Who had the worst downfall from grace?

[Lionheart7167]

BJ Penn is my vote. Everyone he fought in that last bunch beat the breaks off of him. They weren't really competitive fights.
Woodley fought the toughest of the tough.
Anderson fought tough dudes and was competitive.
Liddell' just didn't evolve and went in wild. It caught up to him.

 

[jitzmonkey]

Gotta go with Penn who I'd argue is still (albeit barely) the greatest UFC LW champion (read only in regards him defending against top ranked talent from his division) and P4P #1 beating high level WWs, MWs, and being competitive even if not close with Lyoto after the Brazilian had already wrecked Franklin.

Barao should be on this list. He was considered top of the P4P list and expected to have a nice run. Then he lost the belt and went 2-8 only beating literal “Who?”s and losing often to nobodies.

Strong argument considering how thoroughly he had previously wrecked his opposition.
Good Job!

BJ Penn went from being in the all-time MMA legend discussion as a two-weight-class UFC champion to losing bar fights to random men with no professional fighting experience.

And was basically still in his prime when it all started; not like Silva who was d-mn near 40 when he started losing!

 

[StonedLemur]

I'd rather have covid/cabin fever tbh Lol

At least you got it all under control now tho

Yeah it sucked pretty bad sir lol.
We had no water for like 4 or 5 days and had to use our families showers and bathrooms.

Like I said though, feel better and get out of the house when you can, even if its just a walk around the block.

Much love.

 

[Bwagster]

Johnny Hendricks

 

[Pierced7681]

Not sure why Penn is being picked over Anderson or Liddell. Penn was only stopped with strikes once by Yair, and then subbed by Ryan Hall. The rest were all decision losses. Liddell and Silva went out getting ktfod bad

 

[MMAFanCal]

Valentina Shevchenko. Rarely have I seen someone so cocky, arrogant and who thinks so little of his/her opponent, fall on his/her face so hard. I had so many facepalm moments in the build up of the fight with the whole cringeworthy talk about 'explosions through my fists', 'my power' and 'total domination' etc. only to have the belt stay with Alexa via a split draw. Sounds more like 'bozo explosion' to me rather than 'explosions through my fist'.

 

[HHJ]

Valentina Shevchenko. Rarely have I seen someone so cocky, arrogant and who thinks so little of his/her opponent, fall on his/her face so hard. I had so many facepalm moments in the build up of the fight with the whole cringeworthy talk about 'explosions through my fists', 'my power' and 'total domination' etc. only to have the belt stay with Alexa via a split draw. Sounds more like 'bozo explosion' to me rather than 'explosions through my fist'.

So a close first fight before the finish and an even closer second fight is worse than BJ Penn's downfall. lmao

 

[MMAFanCal]

So a close first fight before the finish and an even closer second fight is worse than BJ Penn's downfall. lmao

That is not the point. You completely missed the point. Before the 2nd fight, she was claiming she was going to completely wipe out Alexa and Alexa would feel 'explosions', 'total domination' and 'feel my power' only to have Alexa manhandle her in many places of the fight and end up in a draw.

 

[HHJ]

That is not the point. You completely missed the point. Before the 2nd fight, she was claiming she was going to completely wipe out Alexa and Alexa would feel 'explosions', 'total domination' and 'feel my power' only to have Alexa manhandle her in many places of the fight and end up in a draw.

So?

 

[EnthusiastCultivator]

BJ Penn and it’s not even close. Went from being a world beater to getting knocked out in the streets.

Honestly I think Chris Weidman was just simply unlucky. He looked his best ever against Jacare imho. Just faced killers and got caught.

 

[jsbx45]

Penn certainly.
Silva was always competitive (ish)
Chuck was ugly but not the worst.
Weidman and Ferg ugly too.
Tyron never rose far enough to have a big fall, but the 2nd Paul fight is fucking embarrassing for sure.

 

[Credo]

No Conor?

 

[Morning Star]

I put Chuck. Dude suffered some brutal KOs, can barely speak anymore, and got KO'd by Tito. I get why BJ is up there too, that parking lot KO is pretty damn embarrassing.

 

[Rod Farva]

War Machine.
It’s one thing to not be a good fighter. It’s another to be a terrible person

 

[HHJ]

War Machine.
It’s one thing to not be a good fighter. It’s another to be a terrible person

Yeah but he didnt really have far to fall anyway. He never was anything to begin with,really. Other than being a UFC fighter,whoopdiefuckindoodah.

 

[HHJ]

Tyron never rose far enough to have a big fall.

He was world champion and defended it multiple times.

 

[snowbro]

Honda

 

[ColombianFist]

tony or Chuck.

Both guys were on a tear and suddenly went DOWN HARD.

 

[VAfan]

bj's slide was long and painful but surprised not more votes for liddell, his was pretty brutal as well. from top of the world to getting KOed left and right and being 'retired' before someone killed him.

 

[jsbx45]

H, you are stating the obvious. My point is that Tyron never achieved the level of stardom that these other guys did. What you say is completely accurate and I said so in these forums when people were bashing Tyron without any fact to back them up. He was never a hero on the level of the other guys in the OP though and many fans had little tolorence for his crying and race baiting. He was actually an active champ, but very few fans shed a tear wheb he was gone...or when he got flatlined by Jake Paul.