10 Biggest UFC Fights Taking Place Before 2017

10. Luke Rockhold Vs Ronaldo 'Jacare' Souza

The upcoming Fight Night card in Melbourne, Australia may be broadly populated with competitive match-ups that don't hold any bearing on the company's zeitgeist going forward, but one scheduled bout uplifts the importance placed on the entire card.

Once standing tall at the top of the middleweight mountain after stopping Chris Weidman at UFC 194 and beginning a short-lived spell as champion, the elation that Luke Rockhold felt after finally adding a UFC title to his list of accolades was left in tatters after a shocking defeat at the hands of veteran Michael Bisping.

Five months removed from what was one of the most whirlwind chapters in his career, the American Kickboxing Academy fighter will return to competition against Ronaldo 'Jacare' Souza - the versatile Brazilian jiu-jitsu specialist that is also unfettered by the prospect of a stand-up battle.

Sure to be a hard-fought fight between two well-traveled bastions of the sport, this middleweight bout will go a long way in providing some clarity to the muddled middleweight title contenders picture and could lead Rockhold towards a rubber match with the Manchester-born champion who ended his title reign.