5 of the Biggest Potential Fights in the UFC

this artical Written by: Jeremy Botter | Sat, Nov 8, 2008

The Five Biggest Potential UFC Fights
MMA Columns, Mixed Martial Arts

One of the beautiful things about being a mixed martial arts (or any other combat sport, really) fan is the ability to play the “what if” game. What would happen if we matched a legend from the past against one of the new generation of fighters? What would happen if Anderson Silva faced Fedor Emelianenko?

The beauty of these debates is that there’s rarely a right or wrong answer. You might consider BJ Penn to be the best fighter in the world, and you think he’d destroy any lightweight or welterweight you matched him up against. Another fan might consider Takanori Gomi to be the best lightweight in the world.

These are valid arguments with no real correct answer, but that’s what makes the discussion so much fun.

While thinking about these fantasy matchups, I started thinking about potential UFC fights, match-ups between superstars that would be highly anticipated by most of the UFC audience. I came up with a list of ten potential fights or rematches, and I’ve whittled that list down to the five you’ll find below.

When trimming my list to these five bouts, I tried to factor in several criteria: the popularity of the fighters involved, the skill of the fighters involved, and the ability each of them have to sell a pay per view main event either alone or with another fighter of equal or slightly lesser popularity.

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