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Matt Hamill over Jones
Forgotten Upsets.
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Ferrozzo over Tank, that was a big upset at the time
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Holy fuck, +1 for you.According to Tapology, RDA was +400 when he beat the crap out of Pettis. Now it seems like a normal and expected victory, but damn...
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MMA is packed with believers. Stephen's Thompson's weak showing against Till pumped his status by a huge degree.
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Wow!!! Thanks for the nostalgia.....how about keith jardine vs forrest Griffin?
Yep, was just watching this fight on YouTube the other night. Vitor looked scary AF and of course No Known Weaknesses, but Randy weathered the early flurries and took him out with some great rasslin and dirty boxing.Randy beating vitor the first fight was a huge upset at the time.
Vitor looked like a steroid science experiment for that fight. His piss would have melted thru USADA'S plastic cup.
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He didnt even have a neck lol. Yoked to the gills you might say. Think he was 20 at the time
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Just imagine if those two fought today the outcome? Iol
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I forget about and am still amazed to think back that Forrest Griffin beat Shogun
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Junior Dos Santos makes Werdums ears wiggle in his UFC debut
That's a good one. Ref really took his sweet time stopping it once he got over there
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Damn, totally forgot about that one. Surprised no one thought of it. That's high on my list of all-time upsets. I was screaming
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I love it when threads like these are made and everybody posts shit that nobody in the thread has forgotten and probably won't forget for a number of years since they pretty much just happened. Either that or I'm unfairly overestimating noob knowledge of MMA history. In any event, for a real forgotten upset: Tra Telligman over Igor Vovchanchyn at PRIDE 13.
At PRIDE 13, Igor was scheduled to fight Ken Shamrock but Ken got hurt and had to pull out of the fight. On short notice, Tra Telligman stepped up and upset one of the most feared killers in MMA. At the time, Igor was 45-3, and in the six years prior to PRIDE 13, Igor's only loss was to Mark Coleman in the finals of the PRIDE 2000 GP. And in his most recent fight, Igor had notched an official win over Mark Kerr after their previous fight ended in a No Contest due to Igor not realizing that kneeing to the head of an opponent on all fours wasn't allowed. Telligman, meanwhile, entered that fight 6-3-1 and on a two-fight skid having been knocked out by Pedro Rizzo and decisioned by Carlos Barreto.
Nobody in the fucking universe would've picked Telligman to even make it to the cards, much less beat Igor, but he turned in the performance of his career, fought an excellent fight, and took the UD over Igor in a super underrated fight in general and one of the best forgotten upsets in particular.
At PRIDE 13, Igor was scheduled to fight Ken Shamrock but Ken got hurt and had to pull out of the fight. On short notice, Tra Telligman stepped up and upset one of the most feared killers in MMA. At the time, Igor was 45-3, and in the six years prior to PRIDE 13, Igor's only loss was to Mark Coleman in the finals of the PRIDE 2000 GP. And in his most recent fight, Igor had notched an official win over Mark Kerr after their previous fight ended in a No Contest due to Igor not realizing that kneeing to the head of an opponent on all fours wasn't allowed. Telligman, meanwhile, entered that fight 6-3-1 and on a two-fight skid having been knocked out by Pedro Rizzo and decisioned by Carlos Barreto.
Nobody in the fucking universe would've picked Telligman to even make it to the cards, much less beat Igor, but he turned in the performance of his career, fought an excellent fight, and took the UD over Igor in a super underrated fight in general and one of the best forgotten upsets in particular.
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I didn't even bother buying it because the match up didn't excite me much. I was just refreshing Sherdog's live scoring. I was in shock.
Forrest was +260
Jardine beat Chuck by decision in the main at +280 that night as well
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While some people have referenced recent fights, there's also a ton of posts that talk about fights that happened 10-15 years ago. There are plenty of WEC and PRIDE examples being thrown out there. Pride 13 was 18 years ago. That means if someone on the forum is 30-years-old (which is probably above the average age) they would have been 12-years-old when that event happened. Lets not act like a bunch of people on here were around for that and should remember fights that happened that long ago.
Your choice is a good one and you had interesting background information to share. Why bash other posters?
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First, I've still got a week until I turn 30, but you don't see me using age as an excuse (for hardcore fans, age is just a number
). Second, nowhere was it specified that "forgotten" was limited to upsets each individual viewer may have forgotten about from their own personal MMA viewing history. If that were the case, then I'd be limited to fights from 2005 on.Not to go Crocodile Dundee on you, but that's not bashing. That was more of a call-out, a nudge for people to dig deeper and not just use the topic as an excuse to talk about upsets they like, or that featured fighters they're big fans of, etc. I mean, Dillashaw/Barao? RDA/Pettis? Seriously? We're talking about fights that have happened within the last few years? Who the hell forgot about those?
Telligman over Vovchanchyn is my obvious go-to. For another forgotten upset, how about Jason Delucia kneebarring Masakatsu Funaki in Pancrase?
Delucia, of course, had challenged Royce Gracie in one of the most famous "Gracie Challenge" matches. After being summarily vanquished by Royce, Delucia became a serious student of grappling and ultimately became one of the first truly well-rounded MMA fighters. He competed in the alternate bout at UFC 1 and then competed in the main draw at UFC 2. After seeing him in the first two UFCs, Ken Shamrock was impressed with how well-rounded he was; he got Delucia in at the Lion's Den and then got him a fight in Pancrase.
Funaki, one of the co-founders of Pancrase and one of the very best grapplers around, had planned to "carry" Delucia in their match, i.e. he'd planned on holding off on finishing Delucia and allowing the fight to last more than just a minute or two to allow him to give a good showing, to let the fans get a good introduction to him, etc. However, he seriously underestimated how good Delucia was. Delucia stopped his initial TD attempt, fought hard to stay on top, stuck with his leg attack, and locked him up in a kneebar.
Funaki was worried about finishing Delucia too fast, so he'd planned to carry him to make the fight last longer; instead, Funaki himself got tapped in a minute
And then, having listed one PRIDE upset and one Pancrase upset, now for a forgotten UFC upset: Ricco Rodriguez over Randy Couture at UFC 39. Ricco was tearing through the HW division at the time, but Randy was the undefeated man whose only loss was to a roiding Barnett who'd just had the title taken away from him. That was Randy's title. But then in comes Ricco and he doesn't just beat Randy, he outwrestles and outGNPs him. Ricco beat Randy to the shoot and initiated the wrestling game, and his shot was too fast and too powerful for Randy to stop. Then, on the ground, Ricco was just way too good for Randy to do anything but hold on. And he couldn't even do that because Ricco was just beastly with his strength and conditioning at the time, training with Tito and Team Punishment, so he just blasted through Randy's defense without ever slowing down on his attack for even a second for nearly the full 25 minutes; after figuring out Randy's game through the first two rounds, Ricco absolutely took it to him for the next 2+ rounds until he broke Randy's orbital bone and forced the verbal submission in the fifth and final round.
To this day, I say that the Ricco Rodriguez that ran through the UFC HW division is the most underrated fighter in MMA history and I say that, other than the Cro Cop who won the OWGP, the Ricco that beat Randy at UFC 39 is the only fighter who I wouldn't just pick to put up a good fight against prime Fedor but who I'd actually pick to win.
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If I recall correctly Chris Leben was a decent underdog when he defeated Akiyama in a war... right?
