“[Michael Bisping and Demian Maia] are good fighters. Bisping can go and go, and Maia is good on the ground. But neither one of them has fought anyone who is as good as me or at the same level of fighter that I am. It would be a huge jump in class for them to fight me, and I think I could finish either one of them off in round one or two…. The desire for a rematch with Anderson Silva is obvious, and it’s a great desire of mine. I really feel like I didn’t fight the way I wanted to fight. I just didn’t show up that night. When I was sticking with my game plan, I was winning the fight. I went away from that, and he took advantage of it. The next time we fight, it will be a war and I can’t wait for the opportunity.”
– Yesterday it was Michael Bisping and today it’s Nate Marquardt. The former number one middleweight contender talks about what he would do to either Bisping or Demian Maia in a Sherdog.com interview. The former King of Pancrase also lobbies hard to be named the coach opposite “The Count” on the upcoming season of The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 9. If gets his wish he’ll certainly be one step closer toward achieving two objectives — fighting Bisping and rematching Silva.
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If Henderson beats Franklin, he should get the next rematch against Silva at Middleweight. Okami should fight marquardt/Maia/or Bisping for the following title shot at Middlewight. Silva doesnt have many fights left.
Exatly, Andy only has 5 fights left and I hope the UFC doesn’t waste one of them on a rematch with Nate…Im not even sold on a Hendo rematch either…I think Andersons last 5 fights should be at 205..
As for Nate fighting either Bisping or Maia? I disagree with NAte..I think all three of these fighters are at the same level in the MW division and any of the possible matches would be good..Nate would have a better chance with Bisping, and I would prefer that fight over Bisping vs. Maia..
I want to see Maia fight Wil Gouvei..
i agree i think nate is 2 much for bisping atm but not for maia
i think it’d be a good fight imo
i actually think nate would be able 2 take hendo
he never really lost against thales
Nate is a top middleweight but I dont think he walks through: Maia, Bisping, THales, Okami, Hendo, Franklin. IMO Nate isn’t above the rest of the pack, he is right in the middle, on par with the above mentioned fighters. He isnt above anyone of them, and I think anyone of those guys could beat Nate although he would be the favorite against most of them.
As for Bisping, I dont think any middleweight, besides the champion, can Dominate the Count. If Bisping was never dominated at 205, he wont be bullied at 185 lbs. NOt saying he is the #1 contender, but he will give any non champion in the middleweight division a real good fight
if okami didn’t break his hand where would this divison be?
okami would of fought silva
marq prob would have fought cote
Marquardt would clear out the division if Anderson Silva was not in it. Seriously, he is that good and I think he was in ore of the Spider last time.
Nate should get a re-match with Silva and I would put money on him next time.
P.S Does anyone notice that NO ONE CALLS OUT MARQUARDT!
@john
I agree exactly. I do like Nate tho. He is a good fighter. I dont see him walking through either of those guys tho.
b4 Nate runs his mouth again, he should try beating a top contender (Leites) without using 10 different illegal moves. He had THales rocked from all kinds of illegal knees, but didnt come close to finishing thales. He is a dirty fighter and I dont like him! I understand a mis-timed knee could have been an accidental blow, but you cant tell me he accidentally Pile DRived thales on his Neck…that was messed up!
Props to thales!
I was at that event John. I was like “wtf did he just do.” It seemed intentional and was completely uncalled for.
is a pile driver illegal? i didnt think so
yeah, you can’t drop a guy on his head!
Actually, dumping an opponent on their head is completely legal. You see it alot when fighters go for arm bars, triangles etc
If you need more proof, you will notice Herb Dean did nothing when this occurred, after giving two penalties earlier.
Pile drivers are good in the UFC…BUt what if accidentally that joint that kinda connects the spinal column to the skull cracks?! Hehe, another death in MMA…
negation, colonel who? my dad is general santos from camp caringal!
nate is a step up from gouveia
I still think Marquardt has the best chance to beat Silva at 185… I dont think he will, but he has the best chance of anyone right now.
Beating Franklin shouldn’t get him a title shot.
1. The fight is at 205
2. Only 8 months ago Hendo fought for the title. There is no way he gets another one.
Nate might be right but the way Anderson destroyed him, it will be a hard sell for a rematch
I personally think Marquardt is the best MW other than Anderson and I’d love to see him do the TUF thing against Bisping.
Thats a good idea! Marquardt/Bisping as TUF coaches would be good! Nate is right about both Maia and Bisping. Nate is on a higher level!
It is a good idea, but only because someone has to do it. Marquardt should be fighting Maia or Bisbing at 94 or 95 not in 6 months at the conclusion of TUF. I am over TUF, I still watch, but geeez. I guess at least the next one won’t hold up a title.
UFC 95 is in London. So it should be Marquardt/Bisbing at 95. Lame…
This season of TUF has been ok! The 2 LHW fights are going to be good! All 4 are good fighters! Nover has an easy trip to the finals. And Junie/Efrain should be a good fight! I dont know about this coming season though?
is there not a new episode of TUF tonight?
I just looked at the guide and its not showing a new episode! WTF???
They took off for the holidays. There will be 2 episodes next week.
Nate is right, he is better than Bisping.
i agree keep franklin at 205
and have nate the other coach he will beat bisping up
I think Nate is too good for either Bisping or Maia at this point. He’s in a shitty spot though…best MW out there, but already blew his title shot. Tough spot to be in. But, if he can string 1 or 2 more wins together, he should get another shot….ala Florian.
Nate has a LOT of option out there as far as fights are concerned. I still want to see him fight against either Franklin or Hendo (if they decide to go back to MW).
What I think will happen is Hendo smashes Franklin and then turns down the offer to be coach on TUF 9. That would leave Demian Maia or Nate Marquardt. Seeing that the format of the show as of this moment is still USA vs UK, Marquardt is obviously the logical choice.
I think Nate would lay a beatdown on Bisping and it would look erily similar to the Kampmann fight. However, like someone else said, with Anderson ready to retire next year, a rematch with Nate is not one of the fights I currently want to see him in. He would need to destroy and finish Franklin or Henderson before I would want to see that rematch.
You’re such a Hendo homer…my god. He’s not the same fighter he was a few years back. Get that through your head. 2 UFC losses and one of the biggest snooze fest wins I’ve ever seen.
Two losses to UFC champs in two different weight classes isn’t that bad.
True, but according to him, Hendo will roll through anyone. Franklin will be a very good fight, could go either way. And Nate could take either of these guys.
I think Nate has the potential to beat either Henderson or Franklin. He’s very underrated, and I personally think he’d handle decision dan at this point. Franklin is probably the tougher fight for him stylewise, but I think he could pull that one out as well.
VM I highly doubt dan would turn down an offer to be the next tuff coach after watching some of video blogs he seems like an attention hog and would love to have his mug on camera for 12 weeks
I cant stand when a fighter says I didnt show up in there or it wasnt me in there refering to his loss to A silva NO it was you in there and not only did you get smashed you got out wrestled by A silva when that was supposedly your strength
Nate is all talk
I cant wait to see him get choked out by maia or decapetated by silva again
R u serious? Dont compare Kampmann to Bisping! Every1 rights off Bisping! Hes never been knocked out and hes much bigger than Kampmann so ur comparision makes no sense to me. Bissy has good boxing and kick boxing he would definatly do well against Nate in the stand up. Im not saying he would win, but it would be a much closer fight than most of you on here think! Bissy had good wrestling, bjj (enough to not get submitted) and striking it would be a very good fight between 2 high level all rounders. We all saw how Nate did against Silva, a few solid shots and he folded, not saying Bissy hits as hard but he could defo hurt him. Good fight which i hope happens but i think Bissy had got it right calling out Hendo, thts a better match up for him imo.
Ummm….Bissy????
Enjoy it, its the new way to say Bisping, straight out of the UK or maybe just me.
Good for him to have confidence… he’ll lose against silva but will beat most other MW
Nate could beat Bisping.. I think Maia would be a problem for him once it hits the ground.. on a Silva..
Nah.. Nate is Great but not when Silva is coming his way.
Not only do I agree with the above, but I have no interest in a Nate/Anderson rematch. Not with Anderson only having 5 fights left.
it seems everyone lets silva fight his fight hmmmmmmm….
lol @ randy murders comment.
hey allamerican, you see the guy in the lauzon/franca thread that enjoys P-town? do you think he knows?
lmao! no, he has no idea what he’s talking about! i just left you a comment on the shogun thread about that. if he didnt notice the unbelieveably high amount of gays, then he must be blind. i was laughing for a few when i saw that! and yes, the traffic IS that bad. if i see that dude in here again, im gonna have to f*ck with him about the whole p town thing, for sure.
kev, i replied but its being moderated…
lol, I laughed too, and the lights down in s.w. florida are annoying. Tamiami trail is tough, but what I like about FL and CA is everything is close. You know what I mean, in MA you got to drive to get to everything (target, groceries, malls etc.)
you know, I like martha’s vinyard for a while, we went during that whole light festival one year, then I went to nantucket, man that’s such a peaceful place!
yeah, i know what you mean about 41. i actually live right off of 41 east. my brother lived on the vinyard for a while. its cool but man does it put you in a funk. all you do is get f*cked up. thats all there is to do. MEGA parties there man! i went over and partied with all the dudes from jackass. those dudes were all cheatin on their wives, blowin a shitload of coke, the whole nine. they partied for a whole week. and i mean…partied! nantucket, that place is so nice man. i used to f*ck around with a girl who had a place there. it was nice, we’d just go over for the weekend and have a f*ckfest on the beach. there arent many places like it in the states…
nope, I loved it there, i went when I was 16 with my dads “friend” he got called away on business. we didn’t f*ck, but we got wasted for 3 days, no traffic, no worries!!!
Nate is the only MW I would want to see Anderson fight NOW. In the future you could include Maia in that statement, but only after he developed a few decent striking skills.
thats a rather obsurd comment especially if henderson wins his next fight, the only reason you say that because he had a single ko win over a smaller cage rusty opponent, im sure you realize nate hasnt improved that much since he fought silva. I think what would make sense, would be for marquart to fight denis kang assuming kang wins his next fight convincingly.
I’d love to see Nate vs Bisping. Although I think Nate is the better fighter, I’d like to see Bisping win, just to see how much he keeps improving.
I don’t think they’d put Bisping in the ring with Marquardt, it would be too dangerous of a fight for Bisping. They have been coddling him….he’s gonna go from jason day and charles mccarthy to one of the top 3 middleweights in the UFC? I guess he needs to earn a title shot so far.
Bisping needs to beat marquardt, franklin or henderson to seriously be considered for a title shot. Anything else and he wouldn’t have earned it. I don’t think he’s proven himself in the middleweight division yet.
I also think Maia would submit him. That is way too risky of a fight with not a lot of upside to it. Beating Maia wouldn’t be that rewarding compared to Nate, Rich or Dan. If he lost to either of those three it wouldn’t look that bad, they are certified badasses. If he lost to Maia everyone would say ‘Oh, he can strike OK but his ground is terrible’ regardless if it really is or not.
Nate is an excellent fighter but he has had his shot and lost. There is no need to give him another shot maybe until he has another 4 fight win streak. id rather see silva fight someone who hasnt had a shot yet maybe bisping in the future (if bisping wins a few more fights against top mw) or maia, silva does not have a lot of fights left so i dont really want them wasteed on him beating nate, henderson or franklin again, even though they are top ranked MW we have already seen them get beaten by silva so why again.
Ok, here’s what I think the UFC should do:
Nate & Bisping coach TUF, fight mid-summer for a title shot, winner fights for MW title in the fall.
Maia should get the Okami/Lister winner in Feb/March. The winner of this fight then gets a title shot against Silva in May/June if only to keep the MW title from being completely stagnant. Besides, Okami probably deserves his shot anyway.
This way Silva can fight 3 blockbuster fights at 205 when he isn’t defending his title.
As a side note, enough of this argument for who’s the 2nd best MW in the world. It’s Rich Franklin, period. Just ask Silva, he’ll say the same thing.
i don’t understand how silva can say rich was a better fighter than dan when it was dan who was the only person under the ufc to win a round against him. i think henderson is one tough sonofabitch and will mop the floor with franklin.
I really think that Nate is the second best MW in the world. Silva is just a really bad match up for him. I think he can beat everyone else at middle weight.
When was NATE ever winning? LOL. I think Nate is a little delusional.
Are you for real?
Nate survived 4min b4 he went down and curled up.
Nate didn’t win any part of that fight with Anderson so please just stop being a idiot.
Nate was winning on control before the standup, but it isn’t like he was ever REALLY in too much control of the fight. If you think he was just surviving early in the fight, then you know dick about mma
Nate LOST end of story!!! So unless he won it doesn’t mean shit. He didn’t even make it out the 1st ROUND!!!
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!
Ufc 96 Roger Hollet vs Ed Herman
He is doing good.
Good luck Hollet.
He is getting better.
i’m a big fan of anderson.. but the way i see marquardt fight he SURE can defeat him!
ROTFL!!!
he really deserves a rematch… he’s a BEAST in the ring!
srry *octagon
i would love to see bisping vs marquart in the uk. i think marquart would make a good coach. i just dont think the ufc is going to let him do it because his name isnt big enough.
Sorry one ko win over a smaller cage rusty fighter aint doing it for me, he needs a test like okami or these young guns hes talking about. I can see bisping getting a ud against marquart being the better wrestler and ever since Maia submitted macdonald i definitly think maia could submit marquart but it would be a struggle to get him to the mat.
all these fighters say they are going to finish Bisping! do they realise he has never been submitted or ko’d? Bisping would win Marquardt and Maia imo
Does nate think he’s a class above Rashad Evans I wonder…?
“But neither one of them has fought anyone who is as good as me or at the same level of fighter that I am” – what an absolute cock – Rashad is on a much higher level and he never finished Bisping – WTF is this dood on about – talk about blowin’ ya’ own trumpet