By defeating Ricardo Almeida at UFC 86, Patrick Cote has earned a title shot against middleweight champion Anderson Silva, possibly as soon as November.
I suppose that's fine, but really, does anyone who watched that fight last night think Cote has a prayer against Silva? Cote fought a fairly safe, fairly boring fight against Almeida, and I came away from it thinking Silva would need maybe four minutes to beat him.
The current plan appears to be for Silva to fight James Irvin in two weeks, then Yushin Okami in September, then Cote before the year is out. Assuming Silva wins all three fights -- and I assume he will -- it might then be time for him to move up to light heavyweight permanently, simply to make the middleweight division competitive again.
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7-07-2008 @ 12:58AM
Jeremy said...
I fell asleep watching the cote fight, no kidding
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7-11-2008 @ 2:29PM
Frederick said...
I think Almeida was running away from Coté most of the fight
with that said Silva will win easy unless Coté gets one knockout punch on him
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