The old school style would mean the 8 man tournament, starting with four fights, then two, then the main event.....so first we'd have to pick which 8 fighters to go with. How about these:
1) Brock Lesnar
2) Shane Carwin
3) Anderson Silva
4) Lyoto Machida
5) GSP
6) Wanderlei Silva
7) Big Nog
8) Rampage Jackson
You have to consider that in many of those old tournaments fighters that won fights could not move forward because they got hurt in earlier fights. On my list, I see Big Nog as having the highest probability of winning a fight but not being able to move forward because of doctors orders. I see Brock Lesnar as having the highest probability of getting through fights with minimal damage; even higher than lighting fast Anderson Silva.
An 8-man tournament using the fighters on my list, I'd put money on Lesnar.
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