It’s a slow week on the MMA landscape, but that just gives us a rare chance to look ahead. And there’s a blockbuster on the horizon with “UFC 205: Alvarez vs. McGregor.”
But is it the best card of all time?
Of course, we’ll need to see how the fights play out to see how the card lives in history, but on paper, there’s certainly a case to be made. Every single fighter on the six-fight main card is ranked in the top-15 of their respective division in the latest edition of the USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie MMA rankings, and nine of the fighters are in the top-4 of their weight class.
Take a look at the card below, including the fighters’ rankings, and vote below: Is UFC 205 the greatest fight card of all time?
MAIN CARD
- Champ Eddie Alvarez (No. 1 lightweight, No. 8 P4P) vs. Champ Conor McGregor (No. 1 featherweight, No. 5 P4P)
- Champ Tyron Woodley (No. 1 welterweight, No. 9 P4P) vs. Stephen Thompson (No. 2 welterweight)
- Champ Joanna Jedrzejczyk (No. 1 strawweight) vs. Karolina Kowalkiewicz (No. 4 strawweight)
- Yoel Romero (No. 4 middleweight) vs. Chris Weidman (No. 3 middleweight, No. 14 P4P)
- Donald Cerrone (No. 14 welterweight) vs. Kelvin Gastelum (No. 15 welterweight)
- Raquel Pennington (No. 15 women’s bantamweight) vs. Miesha Tate (No. 3 women’s bantamweight)
PRELIMINARY CARD
- Frankie Edgar (No. 4 featherweight) vs. Jeremy Stephens (No. 12 featherweight)
- Michael Johnson (No. 11 lightweight) vs. Khabib Nurmagomedov (No. 2 lightweight)
- Rashad Evans (No. 8 light heavyweight) vs. Tim Kennedy
- Tim Boetsch vs. Rafael Natal
- Thiago Alves vs. Jim Miller
- Vicente Luque vs. Belal Muhammad
- Liz Carmouche vs. Katlyn Chookagian
