Guys who beat World Famous fighters early in their careers.

[Buff]

Randy Couture vs Enson Inoue

Randy won so many belts he has a room for them in his giant house.

Will all respect to Enson, I don't think he would argue that Randy had the better career.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Matt Hammill made an absolute mess of Jon Jones' elbows with his head.

 

[qw3rty]

BW Assuncao beat BMF GOAT and WW top 5 Masvidal.

 

[TR1]

Hamill brutalized Jones.

 

[Buff]

Nick Thompson beating the piss out of Eddie Alvarez

Mayhem almost dying in his early days to Todd Carney:

Nate "The Great" making a schoolboy error vs a legit Genki Sudo:

Young Machida vs young Rich Franklin

 

[Plastikman_Eire]

Trained for a bit with RFT in Rio in 2010, and there was guy named Luciano Azevedo who beat Aldo, before Aldo went on his reign of terror.

 

[Blicious]

Joe Lauzon is still around
It wasn't early in career but he wasn't supposed to beat Lil Eagle

Insert Goldie gif

 

[NicholasJBasile]

Anyone else remember the "who's that Lyoto guy?" era of Machida's career? Also I guess this wouldn't quite fit the bill but worth mentioning that Tibau beat Khabib according to most people's scorecards -- wasn't very early in Khabib's career though and not everyone thought it was a bad decision.

 

[Koimpact]

Sokoudjou beat Lil Nog and Arona within his first 5 fights

 

[Buff]

Sokoudjou beat Lil Nog and Arona within his first 5 fights

Not just best but destroyed them both...

And then nothing. Whatsoever.

I don't get how that even happens.

 

[Roy D Rayge]

Frank Shamrock beat Bas in his '94 debut in Pancrase. Bas was 3 time king of pancrase at the time and became a future UFC HW champ.

 

[Local Plata]

Sokodjou killed Arona and Lil Nog.

 

[Buff]

Forrest Griffin made catching a triangle on Uncle Chael popular:

 

[Hotora86]

Yuriy Kochkine, primarily a Kyokushin Karate guy with a 7-4-1 record vs (mostly) cans beat Overeem... TWICE.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuriy_Kochkine

 

[SouthSide971]

The guys who beat ngannou is still training hard and he is not even 25 yo,give him tome

 

[Jean-MMA]

Francis Ngannou lost his second fight against a french Guy named Zoumana Cissé

Only 5ft11 but boy, this guy can take a hit. He ate Frank's bombs like it was nothing.

Cisse went 13-2 after that ,UFC should sign him for UFC France

 

[Gatti111]

Luiz Azeredo decisioned a young Anderson Silva in 2000

A few guys submitted Conor Mcgregor in Ireland back in 2008.

what happens to these guys? They get real jobs as a plumber and construction worker and then brag in a bar they beat Anderson Silva and Conor Mcgregor and no one believes it until they google it?

Uh, one of them fights in the UFC.

 

[Hotora86]

https://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Artemij-Sitenkov-10155
Sitenkov beat Conor with these pants on:

 

[Bill Laimbeer]

Joe Lauzon is still around
It wasn't early in career but he wasn't supposed to beat Lil Eagle

Isn’t it Little Evil? I had to check it is “little evil”, for a second I thought I lived whole life a lie.

 

[weaselkenievil]

Isn’t it Little Evil? I had to check it is “little evil”, for a second I thought I lived whole life a lie.

He’s probably referring to Goldie saying lil eagle soars again! A classic goldie moment which has become a legend on here.

Some really good picks in this thread, well done sherbros.