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FresnoMMA
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03.20.2012 | 10:25 PM ET

So I was thinking, what are the biggest what-ifs in MMA?  Feel free to post one and then others can discuss it, or something.  Idk hopefully this thread works...
Anyways I'll get it started by asking what if Georges St. Pierre had beaten Matt Serra in their first fight, as was expected?

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wolfmanhowl
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03.21.2012 | 12:36 AM ET

paul "rowdy" harris jr. :- }
hdmexiqtioner
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03.21.2012 | 12:48 AM ET

What if BJ Penn DID beat Lyoto Machida?

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Lopati
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03.21.2012 | 12:50 AM ET

HDmex, that would have been the most amazing WIN ever.

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hdmexiqtioner
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03.21.2012 | 12:53 AM ET

What if the bell did not save Jake Shields in round 3 against Mayhem?

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BeastMaster
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03.21.2012 | 1:01 AM ET

What if Fedor said yes when dana was trying to get him in the UFC?

What if Royce loss all of his early fights?

What if Griffin/Bonnar was a boring fight?

What if McCall/Johnson went another round?

 

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Mybbygotsauz
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03.21.2012 | 1:04 AM ET

What if Chael Sonnen get KO'd the **** out at UFC 147?

* Edited at 03.21.2012, 1:04 AM ET *

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Crumx7
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03.21.2012 | 1:24 AM ET

What if Werdum didn't beat Fedor?
What if James Toney beat Randy?
What if Zuffa bought Bellator?

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Bill Burgess
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03.21.2012 | 1:57 AM ET

What if Fedor has signed with the UFC in 2005 and fought Randy Couture and Brock Lesnar?

What if Ken Shamrock never used steroids, evolved in his training, stayed at HW and avoided weight-cuts, and had the modesty to believe he needed to keep improving instead of stagnating?

What if Royce Gracie never took time off after the UFC and believed he needed to develop some striking and wrestling?

What if Bruce Lee had been born around 1972 instead of dying around then?

What if all the pro wrestlers never took steroids, and decided to start training for real in cross-disciplines and developed MMA a long time ago?

What if the entire country of China started training for MMA in earnest and devoted the same resources to MMA as they did to gymnastics and diving and ping-pong?  

What if all the black boxers decided to train for MMA and leave boxing?

What if I were suddenly capable of offering coherent, innovative MMA concepts?

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Lopati
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03.21.2012 | 2:09 AM ET

what if Floyd Mayweather fought Manny Pacquiao

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jaffacakehero
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03.21.2012 | 2:13 AM ET

What if Joe Rogan continued his martial arts training seriously and fought in the UFC?

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Lopati
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03.21.2012 | 2:15 AM ET

what if everyone took alpha brain

"One does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted. If one were to present the sportsman with the death of the animal as a gift he would refuse it." Jose Ortega y Gasset

jaffacakehero
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03.21.2012 | 2:16 AM ET

What if everyone found Brian Redban's jokes funny? Wait...........does anyone?

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Lopati
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03.21.2012 | 2:20 AM ET

haven't heard is stand up that much, but his podcasts are pretty sweet.

"One does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted. If one were to present the sportsman with the death of the animal as a gift he would refuse it." Jose Ortega y Gasset

hdmexiqtioner
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03.21.2012 | 11:10 AM ET

What if the UFC was never bought by Zuffa?

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TheNatureBoy
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03.21.2012 | 3:15 PM ET

What if the UFC kept Jeff Blatnick and it was Goldie, Rogan and Blatnick I think that would be badass.

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AnAlias
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03.21.2012 | 3:27 PM ET

TheNatureBoy...That would have been awesome.  I always enjoyed Blanticks commentary, and I think him and Rogan would have been good together.
jaffacakehero
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03.21.2012 | 3:28 PM ET

What if Mark Kerr was never addicted to painkillers?

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Almo
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03.21.2012 | 3:29 PM ET

What if Arlovski had a great chin

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Almo
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03.21.2012 | 3:30 PM ET

what if they made a 215 or 225 division?

* Edited at 03.21.2012, 3:30 PM ET *

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03.21.2012 | 3:34 PM ET

What if Rorion Gracie had let Big John McCarthy participate in UFC 1 instead of telling him he couldn't because he represented jitz and they only wanted one (Royce Gracie) from that discipline?

Would he have won tourneys?  Would he have had a long MMA career?  How would referee's have evolved if he had instead been a fighter?

And also ******* magnets, how do they work?

* Edited at 03.21.2012, 3:46 PM ET *

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