Shane Carwin, Minotauro Nogueira, Brock Lesnar, Cain Velasquez and Junior Dos Santos.
Other than all being UFC Heavyweight Champions of some sort at one point or another, they have all missed time this year due to injury.
The current heavyweight picture includes several names at the top of the contender’s list, then a big gap, then a bunch of fighters several fights away from a title shot.
Lesnar, Velasquez, Frank Mir and Alistair Overeem are the only fighters with a real claim as to being one fight from a title shot at the least.
Other fighters like Travis Browne, Cheick Kongo, Dave Herman, etc, are all several fights away from even reaching the levels of the first four, let alone current heavyweight champion Dos Santos.
This is why now is the perfect time for the heavyweights from Strikeforce to enter the UFC.
Strikeforce heavyweights such as Fabricio Werdum, Antonio Silva, Andrei Arlovski, Brett Rogers, among others would all make for great fights among the current middle-tier fighters to try and create a more crowded top-tier in the division, which right now may be the weakest of the seven that have officially recognized champions.
The heavyweight division is supposed to be the glamour division of MMA, but right now, there is little that’s glamorous about the UFC heavyweights. It’s time for Strikeforce to save the day.
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