Great fights that we never got to see?

Name same great fights that we could've seen but for some reason never happened? They have to be believable so no Cain Velasquez vs Bas Rutten fights.

Randy Couture vs Dan Henderson
Fedor Emelianenko vs Josh Barnett
Chuck Liddell vs Anderson Silva
Frank Shamrock vs Randy Couture
Big Nog vs Andre Arlovski

Frank vs Randy??? hm woulda been interesting

but really Frank Shamrock vs Bas Rutten

was about to happen, Bas was dropping down to try and become the first in UFC to win 2 titles in 2 divisions, and then his body exploded.

2 torn ACLs, elbow problem, back problem and all kinds of other freak accidents in his training camp ended Bas' career.

Miletich vs Frank

At 200 who would've won between Frank and Randy?

depends

If Franks in his prime and fights the Randy thats around during this time Frank subs hum easy, it wasnt till late in the game that Randy got good and sub defense

A) When Frank was the champ
B) Both at their peaks

Both scenarios.

To keep in the spirt of the weekend


Dan Henderson vs. Mauricio Rua in PRIDE
Dan Henderson vs. Tito Ortiz
Dan Henderson vs. Chuck Liddell
Quinton Jackson vs. Tito Ortiz

Obviously Tito in his prime.

Obviously prime Frank Shamrock against any other relevant LHW that came after he dropped the title with the exception of Ortiz.

KingsOwn19 wrote:

To keep in the spirt of the weekend


Dan Henderson vs. Mauricio Rua in PRIDE
Dan Henderson vs. Tito Ortiz
Dan Henderson vs. Chuck Liddell
Quinton Jackson vs. Tito Ortiz

Lol, I actually thought of all these fights also but only posted 5. All would've been great.

Honestly, Randy probably takes that fight because Frank was never a tremendous wrestler. He could wrestle, but his scrambles were self admittedly poor.

prime Randy probably outwrestles Frank.....but Frank could still submit him and had better stand up

Birdofthad wrote:

prime Randy probably outwrestles Frank.....but Frank could still submit him and had better stand up

True enough. It would have been a good fight either way, I just think Randy would be able to control things by and large.

I agree wtih that but you have to remember with Frank Shamrock it didnt matter if you controlled things by and large

The Tito and Jeremy Horn fights proved taht, Frank was vrtually controlled the whole Horn fight and most of the first 3 rounds by Tito before pulling out impressive victories.

CC vs Couture, IDK I always wanted to see it... both in their primes

and CC vs AA

An impressive CC stat is that he is 3-0 against the much bigger Josh Barnett.

Jamal wrote:

An impressive CC stat is that he is 3-0 against the much bigger Josh Barnett.

This is why CroCop in his prime was great. He had amazing takedown defense, and still does have pretty good TDD but his striking has overall gone south. Barnett did not offer much to CroCop, hard as hell to get down and Barnett does not have the best striking. I'd pick Barnett over him now, especially in a cage...probably by knockout believe it or not.

All good points. I wish we got to see all the Pride and UFC guys fight each other at their peak instead of now where all the new UFC fans try to tarnish their legacies.