@@papaburgundy71You may not like the list but blaming this on him alone is a bit much. I'm sure these rankings were a group effort by everyone who works for this channel
@@papaburgundy71lmao, Jason puts together more than a few great videos. About lots of interesting topics, he's also one of the founders I think? You should just go watch ballet or something, you don't know shit lmao
Its not popular but i think Strickland v Izzy is. There is a million arguments against but the fact that Sean's defense was exposed vs Alex and Izzy is one of the best strikers ever made it so shocking that Sean pieced him up. No wrestling, no clinch, just straight striking. KO's and subs can happen from wrong place wrong time but getting beat at your own game for 25 minutes is unreal
sean was trained before the fight by alex. Alex wouldofc address the issues sean had against him and show him izzys weaknesses. Everyone forgets that even though izzy won the rematch, he won from a desperation overhand right that landed. He was getting destryoed worse in the second fight that he was in the first. Alex simply has izzys number and sean implemented what he learned training with him.
For the same reason you pick this fight, I pick Nunes vs Pena. Pena had nothing for her, but Nunes had grown complacent and froze in the face of minor resistance. It wasn't a skill or cardio thing, as demonstrated in the rematch. Just a wild fluke night.
A lot of the recent upsets are reminders that those former dominant champions of the early and late 2010s are getting older and a new generation is creeping in. Always sad to see the older generations leave but I’m excited for the future.
"Average" fighters are getting so much better, this usually happens in sports, as it evolves and more and more people grow up in the sport, you see less dominance. It's why the best baseball teams only win about 70% of their games, and that's extremely elite, most years there isn't any team with a .700 win percentage. Even the "bad" teams in major league baseball are really good, they can beat the best team on a good day.
@@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231 Depends on the sport though. In soccer, dominance is just getting more pronounced than ever on every level due to the monetary imbalance with rich teams getting richer through TV deals and poorer teams and smaller leagues losing their best players earlier.
#1 is the time Anderson Silva almost beat Chael Sonnen. You would think it doesn't count, because he didn't win, but just getting close to beating the undisputed and undefeated GOAT of MMA is worth a mention.
The reason I believe in the multiverse is that I’ve met people convinced that Anderson Silva won that fight. But Chael is still undefeated and undisputed.
This is a video on upsets not comebacks. Anderson was the favourite for that fight, so it wasn't an upset when he won. Obviously its one of the greatest comebacks ever
I think if you go purely on how it was done. The biggest upset has to be the 13 second KO of Jose Aldo. The fact Aldo was unbeaten in nearly a decade. Like its not like people counted out McGregor but 13 second KO was a huge upset.
@@Mafiatunes1 go back to WWE, little boy. McGregor fans are children and the adult ones live in their parents basement and obsess over his money like it's their own. 😂😂
Even if you went off of performance, it would go to Dillashaw vs Barao. TJ was a nobody fighting a guy who was smoking his division. The Mendes/Aldo fight made Jose look beatable and Conor had a nuke for a left hand at featherweight.
I remember being a teenager and so excited for Mirko to come to UFC. I had told all my friends about him and shown them tapes I had gotten. Will never forget watching that happen. Jaw, nearly literally, hit the floor.
Yep, I thought Gonzaga was just a stepping stone to a title shot, I was convinced he was gonna make the UFC his bitch. I think he just had too many fight miles on him, all the punishment came back around. He was still pretty damn good though, he finished his career on a 10 fight winning streak, and a tournament championship.
I was in the arena for it and it was the most deathly silent crowd I've even been part of. Still remember how his leg got stuck underneath him. Gutted.
Yep, I was over at my brother in law's house, we were all partying and having a good time, me and his wife were the only ones paying attention by the main event. Crazy shit.
@@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231 i was staying at my cousins house and we woke up before the costa rockhold fight (5 am) i almost fell asleep before the kick too, crazy times
No one ever talks about little Nog losing to Sokoudjou, that by far is one of biggest upsets. Sokoudjou was a guy no one ever heard of and was literally 2-1 with 2 wins over nobodies, while little nog was a top light heavyweight at the time going 11-2 with wins over guys like overeem twice and hendo, and then when they fight, not only does sokoudjou finish little nog (who had never been finished before) but does it by knocking him out in under 30 seconds. Definately in the top 5 upsets, if not, the #1 upset for me
You can blame this one on the punchers chance. A guy as strong as Sokoudjou just needs to connect one good angle and it's light's out. I personally find it much more upsetting when a champ gets decidedly beat, and its just clear that the other fighter had a more skilful performance (see Nunes or GSP)
@@ypsilonick8738That's true about the puncher's chance. The amazing thing about Sokoudjou is that he followed up his defeat of Lil Nog by beating Ricardo Arona. Having wins over those guys 5 fights into your career is pretty damned impressive no matter how it happened. I was just looking at his Wikipedia page and he also has a win over Jan Błachowicz too.
What's more Lil Nog was a -2500 betting favorite going into the fight. As far as upsets go, its easily the biggest in terms of betting lines as its even bigger than Rousey vs Holm. Sokoudjou was brought in as a layup for Nogueira but my god, it easily tops the list of 'when can crushing goes wrong'.
Sokoudjou was wild. Dude had so much physical ability, everything he did looked explosive. But put him on his back and he forgot which direction was up lol. If he had the training and fight IQ to back up his physical prowess the dude would have been an absolute monster.
The fact Peña actually thought she had a claim for a 3rd fight is crazy. Can’t get over her screaming like a drugged up banshee during Amanda’s retirement speech.
Imo there is no way Barao and Dillashaw is 14. Barao was an absolute machine and was smoking everyone. TJ was a 9 to 1 underdog and no one gave TJ a chance
Not only that, but it was a 5-round, one-sided absolute fkin BEATDOWN, with a finish to top it all off. imo that's WAY more impressive than just a quick flash KO
@@bongologist420 It was so convincing it left no doubt in anyone’s head. I couldn’t believe my eyes. Imo this fight should of been third behind GSP vs Serra and Nunes vs Pena
Maurice Smith is so underrated. He's the first kickboxer to really figure out the wrestling dominant UFC. I feel like people don't mention his fight against Coleman enough. And I can see what you're saying about his record but those loses made him better. Once he started training with Frank Shamrock they both really started to train "mma"
I remember Renan Baraos face in the first fight after the second or third round looking to the guys in his corner, he was totally lost, and would have done whatever they told him to do it was like he could not believe what was going on. I bet he just never learned how to lose, so much of his life and formative years were spent being “the guy”….that great winning streak ended up being a sort of curse.
I'd never thought about Barão not knowing how to lose and I think you're onto something. Until the loss to Dillashaw he was considered one of the best fighters in the world and looked like he had a chance to go down as an all-time great. That one loss not only derailed his career but also seemed to erase everything he'd accomplished up to that point. It's kind of weird in retrospect.
@@BiggieTrismegistus It explains what happened afterwards, Barao attributed the first Dillashaw loss as fluke and when they re-matched it showed in Barao's performance as he didn't look any better than last time, it was very much a repeat performance from Dillashaw. Barao's confidence was completely and utterly destroyed by what TJ did to him, and even when he wasn't fighting TJ from then he had poor performances even against middling competition, losing more often than not.
Sean beating Izzy by decision was 14-1 odds biggest upset in history. Izzy’s losses don’t take away from the fact him winning the way he did was 14-1 odds
@@AnglephileSwedenGermanhe really didn't he was back and forth between unranked guys and top ten guys and got it because of short notice and because izzy said so and he called the shots at his weight class.
Rockhold v Bisping 2 is blatantly the biggest upset of all time, he had one eye, spent the camp losing weight, all 2 weeks of it and Luke was battering everyone including Bisping who he choked to death a year earlier. Doesn't even make the list, astonishing..
I’d love to see you make these kinds of videos longer! Your content is very entertaining with loads of underground knowledge that keeps me dialed in. I appreciate the work you guys put in, it helps me forget about what I got going on life
Man, griffin's win over shogun is rarely given the respect it deserves. Griffin had just lost to Jardine via KO, while shogun had lwon the middleweight gp in pride by destroying overeem and arona in the finals !!!!
Cro Cop vs Ganzaga was one of the first UFC fights I ever watched live. I remember my dad hyping him up and showing me Pride highlights. My dad used to rent the UFC vhs tapes at blockbuster, its crazy how the sport has changed
Crazy how I attended 4 of the biggest upsets in ufc history and my first even ever was #1. I remember Juliana finishing Amanda was just ridiculous everybody in the arena went crazy
@@mfc5808 Nunes vs. pena 1 Edwards vs. usman 2 Schevcheno vs. grasso Rose vs Esparza. My favorite moment I’ve seen live will always be the edwards knock out. That moment was so unexpected and crazy
In that matter serra victory. That win was all on Matt, Matt popped st Pierre good. The punches that hurt him was attributed to his power and not over confidence by st Pierre.
Agree, love GSP and he is a better fighter, but I hate when a guy like him loses and they talk about what he did wrong, not what Serra did right. Just weird to me.
Carla beating Rose when she already had a finish win over her is a bigger upset than Bisping KOing Rockhold on 17 day notice when he got headkicked and choked out in their first fight??? Idk who picked the entries but wtf
I’m surprised Bisping v Rockhold 2 wasn’t on here. Bisping was short notice, got ko’d in the first fight, and legit only had one eye n still pulled it off by ko
I think what makes Strickland v Izzy an even bigger upset is the style. Nobody should be able to make a Philly shell work in mma, and parrying strikes is insane when you can get a kick launched at you from the same side, but Strickland makes it all work and has some of the best defensive stats in MW, gave Izzy a crazy low accuracy stat
Look forward to the mike bell video this week lmao What a joke of a judge. That mf shouldn’t be able to judge a dance recital let alone a UFC main event 10-8 in the fifth for 90 seconds of domination is one of the most egregious score cards I’ve ever seen
Yeah, it sucks, but I’m almost certain he did it because he realized he misscored round 4 for Shev and felt he had to fix it. It sucks that it had to happen like this, but the right person left with the belt at the end of the day
Leon Edwards is up there for most satisfying upset, to me. To watch that cringe flip flopper get dropped cold SO CLOSE to history and not achieve it was fantastic. 😁
I can agree with the #1 pick. Matt Serra still had a wealth of experience to draw from in comparison with Peña, even if his fight was just as seemingly hopeless against GSP. Peña's upset against Amanda truly felt cosmic in every regard
I just want to mention DDP vs Reaper as a non-title upset. That was insane, Robert was just outclassed the entire time and he was the 3rd greatest middleweight of all time in his prime.
Hey guys great analysis as always um Jason told me to follow Luke on a website and I went to it and I thought it was weird but I looked him up despite the big ***** ***** and best of luck with all that but personally I exited my tab and continued my bloons tower defense IV run
Dillashaw vs Barao 1 is still one of my favourite fights, Dillashaw was untouchable in that fight, immaculate performance. Dillashaw just schooled him everywhere. Also Sapp is an asshole for trying to piledrive big nog.
man, I've been an mma fan for a long time and was a huge fan of Pride, Mirko being my favorite. I convinced some friends to check out mma and was going on and on about how my boy Mirko was about to tear through the division and be the new champ in no time 😑
The way I see it, what I do to measure and evaluate how big of an upset a fight was, is that I imagine myself going back in time and telling past me the result; how I'd respond. That's why I think Gonzaga v Cro-cop is the greatest. I was ten thousand percent sure Mirko would come and dominate the UFC, I was a pride evangelist and couldn't shut up about the talent in Japan. I hyped up everyone I knew to watch it and told them how superior and more taxing and higher level the grand prix system was, kept saying his fight with Fedor in 2005 was the greatest fight ever, taught them about the Left Leg Cemetery stuff, showed his face off with the Axe Murderer and the KO... and etc... If I told past me not only the result but also how it would happen, past me would laugh present me all the way to the psych ward.
Leon winning was the worst thing to happen to the WW division. The man has 2 highlight reels from the past few years and one of them is him getting rocked by Diaz. The guy has always been inactive
Didn't help that the UFC never really cared about him and contenders like Covington and Masvidal ducked and ridiculed him. Leon deserved to beat Kamaru when those two obnoxious loudmouths couldn't do it, and he honestly deserves to beat Colby for ducking him back in 2021 and getting the title due to Dana White privilege, not his own merit.
Serra beating GSP should be #1 WMMA and Heavyweights are filled with upsets. GSP was a dominant and well-rounded fighter. Matt Serra had won a TV game show.
Even if andersons record gets beat i doubt anyone will do it as well as he did, it was truly special to watch that man perform and nobody has the same aura as prime anderson imo.
I feel like couture Liddell should have got at least an honorable mention. The fact that couture beat Liddell at his own game in his prime was so wild.
I remember watching Usman vs. Edwards II and my jaw hit the floor the same time Usman’s did. I never thought Leon had a chance to pull it off. Absolutely wild upset.
Mma on point using the word "Fluke," is a bit disappointing. You win some, and you lose some. Mma is so unpredictable, that's why I love it, but I hate when people call a fight a fluke
Lil Nog vs Sokoudjou? Randleman vs Cro Cop? Lawal vs Newton? Griffin vs Shogun? Griffin vs Jardine? Liddell vs Jardine? Liddell vs Couture? Alexander vs Jardine? I’m sure there’s more that I haven’t mentioned that aren’t as well known to many fans.
Nate vs Conor 1 is always my favourite upset fight. I was at an outdoor Irish drinking garden when everyone lost their shit that their favourite lost and I'm imitating Diaz with my arms up, flexin 😂
Grasso can actually box to back up her grappling and bjj. She Weidman'd the champ. I know she didn't look that flashy coming up, but it became more and more evident later on even when she lost. Not sure how people didn't see that.
Holm-Rousey is the GOAT. who doesn't remember where they were when that happened..? people literally thought that Rousey might be able to take Floyd Mayweather before this happened.
I can understand putting Nunes vs. Pena at #1 instead of gsp-sera..both the rematches proved that they were fluke upsets, but the biggest thing to consider is that nunes established herself as the GWOAT by the time she fought pena. Gsp was a fresh new champion and gained GOAT status after retaining. Adesanya-strickand deserves to be in the top 5 though..
It’s a good point but I would disagree because you could still see SOME path to win for Peña if she was aggressive used her wrestling even though it was a slim chance. Matt Serra ve GSP Matt literally had no way to win he as a Ju Jitzu guy with ok wrestling short reach etc and Matt Hughes couldn’t even take down GSP like there was no way for Serra to win
@@chrisreveal88 Not really, the dude has essentially changed his Alias multiple times over the last two decades and now has a job trying to sell shitty picks to people. I’ve been forced to watch him enough to know he is so horrifically full of shit that he isn’t losing draftkings hardly any money, but making them considerable money. This last season of contender series he ended like 2-20. I’m not joking. I genuinely think he is there to try and sound smart and mislead people into placing losing bets
Great video. But you seem to think bookies choose their odds based on past performances. They don't. Their odds are based on how much money has been bet. So if a fighter is -600, it means a lot of money has gone on that fighter and the bookies are trying to limit potential losses. And if more and more money goes on the fighter, the odds go lower and lower.
It's a huge change of perspective to say years later that Weidman seems to have a chance, fans who lived that time knows that he appeared to be a goat for sacrifice to Anderson.
One thing that people get stuck up on when talking upsets is gambling odds. But there's a difference between an upset on the books, and the size of an upset in perception.
Holm knocking out Rhonda is still one of my favorite and most satisfying UFC knockouts ever! That, Hendo flat-lining Bisping, and both Dillashaw KOs of Cody!
I think namajunas vs Esparza is by far the biggest upset since it seemingly upset the entire mma fan base at the time.
Rose sucks
Casual alert ⚠️ 📢
Anyone that thought that was gonna play out differently 😂😂
@@440-fishermandrock8 lmao easy to say in hindsight.
@@440-fishermandrock8he meant that fans were upset as in frustrated, it was a joke
@@440-fishermandrock8get a load of this clown
No Rockhold vs Bisping 2? Bisping coming in on 17 days notice and he got finished in the first fight.
Bumping this comment. Even crazier when, with hindsight, the dude had ONE eye...
THIS 🔝
Jason makes the worst content of all the MMA on Point guys, im surprised they keep him around.
@@papaburgundy71You may not like the list but blaming this on him alone is a bit much. I'm sure these rankings were a group effort by everyone who works for this channel
@@papaburgundy71lmao, Jason puts together more than a few great videos. About lots of interesting topics, he's also one of the founders I think? You should just go watch ballet or something, you don't know shit lmao
Its not popular but i think Strickland v Izzy is. There is a million arguments against but the fact that Sean's defense was exposed vs Alex and Izzy is one of the best strikers ever made it so shocking that Sean pieced him up. No wrestling, no clinch, just straight striking. KO's and subs can happen from wrong place wrong time but getting beat at your own game for 25 minutes is unreal
I don't completely agree, but you make a damn convincing argument, lol
sean was trained before the fight by alex. Alex wouldofc address the issues sean had against him and show him izzys weaknesses. Everyone forgets that even though izzy won the rematch, he won from a desperation overhand right that landed. He was getting destryoed worse in the second fight that he was in the first. Alex simply has izzys number and sean implemented what he learned training with him.
Izzy I don’t think took
Him serious… be interesting what adjustments Izzy would make as I don’t think Sean is going to change a dang thing
recency bias
@@andu1854but that's what you think though how are you so sure that izzy didn't take him seriously unless you were there in the camp.
The Namajunas Esparza fight wasn't an upset, it was just upsetting
It made me pretty happy cause rose is annoying as fuck
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For the same reason you pick this fight, I pick Nunes vs Pena. Pena had nothing for her, but Nunes had grown complacent and froze in the face of minor resistance. It wasn't a skill or cardio thing, as demonstrated in the rematch. Just a wild fluke night.
A lot of the recent upsets are reminders that those former dominant champions of the early and late 2010s are getting older and a new generation is creeping in. Always sad to see the older generations leave but I’m excited for the future.
Lol shut up
"Average" fighters are getting so much better, this usually happens in sports, as it evolves and more and more people grow up in the sport, you see less dominance. It's why the best baseball teams only win about 70% of their games, and that's extremely elite, most years there isn't any team with a .700 win percentage. Even the "bad" teams in major league baseball are really good, they can beat the best team on a good day.
@@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231 we the fans are the winners.
@@imjustsam1745we eating good man
@@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231 Depends on the sport though. In soccer, dominance is just getting more pronounced than ever on every level due to the monetary imbalance with rich teams getting richer through TV deals and poorer teams and smaller leagues losing their best players earlier.
Headshot dead still gives me goosebumps to this day, one of the greatest sports moments of my life
#1 is the time Anderson Silva almost beat Chael Sonnen. You would think it doesn't count, because he didn't win, but just getting close to beating the undisputed and undefeated GOAT of MMA is worth a mention.
The reason I believe in the multiverse is that I’ve met people convinced that Anderson Silva won that fight. But Chael is still undefeated and undisputed.
Chael is undefeated. That's straight from the bad guys mouth
@@andrewschneider2121Even if the multiverse exist Chaels greatness would make him undefeated in every universe.
This is a video on upsets not comebacks. Anderson was the favourite for that fight, so it wasn't an upset when he won. Obviously its one of the greatest comebacks ever
@ohtebowah what ? Silva didn't won that fight, otherwise that would mean that chael isn't undefeated. Which is not true.
I love how unpredictable this sport can be
I hate it. I lose a lot of money on bets 😅
I think if you go purely on how it was done. The biggest upset has to be the 13 second KO of Jose Aldo. The fact Aldo was unbeaten in nearly a decade. Like its not like people counted out McGregor but 13 second KO was a huge upset.
How does McGregor taste?
@@randlemarshhe’s speaking facts
@@Mafiatunes1 go back to WWE, little boy. McGregor fans are children and the adult ones live in their parents basement and obsess over his money like it's their own. 😂😂
Even if you went off of performance, it would go to Dillashaw vs Barao. TJ was a nobody fighting a guy who was smoking his division. The Mendes/Aldo fight made Jose look beatable and Conor had a nuke for a left hand at featherweight.
Agreed, also still angers me how one of the greatest of all time was caught like that!!
I remember being a teenager and so excited for Mirko to come to UFC. I had told all my friends about him and shown them tapes I had gotten. Will never forget watching that happen. Jaw, nearly literally, hit the floor.
I'm with you, I was a cro cop cheerleader and pride fan boy trying to convince my UFC biased friends about the talent in Japan...then this.
Yep, I thought Gonzaga was just a stepping stone to a title shot, I was convinced he was gonna make the UFC his bitch. I think he just had too many fight miles on him, all the punishment came back around. He was still pretty damn good though, he finished his career on a 10 fight winning streak, and a tournament championship.
Pride never dies!!!
I was in the arena for it and it was the most deathly silent crowd I've even been part of. Still remember how his leg got stuck underneath him. Gutted.
Ive rolled with him before. He made me feel like a toddler
i'll never forget the shock from leons ko
Real
Yep, I was over at my brother in law's house, we were all partying and having a good time, me and his wife were the only ones paying attention by the main event. Crazy shit.
@@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231 i was staying at my cousins house and we woke up before the costa rockhold fight (5 am) i almost fell asleep before the kick too, crazy times
No one ever talks about little Nog losing to Sokoudjou, that by far is one of biggest upsets. Sokoudjou was a guy no one ever heard of and was literally 2-1 with 2 wins over nobodies, while little nog was a top light heavyweight at the time going 11-2 with wins over guys like overeem twice and hendo, and then when they fight, not only does sokoudjou finish little nog (who had never been finished before) but does it by knocking him out in under 30 seconds. Definately in the top 5 upsets, if not, the #1 upset for me
You can blame this one on the punchers chance. A guy as strong as Sokoudjou just needs to connect one good angle and it's light's out.
I personally find it much more upsetting when a champ gets decidedly beat, and its just clear that the other fighter had a more skilful performance (see Nunes or GSP)
@@ypsilonick8738That's true about the puncher's chance. The amazing thing about Sokoudjou is that he followed up his defeat of Lil Nog by beating Ricardo Arona. Having wins over those guys 5 fights into your career is pretty damned impressive no matter how it happened.
I was just looking at his Wikipedia page and he also has a win over Jan Błachowicz too.
@@ypsilonick8738McGregor vs Alvarez and Strickland vs Sissy
What's more Lil Nog was a -2500 betting favorite going into the fight. As far as upsets go, its easily the biggest in terms of betting lines as its even bigger than Rousey vs Holm. Sokoudjou was brought in as a layup for Nogueira but my god, it easily tops the list of 'when can crushing goes wrong'.
Sokoudjou was wild. Dude had so much physical ability, everything he did looked explosive. But put him on his back and he forgot which direction was up lol. If he had the training and fight IQ to back up his physical prowess the dude would have been an absolute monster.
The fact Peña actually thought she had a claim for a 3rd fight is crazy. Can’t get over her screaming like a drugged up banshee during Amanda’s retirement speech.
She beat the fuck out of Nunes and finished her. That often deserves a rematch.
@@mariofatovic6521she did get a rematch and Nunes destroyed her
Peña was nowhere near deserving of a 3rd title fight
Imo there is no way Barao and Dillashaw is 14. Barao was an absolute machine and was smoking everyone. TJ was a 9 to 1 underdog and no one gave TJ a chance
100%
Not only that, but it was a 5-round, one-sided absolute fkin BEATDOWN, with a finish to top it all off. imo that's WAY more impressive than just a quick flash KO
@@bongologist420 It was so convincing it left no doubt in anyone’s head. I couldn’t believe my eyes. Imo this fight should of been third behind GSP vs Serra and Nunes vs Pena
I think Edwards V Usman 2 is the biggest, no one gave Leon a chance and he managed to pull it off, one of the best moments in combat sports ever
And now he's the most inactive champ.
@@Djangorechained12 Colby shouldn't be getting the title shot.
Maurice Smith is so underrated. He's the first kickboxer to really figure out the wrestling dominant UFC. I feel like people don't mention his fight against Coleman enough. And I can see what you're saying about his record but those loses made him better. Once he started training with Frank Shamrock they both really started to train "mma"
That last bit is a huge part of Smith's legacy. He and Frank Shamrock training across disciplines was a a key moment in the development of MMA.
So many upsets this year, love it
The UFC seems to be especially entertaining this year. I don't know if that's just my perception but I'm not complaining. So many memorable moments.
MMA's such a crazy unpredictable sport
I remember Renan Baraos face in the first fight after the second or third round looking to the guys in his corner, he was totally lost, and would have done whatever they told him to do it was like he could not believe what was going on. I bet he just never learned how to lose, so much of his life and formative years were spent being “the guy”….that great winning streak ended up being a sort of curse.
I'd never thought about Barão not knowing how to lose and I think you're onto something. Until the loss to Dillashaw he was considered one of the best fighters in the world and looked like he had a chance to go down as an all-time great. That one loss not only derailed his career but also seemed to erase everything he'd accomplished up to that point. It's kind of weird in retrospect.
@@BiggieTrismegistus It explains what happened afterwards, Barao attributed the first Dillashaw loss as fluke and when they re-matched it showed in Barao's performance as he didn't look any better than last time, it was very much a repeat performance from Dillashaw.
Barao's confidence was completely and utterly destroyed by what TJ did to him, and even when he wasn't fighting TJ from then he had poor performances even against middling competition, losing more often than not.
Sean beating Izzy by decision was 14-1 odds biggest upset in history. Izzy’s losses don’t take away from the fact him winning the way he did was 14-1 odds
Don't underestimate the UFC hype machine my friend. Odds aren't everything.
A lot of these MMA critics don't like Sean Strickland.
It’s not the biggest upset can’t just go off odds lol. Matt Serra vs GSP was a way bigger upset same with Randy vs Tim Slyvia
I still have Serra/GSP at one bc he wouldn't have ever sniffed the belt if he didn't win TUF. I have Strickland/Izzy in my top 5 tho
Strickland top 1 let's be honest, serra got lucky d'sean worked his way up
@@AnglephileSwedenGermanhe really didn't he was back and forth between unranked guys and top ten guys and got it because of short notice and because izzy said so and he called the shots at his weight class.
I agree. Juliana has had a significantly better overall career than Serra, so his win against one of the goats (in his prime) is still #1.
Rockhold v Bisping 2 is blatantly the biggest upset of all time, he had one eye, spent the camp losing weight, all 2 weeks of it and Luke was battering everyone including Bisping who he choked to death a year earlier. Doesn't even make the list, astonishing..
What about Nate Diaz’s defeat over Conor McGregor?
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I’d love to see you make these kinds of videos longer! Your content is very entertaining with loads of underground knowledge that keeps me dialed in. I appreciate the work you guys put in, it helps me forget about what I got going on life
Important thing to remember about the Nunes/Peña fight is that Nunes just got over covid which explains why she was far from 100%
Do what your television tells you to do! Fauchi is king!
@@randlemarshOh.
What about Rockhold vs Bisping 2? How can you NOT include that one?????
I know, not even in the honourable mentions.
Mirko vs Gonzaga is still the biggest upset for me, by far. Fucking shocking outcome.
I was watching it live. I could hardly believe it. I thought MC's knee was hosed, the way he fell.
I love mma so much man. I love underdog victories. A lot of these upsets have truly made the history of the sport so much more incredible.
Dude, where is Werdum v Velasquez? NOBODY had Werdum winning that fight in the lead up. Definitely should have been on the list.
Man, griffin's win over shogun is rarely given the respect it deserves. Griffin had just lost to Jardine via KO, while shogun had lwon the middleweight gp in pride by destroying overeem and arona in the finals !!!!
Yeah, I made a similar comment. And then he goes on to take the title from fellow Pride alum, Rampage, in another win that was just as surprising.
I love everyone from MMA On Point, but Jason is on a different level. I love it when he narrates.
Honesty, there all great
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Cro Cop vs Ganzaga was one of the first UFC fights I ever watched live. I remember my dad hyping him up and showing me Pride highlights. My dad used to rent the UFC vhs tapes at blockbuster, its crazy how the sport has changed
I was just thinking an update to that older video was warranted after the last couple years
Should definitely be revisiting old uploads more often 🔥
Always top content. 👊🇺🇸
Barao vs Dillishaw. I've never had my jaw dropped more than that fight
Crazy how I attended 4 of the biggest upsets in ufc history and my first even ever was #1. I remember Juliana finishing Amanda was just ridiculous everybody in the arena went crazy
🫵🏻 u bad luck
We can be anything on the internet!
What 4 upsets did you attend?
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Nunes vs. pena 1
Edwards vs. usman 2
Schevcheno vs. grasso
Rose vs Esparza.
My favorite moment I’ve seen live will always be the edwards knock out. That moment was so unexpected and crazy
@@davidmanzano9050 that’s so cool! You were there for some great moments!
In that matter serra victory. That win was all on Matt, Matt popped st Pierre good. The punches that hurt him was attributed to his power and not over confidence by st Pierre.
He was so accurate in that fight.
Agree, love GSP and he is a better fighter, but I hate when a guy like him loses and they talk about what he did wrong, not what Serra did right. Just weird to me.
I remember watching it live going, “hey, not bad. He’s doing pretty good.”
Great list lot's of great fights and upsets here
It was nice watching a video on this channel that doesnt cram corny jokes and comic book references every 45 seconds. Good video
Carla beating Rose when she already had a finish win over her is a bigger upset than Bisping KOing Rockhold on 17 day notice when he got headkicked and choked out in their first fight???
Idk who picked the entries but wtf
I’m surprised Bisping v Rockhold 2 wasn’t on here. Bisping was short notice, got ko’d in the first fight, and legit only had one eye n still pulled it off by ko
Cro Cop vs Randleman considered a upset or just a surprise since it was a left hook vs the best MMA kickboxer at the time
Damn the production of this channel. How have they not burnt out yet? Kudos.
I literally thought jason had left the channel i feel like its been so long
He's narrated several videos recently
He’s the boss (no literally)
@@gudea5207I thought Tony Danza was the boss. 🤔
@@JohnbobonI always thought it was Angela, but Community has a great episode breaking down that debate
Cejudo got the decision, but he definitely didn't win the fight.
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You finally got to use the actual footage of those fights.
Great
Great number 1 choice. I didn’t see that coming
Great video
I think what makes Strickland v Izzy an even bigger upset is the style. Nobody should be able to make a Philly shell work in mma, and parrying strikes is insane when you can get a kick launched at you from the same side, but Strickland makes it all work and has some of the best defensive stats in MW, gave Izzy a crazy low accuracy stat
Bisping vs Rockhold 2 is easily a top 5 upset given the circumstances
"I'm just trying not to get all hyperbolistic."
You, sir, are doing violence to the English tongue. That's a 10-8 round over language.
18 year old me still remembers that moment live when Gonzaga sent Mirko to the Shadow Realm...CHILLS
No mention for DDP vs Whittaker? I can’t think of a single person who had Du Sexy in that fight
Look forward to the mike bell video this week lmao
What a joke of a judge. That mf shouldn’t be able to judge a dance recital let alone a UFC main event
10-8 in the fifth for 90 seconds of domination is one of the most egregious score cards I’ve ever seen
Yeah, it sucks, but I’m almost certain he did it because he realized he misscored round 4 for Shev and felt he had to fix it. It sucks that it had to happen like this, but the right person left with the belt at the end of the day
at the time gonzaga vs cro cop had me completely flabbergasted, I cant think of someone getting takin out with their own finisher
Leon Edwards is up there for most satisfying upset, to me. To watch that cringe flip flopper get dropped cold SO CLOSE to history and not achieve it was fantastic. 😁
I can agree with the #1 pick. Matt Serra still had a wealth of experience to draw from in comparison with Peña, even if his fight was just as seemingly hopeless against GSP. Peña's upset against Amanda truly felt cosmic in every regard
What? Peña had been in the UFC since 2013. She was at pretty much the same experience level as Serra when they won their titles.
It felt like the earth stopped turning when Pena beat Nunes. Never in a million years could you have predicted it.
I just want to mention DDP vs Reaper as a non-title upset. That was insane, Robert was just outclassed the entire time and he was the 3rd greatest middleweight of all time in his prime.
Yup I totally agree with that no.1
Good list, can see a point
I dont know if anyone has noticed that we have clips to enjoy with the commentary thats amazing
Hey guys great analysis as always um Jason told me to follow Luke on a website and I went to it and I thought it was weird but I looked him up despite the big ***** ***** and best of luck with all that but personally I exited my tab and continued my bloons tower defense IV run
Dillashaw vs Barao 1 is still one of my favourite fights, Dillashaw was untouchable in that fight, immaculate performance.
Dillashaw just schooled him everywhere.
Also Sapp is an asshole for trying to piledrive big nog.
Love the graphic under Penn that spells his name out “Bee Jey Penn”😭😭😭😭😭😭
Holly vs Rhonda being such a "huge upset" blows it way out of proportion. Anyone that wasn't a casual knew that Holly was way out of her league.
What about when the Average Bloke beat the Samurai via Left Hook Larry?
man, I've been an mma fan for a long time and was a huge fan of Pride, Mirko being my favorite. I convinced some friends to check out mma and was going on and on about how my boy Mirko was about to tear through the division and be the new champ in no time 😑
The way I see it, what I do to measure and evaluate how big of an upset a fight was, is that I imagine myself going back in time and telling past me the result; how I'd respond. That's why I think Gonzaga v Cro-cop is the greatest. I was ten thousand percent sure Mirko would come and dominate the UFC, I was a pride evangelist and couldn't shut up about the talent in Japan. I hyped up everyone I knew to watch it and told them how superior and more taxing and higher level the grand prix system was, kept saying his fight with Fedor in 2005 was the greatest fight ever, taught them about the Left Leg Cemetery stuff, showed his face off with the Axe Murderer and the KO... and etc...
If I told past me not only the result but also how it would happen, past me would laugh present me all the way to the psych ward.
Calling a person winning a fight a fluke is the joke, not the odds. It's a win.
Y'all should do a non-title fight upsets
Leon winning was the worst thing to happen to the WW division. The man has 2 highlight reels from the past few years and one of them is him getting rocked by Diaz. The guy has always been inactive
Didn't help that the UFC never really cared about him and contenders like Covington and Masvidal ducked and ridiculed him. Leon deserved to beat Kamaru when those two obnoxious loudmouths couldn't do it, and he honestly deserves to beat Colby for ducking him back in 2021 and getting the title due to Dana White privilege, not his own merit.
Can you guys do a video on “Does Izzy deserve a rematch”. Seems to be back and forth in the community
Serra beating GSP should be #1
WMMA and Heavyweights are filled with upsets. GSP was a dominant and well-rounded fighter.
Matt Serra had won a TV game show.
The biggest upset I've ever seen was Kimbo losing to Petruzelli in 15 seconds
I don’t understand how you can have grasso vs shevshenko as a bigger upset than Usman vs Edwards. Edward should be way higher
Even if andersons record gets beat i doubt anyone will do it as well as he did, it was truly special to watch that man perform and nobody has the same aura as prime anderson imo.
the about different viewing angles with dat guy who couldnt see straight was nutz 😆
Glad to see you not getting succumbed to the recency bias
Holms celebration after KOing Rhonda is my top UFC moment ever
Nice 1
I feel like couture Liddell should have got at least an honorable mention. The fact that couture beat Liddell at his own game in his prime was so wild.
I remember watching Usman vs. Edwards II and my jaw hit the floor the same time Usman’s did. I never thought Leon had a chance to pull it off. Absolutely wild upset.
Mma on point using the word "Fluke," is a bit disappointing. You win some, and you lose some. Mma is so unpredictable, that's why I love it, but I hate when people call a fight a fluke
This list is the undisputed champion of CZcams MMA Videos
Lil Nog vs Sokoudjou?
Randleman vs Cro Cop?
Lawal vs Newton?
Griffin vs Shogun?
Griffin vs Jardine?
Liddell vs Jardine?
Liddell vs Couture?
Alexander vs Jardine?
I’m sure there’s more that I haven’t mentioned that aren’t as well known to many fans.
We all love to forget Hall vs Mousasi 1 even myself sometimes.
Nate vs Conor 1 is always my favourite upset fight.
I was at an outdoor Irish drinking garden when everyone lost their shit that their favourite lost and I'm imitating Diaz with my arms up, flexin 😂
Grasso can actually box to back up her grappling and bjj. She Weidman'd the champ. I know she didn't look that flashy coming up, but it became more and more evident later on even when she lost. Not sure how people didn't see that.
“NO MAN THAT BEATS OFF TO CARTOONS IS GONNA BEAT ME”
Dj is emphatically goat status 100%
Holm-Rousey is the GOAT. who doesn't remember where they were when that happened..? people literally thought that Rousey might be able to take Floyd Mayweather before this happened.
Amanda vs Cyborg with a beat down so violent it almost looked criminal. The upset might not have been huge but the manner of it was shocking.
I can understand putting Nunes vs. Pena at #1 instead of gsp-sera..both the rematches proved that they were fluke upsets, but the biggest thing to consider is that nunes established herself as the GWOAT by the time she fought pena. Gsp was a fresh new champion and gained GOAT status after retaining. Adesanya-strickand deserves to be in the top 5 though..
It’s a good point but I would disagree because you could still see SOME path to win for Peña if she was aggressive used her wrestling even though it was a slim chance. Matt Serra ve GSP Matt literally had no way to win he as a Ju Jitzu guy with ok wrestling short reach etc and Matt Hughes couldn’t even take down GSP like there was no way for Serra to win
You guys should try and do a deep dive on Gianni The Greek from contender series because that guy is is a greaseball charlatan
Interesting. Any videos out youve seen? Im not into gambling at all. Legit interested
@@chrisreveal88 Not really, the dude has essentially changed his Alias multiple times over the last two decades and now has a job trying to sell shitty picks to people. I’ve been forced to watch him enough to know he is so horrifically full of shit that he isn’t losing draftkings hardly any money, but making them considerable money. This last season of contender series he ended like 2-20. I’m not joking.
I genuinely think he is there to try and sound smart and mislead people into placing losing bets
Great video. But you seem to think bookies choose their odds based on past performances. They don't. Their odds are based on how much money has been bet. So if a fighter is -600, it means a lot of money has gone on that fighter and the bookies are trying to limit potential losses. And if more and more money goes on the fighter, the odds go lower and lower.
Nice video, boys. 🎉
It's a huge change of perspective to say years later that Weidman seems to have a chance, fans who lived that time knows that he appeared to be a goat for sacrifice to Anderson.
One thing that people get stuck up on when talking upsets is gambling odds. But there's a difference between an upset on the books, and the size of an upset in perception.
I'm not sure what the difference is. The odds are based on the public's perception.
Holm knocking out Rhonda is still one of my favorite and most satisfying UFC knockouts ever!
That, Hendo flat-lining Bisping, and both Dillashaw KOs of Cody!