Who are some of the best outside the UFC?

[theincognito]

Fighters who if signed would be top 10 or close to it from day one. Besides Ben Askren.

I have not been following worldwide mma for a while and am trying to catch up.

 

[BeardotheWeirdo]

Will Brooks
Marlon Moraes
Liam McGeary
Daniel Straus
Bibiano Fernandes

To name a few

 

[Dirtey]

Vitaly Minakov
Blagoi Ivanov
Alexander Volkov

 

[LouisDG1989]

Will Brooks
Justine Gaejthe
Ben Askren
Marlon Moraes
Daniel Straus

 

[bringitoncomeon]

Brooks will be in the UFC as soon as that contract runs out

 

[traitmanz]

Will Brooks
Ben Askren
Marlon Moraes
Liam McGeary
Michael Chandler
Benson Henderson
Rampage
Darrion Caldwell
Patricio Freire
Phil Davis
Andrey Koreshkov
Douglas Lima
Lowen Tynanes

 

[FeloniousMonk]

My favorite is Justin Gaethje.
I'd seriously imagine him having
a fantastic fight, win or lose,
against the entire top ten. He
has the chin and skills to put up
a good fight with the best.

I'd love to see a fight between
him and Chandler. I once
described my perception of that
fight as "two down white dudes
scrapping it out behind a dairy
queen for a chick with a belly
button piercing."

 

[joeyjoejoe]

Fedor.

 

[J0N0]

Ben Henderson, check him out!

My favorite is Justin Gaethje.
I'd seriously imagine him having
a fantastic fight, win or lose,
against the entire top ten. He
has the chin and skills to put up
a good fight with the best.

I'd love to see a fight between
him and Chandler. I once
described my perception of that
fight as "two down white dudes
scrapping it out behind a dairy
queen for a chick with a belly
button piercing."

Gaethje's fun to watch, but he's too wild and gets rocked in like every fight like Joe Warren used to. He'd do ok, but against any of the elite fighters I think he'd get wrecked nine times out of ten.

 

[The Reed]

Shinya Aoki
Rousimar Palhares

 

[Katsumi Yamada]

Fight matrix rankings let you filter out UFC fighters
Example:

http://www.fightmatrix.com/mma-rank...Filter=&AgeToFilter=&TeamFilter=&StateFilter=

 

[qw3rty]

C'mon guys! Nobody mentioned Dave Branch?

 

[Durruti]

David Branch is crminally underrated and maybe the one who has best chances of doing good against top ten UFC fighters in his division. Better than Askren would in my opinion

 

[209Homie]

MVP BABY. jaja

 

[CDF47]

Best Outside UFC:

http://www.global-mma.com/t13006-global-mma-rankings-february-2016

 

[Glove]

Shiya Aoki

 

[Thesnake101]

HW:
Vitaly Minakov
Alexander Volkov
Blagoi Ivanov
Denis Smoldarev
Curtis Blaydes
Tony Johnson
Cheick Kongo

LHW:
Liam McGeary
Phil Davis
Rampage Jackson
King Mo
Linton Vassell

MW:
Mamed Khalidov
Dave Branch
Alexander Shlemenko
Ramazan Emeev
Vyacheslav Vasilevsky
Rafael Carvalho
Melvin Manhoef (Not one of the best but one of the most entertaining)

WW:
Ben Askren
Andrey Koreshkov
Benson Henderson
Douglas Lima
Rousimar Palhares
Jake Shields
Jon Fitch
Michael Page
Brennan Ward
Paul Bradley
Luis Santos

LW:
Will Brooks
Shinya Aoki
Marcin Held
Michael Chandler
Justin Gaethje
Brian Foster

FW:
Daniel Straus
Patricio Freire
Daniel Weichel
Pat Curran
Georgi Karakhanyan
Alexandre Almeida
Lance Palmer
Goiti Yamauchi
Bubba Jenkins
Emmanuel Sanchez

BW:
Marlon Moraes
Bibiano Fernandes
Marcos Galvao
Eduardo Dantas
Darrion Caldwell
Joe Warren

 

[Meathead Jock]

HW:
Vitaly Minakov
Alexander Volkov
Blagoi Ivanov
Denis Smoldarev
Curtis Blaydes
Tony Johnson

LHW:
Liam McGeary
Phil Davis
Rampage Jackson
King Mo
Linton Vassell

MW:
Mamed Khalidov
Dave Branch
Alexander Shlemenko
Ramazan Emeev
Vyacheslav Vasilevsky
Rafael Carvalho
Melvin Manhoef (Not one of the best but one of the most entertaining)

WW:
Ben Askren
Andrey Koreshkov
Benson Henderson
Douglas Lima
Rousimar Palhares
Jake Shields
Jon Fitch
Michael Page
Brennan Ward
Paul Bradley

LW:
Will Brooks
Shinya Aoki
Marcin Held
Michael Chandler
Justin Gaethje
Brian Foster

FW:
Daniel Straus
Patricio Freire
Daniel Weichel
Pat Curran
Georgi Karakhanyan
Alexandre Almeida
Lance Palmer
Goiti Yamauchi

BW:
Marlon Moraes
Bibiano Fernandes
Marcos Galvao
Eduardo Dantas
Darrion Caldwell
Joe Warren

Great list; i'd add Sapo to the WW list and I think on March 4th Bubba Jenkins will beat Goiti Yamauchi, who you have listed.

 

[Thesnake101]

Great list; i'd add Sapo to the WW list and I think Bubba Jenkins will beat Goiti Yamauchi who you have listed.

Forgot about Sapo, definitely adding him after what he did to Silva. As for Jenkins, I don't know if he'll get past Goiti but i'll add him and Emmanuel Sanchez as well since they've been doing good.