Fighters you thought were really good at one point, but then realized they were never that good?

[Pepy]

Stucky Nedkov!

when Luiz Cane tried to jump out of the cage running from him, he def looked like a killer.

 

[cmw43]

That russian LW that suplexed the hell of somebody in his UFC debut, forgot his name

Oh yeah he was a beast with those suplexes. Rustam Khabilov, went 10-3 in UFC with a win over Masvidal.

 

[Guy LeDouche]

Roger Huerta

This^
Dude was SI poster boy for MMA, had a couple FOTY canidates, even dated prime Arianny.
Then just had a rough slide after that KFlo loss.
I bought into the hype.

 

[jenst]

Mitrione was one ko away from the all time he record when he got cut
He was fast, southpaw, great footwork

Don't forget he got his eye nearly yanked out by Travis Browne in his last UFC fight. Solid gatekeeper.

 

[corrupted]

I'm not gonna go down the normal road. YES.... on Sherdog as soon as you lose your wins look shite and you were gifted the road to "lookign good"

But man did Hector Lombard feel like a walking wolf ticket

 

[corrupted]

Don't forget he got his eye nearly yanked out by Travis Browne in his last UFC fight. Solid gatekeeper.

Up until that fight I didn't know how much I could truly dislike a fighter. Travis Browne valiantly stepped up to show me.

No massive fan of Mitrione. But I DID like him and he had the right attitude and put on good fights.

How on earth Battery Browne didn't at least get a point off for that I don't know

 

[HHJ]

lol

Travis Browne got hated on for marrying Ronda Rousey,and thats it,otherwise you self triggered bros couldnt give a fuck less about anything that guy did.

 

[Black-Joto]

Goober Taylor

 

[Gnosisrausch]

I thought Jake Ellenberger would achieve a lot more. I also expected a lot more of Abel Trujillo after his first UFC Fights and Daniel Sarafian after his TUF run.

 

[DrunkMonkMeth]

Ive been right about everyone.

 

[markys00]

Khabib

 

[Dog Gynecologist]

Lando Vanata, at minimum i thought he would be a long member of the LW Top 10. Not some world beater but more like a LW Matt Brown.

Kevin Lee, after the Gillespie fight i was convinced he would at least go to a title fight.

 

[ChimRichalds]

Will always be Petr Yan for me. Don't get me wrong, dude is a great fighter. I'm not shitting on him just now that he's lost a few, but I just never saw a potential all time great fighter there.

 

[RemyR]

This thread always reminds me of what a dump this forum is

 

[Tyr XIII]

I'm going back quite some time but first name that came to mind was Brandon Vera

Brandon Vera is actually my pick as well. He looked great but really wasn’t anything special. His loss to I believe Thiago santos really painted the picture

 

[mahavishnunj]

Diego Sanchez

For some reason I thought he was a beast when his career started out.

He started with a 17 fight undefeated streak. Why would it be "for some reason"?

Reasonably long career and I dont know if time caught up with him, or he just wasnt really any good from the start.

This will be the dumbest post of the day, no question.

 

[markg171]

Possibly Tony Ferguson. I loved him coming up 11 wins in a row but looking back did he just have an incredibly iron chin that once it git cracked his skills didn't match or was he actually good and father time got him?

The writing was always on the wall. He was consistently dropped/hurt standing (and by some odd people too) and outgrappled on the ground. His skills clearly weren't some elite of the elite where he truly was better than everybody like a MM or Jones. Good but flawed, and masked by great cardio that let him outlast his opponents and takeover.

I'd also had, but a lot of those wins had nothing to do with Tony, or were in fact caused by Tony's illegal actions impacting the fight in his favour.

• Vannata was short notice so had no gas tank to properly follow up every time he hurt Tony
• Lee had massive staph which gassed him out
• Pettis broke his own hand dropping Tony, and that impacted his ability to finish/grapple with Tony on the ground afterwards
• Pettis' corner threw in the towel. Yeah Tony had already turned things around and Pettis had a broken hand, but you never know what a 3rd could've brought
• Tony eyepoked RDA badly in the 2nd round. That's the only early round RDA lost. Otherwise he might've won all 3 and therefore the decision
• Tony badly illegally upkicked Barboza, which had him stumbling around afterwards
• Tony hit and hurt Cerrone illegally after the bell, and right on his broken nose. A hurt Cerrone, AKA not thinking straight, with an further impacted nose then makes the rookie mistake he'd never make otherwise of trying to blow out his nose which blows up his eye and causes the doctors to stop the fight
• For Cerrone the ref completely nonsensically calls the fight a TKO for Tony because the blow that originally broke the nose earlier in the round was legal. The blow that's causing the stop to the fight was illegal though so this should've been a DQ.

I'm sure I'm missing some, but there was a lot of luck and fuckery in that run. It wasn't just skill, which everybody kept ignoring. He nearly lost tons of times during his run, and easily could've had a completely different run had things gone slightly different in numerous situations.

It's actually wildly ironic that the loss that ended his streak didn't involve him getting KO'd, or even dropped, or outgrappled. Justin really just outlasted him standing which was always Tony's speciality, though Justin also admittedly got lucky that he got dropped in the 2nd with seconds left so the round ended. It's his losses after Justin that look how I expected his streak to end: Charles and Beneil outgrappled him and exposed his grappling, Chandler KO'd him and exposed his chin, and Nate submitted him to again expose his grappling.

 

[Cobra 03]

Nothing goes over your head, your reflexes are too strong!!!!

Huh?

 

[mmadeewana]

After watching Arman get stanky legs by a bum,I don't think he has what it takes. He also got gassed pretty hard against Gamrot.

 

[blaseblase]

lol

Travis Browne got hated on for marrying Ronda Rousey,and thats it,otherwise you self triggered bros couldnt give a fuck less about anything that guy did.

Actually he first started getting hate for saying Bigfoot made a name off him. And for sharing this pic with the world.