Sherdog’s Top 10: Fighters Outside the UFC

Talent in MMA has never been more concentrated under one banner. The Ultimate Fighting Championship now has almost 550 fighters under contract, a number that has ballooned upwards as the insatiable content demands of the Fox family of networks, pay-per-view and its UFC Fight Pass platform have skyrocketed. Five years ago, this was not the case. The UFC had fewer than half as many fighters, and other promotions -- Strikeforce, Dream and World Extreme Cagefighting, to name only a few -- laid claim to many of the world’s top fighters.

This does not mean, however, that the UFC is the only promotion with elite talent. The latest installment in the Sherdog Top 10 series takes a look at the best…