Lets play a game: If fighter X didnt exist then fighter Y would have been a champion

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Pls limit your response to one example so that as many people as possible can play along. I'll start it off.

If GSP didn't exist then Jon Fitch would have been champion
 
Dirty roid cheat Tj ruined Cody. Way beyond the belt….he destroyed his career with those beatdowns.

Colby could have been champ for a very short period of time but Usman was out there.

Trigg must have hated Hughes lol… he was a damn good fighter back then and him getting the belt seem inevitable.

Florian reinvented himself and went on a crazy streak but… marinovich motivated Bj said aloha.

Pedro Rizzo was a beast but Couture ruined him.
 
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I think Cruz is in there. He may have had some injuries, but dude was king. Silva for his run stopped a lot of guys from being champ.
Also if GSP didn't exist and Fitch was champ Serra would of still been champ.
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Jon Fitch was the undisputed number 2 during GSP's era.

Rich Franklin would have ruled the whole era if not for Anderson Silva. They even tried to create Franklinweight.

Faber would have been UFC champion if not for Aldo and Cruz

JDS would be HW GOAT if not for Cain
 
if Keith Hackney didn't exist, Joe Son would have been a legendary champion
 
C0NCH3TO said:
Dirty roid cheat Tj ruined Cody. Way beyond the belt….he destroyed his career with those beatdowns.

Colby could have been champ for a very short period of time but Usman was out there.

Trigg must have hated Hughes lol… he was a damn good fighter back then and him getting the belt seem inevitable.

Florian reinvented himself and went on a crazy streak but… marinovich motivated Bj said aloha.

Pedro Rizzo was a beast but Couture ruined him.
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Sick of blaming TJ because of Codys downfall. No Cody was always that guy. He just looked really good against Cruz. So what? Who else he beat?

And Kenflo wouldn't have been champ because Sherk and Edgar were active at that point and Diego was just cutting down to LW. Maynard was there too. We all know Kenflo was weak to wrestlers.
 
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Pls limit your response to one example so that as many people as possible can play along. I'll start it off.

If GSP didn't exist then Jon Fitch would have been champion
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Can't like posts atm but Fitch was the first person I thought of when I saw the title.

I will also add Sean Sherk to this list as a reoccuring champion. If Penn didn't come back down to LW, Sherk likely would have regained his title and held it for several years because I don't think Joe Stevenson, Diego, or Kenflo in a rematch had a prayer against him. I also think Sherk had a chance at beating Edgar if he wasn't inexplicably trying to be a striker in that era (although his injuries were big time mounting). Hell, if he actually tried wrestling against Penn, he probably could have won that too considering BJ always caved when the fight wasn't going his way.

For someone who never won the title before, I will go back to the time machine and choose Babalu Sobral if Chuck didn't exist. His only losses in what was otherwise a 15 fight win streak were both to Chuck (and then 1 absolute fluke loss to Jason freakin Lambert) and I think he could have held the title briefly if it wasn't for Chuck.

Tito was absolutely not in his prime anymore at this point and even if he was, it would be a very winnable fight. Randy was back at HW but if Chuck didn't exist, Babalu vs Randy would have been a great LHW title fight.
 
Krimzon said:
Mighty Mouse + Joe Benividez
Jon Jones +DC
Ben Henderson's favorable judging + Frankie Edgar. Imagine the Edgar vs Pettis/Melendez/Nate timeline, would've been gnarly
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Would like this post if I could but I'm glad someone else remembers the absolute travesty of that decision in the 2nd Henderson/Edgar fight. Edgar was a great champion and could have been WAY higher on the all time P4P list if the judges just did their jobs
 
Frankie would've been champion at 145 if Aldo wasn't already around.
 
Cooliox said:
Jon Fitch was the undisputed number 2 during GSP's era.

Rich Franklin would have ruled the whole era if not for Anderson Silva. They even tried to create Franklinweight.

Faber would have been UFC champion if not for Aldo and Cruz

JDS would be HW GOAT if not for Cain
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JDS losing to Cain was a tragedy for the HW division. Cain was a great fighter but was one of the worst champions of all time. 2 opponents in a near 5 year span was completely unacceptable and between Brock's illness and Cain's ridiculous injuries, JDS was robbed of being the all time greatest UFC HW champion.

His run to the title alone is better than Stipe's entire life and it is genuinely laughable to hear people tout Stipe as some all time great for having the illustrious "record" when JDS faced a murderer's row from his UFC debut on beating FAR better competition than any other HW in UFC history. It's no wonder he fell off a cliff health wise... even Fedor/Barnett/Nog NEVER faced that many elite opponents in succession without some cans thrown in
 
JBJ was here said:
No way Cro Cop ever interrupts Big Nog's GOAT reign if Fedor weren't around.
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I absolutely think he could. Nog fought Cro Cop very early in on the latter's career. Nog's takedowns were never that great and Cro Cop's defense got WAY better. It would have been an intriguing rematch that we should have got (still pissed to this day that Minotauro's retirement fight was against Struve FFS)
 
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