What are your favourite fights where a fighter dominated a significantly larger opponent?

[samuelsoncast]

I wasn't arguing Bro....

Evander was even smaller than Tyson and had a terrific Light Heavyweight/Cruserweight run... Some of his most savage victories were below heavyweight.

You drunk bro?
Evander is a chihuahua tail taller than Tyson and had bigger traps than Ipanema beach.

 

[Escabar]

Not necessarily domianted but seeing a good liitle man beat a good big man is always fun to watch.
Nog vs Sapp
Saku vs most of his opponents
Yuki Kondo vs most of his opponent too

 

[Neck&Neck]

Bruce Lee vs Kareem

 

[fortheo]

One of frankie's last top knotch performances before he passed into old man territory.

 

[Foppa21]

One that stands out is Benson Henderson vs Brandon Thatch, They made the same weight though I think Benson moved up to welterweight. Thatch just looked massive in the cage next to Benson

 

[7 others]

This was after Bigfoot mauled Fedor? I remember DC being a replacement in the tournament right?
Took me off guard, I had no idea who he was.

Yea, this was after BF beat Fedor. Flawless performance from DC that night

 

[jsbx45]

Not a beating per se, but pretty one-sided: career FW/LW Tristan Connelly taking a WW fight on short notice against Michel Pereira (who missed weight), ignoring all of Pereira's circus trick kicks and flips, and shutting him down with meat-and-potatoes MMA.

Came to say this and scrolled incidentally to your post. Bravo!

 

[josh345]

Machida vs Tito. Machida vs Uber Franklin. Machdia vs sokodchu.

 

[Marko Atanasovik]

DJ vs Moraes 2/3

 

[Goodfella86]

Not a huge size difference but I was quite impressed by Bendo wen he fought Brendan Thatch at the time. Unfortunately Thatch's grappling disappointed a few more times so the win did not aged really well.

I wish they showed that whole 3rd Round takedown. It was a real grind, but Benson just kept chaining attacks and ended getting him down in beautiful fashion. The round 4 takedown was sharper and cleaner and led directly to the finish, but the rd 3 takedown was the turning point of the fight. One of my favorite takedowns in MMA history.

 

[Equinox Shadow]

Francis wasn't green. Already had 6 UFC fights and 6 others. He just got beat by a better Stipe fighter that night. He was only 'green' for not going 5 rounds in an MMA match.

While it was a grind, Miocic (official weight 246lbs) dominating a relatively green but significantly larger Ngannou (263lbs and probably more on fight night) for 5 rounds at UFC 220 en route to a 50-44 across the board was pretty impressive at the time considering that Miocic had to be nearly perfect on the feet not to get KO’d.

 

[cheachea]

Carlos Condit vs Satoru Kitaoka

 

[m249viking]

Tank Abbot vs John Matua

 

[HaulParris]

Came to say this and scrolled incidentally to your post. Bravo!

Thanks Sherbro!

 

[ejazahmednit]

BJ vs Matt Hughes
Frankie vs Maynard
Cain vs Brock/BigFoot
Anderson at LHW
Most of mighty mouse's wins
Frankie Edgar vs Benson Henderson (I know I know he lost the decisions)

 

[ejazahmednit]

Also McGregor vs Nate 2 TREE TOIMES

 

[Bruce Lee666]

King Zulu vs Dourado.

 

[thecoldbloodedone]

Kid Yamamoto at his peak was exploding Lightweight opponents for years then easily made Bantam/Fly weight when he was wrestling for Japan or in the UFC.

 

[StonedLemur]

Saku vs just about everyone he fought.

 

[acannxr]

Varelans was a big powerful guy but he wasn't the best fighter unfortunately. 6'8" and listed as 330lbs here against 5'9" 207lbs Igor Vorchanchin, who won by KO.



Varelans finished his career at 9-9 and died 'of Covid' in 2021 aged 51.

This.

And also 5'11" Pettas vs. 7'3" Kim in K1:



Pettas talks about the fight in this video: