Losers that did better than expected

cody against cruz
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Artem last weekend against Cub. Fully expected Cub to walk through him.
 
Yoon Dong Sik vs. Rampage Jackson

Hirotaka Yokoi vs. Nog

Bu Kyung Jung (whatever) vs. Aoki

Nik Lentz vs. Chad Mendes

Kevin Burns vs. Rumble (1)

Charuto vs. Hughes
 
Yoon Dong Sik vs. Rampage Jackson

Hirotaka Yokoi vs. Nog

Bu Kyung Jung (whatever) vs. Aoki

Nik Lentz vs. Chad Mendes

Kevin Burns vs. Rumble (1)

Charuto vs. Hughes
Yoon- dong has always been a tough out..
 
Yoon- dong has always been a tough out..
He's one of the only guys to completely redeem himself after a shitty debut.

Sakuraba- of all people- tko'd him in 30 seconds. Dong was clearly caught off guard and kinda froze, and I dismissed him as some scrub who would fold in a heartbeat.

But, much like Nick Diaz's loss to Jeremy Jackson, inexperience definitely played a role. He just didn't know how to handle being attacked with strikes like that.

Dong partially redeemed himself by going the distance in a very tough fight with Makimoto. But that was a unique matchup between two judokas. Rampage was a different story.

When he was booked to fight Rampage, I was positive tht he was gonna get knocked out in a minute. Instead, he gave him hell for 20 minutes. After a few more fights (Manhoef!), I knew which performance was the fluke.


Same goes for Yoshida vs. Wanderlei. Yoshida was still undefeated, but I thought he would fold.
 
Bisping vs Chael
Sonnen vs Silva
Rua vs Lyoto
Miocic vs JDS
Hominick vs Aldo


All these were pretty big underdogs at the time.
 

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