The worst mentally broken fighters

[koa pomaikai]

Ngannou was pretty mentally broken in the aftermath of Stipe 1, took a while for him to recover.

He was so mentally ruined, he couldn’t throw a punch against Lewis. Dana had to chew his ass out after that fight to get him back.

What are some other examples of when MMA fighters mentally got weak or lost it?

 

[Hotora86]

Conor

 

[Söze Aldo]

Still hasn't recovered his aura

 

[Shaolin Alan]

Dave Terrell was everyone's case study back in the day

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Tom Breese had a couple of panic attacks in the locker room before fights and couldn't come out so probably him.

 

[Morris88]

Max Roshkopf

 

[Lawrence]

Karo "The Heat" Parisyan had some real mental/emotional challenges.

I don't think "broken" describes him, but he really struggled and his performance suffered because of it.

 

[Morris88]

Uriah Hall maybe. He wasn't "broken" per se but his mindset, lack of killer instinct really held him back. He had (has) a fantastic skillset and lethal striking techniques. He beat fighters he should have lost to and lost to guys he should have steamrolled.
Seems like a really genuine, nice guy. Maybe too nice for MMA?

 

[ThaiSexPills]

Filho vs Sonnen was a super weird one. I haven’t seen anything like that since. He was having some kind of hallucinations in the middle of a fight.

 

[MawrSeneca]

Dominic Reyes. Went from "beating Jon Jones" to on a 4-5 KO losing skid. This was the first time I've witness someone's false success play into their downfall and mental breakdown.

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

Zhang had a nice meltdown after getting KO'ed by Rose. Made 52 excuses, chopped her hair off, and gave a few unhinged speeches. First time I've ever heard a fighter say they got KO'ed by racism and politics, not their opponent.

 

[Necrocrawler]

Rousey
Quemuel ottoni seems to have hard issues also

 

[Evbo]

Broken during a round - Su Muderji vs Schnell (could see the willingness to fight drain from him when he couldn't finish Matt)
Broken during a fight - BJ Penn vs GSP II (BJ was so broken he couldn't even bring himself to say no mas)
Broken after a fight - Rousey and her pillow

 

[Michael Wetzel]

BJ Penn after Edgar I. Went from being on the short pound for pound GOAT list to barely above .500.

 

[Goutfather]

cro cop after his first ufc losses. he talked about it actually, said he went to see a sports psychologist. he was all fucked up over it.

 

[killakillakilla]

Renan Barao reduced from p4p great to amateur fighter skill level after just one punch by Dilly. He had his confidence shattered and never mentally recovered from it.

 

[fedorthegoat777]

Ngannou was pretty mentally broken in the aftermath of Stipe 1, took a while for him to recover.

He was so mentally ruined, he couldn’t throw a punch against Lewis. Dana had to chew his ass out after that fight to get him back.

What are some other examples of when MMA fighters mentally got weak or lost it?

Pretty sure Dana had nothing to ever do with any of Ngannou's performances.

 

[fedorthegoat777]

Dominic Reyes. Went from "beating Jon Jones" to on a 4-5 KO losing skid. This was the first time I've witness someone's false success play into their downfall and mental breakdown.

Dominic Reyes. Went from "beating Jon Jones" to on a 4-5 KO losing skid. This was the first time I've witness someone's false success play into their downfall and mental breakdown.

Agree.
Seems like Johnny Hendricks had something of a similar skid after almost beating GSP.


Must be something about giving it every ounce of everything you have and almost tasting greatness to come up short they just wrecks you.

 

[koa pomaikai]

Pretty sure Dana had nothing to ever do with any of Ngannou's performances.

Dana pretty much threatened to cut Ngannou after that Lewis performance and he came back bettter than ever.

 

[Bluesbreaker]

The two most obvious to me are Rousey and Woodley.