Sakuraba's loss to Tamura.
=> Saku is my all time favorite, and during all his carreer his fans wanted him to fight his rival Tamura (who used to bully him in their pro-wreslting days). But Tamura wanted nothing of it.
And finally, when Saku was completly shot, a much healthier Tamura (who didn't fight as much, took less damage and generally fought against lesser competition) accepted the fight, and won a boring decision.
Man, was I bummed... I so wanted it to be Sak's last fight, that would have made a great retirement win to end a great career. :icon_sad:
Mir/Nog2
=> The first fight was a real bummer, but since Big Nog was sick during it we fans had much hope for a rematch. Weird thing is, before that fight I liked Mir, I remember him as a humble guy who said several times during the TUF season that it was a honor to fight Nogueira, win or lose blabla... and when he beat him he started talking trash, and I actually rooted (for the first, and only time of my life) for Brock during their 2nd fight.
Anyway, when the rematch happened, Nog immediatly rocked Mir, started to pummel him on the ground, we started screaming in joy, and when it seemed that he had the fight in the pocket...
he stopped his gnp to go for a sub (why? we will never know, the common belief is that he wanted to submit Mir to prove a point), got caught, arm broken, and my heart with it :icon_sad:
CroCop/Gonzaga
=> I think enough people explained it.. for us who followed Mirko' K1 career, then his Pride run, we just wanted him to go trough that "Gonzo dude" and fight Randy Couture, and become the UFC champ.
Got brutally KTFO with a high-kick (which made it even sadder), fell with his leg under him (that's probably the only thing in MMA that makes my cringe every time I see it.. that leg...
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) and he was
never the same after that.
There are many others, but I think it's my top 3.