The Fighter We'd Most Like to Sit Next to on a Plane

Welcome to another edition of "The Fighter We'd Most Like To...". Thanks to everyone who voted last week in our "The Fighter We'd Most Like to Quit Fighting to Become a Commentator" poll. The winner with 38% of the vote was Jason Miller. Congrats!

Ahh, the joys of holiday travel. If you're one of the many people who moved away from home as soon as you had enough money and it was a legally plausible option, you may find yourself on a plane soon, making your way back home to spend time with those very people you tried to leave behind. Or, maybe you're a frequent business traveler who is so experienced that you have your travel routine down pat, and will see it severely disrupted as the airports are slammed with millions of rookie travelers who have no idea where to go, randomly stop walking to look around in the middle of airport corridors and try to get you to give up your exit row aisle seat so you can have their last row, near the bathroom, middle seat, and they can sit with their tank top- and flip-flop-clad fiance on flight to Minnesota. Airplane travel can be absolutely brutal and the person you end up sitting next to can make the difference between a pleasant ride with harmless flirtations and shared magazines, and you being escorted off the plane in handcuffs by an air marshal after the pilot was forced to make an emergency landing in Toledo. Your seatmate is a pivotal part of your in-flight enjoyment so let's discuss who we'd like to find ourselves sitting next to on an airplane.

Beth: Gina Carano. I'd make her tell me all about Michael Fassbender and Ewan MacGregor. And I want details. Sounds, sights, smells, tastes. She'll share with me and she'll like it, dammit.

Donna: There are two key components to my answer here: size and conversation skills. For these two reasons I have to go with Miguel Torres. First, he's a small guy so I don't have to worry about his arms and legs encroaching on my seat space, which is a major pet peeve. Second, he's the king of one-liners and zings, so the trip would be incredibly entertaining. Also, I imagine that he'd be up for a little mile-high club session, which is just bonus credit at this point.

Jackie: Jens Pulver. We can talk about World of Warcraft and make the people around us uncomfortable. Of course, if there's a fighter out there who plays D&D, I change my answer to that guy.

Kat: The thing I value most in a strange seat neighbor on an airplane is their ability to shut up and leave me alone, unless I'm planning on getting drunk on the flight and in that case, I want them to either be good-looking + charming (men) or totally my new BFF (women). They also must not smell bad, eat smelly food, get up too many times to use the restroom if I'm sitting in the aisle seat, or creep over the armrest boundary between our seats for whatever reason. So, pretty much, I like to have an empty seat next to me. But, if I MUST pick SOMEONE, it would either be Georges St. Pierre or Donald Cerrone. They both have lovely accents so if they insisted on talking, it would at least not be completely intolerable. And, they both look like they would smell nice and respect my space (although, I'd be OK if they crept over the armrest). As a tie-breaker, I'm turning to the booze and I really think Donald Cerrone would be more fun to get drunk with so I'm picking him.

Midge: Anybody but Roy Nelson! For the love of crackers, I paid for my seat! If I wanted to share it with your fatty ass I would have consulted you before purchasing a ticket, McFats. I'd rather sit next to Jon Fitch and talk about how fat people should buy two tickets or sit in first (fat) class.

What do you think? Who would you like to sit next to you on a plane? We'd love to hear about it!

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