Do you think an MMA fighter can ever get a 50-0 record?

[jeskola]

This guy almost had it!


Oh wait....

 

[Tweak896]

Easily if they do it outside UFC or UFC starts switching to boxing matchmaking. You already see if UFC likes some fighters they can guarantee a win streak almost.

Only Anderson Silva has 16 wins in a row in UFC. So that's the real stat to break. Once you get top 10 level the fights start to slow down, UFC has to hype and build up fights, then you have to do longer training camps for harder opponents. The only guys who can get frequent fights are guys like Cowboy or Holland, so you have to be ranked in the middle.

 

[MindGamingMantis]

Too many ways to get injured while training. It would never happen. 35-0 is different. 40-0 is still too much.

 

[ElLunico]

Who knows but it'll be very difficult because how grueling MMA TRAINING is on the body. MMA training is just brutal on the body compared to boxing

 

[Dr. Rose]

Even arbitrarily going to 50-0 would be very hard, when there so many ways to lose in a MMA fight. It's not easy to mount a streak like that even against average fighters.

You do not think that Jones could go 50-0 if he was on a regional circuit and never left? Or GSP? I think they would more likely do it than not in that scenario.

The main reason why it doesn't happen is not the numerous ways of losing but their desire to fight better competition.

 

[Ares Black]

I mean Khabib is the closest to that, I wonder if he kept on fighting how long it would have took him to lose finally.

He would pretty much have to beat a top 5 guy till he reached 50-0.

I don't think it could ever happen, not like in boxing.

It's just too many variables and uncertainties for it to manifest.

It's theoretically possible, but it would have to be an even more padded than Khabib's

 

[Lee Danger]

hold my Acai.

 

[joy2day]

To be good enough to have a 50-0 record, you would have to be an elite fighter; otherwise, you would get caught somewhere in those 50 fights by an average or mediocre fighter that got a win by puncher's chance. If you were elite, it is highly unlikely you are going to stay at a very low level for long enough to be 50-0, and once you stepped up the competition, you would be likely to lose eventually well before you got to 50 wins.

lol bringing up Khabib; he was barely over the halfway point when he retired.

Undefeated teams or people usually have a story behind them. Marciano retired when he was young, and the competition wasn't very tough during his boxing era. The Miami Dolphins are the only NFL team to go undefeated in a season including playoffs, but they played one of the weakest schedules ever in the regular season. It has more to do with circumstance than anything. Fighters lose when they get older, that's pretty much how it goes.

 

[JBJ was here]

No one said it'd be easy, but if it can be done in boxing of course it can be done in MMA.

Fight booking in boxing is completely different than fight booking in MMA. Boxing promoters -- i.e., the fight bookers -- are essentially agents for their fighters, with boxing organizations being completely separate belt sponsors. Clearly that's not how MMA works, with one of the resulting differences being that, while MMA organizations have some incentive to coddle prospects on their way up, there's not really any incentive to book a couple of dozen squash matches for a fighter who's reached their peak.

It's also simply much less realistic for an MMA fighter to fight every couple of months for years on end than it is for a boxer to do the same.

 

[Blastbeat]

yeah i could do it but i dont wanna, dont feel like it today
trust me bro

 

[Slapjit]

Mi yute Big Mac prolly culd him 29-0 all first rd kos nuh retired jus on hiatus rn him prolly come back soon tho bet

 

[tgv976]

Very hard. Possible but not probable. Even Mayweather got a gift decision in the Juan Luis Castillo fight which he lost. Jones you could argue got the same vs Reyes and Khabib bowed out too early to enjoy his life as a LHW.
An extremely talented fighter with a padded record who fights a lot can make it a possibility, but the mathematical probabilities must shrink a lot with the multitude of ways you can lose in MMA.

 

[Fight Professor]

MMA fighters are too inactive to have 50 fights before falling out of prime.

 

[AmonTobin]

As of others have already stated, it could be done but it would be the most micromanaged, manufactured record and the most ludicrously protected fighter. We'd be fully in pro boxing or pro wrestling territory at that point. I don't think the fans would stand for it.

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

You do not think that Jones could go 50-0 if he was on a regional circuit and never left? Or GSP? I think they would more likely do it than not in that scenario.

The main reason why it doesn't happen is not the numerous ways of losing but their desire to fight better competition.

Regional circuit? It's possible but incredibly hard imo. Too many variables even if your fighting weaker competition.

But if you want be elite and excel against the best, it's pretty much impossible to go 50-0. If it does happen than bump this thread again. lol I'll be happy eat crow and be happy to see someone that amazing that probably be the GOAT if it ever happened.

 

[Prince Nephilim]

Nothing is impossible but the odds are heavily stacked against you in MMA especially in the UFC.

Khabib ran or smartly retired because he knew eventually he could not keep doing what he was doing.

Just another reason why I respect Fedor and Anderson Silva so much more. Even after losing their titles and suffering devastating defeats they still fought serious competition undeterred.

 

[TheComputerGuy]

Fight booking in boxing is completely different than fight booking in MMA. Boxing promoters -- i.e., the fight bookers -- are essentially agents for their fighters, with boxing organizations being completely separate belt sponsors. Clearly that's not how MMA works, with one of the resulting differences being that, while MMA organizations have some incentive to coddle prospects on their way up, there's not really any incentive to book a couple of dozen squash matches for a fighter who's reached their peak.

It's also simply much less realistic for an MMA fighter to fight every couple of months for years on end than it is for a boxer to do the same.

In boxing you fight who they say or they take the title. You don't lose the title because you switch promotions. You don't get to hold out to fight a guy 45 that retired 5 years ago.

 

[Necrocrawler]

I mean Khabib is the closest to that, I wonder if he kept on fighting how long it would have took him to lose finally.

He would pretty much have to beat a top 5 guy till he reached 50-0.

I don't think it could ever happen, not like in boxing.

It's just too many variables and uncertainties for it to manifest.

The closest we got was actually “japa” going 31-0 by cancrushing

If u disagree
Well…
Then we need to reformulaste the question in getting 50-0 by facing legit competition

Otherwise, we may see some cancrusher getting that by facing a lot of cans

 

[SalvadorAllende]

Yeah.. some can crusher will make it to it if they did not already.

I remember that Julio Neves kid in Bellator.. signed when he was like 30-0 or something.

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

The closest we got was actually “japa” going 31-0 by cancrushing

If u disagree
Well…
Then we need to reformulaste the question in getting 50-0 by facing legit competition

Otherwise, we may see some cancrusher getting that by facing a lot of cans

Even if you fought cans it's still very hard to go 50-0. Like I said before there so many variables especially in MMA fighting.

If it was something that is possible, than we would've seen it already.