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2012 MMA crystal ball: Who’s a UFC champ 12 months from now?
We keep hearing about mixed martial being in a period of dominant champions. Is that really true? Try to project the champions in each UFC weight class for the end of 2012 and see what you come up with.
Yahoo! Sports' Kevin Iole, Frank Trigg and myself debated four of the UFC's title belts during our "The MMA Insiders" show on ESPN1100/98.9 FM in Las Vegas.
My choices are:
135 pounds - Urijah Faber
145 pounds - Jose Aldo Jr.
155 pounds - Gray Maynard
170 pounds - Georges St-Pierre
185 pounds - Anderson Silva
205 pounds - Jon Jones
Heavyweight - Junior dos Santos
Trigg and Iole disagreed with me on 155 and heavyweight. They also came up with a few deep sleepers at lightweight and welterweight.
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