Top 50 Future Matchups – Which fights will fans get to see ?

Joe Silva (UFC matchmaker) delivers some of the most exciting cards for fight fans, not an easy task considering the personalities, management, and injuries that he often encounters during the process.  

Listed below is a list of 50 potential future matchups and rematches across the various weightclasses that may be delivered at some stage by matchmaker king Joe Silva.  As fight fans, what matchups on the list are you most interested in seeing? What other matchups would you like to see in the near future? Maybe it is a rematch, or someone from a different organization. Let us know your thoughts below.

Heavyweight matchups  (265)

 1.Cain Velasquez VS Bigfoot Silva (Booked)

2..Cain Velasquez  vs  Daniel Cormier

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3.Cain Velasquez VS Jnr Dos Santos 3

4.Cain Velasquez vs Jon Jones

5.Pat Barry VS Cheick Congo 2

6.Alistair Overeem vs Bigfoot 2

7.Alistair Overeem vs Jnr Dos Santos

8.Alistair Overeem vs Fabricio Werdum 3

Light Heavyweight Matchup (205)

9. Jon Jones VS Anderson Silva

10.Jon Jones VS Alexander Gustaffson

11.Jon Jones VS Gegard MoUSAsi

12.Jon Jones VS Daniel Cormier

13.Jon Jones VS Glover Texeira

14.Shogun Rua vs Dan Henderson 2

15.Wanderlei Silva vs Rampage Jackson 4

16.Wanderlei Silva vs Dan Henderson 3

17.Wanderlei Silva vs Vitor Belfort

18.Rashad Evans vs Lyoto Machida 2

19.Dan Henderson vs Fedor Emelianenko 2 (secret comeback in Russia?)

Middleweight matchups (185)

20.Anderson Silva VS Chris Weidman (BOOKED)

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21.Anderson Silva vs GSP or at Catchweight

22.Uriah Hall VS Cung Lee

23.Uriah Hall VS Josh Samman

24.Mark Munoz vs Hector Lombard

25.Mark Munoz  vs  Chris Weidman 2

26.Wanderlei Silva vs Brian Stann 2

27.Wanderlie Silva vs Cung Lee 2

28.Wanderlei Silva VS Chael Sonnen

Welterweight Division (170)

 29.Gsp VS Johnny Hendricks  (to be booked)

30.Nick Diaz VS Matt Brown

31.Nick Diaz VS Robbie Lawler 2

32.Martin Kampmann vs Carlos Condit 2

33.Nate Marquardt vs Demian Maia 2

Lightweight Division (155)

34.Benson Henderson vs Anthony Pettis 2

35.Benson Henderson VS Gilbert Melendez 2

36.Benson Henderson VS GSP

37.Jim Miller vs  Joe Lauzon 2

38.Rustam Khabilov vs Gilbert Melendez  (Greg Jackson has recently revealed that he believes Rustam Khabilov 16-1-0 to be the next world Champion). Prehaps this matchup makes sense. We already witnessed what Rustam can do with his punishing suplexes.

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39.Ross Pearson vs Donald Cerrone

40. BJ Penn vs Nate Diaz (@ lightweight or welterweight)

Featherweight Division (145)

41.Jose Aldo vs Anthony Pettis (booked)

42.Korean Zombie vs Ricardo Lamas (booked)

43.Erik Koch vs Conor McGregor

Bantamweight Division (135)

44.Dominic Cruz vs Renan Barao

45.Erik Perez vs Uriah Faber

Flyweight Division (125)

46.Joseph Benevidaz vs Demetrious Johnson 2

Womens Bantamweight Division (135)

47.Rhonda Rousey vs Cat Zingano (booked)

48.Rhonda Rousey vs  Cris Cyborg

49.Meisha Tate vs Cat Zingano 2

50.Sara McMann vs  Cat Zingano