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Win Jim Miller
Win Grant Dawson
Win Tony Ferguson
Win Nasrat Haqparast
Win Al Iaquinta
Win Lando Vannata
Win Clay Guida
Win Erik Koch
Draw Lando Vannata
Win Josh Thomson
Win Pat Healy
Win James Krause
Win Jacob Volkmann
Win Daron Cruickshank
Win Charles Bennett
Fought and Lost To
Loss Islam Makhachev
Loss Dustin Poirier
Loss Edson Barboza
Loss Maurício Ruffy
Loss Paddy Pimblett
Loss Drew Dober
Loss Rafael Fiziev
Loss Rashid Magomedov
Loss Gesias Cavalcante
Loss Tim Means
Arguably should have lost his last fight with Evan Dunham. Also a very underated fighter, started 4-0 in the UFC before, including wins on
Marcus Aurelio and Tyson Griffin, before arguably getting robbed against fomer chamion Sherk. 3 years latter he loses another controversial fight to RDA who would not long after make a run to the title. After forgiveable losses to prime Cowboy and Barboza he would go on another 4 fight win streak which lead to a draw with Dariush.
Sherk has always been one of my favorites. I haven't seen the Dunham fight in years, but I feel like after I watched them I thought he beat Edgar (but lost the decision) and got beat by Dunham (but won the decision). It'll be interesting when I swing back around to those fights to see if I still feel that way or if these were the silly impressions of my younger self
But yeah, Sherk rules. He also took at least one if not two rounds from Hughes in that title fight during Hughes' "invincible" era. Sherk was just so impressive with his relentlessness and high pace wrestling attack, and one of the best top games changing positions with his BJJ but maintaining control with his wrestling. And he fought so much of his career at 170 giving up crazy amounts of height, reach, and often weight. But he was just so strong, so skilled, and so well-conditioned that he was able to beat so many people. And then when the UFC restarted the LW division, I knew he'd be champ immediately. But I'll never not be salty about the fans giving him shit for being "boring."* It got in his head and he spent so much time standing in front of BJ, it drove me nuts! He should've fought BJ the way Matt Serra did at UFC 39 and the way that GSP fought him in their rematch: Crowd him, push him against the fence, make him play defense all five minutes of every round, make him work to fend off the TDs...still grumbling about that all these years later
*My friends and I had been doing BJJ for a while and we all watched UFC 73 together and were just marveling at Sherk's grappling. He ran rings around Franca - and walked through monster knees to get the TDs like the fucking Terminator - and we were utterly mesmerized. I also love watching him put on another grappling clinic in his lone PRIDE fight at Bushido 2. Listening to Bas marvel at Sherk's grappling must've been so awesome for Sherk. Too bad PRIDE never invited him back. Imagine Sherk in the Bushido 9 tournament! Imagine Sherk squaring off against the likes of Gomi, Kawajiri, Buscape, Azeredo, Hansen, Edwards, Sakurai...
I also love this HL which showcases his insanely relentless grappling style.
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?
Sherk has always been one of my favorites. I haven't seen the Dunham fight in years, but I feel like after I watched them I thought he beat Edgar (but lost the decision) and got beat by Dunham (but won the decision). It'll be interesting when I swing back around to those fights to see if I still feel that way or if these were the silly impressions of my younger self
But yeah, Sherk rules. He also took at least one if not two rounds from Hughes in that title fight during Hughes' "invincible" era. Sherk was just so impressive with his relentlessness and high pace wrestling attack, and one of the best top games changing positions with his BJJ but maintaining control with his wrestling. And he fought so much of his career at 170 giving up crazy amounts of height, reach, and often weight. But he was just so strong, so skilled, and so well-conditioned that he was able to beat so many people. And then when the UFC restarted the LW division, I knew he'd be champ immediately. But I'll never not be salty about the fans giving him shit for being "boring."* It got in his head and he spent so much time standing in front of BJ, it drove me nuts! He should've fought BJ the way Matt Serra did at UFC 39 and the way that GSP fought him in their rematch: Crowd him, push him against the fence, make him play defense all five minutes of every round, make him work to fend off the TDs...still grumbling about that all these years later
*My friends and I had been doing BJJ for a while and we all watched UFC 73 together and were just marveling at Sherk's grappling. He ran rings around Franca - and walked through monster knees to get the TDs like the fucking Terminator - and we were utterly mesmerized. I also love watching him put on another grappling clinic in his lone PRIDE fight at Bushido 2. Listening to Bas marvel at Sherk's grappling must've been so awesome for Sherk. Too bad PRIDE never invited him back. Imagine Sherk in the Bushido 9 tournament! Imagine Sherk squaring off against the likes of Gomi, Kawajiri, Buscape, Azeredo, Hansen, Edwards, Sakurai...
I also love this HL which showcases his insanely relentless grappling style.
Sherk vs Hughes at UFC 42(?) was one of the first cards I ordered when I was a kid and I was impressed with Sean's training regimen, I feel that was ahead of it's time. Sherk was truly one of the few older guys who evolved with the landscape of MMA but his short reach and age made it hard for him to progress too far unfortunately. Yes, UFC 84 was such a let down. I had Lyoto and Wandy winning, just needed Sherk to take us home and his insistence on standing with BJ while being picked a part by hard jabs gave me a meltdown lol. Hearing PB not shut up about it for awhile didn't help but I thought he won the first round against Evan, narrowly winning the 2nd round and then lost the 3rd.
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.
Even by the time he challenged Newton for the WW title at UFC 34, he was reversed on the ground and very nearly lost by sub. But then at UFC 38, he'd progressed so much as a grappler that he utterly mauled Newton and almost subbed him with an armbar. It wasn't just about being "recognized," Hughes hadn't yet hit his stride. What's impressive is how dominant he was just with his wrestling and GNP. But his grappling was a huge hole in his game and Hallman was able to exploit it twice early in his career. Once Hughes became a proficient grappler in his own right, though, even excellent grapplers like Charuto and BJ couldn't tap him, while Hughes himself started winning a lot by submission.
In short, even for as dominant as he was with just wrestling, there's a big difference between the Hughes that fought at UFC 29 and the Hughes that fought at UFC 38, never mind the Hughes that fought at UFC 50, UFC 56, UFC 60, etc.
Jorge Santiago. 1-5 in the UFC but his 11-1 run between UFC stints was epic. Strikeforce Middleweight tournament champion, Sengoku middleweight champion. Wins over Semenov, Prangley, Bahadurzada, Nakamura, Khalidov, Misaki x 2. He just couldn't put it together in the UFC for some reason.
Sherk vs Hughes at UFC 42(?) was one of the first cards I ordered when I was a kid and I was impressed with Sean's training regimen, I feel that was ahead of it's time. Sherk was truly one of the few older guys who evolved with the landscape of MMA but his short reach and age made it hard for him to progress too far unfortunately. Yes, UFC 84 was such a let down. I had Lyoto and Wandy winning, just needed Sherk to take us home and his insistence on standing with BJ while being picked a part by hard jabs gave me a meltdown lol. Hearing PB not shut up about it for awhile didn't help but I thought he won the first round against Evan, narrowly winning the 2nd round and then lost the 3rd.
That was still a bit before my time - seeing Ken knock out Kimo at UFC 48 on Ultimate Knockouts 3 on Spike is what got me hooked and then UFC 52 was the first PPV my friends and I ordered - but yes, Sherk's training was brutal. I loved the old Rachelle Leah show UFC All Access with him eating fucking baby food and doing dumbbell hammer curls outside while running steps. Absolute psycho, but then you get why he was able to be so muscular, so strong, yet never gas. He had some of the most impressive conditioning when you consider how much energy he burned fighting with his style and yet he seemed as fresh at the end of five rounds as he was before the fight started!
And I always forget PositiveBalance until he's brought up. Him being gone for so long and the forum merger back in the day that wiped so much of this board, I feel like he and I went at it once over GSP/Penn II, but that might just be an invented memory. But yeah, the only thing worse than BJ was his fans, and he was one of the worst of them.
That was still a bit before my time - seeing Ken knock out Kimo at UFC 48 on Ultimate Knockouts 3 on Spike is what got me hooked and then UFC 52 was the first PPV my friends and I ordered - but yes, Sherk's training was brutal. I loved the old Rachelle Leah show UFC All Access with him eating fucking baby food and doing dumbbell hammer curls outside while running steps. Absolute psycho, but then you get why he was able to be so muscular, so strong, yet never gas. He had some of the most impressive conditioning when you consider how much energy he burned fighting with his style and yet he seemed as fresh at the end of five rounds as he was before the fight started!
And I always forget PositiveBalance until he's brought up. Him being gone for so long and the forum merger back in the day that wiped so much of this board, I feel like he and I went at it once over GSP/Penn II, but that might just be an invented memory. But yeah, the only thing worse than BJ was his fans, and he was one of the worst of them.
I miss the UFC All Access show, they should bring that back. Yes, Sherk's training regimen was insane! I actually implemented some of that into my own workouts, what I could work with anyway, but I remember watching a video of Sherk and Hughes getting ready for UFC 98 and that shit was nuts when you think that these guys were doing this a lot of the time for how many weeks leading up to that event.
PB banned me shortly after 94 so I waited a year before I joined again and it didn't take long for us to start typing away again but he was already in hot water as he lost his status shortly after 112 and finally crashed and burned after 118.
I also love watching him put on another grappling clinic in his lone PRIDE fight at Bushido 2. Listening to Bas marvel at Sherk's grappling must've been so awesome for Sherk. Too bad PRIDE never invited him back. Imagine Sherk in the Bushido 9 tournament! Imagine Sherk squaring off against the likes of Gomi, Kawajiri, Buscape, Azeredo, Hansen, Edwards, Sakurai...
Speaking of Sean Sherk and Japan, another name that should be on his list of wins (but isn't because Pancrase had some weird case-by-case rules when the fight reached a decision, I think it depended on the era but still) is one of my favorite semi-obscure JMMArtists, Kiuma Kunioku
And you know what, might as well throw the 5x Pancrase champion (2x at MW, 3x at WW) that Sherk mauled to a draw at Pancrase 98 on the pile of fighters with deceptively good accomplishments: Kiuma beat Genki Sudo, Frank Shamrock, Yuki Kondo, Guy Mezger, Minowaman, Masakatsu Funaki, gave Hidetaka Monma his first loss when he was 7-0 and was coming off his Pancrase: Neo-Blood tournament win, went to a draw with Shonie Carter, etc etc...
(Pancrase 98 against Sherk was a historically important event too, since this was the event that crowned Sherk as the "Muscle Shark" since the commentators were visibly amused by his name, and during his entrance said stuff like "I wouldn't want to be bit by this shark!" and made a few puns during the bout)
(This one doesn't have English commentaries, but the Japanese-to-English subtitles combined with basic Japanese skills and knowing fighters & techniques names is enough to understand stuff here and there)
Back then Kiuma was known as one of Funaki & Suzuki's premier students, and the legendary Yoshiaki Fujiwara famously took him under his wing; I guess younger fans might mainly be familiar with Fujiwara from the best-selling "Yakuza" game series?
In turn, but he was Hideo Tokoro's first sensei, so he's been influencing JMMA on the long run!.
Before I start rambling about something else, might as well make my point here: Sherk absolutely had the level to compete in PRIDE, but you know how the Japanese fans are... grinding Kunioku for 15 min in Pancrase was impressive, but it didn't exactly make the crowd go nuts.
Same for his sole PRIDE bout, sure Sherk put on a ground clinic and won a comfy decision, but when Japanese fans watch their stars gets destroyed by bigass gaijins, they want to see them at least get LHK'd into next event by Cro Cop or Igor, or soccer kicked/stomped into bolivia by Ninja or Baroni... Immediately shooting for a takedown and keeping the fight down sadly didn't get him many popularity points this time, even if I enjoyed the bout.
(or at least that's how I've always understood it, I might be wrong)
To explain my obsession with Kiuma, might as well give a bit of background: Kiuma fought his first 55 bouts exclusively in Pancrase, and since my brothers and I own a bunch of these he was one of our regulars! Then in the we he got older and more famous, he got recruited for Deep, K1-Heroes, Sengoku, and IGF: Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye to represent Japan against various Brazilians, Americans and Europeans.
Kiuma also tried his hands at ADCC, but ran straight into Marcelo Garcia ("The Krazy Horse Slaya")
He also lost to Bas Rutten, but Bas always speaks very highly of him, and vice-versa. Here's a video of their fight commented by El Guapo himself: "I thought he would be easy to submit or KO, but he was very slippery — not from grease, but from skill."
- Bas Rutten
it's all good, i wasn't trying to be a dick, just thought for sure it was a Mandela effect thing. because i know there were KOs that he had that WERE clean as hell, well at least by HW standards like vs Shawn Jordan and Christian Morecraft and i think maybe you just misremembered those KOs and inserted Black Beast into them
Damn, Mittrione was on point there, smoked Lewis thoroughly. And that's pre-got fat and gives up when he's bored Lewis.
Guy always had great finishing instincts.
it's all good, i wasn't trying to be a dick, just thought for sure it was a Mandela effect thing. because i know there were KOs that he had that WERE clean as hell, well at least by HW standards like vs Shawn Jordan and Christian Morecraft and i think maybe you just misremembered those KOs and inserted Black Beast into them
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since the commentators were visibly amused by his name, and during his entrance said stuff like "I wouldn't want to be bit by this shark!" and made a few puns during the bout)
