MMA On Point - Podcast

The greatest dynasty in the history of MMA is without a doubt the Gracie family, but at one point, while they were at the peak of their height, one man; Kazushi Sakuraba not only challenged them, but utterly defeated them. What was his base martial art? Pro wrestling.

What if you are clearly one of the best fighters on the planet, better than many champions who have won undisputed UFC titles, but never won one yourself? Well that question is essentially what this list is exactly about. Absolutely phenomenal fighters who fell just shy of their own undisputed gold. It goes without saying, this list does not count interim as it's an honor underneath the top fighter in that division usually meant to fill a gap or merely to help sell PPVs.

A simple question, who are the best and worst champions in every single UFC division? We explore that exact question today.

Almost everyone in MMA loses, pretty much everyone, but some achieve heights so great and so seemingly invincible that any loss at all is a shock. These losses however, are an order of magnitude even more shocking just because of how emphatic their losses. This vid is full of devasting finishes and thorough domination of the sports greatest talents.

Alistair Overeem spent years in Japan and outside organizations with more lax testing away from the UFC. His feats were astounding and he accomplished 3 championships across two sports in the best time of his career, but when the testers finally caught him. How did he react?

After Khamzat Chimaev and Dricus Du Plessis' wrestling heavy main event that went down at UFC 319, there have been a lot of wild takes about wrestling in the sport and how it needs to go away. Without wrestling there simply is no MMA and it's literally what the sport was founded on. You can watch other martial arts like kickboxing that basically have everything you want, but it's obvious that without the other grappling arts including, you simply aren't watching the best in the world. It's a limited ruleset that is great, but ultimately not finding out who the best is.

Dominant is hardly the word for what we witnessed last night. Khamzat Chimaev absolutely ripped the title away from Dricus Du Plessis and put on one of the most one-sided championship performances we've ever seen. So how did this take so long for him to get to the title?

The UFC ACTUALLY DID IT! They finally got rid of PPV. This effectively means in the US, you are no longer go to have to spend over a thousand dollars a year if you want to legit buy every PPV and get a subscription of ESPN+ in order to do so. Paramount Plus has paid a crazy amount to essentially get rid of UFC PPVs for the next 7 years and pretty much forever if this goes well.

We all know of the fighters like Brock Lesnar or even Alex Pereira that got their UFC title shots extremely quickly thanks to the support of the UFC brass. In this video, we talk about the ones that for one reason or another were actually held back from their opportunity, in some cases by the UFC for people like Tom Aspinall or with Khamzat Chimaev against Dricus Du Plessis, well it was just a lot. Either way, they were all held back for extremely long periods of time.

What's the worst area of the UFC? You probably wouldn't guess it was literally right before it broke onto television and through the dark ages. Dana White and Ferttitas were totally broke them and would have meant the end of MMA as we knew and certainly for a very long time. This is the story of the UFC's last ditch effort to save itself.