Comments on: Rich Franklin vs Matt Hamill UFC 88 light heavyweight fight possible

By: jeff olhausen

jeff olhausen — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:47:28 +0000

franklin destroyed matt haha

By: B Frog

B Frog — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:46:33 +0000

To all you Rich Franklin haters out there:
1) He has only lost to 2…….I repeat 2 people in his career.
2) Those “2″ people are very respected fighters (Anderson Silva Lyoto Machida)
3) Disrespect his ground game…Lutter is supposed to be a Black Belt… Check out his fights a while back; Submissions! Most of them.
4) Submission of Jorge Rivera with 10 seconds left in the fight.
5) Cardio not a problem…
6) BTW that Jorge Rivera fight was a war; still had the cardio to put him out.
7) Didn’t Jorge Rivera knock out Whoever his name is? Spider who? Only Spider I know is the future of this sport….Anderson “Da Spider” Silva. He’s from Hawaii…Kendall Grove!
He also tapped out a favoable of fighters….and knocked them out!

9) He’s also a good guy that’s good for the sport….but go ahead and DAWG one of the people that keeps it going.

Good Job Guys!!!!

By: adam

adam — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:13:42 +0000

i am from cincy and very familiar with both franklin and hamill’s style. hamill has tremendous power and is more durable than franklin. if they stay standing i will give franklin a shot, but on the ground…trouble…big time. matt has freaky stength man…natural stength you can’t build in a gym. i don’t think rich can take that power for three rounds. he needs to find matt’s chin quick and hard..and perhaps several times. anyone that thinks rich franklin is going to walk through matt hamill with ease is simply wrong. there is a reason rich has put himself through hell cutting to 185 so many times. 205 is a different world, and matt’s only loss was complete bs for sure. he threw bisping around like a rag doll, and he is improving with each battle. i believe mr. franklin has got his hands full. as for bisping…who cares?

By: Ram

Ram — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:44:25 +0000

there is no way that Leben will EVER KO Bisping. Leben is just a brawler who is clearly out classed in every category by Bisping. The only reason that the guy still has a contract is because he puts on an exciting show by brawling it out and sometimes landing that 1 lucky puch that could win a fight for him.

By: Sparxx

Sparxx — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:22:23 +0000

theres still a ton of good fights for rich at MIDDLEWEIGHT too. hendo, leben, marquardt, bisping, cote, leites, mcfedries, almeida, all of those would be solid match ups instead of him fighting lutter of all people. besides, lhw is too crowded without having rich follow anderson everywhere.

By: Smokes

Smokes — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:57:22 +0000

I only want to see Okami and Hendo fight Silva and if they both lose who else really deserves a fight? Who could even get past Franklin, Okami, or Hendo in that division? If anyone says Bisbing they’ll be in for a suprise when he gets KO’d by Leben

By: 123boogie

123boogie — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:17:39 +0000

Matt has been training in BJJ as well. So, we’ll see how he does in this area, but he seems to prefer swinging on the stand.

By: jimmy_dean

jimmy_dean — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:07:46 +0000

Franklins going to kill Hamill, really? Have we been watching the same Matt Hammill because the last Hamill fight I saw Matt Hamill took some devastating knees and still finished the fight. Rich Frankling isn’t just going to walk through Matt Hamill like he has so many other people. It would be a good fight IMO.

By: UFCAddict

UFCAddict — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:30:52 +0000

This is exactly what I was thinking. I was about to post it when I decided I better read the posts to make sure I wasn’t repeating anybody.

By: john

john — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:21:59 +0000

Honestly, I dont believe that this fight will be booked!

I think Hammil and Franklin will bot appear on this card, but I believe they will fight other people.

I wouldnt mind seeing Hammil vs. Franklin, I just dont believe it will happen! I wouldnt mind being wrong about this 1