The fighter who got screwed over the hardest?

[Skarsgard]

Yeah I know obviously his popularity is why he got away with that. But still it kind of numbs you to the regular assholery. Not in terms of liking the person but thinking they should be cut. Poor Paul Daley.

And yeah MM drastically improved in 2013. Was not the same fighter before that. Have read quite a few times MM v Torres is one of the clearest robberies in MMA history(I didn't WEC I don't know).

Even as a fan of Koscheck, I still think Daley got screwed in that. Even Kos admitted as much.

Looks like I'm gonna have to dig and find it.

 

[ferrisjso]

Even as a fan of Koscheck, I still think Daley got screwed in that. Even Kos admitted as much.

Looks like I'm gonna have to dig and find it.

UFC's WW division really needed someone like Daley back then too. It was a big loss. Shame.

 

[EricSpider]

Aldo not being allowed to fight for the LW title without vacating his belt and then not getting the Conor rematch while Conor was fighting and getting rematches at LW was pretty shitty

 

[brackis1]

Even as a fan of Koscheck, I still think Daley got screwed in that. Even Kos admitted as much.

Looks like I'm gonna have to dig and find it.

Daley has to know better than to be born looking and speaking like that; if only he had a line of caricature piss level whiskey.

 

[NikLuk]

Tony I would say. But Mousasi got screwed too. He went on a 5 fight win streak beating Leites, Santos, Belford, Hall, and Weidman (finishing all but Leites) and no talk about even a contender fight IIRC.

 

[613]

Or, you know, the fact that Tony was the interim champ and they decided to simultaneous strip the undisputed champ Conor and Tony at the same time so that... Tony and Khabib could fight for a vacant belt.

Rather than, you know, strip Conor and promote the interim champ to undisputed champ and have them defend their belt. Like what is supposed to occur when there's an undisputed champ and an interim champ. It's the entire real point.

Everybody just justifies it in hindsight because Tony got injured and pulled out AND SO THEN it made sense to strip him too and create a vacant belt. But they were making a vacant belt while he was still in the fight which made zero sense.

You are not a undesputed champ if there is an interim champ lol

 

[ferrisjso]

Tony I would say. But Mousasi got screwed too. He went on a 5 fight win streak beating Leites, Santos, Belford, Hall, and Weidman (finishing all but Leites) and no talk about even a contender fight IIRC.

Mousasi did not get screwed. There were several people in front of him in line who had more impressive streaks or streaks that had been broken by better opponents than had beaten Mousasi. That division was stacked. Weidman was Mouses first elite win and he was the 3rd in a row to beat him. Jacare even beat Mousasi and Jacare lost pretty much every other big fight he had in the UFC. He avenged his loss to Uriah but he had a loss to Uriah Hall to avenge.

To get a shot he needed to beat Romero or Rockhold or Whitaker. Likely needed to beat 2. He did not get robbed.

 

[mjoln]

You guys aren't even close.

Sakuraba is the fighter that got most screwed.

A natural 185 pounder that could have cut to 170, he made a reputation and became a national hero beating Gracies, and fought some top-quality guys in his own weight class before being thrown to the wolves -- Igor Vov, Wandy, Rampage, Randleman, Cro Cop. It was like Pride was intentionally trying to kill him. They made the poor guy fight roided out Wandy three times, and Saku never complained at all as he was put through the ringer.

Imagine taking a guy like Robert Whittaker -- nice guy, takes care of business, good fighter -- and making him fight Jones, Ngannou, and the killers row of LHWs and HWs. That's what they did to Saku.

Letting people like Colby get title shots sucks, and it's all about drawing more eyeballs to the PPVs. But putting him against someone like Cormier in his prime? That's not even nearly as scary as Saku being put in with a prime Cro Cop.

Also this:
...Silveira, a 3-1 heavyweight protege from Carlson Gracie’s team, outweighed the 0-1 Sakuraba by dozens of pounds. The Brazilian landed a punch that rocked Sakuraba early, and referee “Big" John McCarthy stopped the bout. McCarthy thought Sakuraba was out, even though it seemed that the he was already attempting a takedown...

 

[SuperAlly]

Leon Edwards.

Maybe not the definitive answer, but in the conversation for sure. Honourable mention at least.

 

[NikLuk]

Mousasi did not get screwed. There were several people in front of him in line who had more impressive streaks or streaks that had been broken by better opponents than had beaten Mousasi. That division was stacked. Weidman was Mouses first elite win and he was the 3rd in a row to beat him. Jacare even beat Mousasi and Jacare lost pretty much every other big fight he had in the UFC. He avenged his loss to Uriah but he had a loss to Uriah Hall to avenge.

To get a shot he needed to beat Romero or Rockhold or Whitaker. Likely needed to beat 2. He did not get robbed.

You are not remembering correctly. Belfort was ranked #4, surely that was an “elite win”.
#10 Leites
#15 Santos
#4 Belfort
Hall was unranked during the rematch I believe
#4 Weidman

Maybe someone did have a better streak at that time. If so do provide them for compensation and I might agree with you.

 

[Banana Tree's Nemesis]

Zaleski rattled off 7 wins in a row.

Much like what happened with Francisco Trinaldo, the UFC attempted to get the unmarketable Brazilian who doesn’t speak a word of English to lose to very tough unranked opposition, while also aging them out of the title picture.

Meh. Look at what happened to Pereira.
Exciting fighters make up for exciting fights and sometimes one side of that equation is enough to make fights happen eventhough the other side is not as exciting and less marketable.
Zaleski has a cool style, but sometimes fighters actually choose to fight lower competition. Not everybody wants to get fasttracked to a title because he thinks he's the best in the world.
Some fighters have the self-awareness to accept that they probably can't beat the champion and ask for lower ranked opponents.

I'm not entirely sure what constitutes screwed over, but if we're talking Beneil, this is about a titleshot right?
There might be an argument that Zaleski got worse opponents than he deserved, but he certainly didn't beat anyone that should've given him a titleshot.

 

[andgonsil]

Jacare

 

[mudoxiii]

Moraes got the screw job of the century by Uncle Dana after his split decision win over Aldo and his career was never the same after, like it broke his spirit and trust in the sport.

How in the hell do you go 5-1 over a 6 fight period with first round KOs of Aljamain Sterling and Jimmie Rivera (both of whom to this day have never been finished by anyone other than Moraes), and a first round sub of Raphael Assuncao along with scorecard wins against Dodson and Aldo with your lone loss to Henry Cejudo and the dude you just beat who was 2-4 in his last 6 fights gets your title shot? It's not like the outcome of the Aldo fight was a travesty, it was a super close fight that anyone could agree could've went either way but Dana's mind was made up before the post-fight press conference was even underway when he announced Aldo was getting the title shot and Moraes was getting the shaft.