Help List Fighters with Bad/Terrible Records that Got UFC contracts

I'm curious about fighters who had bad to terrible records that ended up getting UFC contracts at some point.

I'll start:

Edward Faaloloto was 2 - 1 - 0 when he got his contract.

Ikuhisa Minowa was 12 - 11 - 6 when he had his first UFC fight

John Lober was 3 - 5 - 2 when he got not only a UFC fight, but a title fight.

Kazushi Sakuraba was 0 - 1 - 0 when he had his first UFC fight. He would go on to win a UFC tournament.

Mark Hunt was 5 - 6 - 0 when he got his UFC contract. He has gone 4 - 2 - 1 since and is top 10 ranked.

Matt Brown was a meager 7 - 6 - 0 when he got his UFC contract. He has gone 12 - 5 since.

Maurice Smith was 5 - 7 - 0 when he made his not only UFC debut, but first UFC title shot (he won!).

Neil Seery was 12 - 10 - 0 when he got his UFC contract

Vernon White was 20 - 23 - 1 when he had his first UFC fight.

Who else?

 

Mark Hunt

 

pretty much half the women's division

 

Neil Seery

 

Takenori Sato, where 95% of your opponents don't even have wiki pages.

 

haha. mcgregor's fought 16 times and only three of his opponents have a wiki page. seriously, that dude's fought some nobodies. but he's definitely got a winning record.

 

5/33 for Sato.

 

I once took the time to read the criteria for a fighter to get a wiki page. And they are suppose to have like 3 fights in a "major org." "Major Org" was not really defined as I recall.

 

Edward Faalaloto.

 

The ones that do have wiki pages are like

45-37

 

Amir sadollah had a 0-0 pro record before the ufc.

 

James Toney hadn't even won in MMA!

 

Wilson Gouveia was 6-3 when he made his debut

 

Does BJ Penn count?

No? OK.

 

I don't think that qualifies

 

How are the records of the TUF China guys who made it to the UFC?

 

Vernon White

 

95% of chinese fighters. 95% of womens fighters

 

Minowaman: 12–11–6
Sakuraba: 0-1

 

Why not? I remember watching him make his debut and thinking "why did they bring in a guy who has lost a third of his fights?" They threw him directly onto the main card of a tuf finale and at that time there had only been a handful of free cards on television so it was a pretty prestigious position for a seemingly underachieving individual