Remember when we wondered whether UFC 205 was in trouble? Yeah, well, how about now? And what’s this about Jose Aldo preparing to walk away and battle the UFC in court? And can we really call the UFC 205 main event a true superfight?
All that and more in this week’s Twitter Mailbag. To ask a question of your own next time around, tweet to @BenFowlkesMMA.
One of the truly genius aspects of the UFC 205 lineup is the built-in backup plans. Somebody gets injured in the lightweight main event between Eddie Alvarez (28-4 MMA, 3-1 UFC) and Conor McGregor (20-3 MMA, 8-1 UFC)? Call up Khabib Nurmagomedov (23-0 MMA, 7-0 UFC) from the undercard to take his place.
What about that welterweight title fight in the co-main event? Frankly, either guy could get pulled from that one and we’d still have Donald Cerrone (31-7 MMA, 18-4 UFC) to step up with a Stone Cold-esque “Oh hell yeah” to fill in for him.
Oh, what’s that you say? There’s a chance that someone in the middleweight contender bout might flunk a drug test between now and November? No worries. Tim Kennedy (18-5 MMA, 3-1 UFC) and Rashad Evans (19-5-1 MMA, 14-5-1 UFC) are already warming up as potential replacements.
As it stands right now, I think you’d have to call UFC 205 – at least on paper – the most stacked event in UFC history. The lineup is so great that it could even afford to lose a few people. But, you know, it’d also be nice if that didn’t happen.
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