Rewatch Travis Browne has a pretty interesting record

[SalvadorAllende]

I remember the big cope after the Bigfoot fight. "Travis blew his hamstring, so that's technically a doctor stoppage!!"

I remember watching that fight and thinking Travis was easily winning.. but that was a long time ago.

Dude had great wins and very bad losses.

He was also the only man that made Arlovski actually try in like 10 years. Andrei was a terrible pointfighter but somehow in that fight he decided to bang. They used to train together so maybe that had something to do.

 

[Egészségére!]

Never understood the intense hate the dude got around here figured it had something to do with him hooking up with Ronda







This shit's hilarious tho

 

[Cowboy Kurt Angle]

The Heavyweight division had some big upsets on free cards around that time. Browne himself knocking out Overeem with a front kick, Struve randomly knocking out Miocic, etc.

Fedor losing to Werdum and Cain losing to JDS as well

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

Never understood the intense hate the dude got around here

He strikes me as a creep. The domestic abuse allegations probably don't help with his perception here, either.

 

[deadshot138]

one of my more hated fighters. ruined my parlay on the silva weidman 2 card when he ko'd barrnett with those cheese elbows

Yeah those elbows are such bullshit. Think he got Gonzaga with those too

 

[Blanqa Blanqua]

I found it random and interesting.

I did too bro, glad I entered the thread and glad you posted it!

 

[Gamer2k4]

Could you imagine? (Sorry had to throw that in there)

Here's the reference for people who didn't catch it:

 

[Trabaho]

I don´t get what´s unusual about this ? 15 years ago fighting entry level HWs. Ofc a bunch of sub average athletes. It´s HW. Big atheltes are often taken by Basketball football hockey boxing.

 

[CasualBot]

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[dog y]

Never understood the intense hate the dude got around here figured it had something to do with him hooking up with Ronda







This shit's hilarious tho


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Werdum had great kicks. This and the one on Edmond at least lol

 

[mkt]

I found it random and interesting.

I mean Browne is a big, strong, athletic guy who was pretty well-rounded, though not elite in any area. Given the low talent depth at HW (very true now but has always been to some extent), I'm not surprised he ran though everyone he fought in smaller orgs pre-UFC.

 

[Bubzeh]

This is like me when I realised Topuria had a fight in Cage Warriors back in the day.

 

[mkt]

To Overeem's credit though, he really turned it around after the Rothwell debacle.

Went to Jackson's, dropped the alleged "best ever" K-1 Dutch kickboxing style and became Econoreem.

 

[mkt]

also fought (and lost) to a still somewhat healthy Cain at UFC 200

Guys like Browne, Rothwell and Bigfoot were sitting ducks for Cain. Big lumbering dudes he could TD easily and in his prime, he hands were a lot faster than theirs when it came to striking.

 

[Bork Neslar]

GOAT

 

[mkt]

I don´t get what´s unusual about this ? 15 years ago fighting entry level HWs. Ofc a bunch of sub average athletes. It´s HW. Big atheltes are often taken by Basketball football hockey boxing.

I don't know if Browne ever could've been GOAT-level, but I think he could've done even better if he developed a solid jab like Tim Sylvia had--and rounded it his entire game more. Sylvia was less athletic than Browne but better at certain skills and gameplanning in his prime. A huge dude with a constant jab is hard to stop unless you can take them down.

Like I said in earlier comment, he was fairly well-rounded. Fought 8 rounds with Werdum and never got subbed (or finished standing for that matter). But he lacked any real elite skill other than landing a huge punch or elbow with all his size behind it every now and then..

 

[JPOMMA]

And I’m not even talking about his UFC career where he went 9-7-1 and nabbed a bunch of post fight bonuses.

-Made his pro debut in the MMA hotbed of Tijuana, Mexico.

-In his second pro fight he fights former NFL player and College Football Hall of Famer Michael Westbrook who somehow makes it to the 3rd Round before succumbing to a knee injury.

-He fights at Bellator 10 which is headlined by future UFC title challenger Joe Soto.

-He knocks out TUF 10 alum Abe Wagner in 10 seconds.

-In his last fight before being signed to the UFC he knocks out the notorious Aaron Brink in 35 seconds. He is then signed to the UFC a little over a year after making his pro debut with a record of 9-0.

Could you imagine? (Sorry had to throw that in there)

Glad it’s not another “so and so who won last week is the new goat forever and everyone before sucked!”. Sherdog seems to be constantly flooded with those nowadays. Maybe the WWE influence. Anyway, thanks for the interesting thread.

 

[KamalaForever]

I find nothing about his record especially interesting. However he did win a few good fights. His record outside of the cage is pretty okay.

 

[TankAbbott4Eva]

one of my more hated fighters. ruined my parlay on the silva weidman 2 card when he ko'd barrnett with those cheese elbows

I was in the stands that night, Browne said he did it for all of us in the cheap seats which was me, much hespect to Browne for that epic KO (sorry about your parlay)

 

[Lee Danger]

It was an upset in the sense of the actual odds.

and in the sense of how the fight was going

The upset with Overeem is only in the sense that people created a fantasy version of him that never existed.

Reem was getting knocked out left and right in Japan. He then gets ENORMOUS on steroids and puts together a series of wins against mostly unimpressive talent.

Comes to the UFC, looks good, fails the very first random PEDS test he takes. He then shrinks and resumes getting frequently knocked out, to the point you can give about 25% odds he's getting KO'd just because he is fighting.

nah, Overeem's always been able to ko everyone or be koed by everyone: him becoming Ubereem didn't change a lot, only that in HW he could rely on his better fundamentals while retaining some of his speed, plus he went through hell in Pride lhw fighting and losing to Minotouro, Shogun and Arona in a row.
He fought a lot of killers and he's lost more matches that he was winning than he's won matches that he was losing.