alex pereira vs izzy 2. izzy nearly knocked out pereira in fight 1 by exploiting a weakness in pereiras defence and in their second fight pereira didnt adjust
While yes Ivanov had also just recently returned after being stabbed and fighting for his life for sometime. While he did have success in the cage he is also very undersized for heavyweight closer to DC's size and could easily make LHW if he tried.
Gonzaga v. Cro Cop is for sure #1. Gonzaga was a multi time world champion in BJJ before he was ever in mma. He had some knockouts, sure, but to beat Cro Cop with the very head kick Cro Cop was known around the world for... simply amazing.
Surprised to not see Garbrandt vs Cruz on this list! That was one of the most immaculate championship performances I'd seen to date and Cody used a strategic, measured, movement-heavy approach much closer to Dom's style than his own known enchant for having a brawl.
Werdum's KO was set up by repeatedly stuffed takedown attempts in Rd 1. Mark was leaning his head down into his sprawl, pushing Werdum away with his chest/shoulder. Werdum clocked this, level changed to imply a takedown, and instead shot up at Mark's undefended chin with a devastating knee. An absolutely beautiful strike that was only possible through Werdum's threat of a ground game as he was being handled in the stand-up prior to that moment.
Ngannou v. Miocic 2, even if it ended with a nasty KO, Ngannou still used what was thought to be a fatal flaw (Wrestling) to absolutely dominate Miocic
It's funny because Chiesa and Masvidal both went to their opponents' biggest weakness: Masvidal got caught with the pull down right hand and Chiesa got caught with a d'arce
Wrestler KO a stand up guy it's at least for me not that awkward, the takedown treat it's a better chin opener than a black belt in Muay Thai lol just look at kebob cracking connor with a windmill 1st grade punch.
Jones v Texeira could arguably be on here as well. Everyone said Glover needs to get Jones in the clinch or on the fence to win. Jones went exactly those places and completely neutralized Glover
Chuck Liddell vs rashad Evans to. He Knocked Liddell out walking backwards with a wild overhand just like chuck was known for. But I can see why it didn’t make it as rashad was at least known for having that sort of striking in his arsenal and chuck was a bit chinny at that point of his career
>beginning of video: "cro cop vs gonzaga wont be in here cause gonzaga was a striker" >end of video: "bet you thought cro cop vs gonzaga was gonna be in here, well it would be but we think cro cop vs randleman is more interesting"
ngannou was just a boxer. he turned the tables on both stipe and gane. stipe was a collegiate wrestler and was stuffed and taken down. gane was well.. expecting a stand up fight
Lukes real gameplan V Costa was to get gassed and go out swinging, too bad Paulo followed turned his gameplan into that too making it one of his worst fights of all time
because the fight was a war and I don't think he had a submission gameplan or anything like that, he just ended up in that position and went for the choke, the rest of the fight he was trying to strike? I don't know, that was just my thought process
Matt sera got lucky and it was an early stoppage. Matt sera was a good fighter but he was not clear top level fighter gsp was. So much opened up for Matt when he won that fight and like I said it was lucky for him
No. 1 should not be no. 1. Why? Because it's not that difficult to tapout Chiesa. His offensive grappling skills are great, but his defense... Yeaaah, let's say Cody Garbrandt has a better chin, than Chiesa's grappling defense.
@@PrinceIsot Found the Lossvidal stan. He's got more decision wins than KO wins "cAsUaL" so I don't think it's unfair to question whether he should be considered a "KO artist" Either way, you still sound like a jackoff.
He's called a KO artist because 6 out of his last 7 wins were KO/TKO. Also that Jake Paul KO is literally the only other KO loss Askren has besides Masvidal. In a Decade of fighting and 23 fights Askren has 2 KO losses and 1 Submission loss.
10 fighters who didn't learn from their past mistakes
alex pereira vs izzy 2. izzy nearly knocked out pereira in fight 1 by exploiting a weakness in pereiras defence and in their second fight pereira didnt adjust
Genius! Love this one! such a good idea
does jon jones count?
@@GregHuffman1987 I don't see why not
Cody in the second TJ fight. Dude got hit by the same punch, 3 times, back to back to back.
I mean Chiesa has lost all of his fights by submission despite being the submission guy.
D'Arce choke several times too lol
@@redneckrambo9626hope Tony has one more in him
Charlie Olives been subbed a lot too.
Not that uncommon with grapplers and Wrestlers. Especially the more aggressive ones chasing Submissions.
Oliveira is another example
I can eat now
GSP was great at Turning The Gameplan, he did it multiple time.
Yeah he was great at beating people at their own game.
Well, well, well. How the turntables….
best comment of the year hahahahah
I remember when Volkov submitted that guy in bellator with all the grappling accolades
Ivanov?
@@Deacers yup
Bit unfair it was after he’s was stabbed and has to learn to walk again after a coma
While yes Ivanov had also just recently returned after being stabbed and fighting for his life for sometime.
While he did have success in the cage he is also very undersized for heavyweight closer to DC's size and could easily make LHW if he tried.
Yeah but it’s suckator so….
Weili vs Esparza deserves a spot, Weili played UNO Reverse on all three of Esparza's takedowns.
Going back in time into the Primordial Soup looking for Couture and Liddell was diabolical. 😂
Most impressive one in my mind was the fight between Anthony Hernandez vs Rodolfo Veira. Multiple time BJJ world champ getting submitted.
Completely agree, this one definitely deserved a spot
Favorite fighter GSP I’m feeling old lol
ehh wrestling fans are still stuck in 1998. i think mma fans are good
Gonzaga v. Cro Cop is for sure #1. Gonzaga was a multi time world champion in BJJ before he was ever in mma. He had some knockouts, sure, but to beat Cro Cop with the very head kick Cro Cop was known around the world for... simply amazing.
Absolutely. To call him a “knockout artist” is just ridiculous.
Fedor going in and out grappling Big Nog and outstriking Crocop should’ve made it on the list.
GSP outwrestled Matt Hughes within like his first 3-4 fights in the UFC. That was the moment you knew he could wrestle
I like Bayliun nowadays.
Great video.
One of my favorite is when Alan Belcher initiated the leg lock game with Rousmir only to work him on the ground.
Paulo costa actually came into the game as a ground guy and just ended up dropping it out of his game but he's actually really good on the ground
Oh okay interesting because that's what they said as well
The thing I remember most about the GSP Koscheck fight was GSP's jab.
Do “styles that lost their novelty”
I have never gotten on YT and MMA on point posted a video a min ago. Damn lucky Sunday morning
You guys honestly always got a great ideas for videos, didn't know i wanted this til now lmao
lol Jorge has always been underrated for his ground game.
The respect to Masvidal at the end 🫡
“Pull out merchants” people who pulled out of the most fights
GSP's takedwon defense against Koscheck was just insane...
Surprised to not see Garbrandt vs Cruz on this list! That was one of the most immaculate championship performances I'd seen to date and Cody used a strategic, measured, movement-heavy approach much closer to Dom's style than his own known enchant for having a brawl.
10 times fighters smoked a bunch of opium and attacked a random animal statue
I miss those old ESPN commercials…the GSP and the Antonio Brown one where he worked at the reception desk were the best.
13:23 "Someone who will never be beaten at his own game is Max Randall...!"
I remember Randy Couture walking out. He had his hoodie up and Joe Rogan said " that dudes face is chiseled". Idk why I remember that specific thing.
This track bangs
As soon as I saw the title I knew Nick vs Robbie was gonna be on it
MMA Right On Point 💯
Does anyone have Nick Diaz's speech after the Lawler fight? It was great.
Remember when BJ penn went for take downs on jon fitch it threw him for a loop.
I always forget they fought , the only time BJ didn’t lose on his downfall
That was an underrated fight. At the time I wished it was 5 rounds.
9:13 Trollface from Verdum lol
Jon Jones fighting every fighter full of Juice back in the day (Chael etc) with even more Juice of his own 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Werdum's KO was set up by repeatedly stuffed takedown attempts in Rd 1. Mark was leaning his head down into his sprawl, pushing Werdum away with his chest/shoulder. Werdum clocked this, level changed to imply a takedown, and instead shot up at Mark's undefended chin with a devastating knee. An absolutely beautiful strike that was only possible through Werdum's threat of a ground game as he was being handled in the stand-up prior to that moment.
Ngannou v. Miocic 2, even if it ended with a nasty KO, Ngannou still used what was thought to be a fatal flaw (Wrestling) to absolutely dominate Miocic
He stopped a takedown, that's not dominant wrestling sir
Cro Cop's foot!
It's funny because Chiesa and Masvidal both went to their opponents' biggest weakness: Masvidal got caught with the pull down right hand and Chiesa got caught with a d'arce
Wrestler KO a stand up guy it's at least for me not that awkward, the takedown treat it's a better chin opener than a black belt in Muay Thai lol just look at kebob cracking connor with a windmill 1st grade punch.
Cro cop v Gonzaga is gonna be on this one isn't it 😢
Fookin out greeting punched than Cabbage!
Top 10 earliest stoppages
Hold on im kneeing brother
I thought for sure Alan Belcher vs palhares would be on this.
I instantly thought of Chase Hooper overhand-ing K1 champ Viacheslav. Very biased though, cuz I'm a big Chase Hooper fan
2 Minutes Gang ⬇️
Gonzaga was a submission specialist that happened to have a previous KO before Cro Cop, not a KO artist. Just how HW can be with those big guys.
GSP did it multiple times, outstriked a striker and outwrestled a wrestler. First modern mma fighter🇨🇦🇨🇦
Watching rodolfo vieira get subbed blew me away
Im pretty sure DC mentions how Usmans striking was kinda sloppy the round before he slept Jorge. Thats funny in hindsight 😂
Quite a few grapplers laid out Cro-Cop
Jones v Texeira could arguably be on here as well. Everyone said Glover needs to get Jones in the clinch or on the fence to win.
Jones went exactly those places and completely neutralized Glover
You should do a top 10 most featured fighters on the channel
Surprised Prochazka vs Teixeira wasn’t on the list
Chuck Liddell vs rashad Evans to. He Knocked Liddell out walking backwards with a wild overhand just like chuck was known for. But I can see why it didn’t make it as rashad was at least known for having that sort of striking in his arsenal and chuck was a bit chinny at that point of his career
ROSAS LAST NIGHT!!!!!
No.
Silva vs chael is in the list and i even watch it
How can you not mention that Cro Cop later subbed Randleman in their rematch lol
I can’t believe TJ Dillashaw beating Renan Barao to take the belt wasn’t on this list! 😮
Should have added Oliviera vs Chandler
>beginning of video: "cro cop vs gonzaga wont be in here cause gonzaga was a striker"
>end of video: "bet you thought cro cop vs gonzaga was gonna be in here, well it would be but we think cro cop vs randleman is more interesting"
Everything Goat Jones. Now THAT guy beats so many people at their own game. Teixeira, DC, Santos, Belfort, Sonnen, etc.. Goat Jones.
Happy birthday Luke 😎
GSP 🤘
ngannou was just a boxer. he turned the tables on both stipe and gane. stipe was a collegiate wrestler and was stuffed and taken down. gane was well.. expecting a stand up fight
Did MMA ever say anything like “don’t try this at home” like wwe did/does
Anthony Hernandez submitting Rodolfo should have been here 😢
thought about it but, Fluffy is a submission guy dude, he had multiple subs before that fight so, he basically used his normal gameplan
Khamzat v Meerschaert two grapplers one brutal KO
Olivera boxing Justin Gaethae... i thought he needs it on the mat quick. I was way wrong
Game plans are crap. You obviously want to do what you're good at but if you settle on a plan and it doesn't work you're pretty frigged
Jiri vs Glover!!
Nah you forgot jiri subbing Glover
🔥
Jon Jones vs Texeira needs a mention
Leaving Anthony Fluffy Hernandez vs Rodolfo Vieira off this list feels like a miss!
Verdum was on TRT
How does Gonzaga-Cro Cop “kinda” make sense 😂
In all fairness Cro-Cop has been KO'd by multiple grapplers
Jon jones chaeled sonnen chael sonnen
I wish Dustin made it to this list 💔
Lukes real gameplan V Costa was to get gassed and go out swinging, too bad Paulo followed turned his gameplan into that too making it one of his worst fights of all time
Cro cop v fedor #1
The Amanda one shouldn't count. Im sure she had covid or just came off having covid. And that stuff stays with you. As seen in the second fight😂
Masvidal get to much credit
Mirko cro cop vs Kevin Rendleman could have been here too. Mirko submited the wrestler with guillotinne
Its no. 2 in the video
Its not, 2 is when Kevin beat Mirko
The win of Germaine de randamie over juliana pena by submision is a good one too.
How was Jiri vs Glover not on this list
What about Jiri Tapping out Glover??
Can we please have more videos narrated by Tommy
Marvin Eastman and Travis lutter
Texeira vs jiri ?!!
H
He was known for being a bigger guy wit submissions not fucking headkicks
I would put Jones vs Chael in instead of Costa-Luke to be honest
How is Jiri not number one on this list?
because the fight was a war and I don't think he had a submission gameplan or anything like that, he just ended up in that position and went for the choke, the rest of the fight he was trying to strike? I don't know, that was just my thought process
Prime Khabib vs Prime Islam.Who you got?
Matt sera got lucky and it was an early stoppage. Matt sera was a good fighter but he was not clear top level fighter gsp was. So much opened up for Matt when he won that fight and like I said it was lucky for him
No. 1 should not be no. 1. Why? Because it's not that difficult to tapout Chiesa. His offensive grappling skills are great, but his defense... Yeaaah, let's say Cody Garbrandt has a better chin, than Chiesa's grappling defense.
Bro, Amanda Nunes head kicking Holly Holm, come on.
Wouldn't call Mas a K.O. artist, even Jake Paul K.O'd Askren LOL
That's not why people call him one. Casual.
@@PrinceIsot Found the Lossvidal stan. He's got more decision wins than KO wins "cAsUaL" so I don't think it's unfair to question whether he should be considered a "KO artist"
Either way, you still sound like a jackoff.
He's called a KO artist because 6 out of his last 7 wins were KO/TKO.
Also that Jake Paul KO is literally the only other KO loss Askren has besides Masvidal. In a Decade of fighting and 23 fights Askren has 2 KO losses and 1 Submission loss.