What's to Become of MMA's Top Heavyweights in 2011?

Filed under: UFC, Strikeforce

Muhammad Ali used to say that the heavyweight champion of the world was the champion of all champions. Of course, it's possible he was a little biased.

It's easy to understand the appeal of the heavyweights. It's the biggest, baddest kids on the block vying to see who's tougher. That's part of why Brock Lesnar - a man who looks like the grown-up version of a high school bully straight out of central casting, crew-cut still intact - has proved to be such an irresistible enigma to MMA fans. The fact that there's footage of him dancing around in a sombrero and flipping off the top rope probably doesn't hurt either.

But while 2010 may have been the year of the heavyweight in MMA, with everyone from Lesnar to Fedor Emelianenko to current UFC champ Cain Velasquez rapidly swapping places in the ranks, the division seems to be in tatters heading into 2011.

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