There was a time when the UFC’s heavyweight division was considered one of the weakest in the promotion. It seemed like every pay per view was headlined by Andrei Arlovski and Tim Sylvia duking it out in a best of 75 series.
Those days thankfully long behind us as the UFC has made it a point to improve the extremely shallow division. From the champion all the way down to the fighters making their UFC debut, the level of talent is exponentially greater in today’s UFC.
With UFC 146 just around the corner, let’s take a look at the current state of the heavyweight division and find out who are contenders and who are pretenders.