Questionable AF UFC Matchmaking That Resulted in One-Sided Beatdowns (Sacrificial Lambs)
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jon vs chael has to be one of the biggest mismatches ever what were they thinking when they made it, it's a miracle jon made it out alive.
The headbutts chael threw at Jon's fists and elbows were vicious. Ref had seen enough
Pulled guard that hard it broke Jones toe
Honestly stopped early af and since chael was on roids like Jon, i wanted to see that go more a bit....
Actually kind of crazy bc if it had gone to a second round it might’ve been stopped bc of the nasty toe break Jon had
If Chael actually survives that round he would've most likely won because Jon's toe
Zombie vs Volk was definitely an awful mismatch, but he did genuinely earn the title shot so it's a weird situation.
Volks just that good
On paper it actually wasn't, TKZ is still a top contender. It's just that Volk is that good. Volk versus anyone is a mismatch in actuality.
@@athulfgeirsson no, it was always a bad match up doesn't matter if TKZ earned it he never stood a chance, I saw that beating coming as soon as they booked it
Nah KZ was on aone fight winning streak he didn''t deserve a shot and he was very old, was kinda expected he would get destroyed, he had just got battered by Ortega whom got dispossed easily on the feet by Volko and yes MMA maths doesn't always work bu in this case it did
It's sort of like the 87 win Phillies barely squeaking into the playoffs and eventually playing the 106 win Astros in the World Series. Wasn't a fair matchup on paper, but they earned their way there.
Back then I remember thinking James toney was a total imbecile for this but nowadays I have respect since none of these boxers want to step in besides Clarissa.
Aye she stepped into a cage but not with Nunes or the UFC
@@Ebola-Kun uh...yea? She's not braindead.
@@Ebola-Kun well she's still a boxer, so..
Why would boxers go fight in the UFC for garbage money. Boxers making millions boxing. yeah let's go fight in the UFC for 150k.
@@Ebola-Kun why would you make your mma debut against an all time great?
i find the dichotomy between yair’s very high level striking and then his donkey kong g&p once he drops someone to be hilarious
It's probably just so high level we don't get it
@@tzarleonardi8967It definitely works, it does look funny though
Brunsons striking techinque is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be... unnatural.
I was watching that like "this feels like he's doing it wrong but the guy can't fight back so..."
Looks like he is scratching the face of his opponent, maybe thats why he is called Pantera
The way Chael took Jones down at 6:28 is amazing. Such technique that’s incomparable 👏🏼🙌🏼
he even makes it look like, jones took him down so he get the points! what a legend!
Bro my stomach hurt from laughing. Great observation XD
Uncle chael defies physics with that takedown
He pulled guard
He pulled guard and got the armbar one of the slickest armbars ive ever seen. But credit to Jon for being brave enough to fight the legend.
"I can't let you get close."
- CM Punk to GOAT status
You should've just put
CM Punk to winning
@@something3867 I know. I thought of it the way I said it. I exaggerated a bit.
Legitimacy would have been a better choice of words i.m.o.
The goat he'd never be but with one good win or performance he at least he could have proven himself as an actual martial artist and fighter.
@@FraJa1980 Yeah you're right. It's a rude comment too since I liked the guy at the time. He tried his shot and it didn't work out but he was willing to put in the work and trained his a@# off.
The fact Korean Zombie managed to make it to round 4 is unbelievable, shows his heart ♥️
Amazing heart on that guy. I hate when people call it a mismatch. Volk is just light years ahead of everybody else. TKZ was still one of the best in the world
Guy is tough as fuck
Volk really asked him “are you sure” lmao that’s why he is my favorite fighter
Where?
He really made the zombie look like a damn zombie 😂
@@shadapakapbeginning of the round he finished him in
I still can't get over the UFC making Jones Vs Sonnen. When you see what Chael did to Jon's toe...
UFC really gave James Toney a hall of famer on his MMA debut lmao they should've given him a pat barry or kongo
He was talking crap about MMA in the leadup so they wanted to make an example out of him lol. With that said, I as a boxing fan, would have loved to see him fight a striker!
pat barry would have tko'd him with leg kicks in under 3 minutes
Hell no. He was talking mad crap
I mean it's perfect for the ufc, if Randy wins the boxer who talked shit gets silenced but Randy getting the shit beaten out of him is good in Dana's book
They would both beat his ass, boxers do not belong in an mma cage
I love how James toney didn't even know how to tap right 😂
He was too arrogant to learn what he needed
By that time he was probably thinking he was waving to God. LIghts out Toney
Dude probably just did it for the money he didn't stand a chance once he got took down
@@gh0rochi363 I remember in the post fight octagon interview he failed to congrat Couture and just said if it was a boxing match he would've beat him. I was like "wtf?"
He’s no Ray Mercer!
How much money did McCarthy bet on BJ to beat Yair lmao what the absolute fuck was that stoppage😭
McCarthy trying to get BJ killed.
I honestly think it was because he seen what bj is capable and how durable he is, but yeah you never know lol
He was giving a chance to be a warrior
@@MMALineMover linger longer
He was letting BJ exercise his warrior spirit 😂
Punk’s shuffle across the cage always makes me laugh. 2 seconds in and everyone knew it was over lol
Incredible footwork.
Moving like a crab that shit his pants.
Looked like an 8-bit Nintendo character.
More like 2 years before the actual fight we knew it was over lol
Jesus what an awfully late stoppage for Yair-Penn fight. Wtf was that ref waiting for...
He legit said to his friends before the fight "you wanna see a dead body?"
Bro I don't know what big John McCarthy was smoking in that match he probably wanted that guy to die
Waiting for Kingpin Dana's approval.
"Now he's had enough".
John would give certain people a bit more time if there complained about Herb being premature in the past, like Ken-Tito.
Penn had no business competing period, he was washed beyond belief.
Yair wasn't really landing particularly heavy blows, he was just throwing wild haymakers without doing much damage for most of them.
Brenneman questioning the stoppage after watching Rumble's leg makes its way into his face with his hands down killed me 😂 First time seeing that one
I just don’t know how tf that didn’t KO him flat it looked like shin to the dome
Lol, looked like he was out on his feet and the kick actually brought him back lol
Crazy that they'd feed Jones to Uncle Chael
The fact that Cody McKenzie actually fought Chad Mendes is wild to me. Probably the biggest gap in athleticism theres ever been (aside from a CM Punk fight)
I actually kind of like Cody McKenzie because on TUF he talked mad trash to Josh Koschek and Josh wanted his guy to beat Cody so bad and then Cody put him in the tightest choke of all time and Josh was devastated 😂😂😂
Honestly while at the time I thought it was a mismatch on paper it wasn’t that bad? He had a fluke submission chance, but yeah no way he was gonna win considering Chad was improving with Ludwig in their camp.
Where was Cachoeira vs Shevchenko tho, Mario’s finest hour
Could put Shev vs eye as well
that definitely deserve to be on here. She was unranked vs the #1 rank. They could of gotten someone on the street and the fight would look exactly the same.
I don’t recall Chael Sonnen losing to Jon Jones 😴
he sure did get illegally knee'd tho. if position was reset then chael would've survived and dr wouldnt let bones fight with broken toe sustained in 1st rd. in another universe, chael was double champ
Jones got saved by the ref. Lucky.
It's just CGI, more smoke and mirrors, revisionist history trying to discredit the only and only true GOAT, Uncle Chael P. Sonnen. The "P" stands for "Tito tapped".
💯
He didn't, It has been proven that the fight was all a deepfake. Sonnen has never lost anything. Except his virginity.
Should definetley do a best matchmaking video
Agreed
Yoel v Costa
Geajthe v chandler
Nate v Tony (not intended but totally the right call)
Nate v Pettis
Tuivasa v Lewis
@@georgehowells4854 Burns vs chimaev. Figgi vs moreno etc
@Luke Raywoid guram vs gamrot. Both making their debut yet looked like top 10 with their skillset
@@thenedsmmachannel8970 if guram fought more he'd probably be top ten idk why he doesn't fight more
To be fair I wouldn’t even consider Zombie vs Volk a mismatch as much as it’s just Volk being on a whole different level than most or all of that division. Zombie earned the shot and he’s been a top contender for a long time, and he can still contend well with probably everyone else in the division besides Volk. Volky just made it look like a mismatch, that’s how good he is
He really didn't earn the TS, he was a replacement for Max Holloway who had to pull out due to an injury, KZ was coming from a win from Dan Ige, not exactly a top contender.
@@PrismanSP Soooo, he earned a title shot.. Whether he was the first or second choice for the next shot, he earned it nonetheless
@@NamSaiyan595 no not at all
Real questionnable af mismatches that I hate is when a fighter says he it will be his last fight and they give him an unknown serial killer like they did with Frankie Edgar. I mean make sure a legend's last fight is at least competitive.
@@lodxmas I mean I wouldn’t consider Chris Gutierrez unknown at all, he’s had some great performances in the UFC already, but I see what you’re saying. Yeah I didn’t like that match up for Frankie’s last fight, I was pretty confident he’d probably get beat up and possibly KO’d especially considering how fragile his chin has been lately. Definitely a shitty way to see him go out. They gave Nate Diaz a good match up via Tony Ferguson for his last fight, but a lot of others they feed to murderers like they did with Frankie. But hey, he was a ranked contender in the division. If we’re being fair here, he needs to be able to competitively attempt to defend that spot against any unranked fighter. So fair play by all accounts. Just shitty to watch his soul be stolen like that on his last go. Still a legend though!
Holland vs Chimaev imo
How about 22-0 Khabib vs Darrell Horcher who was making his ufc debut on short notice. People seem to forget that fight but it's probably the biggest mismatch in ufc history
That was a short-notice replacement for Ferguson. Not the same as the rest of these.
Well, it kind of is. It happened. And it shouldn't have happened. Short-notice is not an excuse to throw someone to the wolves you either make a competitive match or cancel the bout.
Kebabs got a padded record anyway.
5:13-That last kick by Rumble vs Brennaman was brutal.
and brennaman was like 🤷 lmao
You pick amazing topics and compilations. Always so interesting, very well edited. Good work.
Cerrone looked like he was surprised to get punched. Like he didn't realize it was a fight. I think he thought he and Conor were just going to a have a nice seafood dinner.
He was actually sick at the time, recovering from food poisoning apparently. He didn't talk about it at the time because he didn't want to make excuses. I honestly don't think that was really such a bad mis-match based on the history of each fighter. Cerrone was also a notoriously slow starter though, and that's definitely not good against McGregor.
@@syncmonism what about every other time he got smoked
Cerrone always choked for the big fights, dunno if it was just mental or bad matchups but every time he was in a fight that was gonna get him to that Elite title level he folded. Sad because the dude is a beast.
@@syncmonism absolutely a mismatch. Cerrone was a journeyman on his way out, having been TKOed in his last two fights, was almost 37 at the time, and had been through near 80 pro MMA/Kickboxing/boxing matches in his career at that point. The UFC, knowing cerrone was a fan favourite, fed him to Conor for his big return, knowing it would be a relatively easy win over a big name for Conor.
@@fortniteboss6958 most of the ufc roster was predicting cowboy to beat mcgregor tho so i don’t see how people go from saying conor gonna get smoked to it was a mismatch. i think conor just suprised him early like he’s done several times
Love when dc finally said it “we can’t keep talking about how tough a fighter is for 15 minutes”
Toneys takedown defense 🤣
poor zombie he had simply no business at all here with volk, even he knew it and acknowledged it after the fight, i hope he just will spend the rest of his career having fun fights or retire soon because he got a lot of damage over these years
Hate seeing zombie go down like that.
Volk’s genuine “let’s go” at the start of the fight is so wholesome lol. Dude is just a natural athlete that loves to compete
The actual concern in DCs voice in the nunes vs Anderson fight “OH she’s standin still!” 😂 shit always gets me
Costa really looked insane that hendricks fight, he was using every limb and landing everywhere, the pressure he was laying was just amazing
Hendricks too slow too fat. Made Costa look like a god.
That’s what happens when you can’t cheat anymore. Johny was a bum who never stayed in shape, didn’t put the work in and relied on PEDs/IV to help him cut weight and compete
Besides that his opponent was half his size
@@origin7436 didn’t matter Johnny was a bum at this point.. if he was juiced up it would have been a better fight , he needed to get on that secret juice costa is on
Chael actually tapped for jon jones safety after Chael witnessed jon's broken toe, Chael didn't lose that fight
Exactly
Never forget the mismatch of Sonnen and silva, he was destroying silva so bad that, out of pure mercy, chael decided to get submitted
What a man
Dean Herb really believes in a fight to the death
Dean herb? 😂
Derb Hean*
2:55 The most telegraphed right hand in the history of the universe
Very nice compilation. Good stuff, I'm going to check out some more.
Man TKZ was next in line for the title. It hurts to see what a miss match it was. I really hoped for the fight to be less one sided.
For all that he lost, our boy Zombie is tough AF, and has not an ounce of quit in him.
Biggest robberies in ufc history?
Suga vs petr better not be on that list
@@50.CalFilms close fight… but Yan definitely won
Sanchez vs Pearson is the biggest robbery by far
St-Pierre v Hendricks
Jones ve reyes
U could see and feel it. Hendricks being like “ouch” every time costa landed
Man props to Jon for surviving a whole 4:40 against Chael.
The Korean Zombie fight was just hard to watch. You know it's bad once the commentators stop going "man he's tough".
The Chael vs Jones fight is very intriguing if you consider that if Chael could survive for 20 seconds more he would probably win via Doctor Stoppage and become LHW Champion since Jones broke is toe in a very nasty way.
Crazy to think of. He also lost an absolute heartbreaker to Silva after dominating him the whole fight. Could’ve been champ twice
@@86hills59ans the paulo filho wec fight. But Filho didnt make weight so the win regardless wouldnt be for the title
"Look at bj Penn trying to defend himself!" Whilst Penn is just eating punches and flailing his arms around is peak DC commentating 🤣 it was like he was trying to trick the viewers into thinking it wasn't a complete mismatch from the start haha. Always a company man
5:48 I remember watching this and saying "She's like a deer in headlights..... Now she looks like Bambi on ice"
People act like Conor vs Cowboy was such a mismatch, if you rewatch the fight cowboy literally just got blitzed so fast, from the beginning he was rocked, McGregor broke his face with his damn shoulder. Cowboy had a few wins the year before, he beat Mike Perry and I believe Alexander Hernandez in 2019
UFC basically do this for khabib his entire career... Also his first 12 fights in russia doesnt exist anywhere on footage.
what LMAO
its been 4 years bro...
*let it go*
Imagine being so Good that Fights with Barboza, Rda, prime Michael Johnson, Conor, Gaethje, Poirier are all considered mismatches
@Cheerio Box how much is the rent for your head? Khabib lives rent free there, just asking for someone else
Khabib’s legacy will never die. Salty haters won’t allow it.
Yair Rodriguez might just have the funniest ground and pound I’ve ever seen
Never forget that the Korean Zombie had his championship potential ripped away from him due to mandatory military enrollment.
I knew zombie would lose to volk, but the beatdown he endured against volk was so hard to watch it made me sad
Yeah he was rocked bad on like 5 different occasions and pretty much touched at will I hope it doesn’t affect him too bad
Hendricks vs costa was the first time I had ever saw Paulo costa 😂 bro I was thinking there is no way this man fights at 185 the physical difference between them was insane
Mctapper really loves his back of the head shots.
Yair vs bj was sad
yea sad for Penn but Yairs g’n’p was so bad it had me giggling
@@sigmatrillionairegus2671 that’s true hahah
Cody McKenzie is one of my favourite TUF fighters of all time...choke king
cro cop's guillotine looking like a slap chop lmao
You can tell how much respect big John had for Penn for letting it last that long
Where's Derek Brunson vs Edmen Shahbazyan?
Wasn't exactly a questionable matchmaking at the time, Shahbazyan was undefeated prospect who many thought would be next big thing in MW divison, he was also a favorite if I remember
Edmen was coming off a head kick ko over Tavares. Only person to starch him that bad was Whittaker so that win was extremely impressive
@@thenedsmmachannel8970 and jacare
I actually developed a hate for the UFC letting the zombie get cooked on tv like that
Not on the UFC for that. The ref let it go on far too long
I thought the odds were so ridiculously out of whack for BJ vs Yair.
The volkanovski vs zombie isn't a questionable booking. He was a top contender, it's just Alex is that good he dominated him. Look what he did to Holloway in their third fight.
lol how tf was he a top contender? Dude was on a losing streak then beat 1 guy that was literally a bum and the UFC gifted him a title fight . Literally he didn’t earn the title fight at all and it shows Lmaooo
@Carter Knight you mean the 4th ranked isnt enough? who else would you have picked then? Fighters ranked lower or contenders that already lost to him? Rodriguez lost to Holloway before that, and Emmet was still climbing up. Ortega already lost to Alex, and kattar wasn't a choice either.
This guys deserves much respect and much more salary. Training hard,making the weight cut,getting beaten just to bring home the bacon. Salute my brothers
Conor was gifted a very safe W with Cerrone because Cowboy is very slow starter and he always had big issues with pressure fighters, so Conor was basically his nightmare embodied. The UFC and Conor tried to sell to us that he and Cowboy had a "history" together and this needed to be settled.
I mean Conor had history with everybody on that press conference but you didn't see him square off against RDA; lol. He could have fought Gaethje but he dodged a bullet with that one. Smart move as a comeback to fight somebody who was on a huge decline.
But when Gaethje beat Cowboy he was a beast? 😂
The fact that they thought Jones stood a chance against the American Gangster Chael Sonnen is insane to me
I dont think korean zombie is ever for sure put in a mismatch. Sometimes he is inconsistent. It's a shame he couldnt ever make it to being a champ but he's come close and has had more memorable matches than many champions
yeah, my man Chael was too much for poor Jones 😞
I love that cowboy is conor only win in like the last 5 years I love using that as ammo
he lives rent free in your head
That’s why your a loser
@@yuy389 Ahh yes the guy who’s biggest fights are on Twitter nowadays then in the actual octagon is who we are thinking about, totally 😂.
Bro has ammo for this 💀 he litterally lives in your head
@@yuy389 facts all they think about is Conor lmao
It’s hard to see great fighters retire too late.
Fights I would add off the top of my head... Joe Lauzon vs Gabe Ruediger, Nate Diaz vs. Gomi, Valentina vs. Eye, Cyborg vs Spencer etx c
Petr vs Faber, O’Malley vs Moutinho, Sandhagen vs Frankie when I saw that announced I was like wtf? And yeah that fight was disastrous
2:55 i wonder if thats how Punk shuffled over to the Young Bucks and Kenny when they beat down his locker room door
From the moment Toney Couture got announced I said "What's the point?"
On the other hand, seeing what happened to Chan Sung Jung broke my heart
You forgot that one fight with anthony johnson mauling that one ginger dude like a lion on a gazelle lol
1:51 thanks, Herb Dean. Zombie still standing he could just let the beating continue but decided to stop it.
Charlie Brennamen was the king of getting knocked down back in his day. He made so many fighters highlights look so good, him and Struve.
Cerrone didn't care about winning because that was the biggest check he ever got. 99.9% UFC fighters would even come out of retirement to fight McGregor.
Johnson headkick vs Brennaman was too clean
Yair’s ground and pound is like that fight in A Christmas Story
5:05 lmao bro does not wanna be there
Lol as soon as i seen james Toney i couldn't help but laugh a little. I remember watching that fight live and my uncle was a big Toney fan. Wasn't a good night for either of them lol
bruh Costa beat up Hendricks like he owed him drugmoney
Sean vs Izzy needs to be on this list.
Holy fuck, Rumble Johnson was built like a fucking tank
Penn: "What? He only hit me two dozen consecutive times!"
The fight between Johnny and Costa felt almost criminal.
Korean Zombie with the Homer Simpson strategy
Cro Cop Vs. Live Action Homer Simpson was the fight that made me feel like Crocop was gonna take the heavy weight division by storm. Then the Gonzaga fight happened.
I actually think this happens so often you could make an annual series
There should be a part two to this.
JJ Vs Cyril Gane
" 'smart' he went right into that knee"
No fight is a mismatch until after the fight happens. Upsets happen quite often
I love the Sean o Malloy vs mountino. Talk about a punching bag
That Volko vs Zombie fight did feel like a mismatch even more as the fight wore on. At one point i was like just get knocked out already Zombie.
Problem with a lot of these mismatched fights are just old or damaged fighters not knowing when to hang the gloves.
That hendricks v costa fight was definitely the UFC’s burner fight. I remember watching that thinking Hendricks should be at 170 with that physique and Paulo looked 205.
Man tkz's chin is insane if only he didnt have to serve in the military he mightve been one of the best seriously one of the nicest and most tough guys the ufc has ever produced gonna miss him the octagon when he retires :/
That front kick followed by check left hook by yair gets cleaner everytime I watch it
Jon vs Chael is so funny to me lol. I mean just seeing Chael so big at 205 because he was like extra juicing is so fucking funny😂 and the toe snap is just legendary at this point. Undisputed.