Fighter Futures: Cung Le

Dana White has made it fairly obvious what he wants to do with Cung Le next: UFC China. Le however could not have seemed more apprehensive post fight coming off his win over Patrick Cote. The 40 year old played along with White’s jokes, but whether we will see him on the November card remains to be seen. Le poses no significant threat to the title and has not even hinted that at a title run being in the cards. I would imagine Le would get paired up with Rich Franklin, who has hinted at another title run, but it remains to be seen whether Franklin can even make the cut down to 185 anymore. Honestly I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if we never see Le again, MMA is physically demanding and he’s not getting any younger. 

UFC148 Recap: Cote/Le

I recently discovered that I have a massive man-crush on Patrick Cote, so watching him lose to Cung Le was very similar to being the weird kid in high school who hides under the bleachers at football games so you can watch Ashley the brunette cheerleader, as she throws her legs in the air and continues to try and rally the home team even in the face of defeat, and god, if you only had the time to talk to her, but science class is only 45 minutes long and your lab tables are on other ends of the room and after class you go in opposite directions. That was all one sentence. Cote seemed to play a little too cautious which I found disappointing, I thought he would have gone for broke in his first fight back in the UFC. I wonder what Ashley is up to these days…