Name a fighter with deceptively good accomplishments.

[MigitAs]

Ok so his career was mostly trash but Matt Mitrione has at least two performances I’ll never forget. The first: when he sonned Derrick Lewis when Lewis was pretty new to UFC; Matt put him away with straight punches that were so clean it was a thing of beauty.

The second is his fight with Fedor. Double knockdown that turned into Fedor’s worst KO loss IIRC? Who fucked up Fedor worse than Matt?

Anyway can you guys think of anyone else that fits the criteria of not a great career, but still some great accomplishments?

 

[fractal]

Fedor

 

[RichardHarrow]

Jake Shields has a pretty good record and been in there with GSP. Khabib would choose him to do 5 rounders with during training.

Wins over

Woodley
Lawler
Condit
Daley
Dan Henderson
Akiyama

 

[oski]

Absolutely owned Hughes (twice) when he was top of the game.

 

[RockyLockridge]

Aljamain sterling. Say whatever you want, but he had 3 consecutive top 5 wins going into his title fight then after winning the title (albeit via dubious circumstances) he defended it 3 times. Then after losing the title he went up in weight and has only lost to undefeated mosvar evloev, in a fight that was very very close.

He still has wins over Barao, Riveria, munhoz, sandhagen, Yan x2, cejudo and dillashaw. Then moved to FW and beat katter and Ortega. Both of which were top contenders at FW at one point with Ortega being a 2x title challenger. You might even argue he's in the mix at fw

 

[Aluminati]

Jon Fitch.

 

[Frank_Drebin]

conor. used 1-2 good fights to scam the world out of a few hundred mil.

 

[JoeRowe]

Martin Kampmann. UFC record of 11-6, really 13-4 because he got robbed vs Shields and Diego. Although if he didnt get robbed vs Shields he would've fought GSP and lost which would've made him 12-5. I actually think his TDD and his striking would have made a tough fight for GSP, 49-46 or maybe 48-47 type of fight.

His back-to-back comebacks vs Alves and Ellenberger in a 3-month span were borderline epic. Unfortunately they took place on FuelTV and nobody saw them.

WAR HITMAN

 

[mooseman17]

Corey Anderson and Derrick Lewis both had much better careers than I ever expected

 

[Pancake Sprawl]

Martin Kampmann. UFC record of 11-6, really 13-4 because he got robbed vs Shields and Diego. Although if he didnt get robbed vs Shields he would've fought GSP and lost which would've made him 12-5. I actually think his TDD and his striking would have made a tough fight for GSP, 49-46 or maybe 48-47 type of fight.

His back-to-back comebacks vs Alves and Ellenberger in a 3-month span were borderline epic. Unfortunately they took place on FuelTV and nobody saw them.

WAR HITMAN

i was with him all the way on that streak. that was fuckin rubbish when he lost to Shields and Diego. i so badly wanted him to fight GSP just because of what you said. people back then just looked at him like he was mid but i thought he could punch above his weight given the stylistic match up.

 

[Dr Fong]

So far Shitdog has come up with former Strikeforce, EliteXC, Shooto champion and perennially top ranked fighter Jake Shields and UFC champion Aljamain Sterling as people who had 'not great careers'.

May as well just shorten the thread title to 'Name a fighter'

 

[Bullitt68]

Absolutely owned Hughes (twice) when he was top of the game.

Hughes wasn't "top of the game" yet. His first loss to Hallman was his fifth fight during his first year fighting and his second loss was his second UFC fight two years later before he started working his BJJ hard with Horn and becoming champ. Still impressive, as Hughes was always a wrestling powerhouse, but his grappling improved dramatically once he started working with Horn and became good enough to put a grappling clinic on Carlos Newton, nearly break Royce's arm, and tap GSP.

Had Hallman beaten Trigg at UFC 48, they probably would've let him challenge Hughes for the belt at UFC 52 instead of Trigg getting his rematch. That would've been interesting. Hughes probably would've gone for a submission, and he probably would've gotten it.

 

[Deathmask]

Phil Davis has wins over:
- Lil Nog
- Gustafsson
- Machida x2
- Glover Teixeira
- Yoel Romero
- King Mo

 

[Flower2dPeople]

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Absolutely owned Hughes (twice) when he was top of the game.

Him losing to Trigg (twice)made the 1st rock, papers, scissors in MMA.

 

[WildShrimper]

conor. used 1-2 good fights to scam the world out of a few hundred mil.

That knockout of Aldo was unreal considering Aldo's place near the top of the P4P list at the time. That set Conor up for life

 

[Pancake Sprawl]

Matt put him away with straight punches that were so clean it was a thing of beauty.

i think you're misremembering, he knocked him out in the most HW awkward oaf way possible lmao

 

[Prazeres]

Julian Erosa has lost to Artem Lobov on TUF but has plenty of pretty decent wins, got robbed against Paddy, beat Sean Woodson, Nate Landwehr, Charles Jourdain, Hakeem Dawodu and Christian Rodriguez.

 

[560ti]

Phil Davis has wins over:
- Lil Nog
- Gustafsson
- Machida x2
- Glover Teixeira
- Yoel Romero
- King Mo

Phil is a really good choice.

Good wins, very strong strength of schedule (only 4 of his 34 pro fights have been regional level guys) and probably the most impressive is he's never been finished once in his entire career.

 

[Frank_Drebin]

Ok so his career was mostly trash but Matt Mitrione has at least two performances I’ll never forget. The first: when he sonned Derrick Lewis when Lewis was pretty new to UFC; Matt put him away with straight punches that were so clean it was a thing of beauty.

mitrione was in his prime. super athletic for his size and KO power.

 

[Thy]

Dustin hazlet. dude seemed chill and had some of the coolest holy fuck what did i just see subs.

Johnny walker. Does anyone really hate the guy? Win or lose, we are entertained.