MMA is a unique sport in which sometimes the most entertaining fights happen between two combatants that none of us have ever heard of. Sometimes it’s these fighters who are dead set on making a name for themselves and they lay it all on the line when they step in the cage.
But at the end of the day, like any combative sport, we pay to see the top fighters in the world.
While the UFC is generally considered the top organization, with Zuffa now owning both the UFC and Strikeforce, Dana White has presented the idea of having fighters from each organization fight one another. This would truly settle the question of who the best really is.
Still, as we saw with Shane Carwin’s odd matchup against Jon Olav Einemo, Joe Silva and the decision-makers in the UFC don’t always give us the fights we want to see.
Here are 11 fights we want to see in 2011, but won’t.