The Dreamcatcher will be in the UFC shortly, ready to entangle every fantasy in the light heavyweight division. Maybe even the middleweight division if we're so lucky. Yes, Gegard Mousasi will be walking nonchalantly to the Octagon soon, and it's been a long journey, but he's finally here - and he wants to fight. Specifically, he wants to fight Alexander Gustaffon, Shogun Rua and Lyoto Machida, which sounds great to all of us in the shockingly messy MiddleEasy offices, but we want to take it a step further. There are some other men we want to see Gegard Mousasi catch the dream of (it's OK to end a sentence on a preposition, become free of those restraints). The men we want to see Gegard fight in the UFC are listed below in no specific order.

Jon Jones, Jimi Manuwa, Cyrille Diabate, Dan Henderson, Rampage Jackson, Forrest Griffin, Lil Nog, Rafael Cavalcante (if he comes to the UFC after suspension) Glover Teixeira, Joey Beltran, Brandon Vera and more (Rashad/Phil Davis).

This is what he said to Ariel Helwani:

"I think timing's right," said Mousasi of entering the UFC. "I've done everything outside of UFC - Strikeforce, Japan, kickboxing, mauy-thai, I think the time is now to go, to fight those well known names.

 

"I'm not challenging (Gustafsson), but I think that's a good fight. I want to fight him because he's a good fighter; people think he's a good fighter. Shogun, Machida - all of these guys people consider really good fighters, so I want to fight someone that people think is good and I think these match ups are more exciting than against some other opponents and they're top contenders so, I think fighting them would make sense for me the most so I can go earlier to the title shot."

Let's book those fights for March. All of them.

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+7 # Hannes 2013-01-14 11:08

Give him Glover or Ryan Jimmo. Then he can face the likes of Machida, Gustafsson etc. A little build-up is always good, look at all the hype Hector received with the Boetch fight. And he lost. So...Yeah.

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0 # mauy-thai 2013-01-14 11:09

Is that a creation of BJ Penn? xD

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+10 # Asshole 2013-01-14 14:11

Gegard should move down to middleweight and show the bum bisping what a real international fighter looks like.

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+12 # empthai 2013-01-14 16:05

Gegard is the guy I'm truly excited to see finally in the UFC, followed by Gilbert Melendez. I think this dude will shake up the light heavyweight division quickly! He's like the light heavyweight BJ Penn, immense natural talent.

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-1 # fuckjonjones 2013-01-15 10:42

no, he's not.

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+4 # ohoh 2013-01-15 04:20

I am just afraid they will feed him wrestlers...tha t would perhaps makes sense when 'testing' him (again), but far less interesting. I hope the UFC can fulfill his wishlist.

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-1 # fuckjonjones 2013-01-15 10:42

he should call out gustaffson. that fight'd be great

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0 # Sambro 2013-01-15 10:56

Give him Rampage!

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0 # meh 2013-01-16 04:52

if gegard keeps his head straight he'll be among the top @ 205 for a very long time. never gave up on this guys, he's a boss

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