Favorite Nogueira comeback victory

[HHJ]

IT IS ACTUALLY ILLEGAL TO VIEW THIS THREAD WITHOUT ROCKING NOG'S THEME!!!!

 

[Chomsky Honk]

Tim Sylvia, I love the grappling sequence that happens right before Big Nog gets the Guillotine it's so cool so awesome so rad

Edit: Thanks HHJ for helping me embed

 

[HHJ]

Tim Sylvia, I love the grappling sequence that happens right before Big Nog gets the Guillotine it's so cool so awesome so rad

Tim got baited pretty good. What sucks about being that big is you cant move quick enough to escape shit like this

 

[HHJ]

I am actually havin a hard time picking between Sapp and Mirko.

I felt he was closest to death in the Sapp fight but once Sapp got tired, Nog just took over.

Against Mirko he was in danger the whole time and turned it around, but didnt take as bad of a beating as in the Sapp fight.

Gonna go w Sapp then

 

[HHJ]

Schaub was when Nog was old but was a feel good moment for all the world

 

[HHJ]

 

[Ludwig von Mises]

Great thread. Its hard to choose because all of these wins were truly iconic in their own way.

Sapp was a fight to the death where Nog could have legit died and came back in triumphant fashion in front of 60 fans.

Mirko was special too because of how elite and how fierce of a fighter Mirko was at the time who was melting guys like kicking their heads into the 18th row.

Tim was a great win too because Nog had came to the UFC after many wars and was clearly well past his best days. If he was a car he would have had over 150k miles on heem by that point and was getting his brains beat in by Tim- a guy U FIGHT CHEAP fans were claiming that the Pride guys had to beat to prove their legitimacy. In classic Minotauro fashion Big Nog took his beating like a man and came back to submit Tim and become a UFC champion.

The Schaub fight was special because by this point Big Nog had like 300k miles on heem. He had hip surgery, knee surgery, probably had CTE from all the beatings and was half blind in one eye. To add even more pressure to Nogs plate this fight was in Brazil where a loss to a chump like Schaub would have been a hard pill to swallow. Don't get me wrong Schaub was a good fighter but his personality made it hard to see Nog losing to heem and Nog went out there knocked his head into the 18th row.

Gun to my head if I had to rank them I'd say

1.Sapp because of the violence
2.Cop because of the resilience
3.Schahb because of Nogs mileage
4.Tim because UFC fans claimed he was superior

 

[CashMoney1991]

Sapp, dude was getting thrown around and was undersized big time

 

[HHJ]

in front of 60 fans.

 

[FreddieRoachsVoice]

The 3rd Heath Herring fight aka the one that turned him into Zombie Nog. Nog was absolutely lighting Heath up in the first round and then he eats a shin to the face that would have probably ended most fighters' careers. Insanely gutsy performance and Nog was never the same after this

 

[HHJ]

The 3rd Heath Herring fight aka the one that turned him into Zombie Nog. Nog was absolutely lighting Heath up in the first round and then he eats a shin to the face that would have probably ended most fighters' careers. Insanely gutsy performance and Nog was never the same after this

Oh yes this was true, the kick may have just been the straw that broke the camels back. How much damage can one human being take?

 

[JKS]

I really liked the Sylvia one

 

[don't ask]

I went with CroCop. I'm a fan of his, but I'm a fan of Fedor and Big Nog more and it was satisfying to see him run into a ceiling while still performing his best.

 

[Thepaintbucket]

The odds weren't looking so good for him vs Crocop. If his fights with Fedor could not convince you of his heart, the fight with Crocop sure did

 

[HHJ]

The odds weren't looking so good for him vs Crocop. If his fights with Fedor could not convince you of his heart, the fight with Crocop sure did

I watched this fight live. Fedor was in the crowd and they said hed beaten Nogueira already for the belt and i was like ....


how the fuck can someone beat nogueira if Mirko couldnt do it???

I gotta watch this guy!!!! I gotta see this fight!

Exciting times god damn

 

[Mammothman]

Schawb for me, I'm not from the pride era

 

[BabyBlue_Bomber]

I wouldn’t consider the Schaub fight a comeback, because I don’t really recall him ever being in any real trouble in that one (I could be wrong)…

Still voted for it because I watched that fight with a bunch of friends and I was the only one saying Noguiera was going to win…

 

[HHJ]

I wouldn’t consider the Schaub fight a comeback, because I don’t really recall him ever being in any real trouble in that one (I could be wrong)…

Still voted for it because I watched that fight with a bunch of friends and I was the only one saying Noguiera was going to win…

True. Nog is not a fighter for the faint hearted.

Alot of TUF Gnubs were predicting his downfall and us true diehard MMA fans would hate nothing more than to see Big Brown take our guy out like he did Mirko.

Plus Nog's always been a sort of hittable guy that stands in front of you and it really looked like he was gonna pay for that here now that he was slower and didnt have his epic chin, but he got through !

 

[Laheys'Liquorland]

Comeback against Sapp was awesome.

Biased because I'm a huge Cro Cop fan but nothing but respect to his victory over Mirko.

 

[Bowel-forged Stool]

“The hybrid in the white trunks” in reference to Schaub is hilarious