WHAT???? Did I read that correctly?

“Danzig isn’t the striker that Edgar is.”

Mac is a MUCH better striker than Frankie Edgar in my opinion. Frankie is a great fighter, but he will be the first to admit, that he is still primarily a wrestler, that is learning MMA. Where as Mac Danzig is a well rounded fighter, and always has been (his bjj MIGHT be the best part of his game). If rules were set and the fight HAD to stay standing, I would take Mac Danzig over Frankie Edgar about 9 out of 10 times.[/quote]

VM, if you watch the Edgar/Bocek fight you will see that Edgar controlled and pretty much setup the ground game with strikes standing. While I agree Danzig is a better rounded fighter, he uses standup to close, clinch and takedown. I disagree with the idea that if the fight HAD to stay standing Danzig wins 9 of 10 and IMO in a UFC fight, I will take Frankie to handle Danzig.

WHAT???? Did I read that correctly?

“Danzig isn’t the striker that Edgar is.”

Mac is a MUCH better striker than Frankie Edgar in my opinion. Frankie is a great fighter, but he will be the first to admit, that he is still primarily a wrestler, that is learning MMA. Where as Mac Danzig is a well rounded fighter, and always has been (his bjj MIGHT be the best part of his game). If rules were set and the fight HAD to stay standing, I would take Mac Danzig over Frankie Edgar about 9 out of 10 times.

What? I think Clementi would be a good fight for Mac.

[quote comment="266706"]THE UFC MIGHT BE TRYING TO BUILD HIS CONFIDENCE UP AND GIVE HIM CANS HIS FIRST FEW FIGHTS![/quote]

Can? Bocek did not look good vs Edgar, but looked good against Evans. Danzig isn’t the striker that Edgar is. I see it somewhere in between the Edgar and Evans fights.

[quote post="4527"]I agree Bocek is a good opponent for his first fight. If Danzig does well I expect the UFC to start throwing some animals at him! No pun intended. Still Mac takes this one [/quote]

I agree here. Good 1st test for Danzig and a bit of a chance for redemption for Bocek. I think Mac takes it by sub late.

http://www.fighthype.com/pages/content1681.html

“I think Joe Lauzon is a great fighter. He’s come a long way and he’s improving all of the time. I’ve been watching him since he was a kid in the grappling competitions. It’s cool to see him rise the way he’s risen, but I knew, for some reason, we were going to have to face each other at some point. I didn’t think it would be this early. I’m going to be ready and I’ve been training hard all of the time. I’m sure he’s going to be training hard. He’s been training with BJ. A lot of people see him as a possible champ down the line in the future and I know I’m going to have my hands full. He’s not an opponent that I’m going to take lightly. He’s beaten Jens Pulver, he beat another guy at a local fight here and he beat Mike Brown, who he wasn’t supposed to beat. I’m not going to take him lightly, that’s for sure. I’m going to be ready to fight and I’m going to be ready for a war.”

“Yeah man! I’m ready to use it all when I have to. I can show, once again, a little bit of a different side again and I’m going to be ready to unload and do what I have to do to get the job done against Joe. Regardless of how long the fight lasts, I think it’s going to be a scrap. We’re both going to be trying to get positions and get the better of the stand-up. It’s going to be a war. Every second that fight lasts, it’s going to be a war. The style he has, the style I have, we both don’t like giving up an inch. We’re both aggressive and technical fighters. I think it’s going to be a great fight.”

“That’s always been my mentality since the first time I started doing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. That has always been my motto, even competing back then; finish the fight, finish the fight! I think that the true measure of a champion, of a fighter and a mixed martial artist, is to have the ability to finish. You look back at the Samurai culture or any type of war culture…it wasn’t how many stabs you got on the other guy or a referee comes in and says you stabbed him more times than he stabbed you or you shot him more times than he shot you so this guy won; no, it’s either you kill him or he killed you. I think that’s the purity of combat and the ultimate of combat and I think that’s what I look to do every single fight and I think Joe Lauzon knows that as well and he fights that way too. Someone is getting finished in this fight, that’s for sure.”

“Everyone looks at BJ’s talent and what he could do on the mat with his hands, his wrestling ability and his balance, but we’ve seen it before. The best fighter doesn’t always win, especially in mixed martial arts. Anything can happen and BJ has had some problems in the past with his cardio. I don’t think it will be a problem this time around, but you never know. That fight could potentially start in the 3rd round. If Joe Stevenson can weather those first 2 rounds, he can come back strong and steal it in the 3rd, 4th and 5th, a lot like Jens Pulver did way back when, but I think BJ is a monster right now and you do have to give him an edge, but by no means is Joe “Daddy” out of this at all. He’s in the best shape of his life and he’s been training for a while now. He’s been in Big Bear taking this very seriously so you won’t see me bet on that fight for anyone.”