drew Fickett, Diego Sanchez, Sean Sherk and BJ Penn.

Fickett is no longer in the picture so we can forget about him. And the Penn loss is still fresh and we have no reason to believe Florian is ready to reverse its outcome. That leaves Sanchez and Sherk, both of whom are still top lightweights, despite recent setbacks.

Florian rematches against Sanchez and Sherk would be exciting and meaningful fights. In the meantime, this would allow other contenders, like Frankie Edgar, Gray Maynard, and perhaps another emerging lightweight a chance to contend for the title.

Perhaps by the time Florian has cleaned up his record by avenging these two key losses, Penn would have vacated the LW title to compete at WW. If not, Florian would be ready for a second shot at Penn, armed with more confidence, more experience, and a better gameplan than last time!

Sanchez is going back to WW where he belong and Sherk has looked shot neither fight right now makes sense for Kenny. There are plenty of other guys he can face like Maynard or Griffin to show once and for all that he should get another shot.

go beat Melendez and Aoki. Then he can return from the “West” as the returning hero who conquered all just in time to have BJ RNC him then promptly leave for 170.