Travis Fulton had a 40 fight win streak, why no UFC contract?

savemgs said:
I agree with you Travis was a weekend warrior but don't get me wrong he was actually very talented very tough very good amateur wrestling but he was never trying to become UFC champion.

Although I will say this I think you need to go back and watch that fight it was one of the few fights he actually trained like a professional for.

And he was doing very well until the KO.

Contrary to popular belief he actually did fight some very good talent .Whenever the opportunity came about.
Travis Wiuff, Mike Whitehead, Ricco Rodriguez, Ikuhisa Minowa, Jeremy Horn, Matt Lindland, Dan Severn, Dave Strasser
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I wholeheartedly agree. He was actually really good. And this proelite fight was his last “serious” fight imo. He was in shape and was having some success but after this KO I think he pretty much just said fuck it. That’s more what I meant.
 
VinceArch said:
Fulton did fight in the UFC, twice. UFC 20 and 21.
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I remember those fights cause i'm old and I was going to give TS shit but I wouldn't want to sift through an 8,000 fight record to double check either.

We can kinda give TS shit considering the combination of he was in the UFC and he was fighting Billy Joe John Clinton Dwight III behind uncle Bill's corner store every other Fri and Sat and every huge once in a while someone good. No disrespect to the blatant racist Travis, his record is insane, but he was never so good that he deserved more chances than he got or even to be in the UFC at all you could argue.
 
Well... who is the best win on his record? From what I've seen, every time he tried to minor step up in competition he lost.
 
You gotta wonder how much better he could have been if instead of fighting every week, he actually took breaks and trained with legit camps and tried to improve and fix his weaknesses.
 
He did have one in the works but Shannon Ritch was asking for too much so it never got signed.
 
Everyone loves to shit on the guy, but he is .500 in the roughly 20 fights that has had against fighters with at least one fight in the UFC. His notable wins include Wes Sims, Cabbage, Heath Herring, Brad Kohler, and Diaz brother hospital fight champion, Joe Riggs.
 
Kumason said:
I remember those fights cause i'm old and I was going to give TS shit but I wouldn't want to sift through an 8,000 fight record to double check either.

We can kinda give TS shit considering the combination of he was in the UFC and he was fighting Billy Joe John Clinton Dwight III behind uncle Bill's corner store every other Fri and Sat and every huge once in a while someone good. No disrespect to the blatant racist Travis, his record is insane, but he was never so good that he deserved more chances than he got or even to be in the UFC at all you could argue.
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You have to remember that fight where he slammed some TKD guy into a brutal stoppage then.

It was a huge gif on these forums for a long time.

*Edit* I looked it up. It was a guy named Jeremy Bullock.
 
Lucas1980 said:
Rickson Gracie was 4000 and 0 and never fought for the UFC either.
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rickson was asking for too much money, they wanted him for ufc 1 but he said not for that money. then the gracies sent the smallest gracie at the time to show you dont need to be big to win a fight and that bjj is supreme.
 
Because Fulton learned to stay in his lane
 
He fought in the UFC. I remember him winning one and losing one. Back in 98 or 99, if memory serves me well.
 
DS66 said:
Look at his career. Literally every single time he fought a moderately high level fighter, he lost. He got wrecked whenever he fought a UFC caliber fighter (Arlovski, Monson, Rothwell, Ricco Rodriguez, Forrest, Evan Tanner, Severn). The dude is a legend IMO based solely on his volume of fights, but you're kidding yourself if you think he was ever a UFC caliber fighter.
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He could have been a gatekeeper in the UFC, from 2000 to 2006 the UFC HW division was abysmal, all the great UFC HW's at the time moved onto other promotions, the only decent heavyweights left were Sylvia, Arlovski, Randy & Mir...then you had contenders like Cabbage, Wes Sims, Justin Eilers, Tra Telligman & Puel Buentello. Travis Fulton was defintely around there level....he actually has wins over Herring, Cabbage, Wes, Riggs...all of whom were considered good enough to be awared UFC contracts.

Anyway this thread doesn't make much sense because he did fight in the UFC, twice. Why he didn't continue is anyone's guess, I think he much preferred beating up tomato cans and potentially even participating in worked fights for lower money rather than taking on bigger challenges for slightly more money. He kind of took the opposite route of Bob Sapp.
 
he could have really fucked up CM punk.

other than that, he loses to every single male fighter in the UFC(yes even the 125ers) and maybe even Ronda, Amanda, Miesha, Cat, Cybro.
 
dildos said:
rickson was asking for too much money, they wanted him for ufc 1 but he said not for that money. then the gracies sent the smallest gracie at the time to show you dont need to be big to win a fight and that bjj is supreme.
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Funny cause Royler was actually smalller, Bout 5'8, 145.
 
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