Who are the champions in each division at the end of the year? HW: Shane Carwin LHW: Shogun Rua MW: Anderson Silva WW: Georges St. Pierre LW: BJ Penn
Just to help out... Frank Edgar (C) vs. BJ Penn @ UFC 118, August 28th Lightweight champion vs. challenger by January Georges St. Pierre (C) vs. Josh Koscheck in December Anderson Silva (C) vs. Chael Sonnen @ UFC 117, August 7th Middleweight champion vs. Vitor Belfort by January Mauricio Rua (C) vs. Rashad Evans @ UFC 119 by January Brock Lesnar (C) vs. Shane Carwin (IC) @ UFC 116, July 3rd Heavyweight champion vs. heavyweight challenger by January Realistically there are a lot of title fights still to happen. Lightweight, middleweight, and heavyweight could change hands twice. @ Lightweight I think we'll see Edgar retain his title, then possibly lose it to Gray Maynard, supposing Maynard gets by Florian. @ Welterweight it is extremely likely that GSP successfully defends vs. Koscheck. @ Middleweight I think Anderson Silva beats Sonnen and Belfort. @ LHeavyweight Rua gets outwrestled by Evans and loses the belt. @ Heavyweight Lesnar ground-and-pounds Carwin, then knocks out Velasquez. My guesses are Maynard, St. Pierre, Silva, Evans, and Lesnar. Wrestlers dominate 2010 (except for Sonnen).
HW: Lesnar LHW: Evans MW: Silva WW: GSP LW: Penn for me the only two titles will change owners. Penn is too good to lose to Edgar again IMO, I think Penn is going to use his size advantage to negate Edgar's speed this time around and get Edgar to tap on the ground. Shogun is a great stand up guy but I think his TDD will be his weakness and Evans will probably grind out a victory to retain the belt.
God no. That is my fear with Shogun as champ, his TDD. He's quick, though. Hopefully he'll be quick enough to catch Evans on the feet and put him out. Evans as champ is bad for the UFC unless they put him up against big name opponents and have a great card around him. Lesnar, me thinks, will be a victim of ring rust + some powerful shots by Carwin. I don't see Penn losing to Edgar if he's healthy. He looked horrid last fight. If he's healthy and trains hard, he should be able to beat him.
