Uncrowned
In MMA, wish lists like these are often a fool’s errand. At the beginning of each year we look at all the champions and contenders, the dark horses and darker forces, the contractually complicated and the gunslinging phenoms, hoping that some of them might find their way into the cage together. We rarely get what we want.
A couple of years ago I wrote about needing to see Jon Jones fight Francis Ngannou, and though the fight dangled like a carrot right there in front of the public eye, tantalizingly close, it never materialized.