Best 5 in a row wins ever?

[World eater]

Imagine if he did damage to them as well. It would have been amazing. Still is I suppose.

 

[fedorthegoat777]

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The run from Rua to Vitor is a legendary top 5.

 

[Objectively Correct]

do you guys watch his fights? im losing my mind, his entire fighting style is based on preventing a fight from happening? How the fuck is anyone impressed or a fan of whats happening. What a mystery

 

[oski]

The run from Rua to Vitor is a legendary top 5.

To me, any 5 there really... and that was 5 YEARS IN A ROW!

 

[Portland8242]

Only 1 title defense is fucking bizarre for how insane Merab's resume is.

Goes to show why title defenses aren't that good of a stat at the end of the day. Let's really look at Cruz's resume vs Merab's, the TJ fight (which really could have went either way) and a youngling green DJ are no doubt there, but there's no depth at all to his resume compared to Merab.

 

[Harlekin]

Aldo - past prime 36 year old, retired afterwards
Yan - went 1 - 4 at that time
Cejudo - 37 year old, came out of retirement
O’ Malley - had him hurt in the 5th, Merab avoided a fight for 15minutes
Umar - Close 48-47

 

[Madmartigains]

Fun fact, I bet against Merab in 3 out of those 5 fights.

 

[Tsuli]

If UFC 41 had competent judging, BJ Penn would have had:

Caol Uno (UFC LW title fight)
Prime Gomi (14-1)
Peak Hughes (UFC WW title, Hughes arguably p4p no1 in the world at the time)
Peak Bang Ludwig
Peak Rodrigo at MW (Rodrigo had just beaten Mach Sakurai and was considered one of the best MW on the planet at the time)

That stacks up nicely against anything Merab, Jones, GSP or anyone else has to offer.

 

[Streeter]

Amanda Nunes: Tate, Rousey, Schevchenko, Pennington, Cyborg.

This. Ending Hondas career n the total squash of Cyborg . With 3 other former champs in there as well.

 

[Buff]

Bisping beat Anderson, Luke and Hendo... Trouble is the 2 nervous fights were CB Dolloway, and Thales Leites.

Plus that Hendo win was dubious...

Jones is clear winner ITT.

 

[Bork Neslar]

And some turds here still call him a "bad" fighter.

 

[Meathead Jock]

His next 5 Chael, Gus, Glover, DC & OPS is also better.

No way is that a better 5 fights. DC is an amazing win. But Merab's 2-5 crush 2-5 here.

 

[Bend NvR Break]

So pretending like Aldo and cejudo were in prime shapes when merab fought them.

Merab isn't beating either of those guys in their prime.

Jon beat Vitor, Chael, Gus, Glover and DC each in peak versions of themselves.

 

[Necrocrawler]

Jones:

Glover
DC 1
Gus
Sonnen
Belfort

or

Evans
Machida
Rampage
Rua
Bader

A mix of those two:
Belfort
Evans
Machida
Rampage
Rua
Why? Because technically its a 5 former champion run.
About those two... I think the second one (evans, machida, etc) has more accomplishes, since Bader did a lot of stuff in Bellator

 

[Necrocrawler]

Amanda Nunes: Tate, Rousey, Schevchenko, Pennington, Cyborg.

This one wins easily, tbh

Tate is probably the weakest link. Still... She was a forme strikeforce champion at least.
Rousey got demolished into retirement by Nunes (head movement still echoes at my head since that day)
Schev managed to be the GOAT of her division and still holds the title
Pennington managed to win the title (and should still be with it but judges gonna judge)
Cyborg is Cyborg.

 

[DrRodentia]

do you guys watch his fights? im losing my mind, his entire fighting style is based on preventing a fight from happening? How the fuck is anyone impressed or a fan of whats happening. What a mystery

It's weirdly impressive how dominant, active, and offensive he is while also being one of the least damaging fighters in the game. He's an anomaly.

 

[DrRodentia]

Jones:

Glover
DC 1
Gus
Sonnen
Belfort

or

Evans
Machida
Rampage
Rua
Bader

Pretty wild you can consider multiple 5 fight runs with Jones.

 

[krelianx]

Jones: Shogun, Rampage, Lyoto, Rashad, Belfort is up there...

 

[Luckyme]

All of them decisions and he wall and stalled Aldo for 3 rounds.

That said, those are impressive names and Cejudo and Umar were his best wins.

 

[Bullitt68]

Chuck Liddell won 10 fights in a row between his losses to Jeremy Horn at UFC 19 and Randy Couture at UFC 43, including in order Jeff Monson, Kevin Randleman, Guy Mezger, Murilo Bustamante, Amar Suloev, Vitor Belfort, and Babalu. Then between losing to Rampage in the PRIDE 2003 MWGP and at UFC 71, he won another 7 fights in a row, against Tito Ortiz, Vernon White, Randy (avenging his loss), Jeremy Horn (avenging his loss), Randy again (taking the rubber match), Babalu again, and Tito again.

Shogun's run in 2005 is also still the stuff of legend. He started off knocking out Hiromitsu Kanehara in a minute and a half, which is impressive when you consider that Cro Cop couldn't finish him in 15 minutes, and then he decimated Rampage, won a war against Rogerio Nogueira, and to cap it off knocked out Alistair Overeem and Ricardo Arona in one night.