The best rivalry on each weightclass?

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All time or curent its up to you, and in the UFC of course

Mine:

women = Ronda vs Tate, Ronda vs Holms or Joana vs Rose
FL = nobody care
BW = Dilashaw vs Gabrandt
FW = Aldo vs Conor
LW= Khabib vs Conor
WW = Usman vs Colby
MW = Silva vs Sonnen
LHW= Jones vs Cormier
HW= Cain vs JDS or Lesnar vs Mir
 
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women = Ronda vs Tate, Ronda vs Holms or Joana vs Rose
FL = nobody care, no charisma fighters, no rivalry
BW = Dilashaw vs Gabrandt
FW = Aldo vs Conor
LW= Khabib vs Conor
WW = Don't know
MW = Silva vs Sonnen
LHW= Jones vs Cormier
HW= Cain vs JDS or Lesnar Mir

So this is all-time obviously not current. You also seem to be doing narrative, bad blood, entertainment based rivalries. So I'd say:

FL = Cejudo-Dillashaw. Or Mighty Mouse-Cejudo. One being a one-off but champ vs champ with some bad blood.

FW = Aldo-Conor for WWE hype sure. I'd agree. But Holloway-Volk is a pretty good one considering Max probably won the 2nd fight. Faber vs Aldo was the original.

LW = I mean, again we're going off recency bias and a one off fight. Penn-Edgar, Bendo-Edgar, Maynard-Edgar are all great rivalries. Khabib Conor is one fight, but sure in terms of popularity contest and bad blood, fair.

WW = Hughes-GSP? or recently Usman-Covington is a candidate but pales in comparison magnitude wise.

MW = Sure. Weidman-Silva is up there too. Franklin-Silva, Rockhold-Bisping, Whittaker-Romero-Adesanya, others for sure. Costa-Adensanya if the criteria is bad blood/story.

LHW = Good one, Jones-Cormier obviously, top tier talent. But it kind of flies in the face of your trend. Tito-Shamrock takes the cake there easily if it's narrative. Liddell-Tito-Couture as well.

HW = Stipe-DC has to be up there, elite tier trilogy. Has that ever happened at HW before? Cain JDS had one too, but it was 1-2 not 1-1-1. Cain-JDS and Stipe-DC have to be up there. Fedor-Big Nog is definitely up there. Carwin-Lesnar off hype and excitement was a big one off, not deserving to be in 1st though at all.
 
So this is all-time obviously not current. You also seem to be doing narrative, bad blood, entertainment based rivalries. So I'd say:

FL = Cejudo-Dillashaw. Or Mighty Mouse-Cejudo. One being a one-off but champ vs champ with some bad blood.

FW = Aldo-Conor for WWE hype sure. I'd agree. But Holloway-Volk is a pretty good one considering Max probably won the 2nd fight. Faber vs Aldo was the original.

LW = I mean, again we're going off recency bias and a one off fight. Penn-Edgar, Bendo-Edgar, Maynard-Edgar are all great rivalries. Khabib Conor is one fight, but sure in terms of popularity contest and bad blood, fair.

WW = Hughes-GSP? or recently Usman-Covington is a candidate but pales in comparison magnitude wise.

MW = Sure. Weidman-Silva is up there too. Franklin-Silva, Rockhold-Bisping, Whittaker-Romero-Adesanya, others for sure. Costa-Adensanya if the criteria is bad blood/story.

LHW = Good one, Jones-Cormier obviously, top tier talent. But it kind of flies in the face of your trend. Tito-Shamrock takes the cake there easily if it's narrative. Liddell-Tito-Couture as well.

HW = Stipe-DC has to be up there, elite tier trilogy. Has that ever happened at HW before? Cain JDS had one too, but it was 1-2 not 1-1-1. Cain-JDS and Stipe-DC have to be up there. Fedor-Big Nog is definitely up there. Carwin-Lesnar off hype and excitement was a big one off, not deserving to be in 1st though at all.
Tito and Shamrock was like the ultra respectful kid on the wrestling team not liking the cocky one. At times it was very childish. Jon Jones and dc were a saga that had been building before it was even clear dc would fight at heavyweight a lot of stories rumors legitimate occurrences street fights near brawls backstage at press conferences dcs team vs Jons team and his brothers, positive drug tests, goat talks, paper champ talks, it was arguably the greatest beef and rivalry in mma history, especially because they are the two best light heavyweights ever
 
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On LW, while Khabbi/Conor is very vicious, it definitely isn't competitive like most other rivalries are. I'd say Penn/Edgar, Maynard/Edgar or Benson/Eddar.
WW definitely has many. Lawler/Hendricks, Lawler/Rory, GSP/Hughes, GSP/Penn, Hughes/Penn, Hughes/Trigg and Hughes/Newton.
 
FLW: Mighty Mouse vs Dodson/Benavidez
WW: Hughes vs Trigg/GSP/Penn/Serra/Newton, GSP vs Penn/Serra.
 
HW- Brock/Mir
LHW- Chuck/Tito
MW- Silva/Sonnen
WW- GSP/Hughes
LW- Khabib/Conor
FW- Aldo/Conor
BW- Cruz/Faber
FLY- Honestly, not much, if the 2nd fight delivers too, I’d have to say Fig/Moreno
WBW- Rousey/Tate
WSW- Joanna/Rose I guess
 
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In terms of actual dislike/rivalry for each other moreso than the actual skillset of the fights/fighters.

HW - Lesnar vs Mir
LHW - Jones vs DC
MW - Silva/Sonnen
WW - Usman/Colby
LW - Penn vs Pulver or Khabib vs Conor
FW - Aldo vs Conor
BW - Cruz vs Faber or Cody vs TJ
WSW - Gadelha vs JJ
 
HW: probably Brock vs Mir. Intensity. Strawberries and horseshoes.

LHW: Wand vs Rampage. Lasted so long. Meanest staredowns and brutal KO's.

MW: Anderson vs Sonnen. Chael had a lot to say. Both fights high intesity. Sonnen was the first guy to not succumb to Silva's aura. Gave zero fucks about it. But after he missed the spinning backfist from hell and Anderson stood over him there was a look of horror in Shael's eyes.

BW: Cody vs TJ. These were the most tense fights. Every moment looked like something decisive could happen.
 
HW: Dos Santos - Velasquez (crazy fights, may be the best in terms of content)
LHW: Cormier - Jones (may be the most genuine)
MW: Bisping - Romero (unfortunately w/o fight but the rivalry was may be the funniest in MMA)
WW: Saint-Pierre - Hughes (the best skill-wise?)
LW: Nurmagomedov - McGregor (MMA became a worldwide topic)
FW: McGregor - Aldo (may be the weight class with the less rivalries)
BW: Cruz - Faber / TAM (my favourite rivalry, how many TAM fighters has Cruz beaten before losing to Garbrandt?)
FLW: I have no idea
WFW: Cyborg - Nunes
WBW: Rousey - Tate
WFLW: no idea
WSW: Namajunas - Jedrzejczyk
 
i know theses rivalry of course but i was too new in the mma/ufc to name them, i let you do it for me
OK well I envy you. You have some amazing fights to watch. I also forgot a few others. Watch Trigg vs Hughes and then Trigg vs Hughes 2.

You could also watch Pat Meletich vs Carlos Newton. Carlos took the WW title from Pat, Matt's Mentor and founder of MFS one of the first MMA Teams. Matt then had 2 fights with Carlos.

BJ Penn vs Matt Hughes 3 times

And this is not at WW but the three fights between Frankie Edgar vs Gray Maynard plays out like a Rocky movie.
 
I’m going current here...

Aljo-Yan
Volk-Holloway
Khabib-Anyone at LW
Usman-Colby
Adesanya-Ricky Martian
Jan-Prochazka
Stipe-Big Frank
 
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