Fighters You've Always Wanted/Really (Still) Want To See Fight In Person

[Chacos9466]

Hello all,

As the yearly Chicago card takes shape (which is the only one I get to go to each year) I started reflecting on how great it is to follow a fighter for years then get to watch him/her in person. Obviously you can never be guaranteed a card will turn out well or that the crowd will be enthusiastic (which I think pushes the energy in the arena up and leads to better fights) but I always feel thrilled when I get to cross someone off my list.

So here is my (unofficial and incomplete) list as of right now:
Gomi (check)
Lauzon (check)
Jim Miller (check)
Dodson (check)
Caceres (check)
Cowboy (check)
Sexiyama
JDS
Machida
Moroz
Maia
Big Country
McCall
Alan Jouban
Penn (at this point, I know it'd be ugly but he refuses to retire so there's still a chance)

What about all of you? And for all of you serious MMA vets who might not want to write out a whole thing, who were your particular faves that you got to see in person?

 

[Ar145984]

Conor McGregor
Stefan Struve
Chris Weidman
Jon Jones
Demetrious Johnson (see him on twitch)
Conor McGregor
Georges St. Pierre
Ben Rothwell
Daniel Cormier

 

[Sonny Qc]

Gina

 

[VinceArch]

I think watching Fedor live would be a real treat.

 

[Sonny Qc]

Shake Gsp's and Sam Stout hand.
Richard Walsh took a seat in the stand after his fight in Quebec city. He was 2 row in front of me.


Would love to see Hunt, seem like a real cool guy!

 

[Striderx5]

Fedor.

 

[Bewareofdawg]

BJ Penn.

 

[Sonny Qc]

any brawler really, Ramapge , Wanderlei

 

[aichokyu]

Fedor, Anderson, Shogun, GSP, Werdum, Barnett, Rory, Wand, HUNTO, Sakuraba, to name a few

 

[HHJ]

Nogueira wand and cro cop and gsp. Pretty much met everyone else on my list for the most part.

 

[Chacos9466]

Nogueira wand and cro cop and gsp. Pretty much met everyone else on my list for the most part.

Met in person? How'd you manage that?

 

[13Seconds]

I wanna sit cageside on a DJ fight. Just to really get a close live look at that speed son.

 

[HUGHPHUG]

Randy is someone I never got to see fight live, or met ringside

And the Diaz brothers

 

[sirmorbach]

Georges St-Pierre, Frankie Edgar, Frank Mir, Carlos Condit, Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz.

And Shogun. Who I'll finally see at UFC 198. Can't wait. I hope Corey Anderson don't fuck things up for me. LOL.

 

[HHJ]

Met in person? How'd you manage that?

I worked in journalism /photography in mma for a few years,and some through just being involved in the martial arts scene/training etc in nyc,the place to be
This is just met in person,not fight in person,although i have seen some of my faves fight. Or guys turned out to be big later on

 

[loisestrad]

I just want to see the UFC in Denmark, I don't care who's fighting.

Probably would have happened, if Kampmann had won a few of the fights he lost.

 

[bluesnoopz]

Ive seen a couple of my favorites fight like JDS, Matt Brown, RDA, and Nate Diaz.

Im gonna try to attend the NY event if Jones headlines.

 

[FadeLess]

Watching The Last Emperor fight would be awesome but i would be contempt just by watching him train

 

[Heikki Mustola]

Would be great to meet, have a little talk or take a pic with any of these

Crocop
Miesha Tate
Yves Edwards
Chan Sung Jung
Paul Taylor

 

[HHJ]

shit i never met ronda neither,i almost had the chance,because she was near my job,but couldnt get out in time

EDIT: i attended a press conference she was at but didnt get to meet