Noons Wants Melendez-Aoki Winner
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3/20/2010 1:10 PM ET By Michael David Smith
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The former EliteXC lightweight champion wants to fight the winner of the upcoming bout between the Dream lightweight champion and the Strikeforce lightweight champion.
K.J. Noons, who was the EliteXC lightweight champ before that promotion went belly-up in October of 2008, is about to return to fighting for the first time in almost two years when he takes on Andre Dida on Monday at Dream.13. At a press conference to promote the bout, he was asked about Dream lightweight champion Shinya Aoki, who will fight Strikeforce champion Gilbert Melendez on April 17.
"I think they are both great fighters," Noons said. "I don't know who will win. I'd like to fight the winner. I just want to fight the best."
I'm not sure that Noons has really earned a shot against the Melendez-Aoki winner, but it would be somewhat fitting to give the EliteXC champion a shot at the belt, as a way of symbolically unifying the Dream, Strikeforce and EliteXC titles, even though Noons was technically stripped of the EliteXC belt before EliteXC went out of business. If Noons beats Dida and looks good doing it, I'd be up for seeing him get theMelendez-Aoki winner next.
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Noons was originally supposed to fight Josh Thomson for the Strikeforce title in the first event after the EliteXC purchase but KJ chose to stay with boxing and then Strikeforce picked Melendez and Thomson was hurt during training as usual postponing that rematch.
If KJ beats Dida by knockout I can definitely see him fighting the winner. Especially if it's Aoki as I suspect.
If Melendez wins I can see Strikeforce setting up a 3rd Melendez/Thomson fight.
Not sure why you mention Noons "earning a title shot". I mean over the last few years regardless of the promotion how many fighters have actually worked their way up through the ranks racking up wins in their current promotion, in their current weight class, and "earning" a title shot?
You could probably count them on one hand. Earning a title shot is an over used expression. It's all about which guys sell or make interesting fights as to whether or not they get a title shot, and I'm all about seeing the best matchups. Not hung up on whether or not a guy "earned" his shot.
I was just looking up KJ on wiki, and I clicked on Charles Bennet to see his fights also. Someone changed all of Crazy Horses fights to say he fought the Kool-Aid guy, Chuck Norris, and a whole bunch more. It's pretty funny you should check it out before someone fixes it.
Krazy Horse is the man. I love that guy.
Yeah I checked it out. It was kinda funny, but not really. Yo crazy horse is badass, I was bummed to hear he got in trouble again. He's been hit in the head a lot though. Oh well.
kj will win. kj striking is much more sound and slips punches very well. kj will have to be taken to the ground to be beat. even then he is hard to handle.the way melendez is fighting now, i think he would want to stand up and bang with k.j, and prove that melendez is as just as good standing up..... assuming melendez wins.