Who is your pick for ‘best that never was’?

[gspieler]

Cain dethroned Brock, was the guy who made us all finally admit Nog was past it, put two hellacious beatings on prime JDS and prime Bigfoot. He went 3-2 in UFC title fights, in perhaps the most competitive HW division the UFC has ever seen. “Never was” is not the correct term for him IMO.

 

[IneedSometop]

Rumble
FKL has all the tools to be champ
Barboza

 

[Alpinestar]

Karo Parisyan.

 

[BROWNPRIDE]

BJ penn had it all and just couldn’t get to that next level.

 

[TheBrownGosling]

David Terrell

 

[AFewDollarsMore]

Ngannou. thought he would reign for years, then some guy named Gane came along.

 

[Dirge]

Roger Huerta. The guy looked amazing right up until he didn't.

 

[Carey]

Mark Kerr is the answer

 

[koquerelle]

Pedro Rizzo
Igor Vovchanchyn (although I think he won a weird championship - USA vs Russia - could be wrong)

 

[Prefect]

Aleks.

"Who's that guy over there?"

"Him? Oh you know the greatest fighter in MMA history? Well that's his bigger, younger, meaner brother."

Aleks was always a weird one to me. He seemed to be a born fighter like Fedor but never got his shit together.


Josh Barnett is mine. The guy was legit good but never really got to the top. Some of it I think was politics.

 

[bambammccoy]

Mirsad Bektic

 

[TankAbbott4Eva]

Cain for sure, I feel at his brief peak he would have beaten anyone in history.

 

[Trainspotter]

Aleks was always a weird one to me. He seemed to be a born fighter like Fedor but never got his shit together.


Josh Barnett is mine. The guy was legit good but never really got to the top. Some of it I think was politics.

Politics of failing drug tests when hardly anyone did?

 

[MMAfan4life2]

David Terrell

Came to post this! His name used to always be on the first page of these threads.

Now, the new generation come on here and only have names of the recent years.

 

[pick999]

Bigg rigg.beat gsp but look different after 2nd lawler fight

 

[GORO]

but he also looked like trash against Kimbo....

Kimbo was way bigger he was a real HW houston was small LHW just explosivee as shit

 

[Christhammer]

I thought Gouveia had all the tools.... That dang cardio though.....

 

[otis604]

Rory, Cowboy and Maia

 

[Prefect]

Politics of failing drug tests when hardly anyone did?

So, you think when Barnett was fighting it wasn't epidemic because if not Vitor and Kerr would like a word with you.

 

[pamirec]

Machida. Not that he isn’t great, but he could’ve became the greatest.