{"id":57805,"date":"2013-04-26T09:42:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T16:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=57805"},"modified":"2022-02-06T13:09:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T21:09:07","slug":"nelson-believes-that-even-with-a-loss-he-can-be-granted-title-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/nelson-believes-that-even-with-a-loss-he-can-be-granted-title-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelson Believes That Even With a Loss He Can Be Granted Title Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/roy-nelson2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47418\" title=\"roy nelson2\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/roy-nelson2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/roy-nelson2.png 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/roy-nelson2-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/roy-nelson2-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>UFC heavyweight Roy Nelson (18-7) will battle Cheick Kongo (18-7-2) tomorrow night at UFC 159 in Newark, New Jersey. Nelson will be looking for his third straight win and if things go his way, his third straight by knockout.<\/p>\n<p>Even <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufc-159-odds-roy-nelson-opens-as-a-favorite-over-cheick-kongo-ufc-news\/\">with a loss<\/a>, however, Nelson believes that a title shot could still be around the corner (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmaweekly.com\/roy-nelson-i-could-probably-lose-and-still-get-a-title-shot\">MMAWeekly.com<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could probably still lose and get a title shot,\u201d Nelson stated.\u00a0\u201cI mean, Nick (Diaz) lost and got a title shot. It\u2019s about what fights do you want to see.\u00a0 The only reason Big Foot (Antonio Silva) is fighting is because we were like, \u2018This guy over here, this big Demolition Man, Alistair Overeem is\u00a0gonna be our next guy, blah, blah, blah.\u2019 He\u2019s supposed to get the next title shot and he gets knocked out.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson goes on to say that besides wanting a title shot, he also wants to fight the best and would settle for either former UFC heavyweight champion, Junior dos Santos or Mark Hunt who fight on May 25th at UFC 160:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019ve fought the best guys in the world. I\u2019d love to fight Cain, unless Big Foot wins, then I\u2019ll fight Big Foot.\u00a0 If Mark Hunt beats Junior, then I\u2019ll fight Mark Hunt.\u00a0 I\u2019m game for a lot of different people. It\u2019s just, it\u2019s the UFC, so you never know.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>UFC 159 takes place on April 27th at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey and features a light-heavyweight title fight between Jon Jones and Chael Sonnen in the main event.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For the latest MMA news visit <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\">BJPENN.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; UFC heavyweight Roy Nelson (18-7) will battle Cheick Kongo (18-7-2) tomorrow night at UFC 159 in Newark, New Jersey. Nelson will be looking for his third straight win and if things go his way, his third straight by knockout. Even with a loss, however, Nelson believes that a title shot could still be around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":47418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[149,199,208,9,483,797,15,3603],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nelson Believes That Even With a Loss He Can Be Granted Title Shot | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/nelson-believes-that-even-with-a-loss-he-can-be-granted-title-shot\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nelson Believes That Even With a Loss He Can Be Granted Title Shot | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; UFC heavyweight Roy Nelson (18-7) will battle Cheick Kongo (18-7-2) tomorrow night at UFC 159 in Newark, New Jersey. 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