"Baptism by fire"-toughest MMA debuts

[Chas]

I found the winner, his name is Yuji Nagata

Yuji Nagata has only fought twice: A prime Cro Cop in his debut and then a prime Fedor.

EDIT: Someone found him before me! Well played sir.

Yeah...in post #1 :icon_chee

 

[Chas]

Why are people mentioning Brock Lesnar? He debuted against a 2-5 Min Soo Kim.

Unless you're talking UFC debuts.

 

[Paralakz]

Andre Gusmao's UFC debut was against the GOAT, yo.

 

[Gaffeln]

Akira Corassani (FW) fought Cormiers bext opponent Dion Staring (HW) on like a days notice in his debut...crazy!!

 

[bellend]

Struve has had the hardest road ever in the UFC.

 

[Elysianwing]

Nastula is the winner easily.

Debuts in June of '05 at 35 years old, against Big Nog, proceeds to fight Aleks, Edson Drago(who was undefeated and a solid prospect at the time), and Josh Barnett by October '06.

And he did well in all of those fights, he was extremely close to beating Barnett with a leglock at one point, if I remember correctly.

Nobody had a harder first 4 fights than Pawel.

 

[emelianenkoNog]

Joe Warren


Dong Sik Yoon

Two guys that are underrated, not just their debuts but almost every fight in their careers have been absolute murderers rows. I still have my passport to the Dongbar nation in case he ever decides to come back