Amazing Striking Matchups

Tumenov vs. Matt Brown
Tumenov vs. Condit
McGregor vs. Pettis
Jones vs. Rumble
Machida vs. Belfort
 
Fight would never happen, but i always thought Silva vs Machida would have been great.

Take the worst parts of the Silva vs. Cote fight. And imagine that going on for the entire fight. Silva & Machida would likely circle each other for 15 or 25 minutes while throwing the occasional feint and looking for that one kill shot. It would be about as fun as Cro Cop vs. Mir, minus the clinching and KO.

As for fights I want to see

Shevchenko vs. Holm
Shevchenko vs. Jedrzejcyzk at catchweight
Matt Brown vs. Nick Diaz
Pettis vs. Nate Diaz
Hunt vs. Overeem

And just for fun, Conor vs. Nick Diaz
 
It's about how the styles match-up.

Think Lawler vs Rory

Technical, accurate striker vs powerful brawler/boxer.

It can create fireworks, it did with these guys.
 
rumble vs. glover. that'd be hell of a stand up war. or rampage vs rumble.
 
not in the same weight class but rumble vs sergei kharitonov. holy shit, that'd be a fucking dog fight.
 
Would love to see Wonderboy vs Lawler
 
Barboza and Pettis is something I too look forward to very much.

Another one is Antony Johnson vs John Jones. Obviously not a purely striking fight if Johnson cannot keep it standing and makes the same mistakes as he did against Cormier, but surely a fight where there will be some sick standup moments.
 
Rumble said he would fight at heavyweight...so I'd like to see him square off against Overeem.
 
Rory vs any of the strikers in the top 5 at WW
 
Nick/Nate Diaz vs Conor McGregor
Dominick Cruz vs Conor McGregor
Michael Paige vs Conor McGregor
Jon Jones vs Liam McGeary
Robbie Lawler vs Michael Paige
Carlos Condit vs Rory MacDonald
Georges St Pierre vs Dominick Cruz (at Open Weight)
Georges St Pierre vs Robbie Lawler
Anderson Silva vs Jon Jones
Conor McGregor vs Joe Duffy 2
Fedor Emelianenko vs Brock Lesnar
Antohny Pettis vs Conor McGregor
Korean Zombie vs Conor McGregor
Renan Barao vs Edison Barboza
 
El Cucuy vs Pettis or Conor would be great.

Almeida vs Mayday
 
Ruslan Magomedov vs Alistar Overeem
Rashid Magomedov vs Adriano Martins/Tony Ferguson
Albert Tumenov vs Erick Silva
 
Um- yea.... Did you see the Silva fight? And Silva was juicing AND diaz had good old the metabolites in his body.
The Condit fight is CLEARLY way too close for you to roll on the floor laughing at Diaz competing with rangy strikers (was baked leading up to that too). Plus everyone underestimates his toughness. Have you seen the semtex fight?
Just because Nate Diaz was knocked out by a Thompson head kick doesn't mean Nick is that stiff. I think its ignorant to count Diaz out of anything to be honest, he's that game in my mind.

edit: He didn't beat Silva obviously, but he competed throughout with a tentative Silva who was apparently intimidated to engage until the end of the fight basically. Point being Silva is the greatest footwork based, rangy counter striker of all time.

You think Nick Diaz is going to beat a footwork-based, rangy counter striker?

Rofl.
 
Nick/Nate Diaz vs Conor McGregor
Dominick Cruz vs Conor McGregor
Michael Paige vs Conor McGregor
Jon Jones vs Liam McGeary
Robbie Lawler vs Michael Paige
Carlos Condit vs Rory MacDonald
Georges St Pierre vs Dominick Cruz (at Open Weight)
Georges St Pierre vs Robbie Lawler
Anderson Silva vs Jon Jones
Conor McGregor vs Joe Duffy 2
Fedor Emelianenko vs Brock Lesnar
Antohny Pettis vs Conor McGregor
Korean Zombie vs Conor McGregor
Renan Barao vs Edison Barboza

Lol @ Barao v Barboza size difference
 
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