{"id":60112,"date":"2013-05-22T10:17:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T17:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=60112"},"modified":"2022-02-06T13:01:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T21:01:48","slug":"gegard-mousasi-eyes-middleweight-fight-against-vitor-belfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/gegard-mousasi-eyes-middleweight-fight-against-vitor-belfort\/","title":{"rendered":"Gegard Mousasi Eye&#8217;s Middleweight Fight Against Vitor Belfort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/gegard-mousasi.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/gegard-mousasi.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Gegard Mousasi\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/gegard-mousasi.jpg 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/gegard-mousasi-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/gegard-mousasi-361x250.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;There&#8217;s a big chance that I will go to middleweight. It all depends on the fights that I&#8217;m going to get. If I&#8217;m going to get a big name at middleweight, I&#8217;ll probably go down. It&#8217;s all about match ups. Let&#8217;s say they&#8217;re going to give me somebody like Vitor Belfort, that&#8217;s maybe a contender. That&#8217;s the kind of fight I want.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;To be honest, I believe middleweight will be much better for me. I will give my opponent less advantages. But at the end of the day it&#8217;s all about skills. That doesn&#8217;t mean that size advantages always win, but like I&#8217;ve said, in the highest level, you don&#8217;t want to give the slightest edge to your opponent. Everyone is skilled, everyone has abilities. So that&#8217;s why I think middleweight will be much more suitable to my body frame. It&#8217;s all about the opportunity. I really want to go for this belt. I believe that style-wise, match-up-wise, I match-up much better against Anderson Silva than Jon Jones, but it doesn&#8217;t mean that I&#8217;m scared to fight at 205. Jon Jones is skilled and so is Anderson Silva, but at the highest levels, when you&#8217;re competing against the top levels, you don&#8217;t want to give anybody an advantage. So I don&#8217;t want to give a weight and size difference advantage also. That&#8217;s why I said middleweight.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Coming off his UFC debut, former Strikeforce light-heavyweight champion, Gegard Mousasi tells <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2013\/5\/21\/4353078\/gegard-mousasi-leaning-heavily-towards-middleweight-wants-vitor-belfort-ufc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAFighting.com<\/a> that he believes he is a better fit in the UFC&#8217;s middleweight division.<\/p>\n<p>In your opinion, is he right? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a big chance that I will go to middleweight. It all depends on the fights that I&#8217;m going to get. If I&#8217;m going to get a big name at middleweight, I&#8217;ll probably go down. It&#8217;s all about match ups. Let&#8217;s say they&#8217;re going to give me somebody like Vitor Belfort, that&#8217;s maybe a contender. 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