Clay Guida and Eddie Wineland. Aikiyama and martin kampmann. I guess they are willing to fight anybody including guys that most others don't want to fight against.
Chris Leban has fought almost all tough fights since being in the UFC IMO. He still would probably. Can;t wait till his suspension is up just to throw a wrench in the MW division again lol.
Hardy's 0-4 record was some really hard fights as well. He fought the champ, the interim champ, a natural heavyweight who layed on him the whole fight, and a determined to win last fight of career Chris Lytle.
Brock Lesnar never had an easy fight in the UFC, Kampmann is always in wars, but the guy with the most difficult fights has to be Akiyama. Not even champions have as many difficult fights as the sexy one.
Forrest,coleman (this one's an exception but shogun wanted revenge), chuck, machida 2x, jones, hendo.
LOL and soon the notorious vera will be on an his resume as well.
And its even more impressive when your looking at his losses: first machida fight cotnroversial, hendo fight was also very close and theres no shame in losing to jones.
As much as I love Shogun, I lost so much respect for him when he chose to fight Vera over Glover. It's pathetic really, you can't gain anything by fighting one guy yet can against Vera, a guy who's been on a suck streak for quite some time.
Also Chuck wasn't a tough fight at that point, everyone already figured out his style and how to beat him and his now glassjaw.
One guy that we never talk about as fighting top competition, Forrest Griffin I believe he's been the underdog in every fight save for Tito since 2007...that's amazing.
I think if you come into the UFC on an inflated record and an inflated contract to match Dana and co basically seem to want to punish you for costing them more money, they did it to a lot of guys that rode in on hype.
One fighter that comes to mind is Mike Pierce. He's gotten a few tough fights since his start.
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