I feel that the unpredictability of the sport of MMA is one of its most attractive facets.

Small gloves, hard punches, strikers vs. grapplers, wrestling vs. submissions, and those who are all-around great fighters.

In a sport where brawlers knock out technical strikers, highly-touted submission fighters get finished by their own moves, and sometimes the simple inability to get up off your back can give you a loss, there are so many things that can happen that watching a fight is truly a thrill of volatile uncertainty.

But every so often there comes along a champion who has that aura of invincibility. The perception that they are champion not simply because they beat the previous titleholder, but that they truly are the best fighter around. The question is, does this make them more or less fun to watch?

In the Ultimate Fighting Championship, there are currently several champions that could be referred to as "division killers."

The Heavyweight Submission Ace, Antonio Rodrigo "Minotauro" Nogueira

The Middleweight Sniper, Anderson "Spider" Silva

The Welterweight Juggernaut, Georges "Rush" St. Pierre

The Lighweight Superman, BJ "The Prodigy" Penn

Pretty much every one of these men has just beaten the fighter who was considered the greatest threat to them. And all have passed with flying colors.

Penn just put away Sean Sherk, the former lighweight champion and the man who was supposed to give him problems with his "suspect" cardio. What happened was that Sherk either refused or was unable to get a takedown, and wound up on the bad end of a three round boxing match that culminated in him being pounded out at the bell. Penn truly looks to be a level above everyone in the division.

GSP has decisively beaten nearly every challenger in the division already, going through former champ Matt Hughes twice and decimating the only other man to defeat him, Matt Serra. Along the way he also manhandled upcoming prospect Josh Koscheck and has more or less dominated everyone in his path, appearing to gain skill and strength with every fight.

A showdown with contender Jon Fitch looms on the horizon, but with the skills that St. Pierre has displayed and the fact that Fitch looked less than stellar in his last bout, it becomes difficult to envision Fitch winning. After that, the division is full of talent, but much of it not really having reached the championship level yet, let alone the intense dominance displayed by a newly-focused GSP.

Anderson Silva, well, everyone knows his story by now. Having crushed everyone who has stepped up to him in the UFC in under two rounds, Silva most recently put away the iron-chinned and rarely-submitted "Dangerous" Dan Henderson by...rocking him with strikes and submitting him. The supposed "wrestling gap" in Silva's game has not really been much of a detriment in his dispatching of some of the best wrestlers in the division.

There appears to be a huge gap between Silva and the rest of the division; those who possess the skills to outclass him in any aspect of MMA—if possible—lack the tools to force him into that area of combat. The intrigue in watching Silva fight seems to have changed with the dispatching of Henderson, and gone from "who can beat him" to "who can last the longest."

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