Worst fighter to become champion?

His run can also be summarized as:
Beating the last WEC 155 champ: Pettis
Beating the last Strikeforce 155 champ: Melendez
Beating the first and most dominant WSOF champ: Geathje
Beating a decorated champ: RDA
4-3-1 is far from impressive, but far from the worst considering who he was matched up against in his short run.

Pettis and melendez where on the downhill and he literally just pushed them against the wall afraid to do anything else. The dude was so disappointed in himself he freakin wrote a letter to himself to not do it again.

And beating Gaethje wasn't in his title run it was after. And it was before Gaethje made the adjustment he has now. Still it is a good - and his best imo - victory.

Conor made him look like a child. Plus he had an opportunity to step up to fight Khabib instead of Al but refused.

His championship was one of the worst.
 
Only one answer...

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Ninja cop Steve Jennum or Nicco Montano.
 
Why does this thread keep getting made? It's always Dave Menne
 
Pettis and melendez where on the downhill and he literally just pushed them against the wall afraid to do anything else. The dude was so disappointed in himself he freakin wrote a letter to himself to not do it again.

And beating Gaethje wasn't in his title run it was after. And it was before Gaethje made the adjustment he has now. Still it is a good - and his best imo - victory.

Conor made him look like a child. Plus he had an opportunity to step up to fight Khabib instead of Al but refused.

His championship was one of the worst.
You went from UFC run to title reign.
Pettis first fight after losing the title was against Alvarez.

Melendez first fight after losing his title shot against Pettis was to Alvarez.

Even if you take issue with just his title reign I can point to others like Cejudo at 135, or Bisping who both refused to fight any legitimate challenger.

Griffin who won a contested decision, lost in his first defense and was barely relevant before retiring.

Vitor won from an eye poke and lost it in a rematch.

Serra pulled off the biggest upset ever, gets hurt, talks shit for a year then gets smashed in his lone defence.

Cruz last reign, wins a close decision then gets school only to quasi-retire.

Garbrandt wins the title then gets stopped twice by his archrival and still doesn't look he'll regain his form.
 
Bisping was champion during a time where you could look at the top 10 MW and he’d probably be the undergdog against most of them.
 
Bisping. Got lucky to a guy that already owned him, refused to rematch the man who gave him an opportunity, fought retired old drug free men who made a career off steroids.
 
The right answer is Matt Serra. He got his title shot by the stipulation that who ever won that season of TUF woukd get a shot.

Yes their are lots of one demensional fighters that have won belts and womens divisions are still very green. But his shot was tbrough a glitch in thinking.
 
A lot of the responses seem to agree with me, any argument against it?
Nicco Montano and GDR both say you're delusional. If we aren't counting WMMA which is a understandable thing to do Dave Menne would be a shout.
 
Kenichi Yamamoto if you count tournament winners also.
Finished 5-12-2
 
Nicco Montano and GDR both say you're delusional. If we aren't counting WMMA which is a understandable thing to do Dave Menne would be a shout.
Not counting women obviously, or guys from the 90’s like Steve Jennum or Dave Menne, that’s a different ballgame.
 
Kind of a mean spirited thread, but I’d say Eddie Alvarez or Ricco Rodriguez

Eddie Alvarez sure became champ in a lot of orgs to be bad at it.

Choosing Eddie undercuts the whole OP. He's easily a top ten and probably a top five all time LW.
 
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