MW Tournament

Here's the top 8 fighters(IMO) left to battle it out for the #1 contenders spot for Anderson's MW belt.

Franklin
Bisping
weidman
Lombard
Belcher
Vitor
Sonnen
Stann

Just for fun,randomly match these fighters up in a tourney format and let's see your results.(They are all 5 round matches)

Munoz,Okami and Palhares are all on stand by in case someone gets injured during one of these fantasy match ups

Here's mine,(winner in red)
-----------------------Quarter finals-----------------------------------

Franklin vs Bisping----------------------Weidman vs Belcher
-------Franklin--------------------------------Weidman-----

Stann vs Vitor---------------------------Sonnen vs Lombard
--------Vitor-------------------------------------------Sonnen


-----------------------Semi finals-----------------------------------

Franklin vs Weidman----------------------Vitor vs Sonnen
Weidman--------------------------------------------Vitor


-----------------------The final-----------------------------------



Weidman vs Vitor
The winner and new #1 contender,Chris Weidman

I've decided to leave Sonnen out, because he'd win the tournament and right now Silva-Sonnen 3 isn't an option so I'm going to count Munoz-Weidman as a quarter final fight. Also going to leave out Franklin, not really sure why but I want Boetsch in as he's fighting Lombard and his coming off his biggest ever win so I think he's worthy of inclusion. I think Franklin-Silva 3 would just be another massacre and I don't want to see Rich getting utterly destroyed for a third time so I'll leave him out.

Quarter finals:

Munoz vs Weidman - Weidman
Belcher vs Bisping - Belcher
Lombard vs Boetsch - Lombard
Stann vs Vitor - Vitor

Semi-Finals

Weidman vs Lombard - Weidman
Belcher vs Vitor - Belcher

Final

Weidman vs Belcher - Weidman

Franklin vs Bisping - via UD
weidman vs Belcher via UD
Lombard vs Stann - via Sub
Vitor vs Sonnen via UD

Weidman vs Bisping via SUB
Sonnen vs Lombard via UD

Sonnen vs Weidman - Sonnen via UD

And your winner... Chael Sonnen. If Sonnen were to beat Vitor, Lombard and Weidman then he would definately deserve another shot.

But I can see Sonnen vs Weidman being a future fight for the title when Andy retires.