Sometimes you can't change the channel.
It could be the two-way greatness of Shohei Ohtani in baseball, the long-range excellence of Stephen Curry in basketball or the overwhelming power and quickness of Aaron Donald in football. It becomes hard to look away if they're on your television screen.
But who are those people in MMA?
We're past the midway point in the calendar, and as fight fans, we can sometimes settle in on just the big names and significant events of the year: from our favorite fighters to the big pay-per-views with titles on the line and the characters who make MMA genuinely unique.