Underdog Chris Weidman temporarily halted talks of a few potential superfights for Anderson Silva when he flattened the former pound-for-pound king at UFC 162.
But Weidman‘s upset certainly didn’t mark the first time that the notion of a coveted matchup in the UFC evaporated.
Although the reasons usually differ, plenty of potentially captivating and lucrative matchups in MMA history never came to fruition.
Here are 10 MMA scraps that should have happened, but never will.