Sharpest decline you've seen from one fight to the next?

[0-1]

Has to be within a reasonable timeframe, so fighters retiring and then coming back several years later don't count.

 

[CallMeCasual]

Johnny Walker

 

[Alphakennybody20]

Johnny hendricks, and Robbie Lawler

 

[SwiftHennessy]

Marlon was closing shows early before got finished by Henry, didn’t look great in that fight.

 

[Kaiserjuan]

Well, Johnny Trimoune is surely one of them

 

[AmericanMMA]

Brandon Vera was the next big thing after he smoked Mir at UFC 65. He was undefeated and his hype so high people legit were saying he could hold HW and LWH belts at the same time. Then he got smoked by TIMMEHHHHHH and beat up again by Werdum...

I bought into the hype tbh. Guy looked electric.

 

[vengeful]

Vitor vs. Henderson
Vitor vs. NSAC

 

[Kaiserjuan]

Anderson Silva

 

[Dave Poodle]

Condit seemed to fall off a cliff after the classic against Lawler. Few months later he was put down by Maia in the standup and never won again.

 

[Crackerjack]

Has to be within a reasonable timeframe, so fighters retiring and then coming back several years later don't count.

Gustafsson between Glover and Jones II - looked like a killer then looked like he forgot how to strike or get up.

 

[AmericanMMA]

Also shout out to Todd Duffe for having a 7 second KO and and being undefeated, only have have his career derailed by the hammer fist of doom.

 

[SmoothPies]

 

[BananaManPoo]

Karlos Vemola

That dude was another one of those "next biggest things" after the way he destroyed Petruzelli. Then, he lost his next fight in a very boring way, and was basically never heard of again. I just looked up his fight finder and he recently was on a 11 fight winstreak, before getting KOed in his last fight. Still, he's 16-2 is his last 18 fights and the guy never got the call again.

 

[WHALEWOLF]

Ben Askren?

 

[austincredible76]

Mark Hominick stands out to me. Won 5 in a row, lost a title fight to aldo and retired after losing 4 more straight after that.

 

[Man_in_Black]

Wandy and CroCop declined from Pride to UFC.
Some of my fave fighters that saw a pretty fast sharp decline:
Chuck, Condit, BJ, Kongo, Hunt, and of course Diego declined from weird to super-weird at a pretty good clip

 

[FedorGOAT]

Fabricio Werdum after Cain Velasquez fight. In that fight he was looking like a world beater with genius level fight IQ, After that fight the drop off in his performance was enormous.

 

[Alphakennybody20]

Vitor's body aged like 10 years between fights <Lmaoo>

 

[Fatback96]

Good thread idea TS.

I’d have to say either Hendricks or Barao.

 

[peterparker66]

Good thread idea TS.

I’d have to say either Hendricks or Barao.

Came here to say these two .