Fighters you felt could've accomplish much more in their career.

[anthony stark]

If jds was more well rounded, he will be in the goat hw conversation. Instead he relies too much on his boxing

 

[TheRuthlessOne]

Or some fight IQ.

Yeah and a gas tank

 

[muaytao]

He got the fame too quickly. First fighter on the cover of Sports Illustrated lead to a lot of prospective movie roles. He lost focus.

You cant even tell it was him

 

[Spycho]

Ellenberger. Every time when he was about to take the next step up the ladder he shat the bed.

 

[TheChance]

Coleman, he should have been a champuon for a long time he just didn't evolve enough and partied way too damn hard.

 

[accolyte1022]

If he had any sort of takedown defense he would have been top tier

And fight IQ, the dude was always fun to watch.

 

[TheChance]

BJ is a great fighter and that's more than enough. Who cares about this GOAT nonsense.

Shane Carwin could have done more. Hendricks probably too. He has a low point in his career we'll see how it will play out for him. I wonder if Nelson could have lost some weight and lay out the LHW division.

A younger Carwin and a lighter Nelson would have been something

 

[bootsy]

Dennis Kang. His personal life went to hell and he never recovered. Dude had all of the tools to be a top fighter in the UFC.

 

[PeterGriffin]

David Loiseau
Luke Cummo
Joe Stevenson

 

[Choco]

Apart for the aforementioned Tanner, Huerta, Murray (And he could have competed in the WW division), etc:

-Alecks was incredibly gifted. If only he had his brother's focus...
-Randelman achieved a lot, but in a different camp he might've achieve close to GOAT status.
-Vitor was both a product and a victim of Carlson. And once he broke with him never settled until it was too late.
-Carwin, not only he began late, but never really comitted to the sport full-time.
-Heath Herring WTF.
-David Terrell, marred by injuries.
-David Loiseau, "tannered" Evan Tanner and then, surprisingly lost his spirit after Franklin.
-Karam Gaber, not really an MMA guy, but could have been a LMW god, had he persevered.
-Several Duch kickboxers that never taked MMA seriously.
-Mark Kerr and his buddy Ricco.
-Arona, Kazuo Misaki and other PRIDE guys after its fall..

 

[jk.rock]

Rampage

 

[Dogo1]

Top of my list, what a waste of talent

 

[aashmore]

Was already arguably the GOAT. Without all the controversy and failed test he would have gone down as the undisputed GOAT. Very unfortunate

 

[binny]

diaz bros. struve. Urijah faber.

 

[Rod Farva]

Koscheck

 

[Steve-French]

Frank Shamrock
Mikey Burnett
Phillip Miller

 

[Bacco]

Sakara

 

[FrodoFraggins]

ignoring PEDs:

Carwin - guy needed a gas tank
Brock - needed to learn striking
BJ - needed to ditch his comfort zone, head to the mainland (alone) to train and do more strength exercises

 

[Doog Doogson]

No point in dealing with would'ves imo

I think a guy like Gunnar Nelson has all the attributes to be a top 5 WW. Really good displays against Cummings and Tumenov. Absolutely flawless against Brandon Thatch. But then disappointingly he just doesn't turn up against Story and gets absolutely schooled by Maia. He's frustrating

I think he comfortably beats Hendricks, Magny or Gastelum.

 

[FrodoFraggins]

I just think he's not naturally coordinated or fast. He's missing the stuff you can't teach.