There have been so many badass in mma and not everyone can win. Who are the most exciting fighter no matter the outcome?
Fedor, Wandy, Chuck and Carwin come to mind for me off the top of my head. All fought until the fight was over or they couldn’t anymore.
I want to say BJ Penn too but his last handful of fights I still can’t rewatch.
Robbie Lawler, Nick Diaz (minus that abysmal last fight) and I will list a “who the fuck?!” Name. Drew Mcfedries (sp?!)
I’m a huge Penn fan but even when he was young he had some boring fights. Uno, Serra and Jens come to mind.
I always enjoyed watching BJ Penn. Especially his record breaking losing streak where he kept getting his ass kicked.
Korean zombie.
Dustin poirier
Gaethjijejei
Wandy
Miguel Torres
Bisping
Volk
Paul harris
Audley harrison
I think frank shamrock fits the bill too, I don’t remember many snooze fests.
Brock was gold. Smash or get smashed.
I always liked Cabbage Correira. Dude just kept coming, seemingly oblivious to punches and kicks that would have taken out most men. He did not have a sterling record but brought the heat. Fought some big names too.
That’s definitely a good pick. And man was Tim in the junk there, uberTim.
Mark hominick was do or die from what I remember, he also had the worst hematoma I have ever seen thanks to Aldo I think.
Marcus Davis had some bangers and I can’t remember any snooze fest due to him.
Yea he wasn’t Irish tho.
And yes it was Aldo in his first UFC fight iirc
Pele Landi for sure
It’s a genetic trait Polynesians (unusually thick skulls) - Cabbage, Tua, Hunt etc.
I trained in Oz with a guy who had been a bouncer in Timaru, NZ and had dealt with friction between gangs etc. He was a white guy but big (at least 200lbs). He said you could tell white noobs on the door because if they had confrontation with islanders, they would punch the head. Apparently the islanders never held their hands up to block anything - the white new guy would punch them in the head and break their hand, the islander would laugh then proceed to beat the shit out of them. He said the only way to drop them was to stamp through the knee. He said islanders’ knees were particularly vulnerable as they were naturally weak. I don’t know if they were genetically weak or if they were weak from the amount of weight they were carrying from having heavy upper bodies.
To keep it a little more modern Darren Elkins hasn’t been in a bad fight during his ufc tenure
Someone else told me that. Who’s also Scottish. It was probably you tho
There’s been a lot of game fighters but Matt Brown came to mind first so he’ll get my mention.
Clay Guida was always fun. I cant remember any stinkers from him
Didn’t clay turn into a blanket? I could be remembering it wrong but I thought his style changed to a lay and pray and pray some more, but it was around when I stopped watching MMA so maybe it only lasted a few fights. To his credit, he’s no Jason Guida.
I honestly dont remember but youre probably right.