The greatest "Ya'll musta forgot" performances?

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I'm pretty sure Edgar wasn't the favourite over Aldo, at least not on the betting lines.

Edgar was a slight - 125 favourite to win.

 

[SokoudjouFanboy]

Cruz over Dillashaw has to be the best example of this

 

[HatKick]

Not one performance but Whittaker's current run is pretty badass considering most people, myself included, thought he was damaged goods after the Adesanya KO, wars with Romero, surgery, depression... Since then he's damn near cleaned the division for Izzy.

 

[mmathurbator]

Easily Randy vs Tim.

Randy was old as crap, coming off a KO loss to a LHW. He then randomly got paired up with Sylvia in his next fight moving up to HW. Tim was like twice Randy’s size and had just about cleared out HW at the time. People thought Randy was going to legit get hurt badly in that fight.

10 seconds into the fight Randy shows he’s been training with Hendo by dropping Tim with a H bomb and out grapples him for 25 mins.

that was epic

 

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Let's be real, when she was about to fight Weili the first time, most of ya'll forgot how Rose wins titles.

 

[Reign009]

Easily Randy vs Tim.

Randy was old as crap, coming off a KO loss to a LHW. He then randomly got paired up with Sylvia in his next fight moving up to HW. Tim was like twice Randy’s size and had just about cleared out HW at the time. People thought Randy was going to legit get hurt badly in that fight.

10 seconds into the fight Randy shows he’s been training with Hendo by dropping Tim with a H bomb and out grapples him for 25 mins.

 

[Question]

Not one performance but Whittaker's current run is pretty badass considering most people, myself included, thought he was damaged goods after the Adesanya KO, wars with Romero, surgery, depression... Since then he's damn near cleaned the division for Izzy.

I'm sure he was favored in the Till fight.
He was the underdog in the Cannonier fight, a lot of people thought that Cannonier was going to run through Robert.
Robert impressed most people with this bout, really controlled the fight for the most part.

 

[M.U.S.C.L.E.]

I picked Cruz to win because I was a casual and just looked at his resume.

Welcome back, @TheChosen

 

[markys00]

Edgar was a slight - 125 favourite to win.

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He also became a slight underdog. I don't think it's fair to say either was really a dog or fav here.

I remember quite well. I made money regardless who won that night. Rare arb opportunity

 

[Grandwizard666]

How has no one said Nate Diaz vs Conor 1 yet? Nate definitely appeared to be on a backslide then ended up reminding folks who the fuck he was.
Also Diaz vs Pettis was great since people were saying Pettis would chew his ass up, and he ended up almost getting finished.

What exactly did we forget about Nate? He was always a glorified journeyman

 

[BlessedBC]

Anthony Pettis randomly knocked out Wonderboy, I don't think anyone saw that one coming.

 

[JBJ was here]

Glover vs Jan

Definitely not this. After losing to Jones in 2014, Glover spent six years looking like a gatekeeper, but his demolition of Anthony Smith and domination of Thiago Santos were plenty to mark Glover as a scary contender and threat to the title before he ever beat Yan. Everybody should have already remembered Glover by the time of his title win.

 

[Ghostoftheville]

Robbie Lawler vs Josh Koscheck
Lawler was supposed to be done after going 3-5 in Strikeforce. Koscheck was showing he still had it after narrowly losing to Hendricks.

 

[textwarrior]

Ya'll musta forgot performances are some of my favourite type of performances. When a fighter is thought to be permanently broken or washed up, but comes back with a vintage performance to shut us all up.

The first that comes to mind:

Aldo vs. Edgar 2.
After Conor slept Aldo in 13 seconds there was talks about USADA ruining Nova Uniao, that Conor ruined Aldo's chin and that his spirit was broken forever. Edgar was streaking and in his prime. He was also the favourite to beat Aldo.

The King of Rio big brothered Edgar for 25 minutes and reminded us all.

Aldo has another "Ya'll musta forgot performance" in his victory over Stephens. The tale was pretty much the same, but worse, because he was coming off two bad beatings from Holloway and was older this time, while Stephens was looking impressive at the time.

Other great yall musta forgot performances?

My top would be

Randy vs Sylvia ...had a Rocky movie feeling and lots of reporters wanted interviews from him after the fight.

GSP vs Bisping...even though style wise, GSP had an advantage the element of proving it plus being out for awhile was an obstacle to prove.

Silva Vs Sonnen II...Everyone was expecting a close fight but this fight cemented a clear winner and that the rumor was true about Silva coming in the first fight with a cracked rib and sick.

 

[JBJ was here]

What exactly did we forget about Nate? He was always a glorified journeyman

Might have forgotten the "glorified" part.

 

[Cowboy Kurt Angle]

Brock VS Mir 2

I remember alot of people were saying Mir was gonna take the rematch at the time because he had taped Brock and lol Brock is a pro wrestler he ain’t good. Brock proved the doubters wrong

 

[r-harper-1]

Cruz over Dillashaw is another good one. Alot of hardcore fans actually picked Cruz to win, which was fucking crazy to me.

TJ seemed to me like the more refined striker, took some elements of Cruz game and perfected it for his own style, younger and frankly more impressive. And um yeah, Cruz was coming off a 2.5 year layoff due to a string of bad KNEE injuries.

I really did forget how great Cruz was. His victory over TJ cemented his place as the BW goat. There is currently no close second.

Only problem was …. Tj clearly won that fight

 

[laleggenda27]

Anderson vs. Forrest. Coming off of the Cote and Leites fights, a ton of vitriol was being directed toward Anderson. Then this happened:

 

[r-harper-1]

I'm pretty sure Edgar wasn't the favourite over Aldo, at least not on the betting lines.

 

[NationWideNinja]

Wanderlei fucking up Jardine