With so many fighters in the UFC, it’s kind of hard to make every match fans want to see. Organizations like Bellator and Strikeforce add to the permutations. Injuries, aging, weight-class jumping and ever-shifting title pictures further cloud the waters.
It stands to reason, then, that there are simply some matchups that, tantalizing though they may be, will simply never happen. Here are the 25 most salient examples.
By and large, this list sticks to active fighters (so no Chuck Liddell vs. Jon Jones), fights that have never happened (so no Penn-St-Pierre III) and matchups in the same weight class or where a plausibly addressed discrepancy exists (so no Jose Aldo vs. Brock Lesnar). In other words, we’re dealing with the real world as it stands right here, right now.
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