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For those of you who dont know, there is a nice little beef brewing up between former WEC Middleweight champion Paulo Ely Filho and former Dream middleweight champ/current SF LHW Champion Gegard Mousasi.
Ely started the beef in an interview with Brazilian website Tatame.com
When asked if he would come back to the US cuz of the Dream Strikeforce partnership, Ely responded by saying he wants to fight at 205 and he wants mousasi.
He said a fight with him would be different from the Babalu fight because of Ely's strength and ground game and he talked about how they were in the Pride Grand Prix but couldnt fight because Akihiro Gono beat Gegard.
It seemed to me he was mad over how quickly Gegard beat Babalu and a sense of brazilian pride is making him want to avenge the loss babalu had.
Gegard Mousasi fired back with more scathing comments. on fighters.com Mousasi in a video interview said he was real annoyed by the comments because he met Ely in Japan and thot he was a nice guy. He went on to say Ely is on steriods calling him a lil donkey who thinks he's a racehorse now because he's back on the roids.
He also says Manhoef almost knocked him out and that he won't fight Ely in Japan because he knows he would be on riods. He also says when Filho came to the US he got his a$$ kicked and says unlike most of the fighters who looked good in japan but looked bad in the US, he looked good on both and isnt on anything.
He says he will fight Filho anywhere where there is an athletic commision.
This is a pretty nice feud that most will dismiss because they feel Mousasi will kill Filho. Although im on of the very few that think Ely would beat Gegard I wont fault fans for thinking Gegard would steamroll him because he is on a nice lil streak and Filho has not fought at 205.
Let the war begin
Ely started the beef in an interview with Brazilian website Tatame.com
When asked if he would come back to the US cuz of the Dream Strikeforce partnership, Ely responded by saying he wants to fight at 205 and he wants mousasi.
He said a fight with him would be different from the Babalu fight because of Ely's strength and ground game and he talked about how they were in the Pride Grand Prix but couldnt fight because Akihiro Gono beat Gegard.
It seemed to me he was mad over how quickly Gegard beat Babalu and a sense of brazilian pride is making him want to avenge the loss babalu had.
Gegard Mousasi fired back with more scathing comments. on fighters.com Mousasi in a video interview said he was real annoyed by the comments because he met Ely in Japan and thot he was a nice guy. He went on to say Ely is on steriods calling him a lil donkey who thinks he's a racehorse now because he's back on the roids.
He also says Manhoef almost knocked him out and that he won't fight Ely in Japan because he knows he would be on riods. He also says when Filho came to the US he got his a$$ kicked and says unlike most of the fighters who looked good in japan but looked bad in the US, he looked good on both and isnt on anything.
He says he will fight Filho anywhere where there is an athletic commision.
This is a pretty nice feud that most will dismiss because they feel Mousasi will kill Filho. Although im on of the very few that think Ely would beat Gegard I wont fault fans for thinking Gegard would steamroll him because he is on a nice lil streak and Filho has not fought at 205.
Let the war begin
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