Fights to make following UFC Fight Night 51: Silva vs. Arlovski

Andrei Arlovski vs. Josh Barnett
Antonio Silva vs. Gabriel Gonzaga
Glesion Tibau vs. Abel Trujillo
Piotr Hallman vs. Rodrigo Damm
Leandro Santos vs. Elias Silverio
Efrain Escudero vs. Justin Salas
Santiago Ponzinibbio vs. Hyu Gyu Lim/Takenori Sato winner
Wendell Oliveira vs. Alex Garcia
Iuri Alcantara vs. Johnny Eduardo
Russell Doane vs. Francisco Rivera
Jessica Andrade vs. Miesha Tate/ Rin Nakai winner
Larissa Pacheco vs. Jessaymn Duke
Godofredo Pepey vs. Daniel Hooker/Maximo Blanco winner
George Sullivan vs. John Howard/Brian Ebersole winner
Igor Aruajo vs. Dan Miller
Francisco Trinaldo vs. Yui Chul Nam
Leandro Silva vs. Tony Martin
Sean Spencer vs. Tim Means
Rani Yahya vs. Michinori Tanaka/Kyung Ho Kang winner

Cut List: Bedford, Thiago, Johnson

I hope Johnson gets another shot

Not really sure on who faces who from this card but I'd much rather see Arlovski vs. Miocic.

HWY division seems interesting again.

Where is Barnett BTW?

HW division seems like it's the same as always. Cain->JDS->Werdum->Mishmash of flavors of the month

Barnett is just chillin. Miocic versus Arlovski, Miocic, or Hunt/Nelson work. Then the odd men out fight each other. Cain just needs a new face though.

Imagine how awesome it would be if Arlovski became the champion again. 

* Edited at 09.14.2014, 1:15 AM ET *

Arlovski vs Hunt/Nelson
Bigfoot vs Gonzaga/Barnett 

I meant rothwell instead of Miocic. Rothwell is in the discussion for a big fight.

I had an interestingly different experience watching these fights: came home to no net so was forced to try & watch on phone & amazingly, it worked. Didn't get started til main card so prelims came after & stream was good until last 2 (Sullivan & Pepey Ws) so I list in order I watched or would've. Always annoys me slightly that the few with dedication enough to actually make matches for all fighters list MEers 1st which only encourages the marginalization of the undercarders. Ok, off soapbox now.

Pacheco vs. Rakoczy, de Randamie, Dufresne, or Pennington
Andrade vs. Moras
Yahya vs. Sasaki (don't know how this wasn't suggested) or Sterling
Doane vs. Viana
Alcantara vs. Holdsworth
Hallman vs. Dunham 
Tibau vs. Silverio
Escudero vs. Justin Edwards. Salas would b equal to this
Santos vs. Vick
Ponzinibbio, Spencer, & Sullivan vs. Moraes, Means, &/or Pierson or each other would all b good, apprpriate matches. My preference would b Ponz/Means, Sullivan/Pierson 
Oliveira vs. Stahl
Bigfoot vs. Barnett
Arlovski vs. Miocic 
Silva vs. Lazaro
Trinaldo vs. Iaquinta
Araujo vs. Garcia
Pepey vs. Blanco/Hooker winner

AA vs Miocic sounds awesome, I really like both fighters so that kind of sucks but would be a fun fight.


Cain doesn't need NEW faces he needs to fight for the love of god. He has been on the sidelines for  a year and the 5 fights before that were against the same two guys. Werdum is a great challenge for him, one I really look forward to. Miocic could pose some interesting threats. Let's get the champ back fighting. (I do agree no more JDS or Bigfoot for now).