All successful current and past UFC fighters are athletic. Depending on the style, some rely on their exceptional striking speed and endurance to overwhelm opponents like Demetrious Johnson, while others like Brock Lesnar might use sheer strength, explosiveness, and agility to land powerful blows and takedowns. And there are genetically gifted who have it all.
MMA
BKFC is a promotion that organizes bare-knuckle boxing events where the rules are similar to boxing using only handstrikes, but without gloves. In contrast, the UFC promotes MMA matches in which fighters can strike with all limbs, wrestle, and fight on the ground.
Most MMA fighters consider “dirty fighting” highly frowned upon, despite some occasionally resorting to it for an advantage in a match. As you guessed, some fighters are notoriously known for fighting dirty more than others.
In fact, some of the fighters the MMA community considers among the best in history never set foot inside the UFC octagon. So, in this article, we are bringing you these 14 best fighters who never fought for the UFC that you should know about. We will take a closer look at their impressive careers that should have led them to the UFC, but somehow, it never happened.
UFC Pound-for-Pound Ranking (P4P) is a list of the 15 best overall fighters in the UFC who are currently active, regardless of their weight class.
In this article, we’ll walk you through the UFC matchmaking process so that you can easily understand how it all works as well as have any fleeting questions answered.