MMA Power 10: It's a Zuffa world

Now a freelancer for publications including Sports Illustrated and the Los Angeles Times , Hunt still can't get credentialed for Zuffa events, though she says the 2009 Sherdog story remains accurate. Also persona non grata is ESPN's writer with the most experience covering the sport, Josh Gross, another Sherdog alumnus.

"I don't care," White says. "I can decide who gets a credential and who doesn't."

Zuffa absorbed its last notable MMA competitor in March with the purchase of Strikeforce. Strikeforce's roster includes fighters who joined the company after disputes with Zuffa, but White doesn't worry about it.

"Listen, I own the (freaking) thing," he says. "At some point, you've got to get over it, you know what I mean?"

2. Joe Silva: UFC vice president for talent relations

White and the Fertitta brothers own the thing, but as matchmaker and chief talent scout, Silva supplies the crew. He decides who gets signed, who stays and who gets cut from a roster of more than 200 fighters.

Silva, who started working for UFC in the late 1990s before Zuffa bought the company, assembles the lineup for every card, which is why his name gets dropped by fighters more than anyone else's in MMA except White's. Sounds like fun, except that it's harder than you might think to put together good fights.

The last two UFC pay-per-views offered stark examples of the difficulties facing Silva. Less than three weeks before the company's May 28 show, main-eventers Frankie Edgar and Gray Maynard dropped out with injuries, costing the card its only title fight. Three days after their announcement, heavyweight Brock Lesnar withdrew from a June 11 fight with Junior dos Santos because of a flare-up of his intestinal diverticulitis, creating a ripple effect through two other fights on the card as fighters were moved up as replacements.

"It's very frustrating in my job," Silva told Florida Today in 2008, during one of his only interviews on the record with a journalist. "I don't look for victims. I pride myself in making competitive matchups."

3. Georges "Rush" St. Pierre: UFC welterweight champion

Only middleweight Anderson Silva has a longer UFC championship run than St. Pierre's string of six consecutive title defenses going back to 2007, but no one matches the French Canadian titleholder's crossover appeal.

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