The Duel...

[WTFHappened 8/9/2008]

And here we are with another edition of the THE DUEL!~ This week we again have the superstar known as ME, Huckaby, battling the superstar known as Randy Harrison. Again, if you care to feel free to vote on the left side of your screen for the winner of the battle. Poor Harrison does a great job and seems to get screwed over. I hope this continues as I out argue him handily in this battle.

Let’s go:

1. B.J. Penn will remain a lightweight for more than one more fight.

Harrison: FALSE. I don’t even think that he’s going to stay at lightweight for even one more fight. BJ seems to have a thing where the title that he can win is more attractive to him than the title he can defend, so I fully expect him to move up to try and win the Welterweight Title from GSP, should he get past Jon Fitch at UFC 87. BJ feels like there’s nothing left to do at this weight class for him as he beat the thorn in his side that was Jens Pulver, won the title and then eradicated the guy that he feels like he should have won the belt from in the first place. This new, motivated BJ is going to be looking to cement his place in history by winning as many titles as he can in in as convincing a fashion as possible. Buoyed by the knowledge that he nearly beat GSP in their first fight with a suspect gas tank, he must be salivating at the though of facing him now with his newfound fire for the fight game.

Huckaby: FALSE. Though I will disagree and say he’ll take the winner of Huerta/Florian (see: Florian) and then call it a career at the weight. So I feel that alone should get me the point from the voters. I personally can’t wait for Penn/GSP II, as someone brought up to me recently I thought Penn won their first fight or at the very worst it was a draw. N00bs (sorry to say that) at the time didn’t understand the hype of Penn while we had to watch him lose to GSP and Hughes and just look bad and be mocked. I believe in this Penn just like the last Penn, he’s ready for GSP. Will he win? No. Penn can’t take him down, GSP has the better striking, and GSP can get up if they’re on the ground. Penn had a better chance the first time. But I love the heart and BALLZ of Penn to want to fight the biggest and best guys possible. God bless the man, put him in the Hall of Fame.

The rest of the article can be found here. Five Ounces of Pain | 5 Oz. of Pain Presents: The DUEL


Im sure some of these have been posted in the past, but I was wondering if anyone has read them and what are your opinions? I like some of the people they get on there, this weeks wasn't the greatest, but they usually have people representing two sides of the argument and they usually do a good job proving points on both sides.

[Lefthookstcrook]

Never even herd of it lol Are they just two random guys opinions?

IMO BJ SHOULD stay at LW and create a "Anderson like" Mystic about him before he starts giving up on somthing he started. And i dont know why people say" he doesnt have nothing to prove at LW" the guy only defended his title once and theres still tons of match-ups left for him(lop-sided or not).

So in response to the thread i think BJ should stay but i really dont know if he will or not

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Originally Posted by TUF5

Never even herd of it lol Are they just two random guys opinions?

Its usually two writers either from 5 oz of pain or different mma "journalist" from various mma websites. While some don't have great opinions, sometimes you get a really good debate

[rivethead]

I got a kick out of GSP having better striking...it made it hard to take anything else they said seriously.

rh

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Originally Posted by rivethead

I got a kick out of GSP having better striking...it made it hard to take anything else they said seriously.

rh

yeah, as i said this probably wasn't the best duel to try to get people interested in the column, but the idea itself i think is great, as long as both people arent like Goldie and that black guy on inside mma that makes Kenflo sound like a genius

[Diegonightmare]

This actually was the first one I'd seen, I hadn't heard of it either, but it's decent. Always interesting to talk MMA.