After “The Ultimate Fighter 7″ finale is over and there has been enough bad words said between Quinton Jackson and Forrest Griffin they’ll face each other in the Octagon and headline UFC86 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Jackson’s last fight was his first defense of his title against Dan Henderson via unanimous boredom. Let’s hope that young blood Griffin brings some spark to the Octagon and kicks the crap out of Rampage. I know he’s defended the title once but I want to see a new title holder already!
Griffin knows all about being TUF since he won the first season of it. He earned his shot at Rampage after beating Mauricio Rua by rear naked choke way back last September. It was a shock to see that happen, I’m not going to lie but he won fair and square and was impressive en route.
This will undoubtedly be a HUGE event. I’m looking forward to it.
(7 votes, average: 3.71 out of 5)
I really think that Forrest poses a legtimate threat. Rampage seems to be training pretty hard but he doesn’t appear to be in great shape. Plus Forrest has a monsterous size and reach advantage. His style, in my opinion, matches up alot better than Chucks did. All that said, I stand baffled at the amount of chin Rampage has, both literaly, and figuratively, and wonder who, if anyone, has the ability to knock him out with a punch. I just watched his first fight with Wandi again as a part of my regular pre-fight research, and MAN, that guy took some of the biggest knees I’ve ever seen, and was still standing. Sure he was basicaly out, and reacting off of pure instinct by the end, but he was still on his feet! I seriously wonder if anyone can land a punch any harder than Wandi landed those knees. I watched the second fight as well but I dont base much on that due to the short notice and the shape he was in. The only fight in which I’ve seen him in worse shape than that was against Ninja. Now here’s the real threat: CARDIO. We all know Forrest can BRING IT full throttle for AT LEAST 15 minutes. Judging by his fight against Tito I would say he could go 25 at that pace. And we all saw the Rampage/Hendo fight, but I still dont think hendo pushed the kind of pace or offered the strength and size at that weight that Forrest does. This is why I think Forrest CAN be the next LHW champ. Not that he’ll dominate for years to come, but that if this fight goes past two rounds, I almost guerantee a new 205lb champ.
I have absolutley no doubt that QRJ will put him to sleep in round 1!
You have got to be shittin me if you think that Forrest can even stay in the same ring with my boy Rampage for longer then 2 rounds? let alone win the title. Come on pimpin, wake on up.
Totally agree with that. Griffin need to train more to be in QRJ’s league.
guys lets not underestimate anyone, first of all I would like to say that both fighters are great fighters and it could go either way, but Griffin is usually underestimated, he has superb cardio and trains just as hard if not harder than anyone, he can take a punch and actually when he gets hit he seems to come to life even more, now with that said Quinton has fought the best of the best and has already established that he can defend against wrestlers and take a punch(or knee for that matter, lots of em) hes not goin to give the title to anyone without leaving everything hes got in the octagon, My personal predictions is we are in for fight of the year, or at least up until july but I give it to rampage in the 3rd TKO…..cant miss this fight!!!!
but I give it to rampage in the 3rd TKO…..cant miss this fight!!!!
I’m telling you if it goes into the 3rd its Forrest all the way.