Velasquez: No way to know world’s no.1 heavyweight
Fans certainly have started the debate without him, and most of the tournament’s competitors say the winner of the competition…
Fans certainly have started the debate without him, and most of the tournament’s competitors say the winner of the competition will crown the world’s best.
But Velasquez (9-0 MMA, 7-0 UFC) isn’t one to make those kinds of declarations. When it comes to how the heavyweights of the Strikeforce tournament match up against him and the UFC heavyweight division, he said it’s impossible to know who’s better.
“We won’t know unless we get in the same organization,” Velasquez told MMAjunkie Radio. “Who’s to say that I’m No. 1 or they’re No. 1 if we haven’t fought yet?”
Sadly, it’s a question Velasquez can’t answer for now. He badly damaged his rotator cuff when he took the UFC heavyweight title from Brock Lesnar this past October at UFC 121, and he won’t be able to fight, conservatively, until the fourth quarter of this year. So for now, he’s stuck on the sidelines as the heavyweight world turns.