could a normal guy who is fit and healthy beat a muay thai fighter who is a amateur. How important is strength in a fight?
Yes he could, there's always a chance, the chance increases/decreases depending on your combat experience and training.
Strength is one of the most important factors in a fight, others are: speed, experience, technique, conditioning.
A bitterly angry Dana White said Wednesday the Ultimate Fighting Championship has cut highly regarded welterweight contender Jon Fitch and is not going to do business with any fighters who are part of the American Kickboxing Academy team in San Jose, Calif.
The outspoken UFC president said shortly after landing in Hawaii on Wednesday that he no longer wants to work with AKA fighters or those represented by DeWayne Zinkin and Bob Cook.
White said he excepted AKA welterweight Mike Swick from that group because he said Swick called him and told him he wants to fight for the UFC. But Fitch and heavyweight Christian Wellisch were cut on Wednesday, and heavyweight prospect Cain Velasquez and welterweight Josh Koscheck could be next.
Junie Allen Browning, Team Mir - Polakowski’s hugging really didn’t get annoying for me. For some people it might have, but he’s a nice guy and the hugging thing was just something he liked to do. It actually put me in a good mood, but it was sorta awkward when I would wake up at seven in the morning and the first thing I would wake up to was a hug from Polakowski.
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Jon Fitch, who went five rounds with UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre in August, received notice Wednesday that the UFC has released him.
Fitch told Hardcore Sports Radio’s “Sports Rage” on Wednesday that he was cut
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I would like a complete endurance workout to get my heart in the best possible condition for mixed martial arts.
If you're trying to improve your cardio, just doing *any* cardio routine won't help your MMA training. Cardiovascular endurance is activity-specific, meaning that to improve an activity, it's best to work through that specific activity.
For instance, if you want to train for a marathon, don't train for it by working out on a stair-climber (duh). While working out on a stair-climber like a madman may help the overall conditioning of your heart, you're mainly developing your cardio capacity to climb stairs, not run at a marathon pace.
Picking specific activities for MMA really depends on the techniques you intend to use. If you're a kicker, guess what - work on cardio kicking drills. If you're a grappler, work on cardio grappling drills. Etc.
"How do make a <insert technique here> cardio drill?"
Glad you asked. You do that activity while keeping your heart rate in your cardio zone (usually around 65-80% of your recommended maximum though varies by source). Don't know you're max? You can find it pretty easily online (usually look it up by gender, age and weight). And you can use a heart rate monitor or just periodically stop to check your pulse with a watch. You want to keep doing that activity while keeping your heart rate in that cardio zone as long as you can. Over time, you'll be able to do it longer and longer. Actually, if you want to make the workout even more adapted to MMA, alternate your workouts between cardio as described above and interval cardio training.
Interval training has the additional benefit of conditioning your body to recover quickly from short, sudden periods of intense activity. The most well-known interval training exercise is fartlek running. Reading about it may help you understand how to apply interval training to other activities. In a nutshell, rather than keep your heart rate in the middle of your cardio zone, you spend relatively short intervals at a high heart rate (near your recommended max) and then a longer period at a lower hear rate (near the lower bound of your cardio zone). Then you just repeat the cycle. Over time, you can lengthen the high-intensity intervals and decrease the low-intensity intervals.
Do NOT try training at maximum intensity for long periods of time. Maximum intensity workouts put a lot of strain on muscle fibers, ligaments and joints. Instead of increasing your cardio capacity, you'll wind up shredding your body so that you can't work out as much or as often as you ideally should.
I hope this helps you in your training. And heed the advice given in other answers - get plenty of rest and pay attention to nutrition as well 
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