The greatest of all-time… it is a subjective accolade, but poll any group of MMA fans from any era and the huge majority will offer up either Georges St Pierre or Anderson Silva as MMA’s theoretical”person to conquer.” In late 2016, news of the French-Canadian’s return fueled whispers of UFC president Dana White’s”one who got away” — St Pierre vs Silva — the best versus the cleverest. Sadly, the odds of it occurring now are as slim as they were. “Hurry” vs.”The Spider” is a fantasy; one of several super fights we will likely never see.
Regrettably, it’s not the only one. Below are a few additional MMA superfights we never got to see…
Fedor Emelianenko vs. Brock Lesnar
Partly as a result of UFC’s monopolistic marketing power and partly due to his best years being a decade past, Fedor Emelianenko does not always get the respect he deserves from modern-day MMA fans. For people who watched his epic poem rampage through PRIDE’s heavyweight division however he was the greatest heavyweight of his age… perhaps the greatest ever.
While Fedor might have been the best fighter in his day, Brock Lesnar was easily the biggest box office attraction. An immediate celebrity, he polarized an audience that didn’t understand what they desired more; so see him humbled in defeat, or glorified in victory.
Physically, Lesnar was a creature. Walking around north of the 265-pound heavyweight limit, the NCAA standout transferred with all the speed and elegance of a guy half his size. Whether it was down to fame or notoriety he had been a magnet to the paying public, headlining what was then the UFC’s biggest card above the likes of GSP, in what was his third tilt with the advertising.
After years of deriding that the Russian while he plied his trade for the competition, White declared that signing Stary Oskol’s favorite son was his”obsession.” Accounts of what happened next differ depending on who you listen to them from. Fedor was tied up with M-1; according to White, a deal offering $2,000,000 per fight, Pay-Per-View points along with an immediate title taken against Brock Lesnar was spurned; M-1 wished to co-promote Fedor’s fights, also allegedly wanted Zuffa to finance the building of a stadium in Russia. M-1 refuted those claims, and talks broke down.
Fedor’s inventory would drop considerably following three straight losses and Lesnar, while a licence to print money, was subjected by greater fighters and abandoned the game. It might have become the biggest-grossing MMA fight of all time, but as is so frequently the case, politics finally ruined it.
Ken Shamrock vs. Tank Abbott
Throwbacks to a different age, arguably another sport, Ken Shamrock and Tank Abbott were the poster children of this UFC’s formative years. While the event was thought to be a subversive info-mercial to get Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, you need to feel that the money men were quietly yanking a Shamrock success at UFC 1. He was 220 pounds of chiselled muscle, and the only fighter in the bracket using recorded”free-fight” experience, Shamrock had the look of an action hero and the capacity to back this up.
A few years after, David”Tank” Abbott hit the scene. Watch MMA reside or at a pub even today, and you will find no shortage of out-of-shape, beer-swilling loudmouths eager to talk about their view of how they’d mop the floor with the men on TV. Abbott was the guy, just he could mop the floor with a few of the guys on TV. Fat, cocky and sporting roughly the exact same number of teeth as he’d had karate lessons, Abbott was the manifestation of everything that a martial artist was not assumed to be.
There’s a bit of MMA folklore that says Tank was introduced into lose, thus proving the theory that the martial artist would always succeed over the thug. His (admittedly limited) wrestling foundation was played and he was branded a’Pit Fighter’ in promotional material. When Tank started breaking heads in some of the very abusive UFC fights of the age, a star was born, to the stage that the company put him on a monthly salary; something not replicated since.
There was even legitimate bad blood between both parties, together with Shamrock and his”Lion’s Den” after hunting down Abbott backstage after he had caused trouble. Ken never caught him up either at the parking lot or the cage, together with both eventually leaving the company for careers in pro-wrestling. Their surprise early-00’s returns once again sparked hope of a superfight from another generation, but for reasons unknown it was never supposed to be.
Anderson Silva vs. Jon Jones
Ahead of the controversy that shelved him for what would likely have been his fighting prime, few would argue that Jon Jones was not at the absolute pinnacle of mixed martial arts. A world-class athlete, not just skillful, but an expert in all facets of the match, Jones looked insurmountable. In 2011he completed what was arguably the greatest year’s work of any battle sports athlete, beating Ryan Bader,”Shogun” Rua,”Rampage” Jackson and Lyoto Machida in the area of just 10 months.
Even though Jones was painting an image of violence at the light-heavyweight branch, Anderson Silva was creating a masterpiece at middleweight. Nobody had cleared such a talent-rich branch and looked really untouchable in doing so. So complete was Silva’s dominance, he had twice moved up a weight class and demolished his resistance. His claim to the title of’best ever’ could be challenged by a scant couple.
White once cited his capacity to generate a Jones vs. Silva superfight happen as a tool which could define his own legacy as a promoter. Fate, as it is want to do, conspired against him. Silva’s standing plummeted following a series of losses and a failed drug test. Jones’ image was tarnished even farther; while he did not falter in the cage, a run of self-inflicted’personal difficulties’ stripped”Bones” of his dignity, credibility and — most importantly — his own ability to compete.
Silva is past his prime and threatening retirement. Jones is concentrated firmly on regaining the light heavyweight title he never lost in the cage. Issues beyond the cage have almost certainly deprived us of one of the greatest battles within it.
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