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Originally Posted by thecoylewis

I agree with those points. He smashed Chuck worse in Pride than he did last time. But I'm not surprised he got the title shot so fast. The way the UFC saw it, Chuck was their golden boy and he chose his opponents. (In all fairness, Chuck always chose the best.) He chose Rampage because he wanted to avenge his loss to him. So they sold that angle and Rampage got the shot. And at the time, Wanderlei hadn't came over yet, neither had Shogun and he had already beat Tito twice so Rampage was the logical candidate.

As for Nogueira, I completely agree with you that despite the ref not stopping it, Herring could have won with GNP. I do think though that Herring was more in shock that the fight hadn't been stopped yet and he felt like he had Nogueira hurt bad enough that if he got back to his feet, he could just KO him easily. Sadly the round ended and Nogueria had a full minute to recover and the rest is history. I do still feel though that the ref should have stopped it and had Nogueria had serious damage done, that ref should be held accountable. Shot after shot was landed and Nogueira wasn't defending himself. Needless to say, that same ref fell on his butt in the Tito fight Saturday night.

agreed and maybe thats his payback looking like a dumbass in front of millions