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In my Post-Fight Awards for UFC 188 I accurately predicted that Andrei “The Pit Bull” Arlovski would get the next title shot against Fabricio “Vai Calvalo” Werdum. I then read many pieces including one by our main man Dave Reno looking at who would get the first chance at Werdum. Each of the different articles all applied logic and went by who deserved the next chance at the heavyweight title.
The problem with that approach is this is the UFC we are talking about, and like one of my favorite quotes from Unforgiven; “Deserve’s got nothing to do with it.