{"id":63329,"date":"2013-07-02T07:50:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T14:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=63329"},"modified":"2022-02-06T12:58:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T20:58:00","slug":"cub-swanson-im-the-biggest-threat-to-aldo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/cub-swanson-im-the-biggest-threat-to-aldo\/","title":{"rendered":"Cub Swanson: I&#8217;m the biggest threat to Aldo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/cub-swanson.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49450\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/cub-swanson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/cub-swanson.jpg 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/cub-swanson-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/cub-swanson-361x250.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cub Swanson (19-5 MMA, 4-1 UFC) is set to square off with Dennis Siver (21-8 MMA, 10-5 UFC) live this Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0victory over Siver at UFC 162 would make it 5 straight wins for Swanson and would\u00a0\u00a0inch him\u00a0closer to a possible rematch with current featherweight kingpin Jose Aldo.<\/p>\n<p>Swanson and Aldo first collided at WEC 41 in June of 2009.\u00a0Unfortunately for Cub, that\u00a0bout lasted all of eight seconds, as Aldo landed a flying knee\u00a0(followed by punches)\u00a0that\u00a0put the\u00a0California native away. Despite the result of their first meeting, Cub still believes he is the biggest threat to Jose Aldo&#8217;s belt, as he stated to ESPN.com:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIt gets brought up to me all the time, people won\u2019t let me forget it. I\u2019ve heard it a million times.\u00a0 <\/em><em>I wish they were clever about it. So much time has passed that I would laugh about it, but people are so lame. I\u2019ll be like [on Twitter], \u2018I went to the store today and this happened,\u2019 &#8212; something funny. Then somebody will go, \u2018Like the time you got kneed in the face in eight seconds?\u2019 It\u2019s like, \u2018Yeah, buddy. Exactly.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIn my mind, I\u2019m always one win away from a title,\u201d <\/em>Swanson said.<em> \u201cIf I fight that fight that makes everybody go, \u2018Wow, he\u2019s unstoppable,\u2019 &#8212; that\u2019s all I can do.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI think I do pose the biggest threat to Aldo. I feel like my boxing is better than his. He\u2019s a kick boxer, with devastating kicks. Neither one of us cares to take it to the ground. I feel with my unpredictability and my boxing, I pose a big threat to him.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With Chan Sung Jung fighting Jose Aldo for the featherweight strap at UFC 163 in August, and Ricardo Lamas not having a scheduled opponent, the fight between Swanson and Siver at UFC 162 could potentially produce the next 145-title challenger. Is a rematch between Swanson and Aldo something you would like to see in the future? 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