Any fighters with a redemption story?

[Rvd Slmr]

everyone feeling sorry for him.

That's not the vibe I got, many posters are straight-up treating him like a joke and a washed-up bum.

 

[superpunch]

Jorge Masvidal

 

[Eric Silva 2.0]

Was there ever a fighter who was hated or was a failure but they turned things around and they were able to reach a new levels of success and popularity?

Rumble

 

[dildos]

That's not the vibe I got, many posters are straight-up treating him like a joke and a washed-up bum.

Deep down they are sorry, and acknowledge the fall from greatness that he had.

 

[Oxycodone]

Vitor comes to mind. Had a bad streak after his sister died, then turned it around, got some big wins in Affliction and tore the UFC up again to challenge for a couple belts.

 

[Oxycodone]

Clay Guida's whole career is a roller coaster of being loved and hated by the fans, getting top wins and losing to random people. He could have an amazing performance and a dreadful fight in the same calendar year. The Maynard fight still haunts me.

He got a lot of shit for the SD in the Melendez fight as well.

 

[The Chosen]

Bj penn for sure - went from being the greatest fighter in the world and hated for it, to getting knocked out by drunk fat guys and everyone feeling sorry for him.

I don’t see the redemption here

 

[Satan's Daddy.]

Bisping: from getting k.o.ed by Henderson to k.o. Rockhold and win the belt in the process

Everybody acts like that means something, when a gust of wind could ko rockhold.

 

[A.S. Deep]

A lot of people have hated Tito over the years.

But now he's a respected city council member.

And we all know where that leads to...

 

[Raymundo Alvarado Guevara]

maybe Whitaker when he was a WW and then change to MW to be the beast that all love/hate

 

[Mike]

Everybody acts like that means something, when a gust of wind could ko rockhold.

Maybe now, sure. At the time Rockhold was the #1 mw on a good run.

 

[Genisys]

A lot of people have hated Tito over the years.

But now he's a respected city council member.

He's a city council member. That is true.

 

[RogerB08]

Robbie Lawler enjoyed a nice resurgence toward the end of his career after a prolonged period of basically just being a guy who showed up to lose a lackluster decision for a paycheck.

 

[G10]

"Stun Gun" DHK went through this. When he came into the UFC, his style was much more inline with a wrestle-grappler, and many fans thought he was boring. Then, when he fought this young whipper-snapper named Erick Silva, he showed off this brand new, wild, power-punching game. His next few fights saw him KO people with spinning shit, and fans no longer saw him as a boring wrestler but an exciting brawler.

 

[kalabula]

DC was hated for quite a while. Not sure why.

 

[waldywaldy]

Minowaman

Started his career 2-9-3, had an average journeyman career at MW going 41-30-8 before winning the Dream Super Hulk Grand Prix and becoming mma royalty

 

[Koimpact]

Matt Brown went from having problems with his meth addiction to fan-favourite

 

[g*r*b]

Mark Hunt was doing do poorly that when the UFC bought Pride they were going to pay him NOT to fight.

 

[Stranger Come Knocking]

Left Hook Fuckin Larry!

 

[dildos]

I don’t see the redemption here

He was hated for being the best in the world and got love and support and sympathy for getting dropped by a drunk fat guy.

what do you not understand??