[BHBrad]

Monte Cox talked about this on The Beatdown last week. He said that Spencer's a real team player and right now recognizes that Jens Pulver is MFS' #1 LW and he's the #2 and that he has no problem waiting for his opportunity.

[NateH706]

Originally Posted by BHBrad

Monte Cox talked about this on The Beatdown last week. He said that Spencer's a real team player and right now recognizes that Jens Pulver is MFS' #1 LW and he's the #2 and that he has no problem waiting for his opportunity.

I won't be surprised if he ends up getting the first shot. If it's true the UFC offered a title shot to both Florian and Hominick against Sherk and they turned it down, it's obvious to me that they want to make a champion first, promote Pulver as a coach on TUF5, and then have a 'unification' match (which is far easier to hype and market than saying.... 'well... he is the champ...sorta.... former... never lost... you'll see') against Sherk.

They're going to want somebody who isn't Pulver to step up for the first title shot against Sherk. A Fisher/Sherk fight would certainly be entertaining, as long as Fisher and Pulver are both ok and understand they'd probably end up fighting each other next year if Fisher would win.

[WanderleiGSP]

fisher/sherk would be a nice fight to watch

[Irish_Car_Bomb]

I don't think Pulver's ground game is as weak as people are suspecting these days. He is a former devision 1 wrestler and he also beat Parrumpinha in a grappling match at Naga a couple years ago. I think his main weakness is that he's still too small, even for 155 lbs.

[Lazepunk]

Originally Posted by Murdoc

This subject is a double edged sword. Clearly by their success, training in a team environment like MFS or Team Quest will raise the level of the person training with other top athletes to push them. The downside is after a while, you get 3 or 4 big teams, then you get your top contenders from each weight classs joining these teams to train, and after a while, these 2 guys are on the same team and don't want to fight, these other fighters are way too good of friends to fight, ect.
IMO, if you are in a weight class, you should be willing and prepared to fight any fighter in that division, teammate, best-friend, blood-brother, whatever.

But then again are you willing to fight your best friend. A man you sweat and bleed with five days a week at least all day.

Nobody knows what it's like to fight a training partner until they have to do it. So for everyone who sais they should fight whover please realize that it's hard to beat the shit out of someone you care about very much in front of millions of people on live tv and thousands of people in attendance with the possibility or ruining your friends career

[newcombxx]

id like to see it

[newcombxx]

if they dont mind fighting eachother i guess.

[ItsThatWootWoot]

Originally Posted by waylonh

Aren't both of these guys MFS fighters? Wouldn't this be a conflict of interest seeing as both are championship caliber fighters? Is Pulver going back to MFS?

pulver is no longer championship caliber. sry buddy.

[lsa]

Originally Posted by ItsThatWootWoot

pulver is no longer championship caliber. sry buddy.

Uhm why dont you look at the thread dates.
Is freaking OLD.

Why do people bump old threads like this?!

[narkq]

Originally Posted by waylonh

Aren't both of these guys MFS fighters? Wouldn't this be a conflict of interest seeing as both are championship caliber fighters? Is Pulver going back to MFS?

You mean like Wand and Shogun, or Tito and Rampage, or Randy and Arlovski, or...

Lots of top tier fighters are known to train together. It's a fact of life in a good gym.