What could’ve been: 10 of the best booked UFC fights that never happened

Conor McGregor vs. Rafael dos Anjos, Nate Diaz vs. Dustin Poirer, Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Tony Ferguson, and more make the list.

Robert Whittaker vs. Kelvin Gastelum

The string of bad luck continued for the Aussie, as Robert Whittaker yet again was forced out of a fight, this time just hours before his scheduled bout with [autotag]Kelvin Gastelum[/autotag] at UFC 234 on Feb. 9 of this year. Whittaker had to undergo emergency hernia surgery, and as a result, the fight was scrapped from the card entirely.

Now that Whittaker has lost his middleweight title to Israel Adesanya, and Gastelum is coming off a split decision loss to Darren Till at UFC 244, a fight between the two would very much make sense, as both attempt to climb back to middleweight title contention.