Most surprising domination?

[Fedorgasm]

What was the most surprising dominant performance you've seen?

Fights where you were absolutely convinced a fighter would win, and they wind up getting dominated?

And by dominate, let's exclude one-punch flukes or even quick submissions. Anyone can get caught by those. But we're talking about several rounds of just stuffing your opponents attacks, making them look helpless.

For me it was Bigfoot vs Fedor.

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

Crocop vs Gonzaga I

 

[Noveltymortar]

Strickland vs Izzy comes to mind.

 

[Lord Pyjamas]

Crocop vs Gonzaga I

You just had to do that didn't you!
It left me numb just sitting in front of the screen.
My brain just did not know what to do with it.

 

[Lord Pyjamas]

Crocop vs Gonzaga I

Hey we should cherish those moments too!
Without them life would become too boring after all!
(except for Conor trolling and then knocking out Aldo, our brains don't need that shit!).

 

[SamuraiBro]

Topuria vs Mitchell was kinda surprising at the time

 

[TadDunbar]

Cain vs. JDS 2 after the first fight nobody really gave Cain much of a chance.

Pettis vs. RDA

 

[b00tysweat]

Garbrandt v Cruz

 

[Lycandroid]

when Renan Barao lost his title to Dillashaw

 

[VinceArch]

Frankie-BJ 2. First fight was definitely close and that was more than enough to give BJ yet another title shot. I had faith Frankie would win again but not as easy as he made it seem.

 

[Reach4theSky]

Dennis Hallman finished Matt Hughes twice!

2-0 baby!

 

[Chomsky Honk]

First thought was Garbrandt vs Cruz

 

[AFewDollarsMore]

Cain jds2
Izzy stricllkland
Couture Sylvia
Couture liddel 1

 

[JustOnce]

when Renan Barao lost his title to Dillashaw

This. No one saw this coming. Barao was 34-1, he was nearing Fedor territory undefeated for nearly a decade, and TJ lost a couple fights ago. I don't think anything comes close before and after, how big of an underdog he was, how unlikely the victory was, and how much of a beatdown it was.

This was a PROLONGED beating. Dillshaw on EPO ruined many careers, I bet.

He's disgusting.

 

[Blanqa Blanqua]

First thought was Garbrandt vs Cruz

good example. Remember Jack Black's analysis beforehand? lol, bro self pwnd



Fluffy mauling Pereira on the weekend was a bit that way for me. Really just beat his ass so viciously and beautifully. I was rooting for Fluffy and man did he put on a show.

 

[WoozyFailGuy]

First thought was Garbrandt vs Cruz

when Renan Barao lost his title to Dillashaw

Both of those come to mind, 135 kept looking like it had invincible champions for a while before they would get decimated. Hope the trend continues.

Izzy/Strickland. Sean could have theoretically posed problems for Izzy, but his plodding, always forward footwork seemed to be tailored made for Izzy to eventually land on. Ended up the worst modern dogwalking of the decade so far for a champ, with strickland completely shutting down any attempt at a leg kick game from izzy and pressuring him every second of the fight. That first big overhand he landed on izzys dome must have rung his bell terribly.

Was that the hardest punch Strickland has ever landed?

 

[The Siege]

What was the most surprising dominant performance you've seen?

Fights where you were absolutely convinced a fighter would win, and they wind up getting dominated?

And by dominate, let's exclude one-punch flukes or even quick submissions. Anyone can get caught by those. But we're talking about several rounds of just stuffing your opponents attacks, making them look helpless.

For me it was Bigfoot vs Fedor.

The dawg should be saying Charles v Islam, cuz the voting was about 75/25 in favor of Charles or something lopsided like that. I remember the fighter picks were also lopsided as fuck in favor of Charles.

It was reasonable to pick Charles to win based on his accomplishments, but people acted like Islam was some unranked scrub.

Then he got taken out in Round 2.

 

[Dr. Rose]

Vitor v. Couture I

Since someone mentioned Cro Cop v. Gonzaga, then Rd. 3 Bigfoot v. mini-Ubereem (the transitional period between true Uberman and Econoreem)

 

[bubbleboyjones]

Off top of my head Big Timmy and Couture.

Couture is in his 40s, gets KO at LWH twice by Chuck, retires and then moves up to HW being undersized at 223lbs against 23-2 HW champ that is 6'8 263lbs.

 

[Neck&Neck]

Michel Pereira vs Tristan Connelly