First day of training to UFC champion..

[mb23100]

What's the shortest timespan anyone has ever done this not including guys like Brock who wrestled their whole lives prior to MMA.

 

[CI]

one day on UFC EA.

 

[Luthien]

I don't know about training and all that
but Rampage only needed one fight in
the UFC before fighting Champion Chuck

 

[kflo]

Very few modern champs didn’t have some combat sports background or at least many years of training before becoming champ. Volk started late. Francis.

 

[Dreyga Hates You Sherbums]

Does Ronda count?

She did Judi not wrestling

Nicco Montano?? Maybe

 

[Shaddows]

BJ Penn comes to mind.

but I am thinking about his BJJ... he was the first American to win gold at a World Jiu-Jitsu Championship, and if I am not mistaken, in 3 years or so (which is what rendered his nickname as prodigy)


Edit: I stand corrected. From Wiki: "The Prodigy originates prior to him competing in mixed martial arts, from accomplishing his extraordinary feat in the sport of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (earning his black belt in just under three years and winning the black belt division in the World Jiu-Jitsu Championship only three weeks later)"

 

[MMAJunkie]

Frank Shamrock...5 years of training to Champ.

 

[Sweater of AV]

Well if you remove Brock due to wrestling then you have to remove many people, including Jon Jones.

 

[Bullitt68]

DC and Randy Couture comes to mind

Randy is the obvious answer, hence his nickname "The Natural."

Then again, Randy is probably in the same boat as Brock according to the TS as he was also wrestling long before competing in MMA. Plus, as @kflo pointed out, pretty much every MMA champ spent their pre-competition lives still training in some form of martial arts be it wrestling or boxing or karate or what have you. So any arbitrary distinctions are just that.

 

[MetalMilitia]

You mean like.... best "flash in the pan" instances?

 

[thehighking]

Glover Teixeira?
Edit: Nope he was doing BJJ since he was young

 

[Rationality]

Since PRO wrestling isn't even close to wrestling Brock is actually the perfect answer to your question, TS.

 

[Dreyga Hates You Sherbums]

Actually it has to be this man

 

[surgeyou1]

Give Aaron Donald a year and see what happens

 

[gluehuffer1776]

Gane

 

[mb23100]

You mean like.... best "flash in the pan" instances?

Sure. Even a "fluke" would count just not someone who spent their whole lives training a martial art. Maybe the answer is no one.

 

[Mulletenthusiast]

There is a lot of good fighter that started late. Comes to my mind: Francis, Volkanoviski, Marina Rodrigues(she started Muay Thai at 27 ), Alex Poatan(started kickboxing at 21) and Rob Fontes (started mma at 21).

 

[chiefwiggum]

Jon jones

 

[kflo]

Since PRO wrestling isn't even close to wrestling Brock is actually the perfect answer to your question, TS.

Wait - you think brock wasn’t a wrestler?

 

[MetalMilitia]

Sure. Even a "fluke" would count just not someone who spent their whole lives training a martial art. Maybe the answer is no one.

I respect anyone who competes, I don't see it any other way than "look what I can do" --

I did 7 years jits alongside 7 years karate -- 20 years of drinking, 20 years of pool, and 20 years of managing to not lose a limb, a finger, or my life while working with machines that will indiscriminate -- flat out kill you . 20 years of smoke breaks, now that we're here I can't shit on a fighter for stepping in there... literally ever....

Come at me when I was 27/28? I'd fluke you down lol... those days are gone. All I have for the sport is respect and the dedication is insane because even my weak ass training wouldn't save shit.