10 Massive MMA Career Gambles That Failed
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Number 1 should be Tony Ferguson risking it all and doing a weight cut 2 times within a weeks- short to say - he never been the same since. It was all downhill for him from that point on⚔️😎🙈
Blocking Justin's bombs with his chin wasn't a great strategy either...
tbf Tony did that to everyone, its just Justins punches take years from the receivers life span@@FightYourCouch
Hold on I'm crying brother.
He was on the slide before then, he lost a step after his ACL
DID U WATCH THE GAETHJE FIGHT!!???
When Royce Gracie made his comeback fight against Matt Hughes... Not only did he get beat, he got beat in the only area he was known for. That was like learning Santa isn't real. He had this Bruce Lee -esque invincible air of legend around his legacy and it was just a solemn reminder that time comes for us all. The angels cried that day
He got caught using PEDs a year later. Had to come back and assassinate the Easter bunny, too.
If you ask me Royce Gracie already had his aura shattered against Kazushi Sakuraba. Everyone who followed MMA knew he was beatable by the time he fought Matt Hughes.
@@madgavin7568not just that, he arguably lost the shamrock rematch and he had to cheat in the third match
Just like Bruce Lee, "legends" usually don't have a basis in reality. You can build a reputation on demonstrations, but eventually you're going to face someone who knows what they're doing and you're going to get hurt.
I still can't hear "I come from the land down under" without becoming overwhelmed with sadness 😭
Dude same... hopefully Volk comes back strong against Ilia.
From overlooked to absolutely beloved in a few short years. We went from doubting the 2nd win over Max to promoting him as the best P4P. Even if we have seen the heights, it was a great run.
@@FightYourCouchI humbly admit that I resisted Alex because I just enjoyed Max that much... But over time, he grew on me to be one of my favorite fighters.
@GazerPlur420 It happens, Max seems like a great person in and out of the cage. He deserves all the love, too. Max would probably be the greatest featherweight ever by now if Volk wasn't around.
@@thegoodstuff3148 that was a nasty line by you
lol, that first ten seconds of the video basically being "we had a whole thing queued up for Francis being humiliated, but here's the list anyway."
Ikr?
😂😂😂 they were wanted him to fail
@@thomasandrew1575Nobody wanted to see one of our best MMA guys get humiliated, but we absolutely thought at the time he was gonna get minced🤣
@@cattlecumwewlad6941 speak for yourself. I knew Fury was not going to KO Ngannou.
I will always love Tommy's running joke that TJ Dillashaw is a child. Saying he got put in time out lmao
Jeez, I've never been this early to a MMA On Point video.
Lol ikr
They had to wait for Tommy to wake up to narrate.
It is weird.
Was just thinking same thing 😭
Casual
I’ve said this so many times. Volk took the fight because he’s a company man. There is no way that the fact he could “save the card and please his fans” didn’t play into his decision, on top of his unshakeable confidence.
He’s the MVP and people’s champ and I hope this loss hasn’t diminished his stocks and that fans realise this knowing that he’s the definition of “anyone anywhere anytime”.
So far that seems to be the narrative or at least the one I’m seeing
@@teacherbunbun9082 I hope most modern UFC fans share similar thought
I mean, the absolute truckload that the UFC offered probably didn't hurt.
@@FightYourCouch of course, it’s his livelihood, they’re all there for the bag.
So you didn’t see Volk crying at the press conference because he said sitting at home with no opponent to train for is detrimental to his mental health?
Risky moves that don't work out aren't necessarily mistakes.
That’s a good point. A little too nuanced for a video title tho😂
Mma fans always throw words around they just learned
I tried to kiss my cousin once, it didn’t work out but not necessarily a mistake either 🤫
@@trav7917
Try the other one. May be this point can be proved 💀
Keith jardine and Houston Alexander. Dude was waiting for his title shot after some huge wins and fought this nobody to keep it fresh and got absolutely slept.
Adesanya fighting Strickland instead of waiting for Dricus to heal up should be on here too.
Pettis in the PFL absolutely worked for Pettis. He made 750k per fight and went 1-4. That's 3.75M for a guy that won 1 out of 5 fights. No way he would have made this kind of money had he stayed with the UFC.
He made 3.5m in a single fight in the ufc when he was champ
@@hatrickyman so? He went 1-4 in the PFL, he wouldn't have been getting 3.5M for going 1-4 in the UFC
Your videos are always a great listen but I gotta admit that what I look forward to the most every time is finding out how you’ll pun the topic into praise for Luke/Max 🤣
Every time I see Anthony Pettis I think it's footage of a young Alex Pereira
Still happy Meisha got her moment.
I remember Josh Grispi, I knew Porier would be something
Grispi's life went downhill fast
@@dr.loomis4221Im guessing he was already a piece of shit then
Volk was 3,000 lbs when he used to play rugby
And Sage Northcutt IS ONLY 19
And 11 feet tall, impressive cut
Number one is Tony Ferguson. He took a short notice fight against an electrical cable. Unfortunately, the cable had a full camp.
Guys like Wanderlei Silva, Dan Henderson or Akira Shoji going against monsters was the most epic thig of the history of the sport. Those are true fighters. Who cares if they loss.
Amanda Nunes’ unshakable reign would have been great AFTER holm vs rousey 2 I mean Jesus the numbers that would have done and the fight fan experience would have been so great. I wouldn’t even put this entirely on holly because what the hell was Dana and the ufc thinking?!? No way theyd make a decision like that today.
"The Iron Broom" 😂 that's so rad
Random note, I found out Undisputed 3 works pretty damn well on RPCS3. Forget EA boys, let's go back to the old days.
The best MMA game of all time.
@@majortom331 and the SSD era has fixed U3's worst problem, the load times.
Great video
Sure the TJ flyweight experiment failed but TJ was just putting his body through absolute murder, and forcing him into a 2 year layoff, knowing the guy that he is would absolutely never stop because he's addicted to this shindig, was probably the best thing for him. That was the world telling him, "Slow the fuck down, you're still a mortal human being". Also, his comeback from that was fucking impressive.
Nice lyric insertion you did there ha
Great video ❤
One thing about Holly is that almost all of her title shots were not earned, but when I think she actually deserved a title shot after going on an arguable 4 fight win streak with Amanda retiring, she didn't get it, had to fight #10 Mayra Bueno Silva, and lost it all. Like, the one time she actually deserved a title shot, "No, go fight this #10 ranked fighter and risk absolutely everything".
True
Mma is a rough career. Kinda thankless. I say thank u to all but I know it's not enough for what they go thru.
Rousy taking on Amanda wthout a few warm up fights
Chael looking to clip some of these failures and send them to Ariel. 😂
Ariel said nobody in the UFC should do it Francis was a one off u just watch MMA guru eh
@@NRC613 um, that wasn’t my point. I’m sorry it went over your head. And I’m not really sure who mma guru is.
@@edjerle what was your point then
Bada bada bad ting, Jorge with the knee! Love from Nicaragua
I hate the notion of once fighters lose, their career is over. It’s just a loss.
A bad loss, most of the times, can and will destroy a legacy, though.
Sean Strickland is a good example of someone who survived it, but that's because he was seen as cannon fodder for Poatan to begin with. But Askren losing to Masvidal, Masvidal himself getting KO'd by Usman, Usman getting KO'd by Edwards, those were legacy changers. Jose Aldo was champion again, but it was until recently that his legacy wasn't defined by losing to Conor in 13 seconds, and Eddie Alvarez's legacy is still defined by getting punked by Conor, finishing Gaethje, Chandler and Poirier be damned.
No but I reckon people fight to become the best/goats .
2-3 loses depending on the context greatly hinders goat status. Like volk, he’s still a great fighter. But after losing to Islam twice that definitely stained his GOAT potential .
The loss can derailed someone career though...Look at prince Naseem ...
Gotta respect the fighters who wanted to stay active and it didn’t end up going their way. It takes so much guts to wanna fight the best and not just who the fans want but hey man that’s business they still champs in my book
Andy wang not using his black belt level jiu jitsu
MMA Right On Point 💯
You'll never know what you're truly capable of if you don't take chances in life.
When he mentioned almond butter in a protein shake, he showed actual butter 🧈 😂
Love y’all boys
“Former buddy Cody Garbrandt” 😂😂😂
Man I remember grispi. Dude was a phenom
chael sonnen taking PEDs and still losing fights
damn never knew we almost got holm vs rousey 2
Even asking if Ben Askren may have been better than GSP is hilarious
It doesn't really fit the criteria, but nobody took a bigger chance than Lee Murray.
U gotta go where the money is
New list Ideas(event that inspired the most MMA on point list)
Dustin putting a beating on Grispi is one of the most satisfying fights ever in hindsight
Party Dana lmao 🤣
Tony Fegurson’s downfall after the Gaethje fight can be compared to that of Antonio Brown after the Burfict hit. What a fucking sin man. Love Tony, hope he prevails.
lol @ prevails
Truuuue , AB was never the same after that
@@FightXScience-wh6kx i’m a monkey bro stop
When Tommy said khabib vs Tony would've been a showdown, it inspired me to immediately start playing Showdown by ELO, thank you Tommy
100% was planning on putting francis vs tyson if he failed lmao
When you try to please others or do the so called right thing is when everything falls apart
how was chuck going to pride not on this list?
How about Faber asking for the highest ranking possible opponent he can get because of his 2 winstreak and got Yan? Is that a gamble?
Who the hell is Jon Africa?
You could put Dan Hooker Vs Arnold Allen as an honorable mention. Or Hooker just constantly taking short notice fights where he was supposed to lose.
Now you can add Ngannou vs Joshua
I mean to be fair I think taking a massive risk that doesn't pay off isn't necessarily a failure, especially in a someone like Volks case who had a legitimate chance of winning with a full camp (And in many eyes won the first fight) but in case the opportunity never presented itself again he took the fight on 11 days notice, got off the couch and into the octagon and got understandably handled.
Imo we need more Volkanovskis in the MMA world and especially boxing, too many people ducking and avoiding others until they are either mandatory, or just never take the opportunity. People will laugh at Volk and Canelo when they lose in understandable circumstances and then cry when no one takes the slightest risks and calls boxing/MMA boring... like wtf do you want?
Tis the game with Holly. She was winning. Meisha was struggling & finally pulled off the hail mary by getting her down & choking her to sleep. Looked like a clear win for Holly til Meisha found her opportunity. This is how under dogs shock the world just like holly did the fight b4 except holly was winning that whole fight then won vs winning whole fight then getting choked.
Meisha couldn't beat ronda but holly KO' s Ronda then gets choked by Meisha. Mma is a wild game.
Charlie Olives?! Did I hear it right? 😂😅
Does Chuck coming back to fight Tito a third time so long after the fact and getting bodied count?
That fight is non cannon it never happened
for me it was franky edgar going to 135 late. he spent a good few years in 145, when he was able to go to 135 after his lightweight reign
i mean, he couldve gone down to 135 when it was the twilight of dominic cruz and the fallout of Tj. it was free space then. im pretty sure he would win against cody garbrandt
frankie spent his good few years with prime aldo.. when he couldve pulled off a dual wight class championship. and it wouldve been ripe to call mcgregor then. which im confident he can outerestle
7:32 there's no better edit for those us that realize we're never getting Tony/Khabib
I always wondered why the Holme Rousey rematch never happened. But hey, the fight with Cupcake was a great one.... just not great for Holme
Actually I think Frances Ngannou should have just gone into boxing, he would have way more money and would probably be thought of as one of the all time greats
i know i’m early when there’s 1 view & 8 likes 😂
Frankie Edgar fights Ortega, instead of waiting for his title shot - > gets his KO in the UFC
The failure would be to not have taken the risk
I would argue Grispi's biggest gamble had something to do with illegalities.
Did you call him “Wandy?” WTF. His disastrous UFC run? His KO of Keith Jardine is my all time favorite ass whoopin.’
Damn
Kron Gracie risked his families legacy. I think that has the most pressure of them all
Bisping vs Kevin Gastelum?
Ben askren is still the big unknown question. In his prime I still think he would have dominated the division. His body and hips in particular were destroyed by the time he made it to the ufc
Do risks that paid off
Jon jones "I'm good to drive"
Cory vs TJ
True story, i used to train at SSSF with Grispi. He had ankle surgery and wasnt the same afterwards...
Ive never heard it mentioned.
So wanted to put it out there...
God bless all yall!
in what way?
@@lennaymaboyyy4848 , physically, maybe mentally, maybe pain killers. I dont know. I wasnt his training partner. But after the surgery he didnt win again, then that nightmare with his girlfriend happened... his record is evidence of a drastic change... he wasn't the same. Dunno what more you were looking for, he didnt get a Frankenstein foot installed... lol
God bless!
i think Holly Holm is a gym bunny at Jackson Wink. that's what Rousey was alluding to when she mocked Holly's nickname "The Preachers Daughter". she was letting Holm's know that she knew what goes on over there
Heard the same shit about Holly a long time ago , Jon Jones was for sure smashing Holm on the regular 😂
Ayo what’s up
Commenting this post UFC 298:
Yeah with the benefit of hindsight, Volk fighting Islam the second time on such short notice was a HUGE mistake.
Also, Ferguson vs Gaethje is well and truly in the Top 10 saddest MMA moments.
9:55 no, no one gets a pass for that youtuber nonsense.
Don’t do my Volk like this guys
$$ vs damage taken it’s that simple what your price
TONY FERGUSON WILL WIN THE BIGGEST GAMBLE WHEN HE BEATS PADDY BY KO
Number 1: If the UFC was a legitimate promoter in a legitimate sport, a champion taking on a number 1 contender would be the bare minimum for not being stripped of the championship, not a "mistake". I suppose in a "sport" where champions have no requirements or standards, ALL title defenses are mistakes...
I'm assuming you're a boxing fan saying this? Nobody with a brain thinks boxing is legit anymore. The best fight the best in MMA most of the time, Tyson Fury fights Chisora 2 times and gets embarrassed by Ngannou before he fights Usyk😭
@@cattlecumwewlad6941 lol you made an ass of u and ming, I think boxing is more politics than sport. MMA has a long way to go to catch up to boxing, but they're getting there.
Seeing tony lose was awesome IDGAF
Connor's record outside 145 in the UFC is 3-4 lol
I don't think Volk's image has been tarnished that badly, he lost to the champ of the weight class above him twice, that's not the same as losing to someone his size. And due to his height it's not like he's a weight bully or anything, he's at a significant size disadvantage against Islam.
It's not height bully but weight my friend,
He is solid 200lbs and even 2wks to this fight he is 180lbs imagine and he's competing 145lbs. If don't call him weight bully I wonder who will be called.
The guy has reach advantage over Islam too and his height is also a factor in his favor making it hard to control on ground,
YET Islam destroyed him perfectly.
Beating volk even 1 day notice in 3min is not for toddlers.
@@izharulhaqtruthrevealed1185 Not a chance he's remotely heavier than Islam especially when Islam had that Abu Dhabi weigh in. Islam took a fight with every single thing in his favour, against a dude he'd already 'bet' before and the other guy had 10 days notice and was recovering from hand surgery. It's a respectable win because it's Volk but it's nothing impressive.
@@cattlecumwewlad6941FACTS people don’t see these but Volk didn’t train since July he’d a hand surgery he was walking around 180 when he got the call he literally dropped down 27lbs on 10 day’s which is wild he’d no muscles on all he had was a fat belly in the octagon he couldn’t recover at all from that headkick & anybody would have gone to sleep with that headkick when you’re dropping down 27lbs coming off the couch with a belly on you
Alex Volkanovski has left the chat
UFC don't pay well enough to take silly risks like Volk just took.
CM Punk should be on this list. His whole career was a gamble and failed.
Think Woodley should be in there
8:54 A metric tape measure? Sacrilege to Americans
Can't really put wanderlei getting destroyed by Cro Cop on him being the small guy in the ring. He outweighed Cro Cop going into that fight, and he wasn't exactly carrying much fat. He just got decimated by a far superior fighter. Cro Cop could have been fighting at 205 himself.
Nah, volks risk definitely paid off. He went up against a heavier guy twice and once on really short notice… beat max Holloway and made him look like an amateur in their last fight. Definitely proved he’s one of the best of all time. And he’s still going strong. I honestly think he could beat islam if they had a third.
It paid off after the first fight. After this second one, it is too early to say. But if Topuria beats him, and I thought he had a good chance even before Islam knocked Volk out, that would be the textbook definition of a failed gamble.
@@branlopgar not at all, even if topuria beats him he’ll still have that legacy and still be labelled as the one who went up to challenge Islam and arguably beat him. Volk has won the people over, he’s a legend for that.
Goat cheese>famine imo 😊
But it did pay off… he got paid a stupid amount of money
for an awful time lol yeah okay
Volk didn't have to take that fight with Islam. And i really wish that he hadnt did it. If Do Bronx wasn't fit to fight that wasn't Alex's problem. I'm sure he won't do that again.
What about when sage northcutt went to one championship and got his face broken by some dude named Cosmo?
The fact people were talking like Volk actually had a better chance of winning that second fight with Islam when he was going into it is still crazy to me. Idc who you are you don't have higher odds of winning a short notice fight then you would the fight when you had a full camp of preparation. I didn't understand how they didn't understand his odds were much worse that second time.
He even won the polls before their second fight on who people thought would win which was crazy. Charles would have had a better chance to beat Islam that night than Volk would have because Charles had a full camp to prepare. People just thought Volk was superhuman I guess.
I kept saying if he wasn't able to do it with a full camp plus home advantage it was near impossible for him to beat Islam in Abu Dhabi with two weeks notice when he hadn't been training (which is why he was slower than normal) like how could anyone think he had a better chance just because "he's seen Islam fight now and can come up with a solution" not with two weeks he can't duh.
This is the most Cope I’ve ever seen after a fight. The guy got 2 million more than he would’ve got for fighting Jones, so idk how this LOSS was such a good thing
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You, just like so many other Jon Jones fans who are not very smart, ONLY looking at official results and not giving a damn about narratives or appearances. Ngannou 'lost' a decision to Fury that many thought he won (Jones actually has gotten more than his fair share of controversial wins), when he was NEVER expected to compete with let alone arguably beat Fury. Ngannou won in every sense of the word against Fury, he massively raised his stock and name value, expanding his options further.
Dana White and the UFC fumbled the bag with Francis Ngannou.
@@madgavin7568 lmao no they didn’t? The ppv did 500,000 it’s a good one but not nearly fumbled the bag. He lost a decision and did better than we expected. He made it a close fight but lost and now dumbasses like you are trying to use it to hate on the ufc. You don’t have to watch, just watch PFL now instead of complaining soft ass
Still feel bad about volk