Islam vs Volk 1 was inarguably the fight of the year. Arguably the best fight of last decade from technical aspects. Biggest let down was Gane vs Jones, O Malley vs Sterling and Khamzat vs Usman. Most unexpected yet the fans appeasing one was Strickland vs Adesanya.
I picked hill almost instantly when the fight was announced. Don't know why people were writing him off. I knew Glover had taken way too much damage in his last fight.
@@fallasleep9472 Dalby deserves rank 15 rn, he’s on a 4 fight win streak in the company and his record is like 25-4 give the old man a chance to rise up
i used to hate seeing you on tiktok then i checked your youtube and haven’t stopped watching. One of the most entertaining MMA creators on the site keep it up in 2024
I really appreciate how you told it like it is and listed the fights that sucked! *It's one thing to list the good fights but to have honest points to why a certain performance was terrible.. That is refreshing. I totally agree on the recent Pantoja fight. I cannot stand how he did 0 ground & pound/submission threat, he seemed gassed. The list goes on. There's so many reasons why certain fights deserve a ton of flack for how disappointing they were. Props. Great video.
I like how all the D and F tiers are wet blanket performances except for Belal. He's the only fighter who can get a dominant win in a pure striking contest against a high level opponent and still leave us completely underwhelmed.
It’s aged even worse. Jdm had staph and broken arm and destroyed Gilbert. Belal at peak fought an over trained burns with a shoulder injury and couldn’t even get a tko. Belal sucks
Lucas gets a lot of shit and the guru comparisons are just naturally going to happen since they're in the same lane but I watch Lucas and guru for two completely different reasons and I gotta give Lucas his credit for putting in the work this year
@awfullymenacing idk why you and everyone else’s response is to bring up other fights as if that has any merit to this performance. Were looking at this performance in a vacuum so whatever fouls happened in other fights holds zero validity to Leon’s performance on the 3rd fight
@@kelakogreenaddict1888 has nothing to do with my point, we’re looking at Leon’s performance in a vacuum and Lucas said it was S tier and I’m simply explaining why that isn’t the case
@@Theblobmma you have to put down every performance usman cheats in, and every other fighter for that matter. Literally every fighter will grab the cage. At leon didn’t fake a nut shot, like usman did in their 3rd fight, but then thought better than to stop
Main ones I disagree with are both the Cory ones. Yes the Font stunk but he tore his tricep in half and was effectively one armed for the entire fight. And I also remember a lot of people picking Chito over him before there fight.
idk why he acknowledged cory got injured badly and then says thats not still an excuse for why the performance was “terrible” lmao. as you said cory was effectively one armed, blame font for still getting dominated and displaying terrible bjj instead.
Anthony Smith vs Johnny Walker was like a nice A tier IMO because Anthony Smith is a dude who is more dangerous as the fight goes on and Walker was known to fade, but Walker showed that while still being a bit flashy early he can tough it out and completely outclassed Anthony in the process
Bro, great list but why did you not mention Justin Gaethje's performance vs Dustin Poirier ? That was a solid B tier if not A. It was a close fight until the KO. Gaethje took very little damage too unlike his usual fights.
@@goodxd701 fr that’s what I thought too! I was like holy fuck is he having a seizure. Then he’s wobbling & shit after. Nah couldn’t be me! Brave soul he has
@@BNT_PUMPK1NG-oo4uj I’m agreeing with the guy on the top, people act like Leon dominated Colby when he just did enough each round to out point Colby, even then you can make a argument for Colby winning 4 and 5
Jones vs gane is the definition of S tier. Came back from a long 3 year break and dominated gane in round 1, who was considered 2nd only to Francis in that division at the time
@@td3798 the injury excuse is getting so old. he got dominated who tf cares if hes injured. even if he did get his hand messed up it was still a better win
@@chrishart4356nah dude got injured one min in and belal couldent finish him it’s one thing if he finished him like aljo did to tj but dawg dude got injured first minute and you can’t even hurt him
I would put Volk in A-Tier just because he rocked Yair with a hook as he blocked/tanked a kick from Yair and Yair got wobbled cause he was still on one leg. It was an insane strike to land that Volk had been looking for the whole fight 🎯
Belal came out on short notice with an injured ankle and off ramadan, what did you expect from him versus injured burns? More of the belal hate train is braindead.
I don’t like all your takes but it’s great that you actually say it how it is. Almost every other mma content/media member sucks off every fighter calling them killers when in reality a lot of them suck
Yes. Idk how you could argue that Sandhagen's performance vs Font was in any way good. The takedowns were nice, but he did nothing for 25 minutes with them. Pantoja vs Royval wasn't nearly as bad but the grappling was. Outside of the 4th round where Pantoja had the back, he did nothing on the ground.
Bruh.. you are probably the most biased RUclips streamer I’ve seen 🤦🏽♂️ You legit call Belal boring and how he couldn’t finish Burns, a guy who is very tough to finish, but praise Merab who literally does absolutely nothing with every single TD he lands? Merab literally does the SAME shit every single time, spamming tds over n over n over n over again. Stop trying to follow the crowd. Doesn’t look good
And pantoja broke royval ..in the fifth go back and watch royval trying to buck and get out ..and royval literally had tears in his eyes about to cry ..a man who can't get off the mat is a broken man ask any fighter
The term wet blanket is so disrespectful. It’s also crazy that you think Kamaru took 2 rounds. I’d love to know if he thinks Max took 3 rounds off of Volk, in the second fight?
Bro im so over this guy disrespecting Tom Aspinall which had one of the best year in mma. He is literally the best heavyweight we’ve seen in years and yet this guy doesnt give him any credit.
What I find funny is how u give Gilbert credit (who lost) and slander belal since Gilbert was injured, but don’t give chimeav credit who was also injured in that usman fight (and still won)
Cyril gane is very good. I don’t like how ppl throw away gane now just because of Francis and jones. When honestly he shut Francis down and should’ve won and jones surprised everybody. But gane is very good. He destroys everyone else and even gives Tom a good fight.
@@BL77357 jamahal is very good also. I think Alex gonna be in for a tough fight. I think he’s very fast and it’s a good fight. Ppl talk about jiri and his win over Glover but look what jamahal did to Glover… it has potential to be nominated for fight of the year in my opinion.
Thats why i want khamzat to win the belt. We will be able to see him fight multiple times a year. Im sure he will give usman a title shot.colby too. Its not that many to fight.
@@bobjimbobjim9006 he threw his game plan in that fight and that is why his coaches were mad at him and yelling so I don't understand what do you mean " cop " for what stating facts lol go touch grass madam 😂
Idk how you can give Leon S tier when he hit double digit fouls in that kamaru fight, I don't dispute he did well but imo an S tier performance can't be literally filled with cheating?
Usman has been cheating throughout the fights too so in my opinion if they both do it it can't really detract from the fight itself. Not to mention, he got a point deducted for it, they reset into the same position and he still won quite comfortably
@@donutman1101 youre entitled to your opinion, but that makes zero sense lol. I dont like watching fights filled with cheating, one guy cheating doesn't suddenly make it really cool if the other guy cheats, it still detracts from his performance. And yea, like i said, he did well, I feel he would've won without the cheating. But Usman couldn't get his hands locked because he kept getting his gloves held by Leon so i guess we'll never know, which is why i found his performance while skillful to be pretty frustrating, and I don't particularly care who wins that fight either. Edit: I guess the best way to say it is that it's not zero sum. I think cheating should automatically lower how high a performance should be classed if it's clear it was an intentional instance of cheating which it clearly was more than once in that fight. That doesn't make Kamaru's performance better or mean that Leon actually performed worse, but one of the best performances of the year can't come from a fight where he cheated a ton intentionally on his way to winning.
From “There’s not a man in history past or present who can beat Aspinall” to forgetting him in the awards show and best performances of 2023 tier list
I wouldnt say he had the performance of the year though to be fair. This year has been crazy even for mma
The most lucas thing 😂😂😂 he is has no blame he is lucas tracy 😂
We can’t discount a two weeks notice Pav
@@blakenilsen9852That’s besides the point: Aspinall’s performance wasn’t even included, period. Lol
@@BlaineHenryTFLPavlovich was in camp getting ready being the backup for Jones vs Stipe. Aspinall was the one who came in on 2 weeks notice.
Islam vs Volk 1 was inarguably the fight of the year. Arguably the best fight of last decade from technical aspects.
Biggest let down was Gane vs Jones, O Malley vs Sterling and Khamzat vs Usman.
Most unexpected yet the fans appeasing one was Strickland vs Adesanya.
I should’ve put Makhachev volk 1 on here
If you were rooting for Sean the Aljo fight was awesome!!
One of my favs too
when islam held volk down for 2 staight mins was pretty boring tho but ye rest of the fight was crazy
@@deren2365that was still an epic moment because of the crowd and volk shouting at him
Lucas u get clowned a lot but thanks for the great content this year! You really love the fight game and it shows. Happy holidays and to a great 2024
Best MMA Content Creator Of The Year: LucasTracyMMA by unanimous decision
Lol no, MMA guru clears
I scored it 48-47 MMA Joey
Mighty Gaming goat of the sport and on YT
@@3battleguru has started pandering a little bit with his newfound RUclips fame. I hoped it wouldn’t happen but thought it might
@@3battlecliche and boring answer it’s all the same everytime
Adesanya vs Pereira needs to be mentioned. The odds were technically close but everyone was picking Alex and ppl thought Izzy could only win by Dec.
he just dislikes adesanya so he's gonna be unfair to him
Expecting Lucas Tracy to be unbiased? Cmon man be realistic💀
Wrong channel if you're looking for izzy praise
wasn’t a good performance tho he was losing until he got the knockout
@@SickSportsTv you can't be deadass, izzy won round 1 on all 3 scorecards and knocked him out in the 2nd
Dalby's performance against Bonfim and Hill's upset over Glover stand out instantly in my head.
Especially the Dalby one, I doubted the man hard for his age.
I picked hill almost instantly when the fight was announced. Don't know why people were writing him off. I knew Glover had taken way too much damage in his last fight.
@@fallasleep9472 Dalby deserves rank 15 rn, he’s on a 4 fight win streak in the company and his record is like 25-4 give the old man a chance to rise up
It wasn’t an upset because hill was the betting favourite heading into the fight
@@kingt0295 Fr, maybe Magny or Chiesa.
i used to hate seeing you on tiktok then i checked your youtube and haven’t stopped watching. One of the most entertaining MMA creators on the site keep it up in 2024
I really appreciate how you told it like it is and listed the fights that sucked! *It's one thing to list the good fights but to have honest points to why a certain performance was terrible.. That is refreshing. I totally agree on the recent Pantoja fight. I cannot stand how he did 0 ground & pound/submission threat, he seemed gassed. The list goes on. There's so many reasons why certain fights deserve a ton of flack for how disappointing they were. Props. Great video.
I like how all the D and F tiers are wet blanket performances except for Belal. He's the only fighter who can get a dominant win in a pure striking contest against a high level opponent and still leave us completely underwhelmed.
It’s aged even worse. Jdm had staph and broken arm and destroyed Gilbert. Belal at peak fought an over trained burns with a shoulder injury and couldn’t even get a tko. Belal sucks
Lucas gets a lot of shit and the guru comparisons are just naturally going to happen since they're in the same lane but I watch Lucas and guru for two completely different reasons and I gotta give Lucas his credit for putting in the work this year
i watch lucas exclusively for his shit tier takes
@@xax2952 I feel like he's recently been making some really outlandish takes but idk it didn't always seem like that
Lucas is the hungriest mma RUclipsr in the game 🔥
The Weasle
And the craftiest vet
@@terrellewilliams2188 bro the weasle never does fight companions, never does live streams, and uploads less often than Lucas. It’s not even close
@@terrellewilliams2188hell no,weasle doesn't even watch prelims anymore
Mma joey is hungriest
Bro is the merab of RUclipsrs the way he be pumping out content lmao
I love how everyone just downplays the significance of Leon’s numerous fouls/cheats which ruined usmans early momentum in the 3rd fight
It’s karma for usman cheating throughout his career, I guess
@awfullymenacing idk why you and everyone else’s response is to bring up other fights as if that has any merit to this performance. Were looking at this performance in a vacuum so whatever fouls happened in other fights holds zero validity to Leon’s performance on the 3rd fight
@@kelakogreenaddict1888 has nothing to do with my point, we’re looking at Leon’s performance in a vacuum and Lucas said it was S tier and I’m simply explaining why that isn’t the case
@@Theblobmma you have to put down every performance usman cheats in, and every other fighter for that matter. Literally every fighter will grab the cage. At leon didn’t fake a nut shot, like usman did in their 3rd fight, but then thought better than to stop
@awfullymenacing we’re looking strictly at performance so you should, and I see you in other comments defending Leon, be more objective
Main ones I disagree with are both the Cory ones.
Yes the Font stunk but he tore his tricep in half and was effectively one armed for the entire fight.
And I also remember a lot of people picking Chito over him before there fight.
Also where was Aspinall vs the Russian fridge
idk why he acknowledged cory got injured badly and then says thats not still an excuse for why the performance was “terrible” lmao. as you said cory was effectively one armed, blame font for still getting dominated and displaying terrible bjj instead.
It’s baffling to me that Tom aspinalls performance against Sergei did not make this list.
🤔it's been a longer year than I thought. Some of these fights you named felt like they happened further back than 2023.
S Tier for Lucas Tracy winning the Atomweight UFC Championship
I'm surprised Poirier v Gaethje II didn't get mentioned
Only thing I disagree with is cory vs font. Cory tore his tricep and did what he had to do
That’s true but it was still one of the most boring and low action packed fights of the year
@@lucastracymma8764 what? I loved watching cory lay and pray on font for 25 minutes
@@notaboo7you loved so speak for yourself not everyone tf 🙄
Anthony Smith vs Johnny Walker was like a nice A tier IMO because Anthony Smith is a dude who is more dangerous as the fight goes on and Walker was known to fade, but Walker showed that while still being a bit flashy early he can tough it out and completely outclassed Anthony in the process
Bro would put Izzy in “horrifying performance” if he did what Leon did vs Colby without a doubt
You're the best mma content creator of the year
Bro, great list but why did you not mention Justin Gaethje's performance vs Dustin Poirier ? That was a solid B tier if not A. It was a close fight until the KO. Gaethje took very little damage too unlike his usual fights.
careful there’s a video in between your ads
Where was Tom Aspinal’s win over Sergei?
I like when people are objective. Keep the good work.. hope the channel get more famous
Lucas keep this content pushing i watch your videos everyday and i love your content and your consistency keep making these banger vids ❗️ ❤🙏🏼
Haven’t watched the video but I bet he’s gonna call Edson Barboza “crafty” 😂😂
Damn the fight pictures of Moreno vs Pantoja and Yan vs Merab look SUS as hell in the Tier list
Bro the seizure on Saturday was pretty crazy! 😳
I thought he died💀
@@goodxd701 fr that’s what I thought too! I was like holy fuck is he having a seizure. Then he’s wobbling & shit after. Nah couldn’t be me! Brave soul he has
34:42 how was this not expected 😂
Great video brother
Yo Lucas, could you turn your mic up or sumthin 😭, everytime I put you on max, adbreak comes to violate my ear drums
Leon made Colby look easy but lost the Championship rounds and spent the last 3.5 minutes on his back with no sign of getting up
They ignore this
Ik it was a clear cut 48-47 decision, when did he dominate him?@ajax409
@@BNT_PUMPK1NG-oo4uj I’m agreeing with the guy on the top, people act like Leon dominated Colby when he just did enough each round to out point Colby, even then you can make a argument for Colby winning 4 and 5
I love your content man but, please, for BSD the s is not pronounced at the end. It is like Saint-Deni. Cheers from France.
Bro really had to show Josh emmet at one punch man
Lucas rank all 2023 numbered events, that would make for a good video
No matter what you think of his takes, Lucas Tracy ranks these performances as accurately as they can be. W video
And the winner by knockout!!!!!
Aaaand still!!!!! The undisputed UFC RUclipsr of the year… MMA!!!! GUUUURUUU
Brendan allen vs Craig not on here is crazy, allen completely outclassed him everywhere especially where Craig was good at
He talks about it near the end and he literally says this LOL
Jones vs gane is the definition of S tier. Came back from a long 3 year break and dominated gane in round 1, who was considered 2nd only to Francis in that division at the time
Imagine Derick Lewis trains w David Goggins and the "Just get up" technique becomes unstoppable
Lucas Tracy rookie of the year in MMA youtube.
"who's stopping me from keeping the two divisions busy?"
"I will put you on skates and leave you frozen like Elsa"
Cannonier just was on the source the performance is really for Vettori's chin
I washed it, it's up to you what happens next.
belals win over burns was arguably better than volks win
Yeah, but he's a volk fan and a casual, so he hates belal
@@Dfgdf91burns got hurt in the first minute of the fight and belal couldent finish him
@@td3798 the injury excuse is getting so old. he got dominated who tf cares if hes injured. even if he did get his hand messed up it was still a better win
@td3798 volk got KOd in the first round. How does that dude belong on any tier list atm
@@chrishart4356nah dude got injured one min in and belal couldent finish him it’s one thing if he finished him like aljo did to tj but dawg dude got injured first minute and you can’t even hurt him
I would put Volk in A-Tier just because he rocked Yair with a hook as he blocked/tanked a kick from Yair and Yair got wobbled cause he was still on one leg. It was an insane strike to land that Volk had been looking for the whole fight 🎯
Belal came out on short notice with an injured ankle and off ramadan, what did you expect from him versus injured burns? More of the belal hate train is braindead.
I don’t like all your takes but it’s great that you actually say it how it is. Almost every other mma content/media member sucks off every fighter calling them killers when in reality a lot of them suck
Does boring control just equal a bad performance? Cory rob and pantoja royval being “bad” performances makes no sense
Yes. Idk how you could argue that Sandhagen's performance vs Font was in any way good. The takedowns were nice, but he did nothing for 25 minutes with them. Pantoja vs Royval wasn't nearly as bad but the grappling was. Outside of the 4th round where Pantoja had the back, he did nothing on the ground.
Yes
Lucas this whole vid: *🤓☝🏼*
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Strickland over Izzy gotta be S tier
Thank you for explaining the tomato sauce joke, much appreciated.
I love how honest Lucas ism
Benoit Saint Denis performance against Moises was crazy
Mike Malott vs Adam Fugitt was a perfect performance
Fugitt is extremely mid tho, it’s not that impressive to dominate that guy. Mike Mallot has potential to be a ranked main stay tho
Tom Aspinall's performance should have been one of the top ones here
Bruh.. you are probably the most biased RUclips streamer I’ve seen 🤦🏽♂️
You legit call Belal boring and how he couldn’t finish Burns, a guy who is very tough to finish, but praise Merab who literally does absolutely nothing with every single TD he lands? Merab literally does the SAME shit every single time, spamming tds over n over n over n over again.
Stop trying to follow the crowd. Doesn’t look good
Knight v Prachnio deserves a shout for how truly awful it was
Mate that doesn’t even count as a UFC fight it was prachnio practicing his leg kicks on a heavy bag in the gym
Jared Cannonier deserves a shout he had an insane performance against Marvin Vettori
????
W Barboza Vs Yusuff placement
New subscriber content is dope bro 🫡
Royval vs pantoja 2 is your worst take lol he was active asf on the ground every time
I disagree in max and allen thing
A lot of people were skeptical about how deteriorated max chin was. The odds weren’t that far off 31:40
21:00. "Just because you are injured; that is no excuse for a sh*t performance." haha!
Dawg Whittaker has been in the ufc for almost a decade he’s kinda old now he started fighting super young he’s closing in on retirement tbh
I haven’t even watched this video and hope Colby made this list
Bro Hollway vs Allen wasn't that expected, true it was 49-46 however every round is close af, it's not like Max win like cake walk as we expected.
Always throwing shade at Josh Emmet 😂 “didn’t just display his skill set for one big punch”
I haven't finished the video but I hope I see Leon vs Usman 3 here
It's S tier🔥 that performance was easily one of the best I've seen especially that takedown defense it was genuinely amazing to watch
“I could see him getting knocked out” talking about the Dricus Whittaker fight😂😂 could you??? Something about becoming president
Naaah Hill vs Texeira is S bro because everyone was picking Teixeira and then Jamal didnt ko him but like 50-44'd him
Dont know how khamzat got a 10-8 on usman when Strickland got a 10-9 round after dropping Israel
Lol the first round of khamzat was clearly clinical performance unlike sean it's wasn't that great the first round
S tier Leon is a funny troll lol
Holloway’s performance over Arnold Allen deserves to be A tier lol Allen is a killer and max shut him down
And pantoja broke royval ..in the fifth go back and watch royval trying to buck and get out ..and royval literally had tears in his eyes about to cry ..a man who can't get off the mat is a broken man ask any fighter
Lucas Tracy the casual hatin on casuals😂😂😂😂😂😂
2:57 Ruthless Merab 😂
I thought you were about to call Volk-Yair a bad performance and was gonna go off lmao
Personally think Leon v Colby was an A tier fight because of Leon beating him at wrestling
The term wet blanket is so disrespectful. It’s also crazy that you think Kamaru took 2 rounds.
I’d love to know if he thinks Max took 3 rounds off of Volk, in the second fight?
I can always depend on Lucas Tracy when I want to watch a 40 minute video…
Bro im so over this guy disrespecting Tom Aspinall which had one of the best year in mma. He is literally the best heavyweight we’ve seen in years and yet this guy doesnt give him any credit.
I don’t agree with everything you say but goddamn I love how you rant lol
What I find funny is how u give Gilbert credit (who lost) and slander belal since Gilbert was injured, but don’t give chimeav credit who was also injured in that usman fight (and still won)
Cause cunshot had half a dozen advantages going into the fight
Bro merab shot like 20% in that fight how Tf is it A TIER A
Bruh leon vs colby both full camp but prelims lvl performance should be same tier with bilal vs burn 😂..
You missed the opportunity to put the belal performance in “expected”
Sandhagen had a torn tricep and was training for Umar. So it’s understandable.
Congratulations to Josh Emmett for winning the prestigious, first annual LucasTracyMMA ‘Big Meaty Hooks’ Award! 🏆
Brundage best performance ez
Lucas still coping over the Burn pick🤣
Mano a Mano with Moreno sounds crazy
Edwards vs Usman 3 is not as one sided as people remember it being
Cyril gane is very good. I don’t like how ppl throw away gane now just because of Francis and jones. When honestly he shut Francis down and should’ve won and jones surprised everybody. But gane is very good. He destroys everyone else and even gives Tom a good fight.
I agree with Gane still being underrated.. same with Jamahal Hill. Very underrated
@@BL77357 jamahal is very good also. I think Alex gonna be in for a tough fight. I think he’s very fast and it’s a good fight. Ppl talk about jiri and his win over Glover but look what jamahal did to Glover… it has potential to be nominated for fight of the year in my opinion.
Thats why i want khamzat to win the belt. We will be able to see him fight multiple times a year.
Im sure he will give usman a title shot.colby too. Its not that many to fight.
Khamzat broke his wrist in the first round, which I think explains him not doing much in the 2nd and 3rd rounds.
Nah I don’t think he was gonna destroy usman or anything if he had a working wrist
@@bobjimbobjim9006he would have stop playing dumb 😂
@@Asiyah2000 cope, just like he stopped Gilbert burns?
@@bobjimbobjim9006 he threw his game plan in that fight and that is why his coaches were mad at him and yelling so I don't understand what do you mean " cop " for what stating facts lol go touch grass madam 😂
Honestly cannot take this guy seriously no more. I’ve let him get away with saying stupid things but he’s just said merab isn’t a good grappler!!
Idk how you can give Leon S tier when he hit double digit fouls in that kamaru fight, I don't dispute he did well but imo an S tier performance can't be literally filled with cheating?
Usman has been cheating throughout the fights too so in my opinion if they both do it it can't really detract from the fight itself.
Not to mention, he got a point deducted for it, they reset into the same position and he still won quite comfortably
@@donutman1101 youre entitled to your opinion, but that makes zero sense lol. I dont like watching fights filled with cheating, one guy cheating doesn't suddenly make it really cool if the other guy cheats, it still detracts from his performance. And yea, like i said, he did well, I feel he would've won without the cheating. But Usman couldn't get his hands locked because he kept getting his gloves held by Leon so i guess we'll never know, which is why i found his performance while skillful to be pretty frustrating, and I don't particularly care who wins that fight either.
Edit: I guess the best way to say it is that it's not zero sum. I think cheating should automatically lower how high a performance should be classed if it's clear it was an intentional instance of cheating which it clearly was more than once in that fight. That doesn't make Kamaru's performance better or mean that Leon actually performed worse, but one of the best performances of the year can't come from a fight where he cheated a ton intentionally on his way to winning.