MMA On Point - Podcast

It's hard to believe now but the UFC's lightweight division, you know a division that's featured the likes of Conor McGregor, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Tony Ferguson, Justin Gaethje, Max Holloway, BJ Penn and a litany of others actually got booted from the UFC at one point. Following a series of unfortunate events, the UFC got rid of the whole division. So what happened? And how did it get back to the UFC in the end anyway?

Khamzat Chimaev has had a rough past couple years hasn't he? Well he's not the only one. This list is all about those times fighters have had to pull out of fights and the fans....well, let's just say they were pretty skeptical as to the reasons why.

Doesn't matter who you are in MMA, at some point you are going to get tested and that included the pound for pound greatest fighters ever. So that's what we look into today, the entire timeline of all of these greats when they were on top, in or outside the UFC and dive through it all.

There a few that did pick Khalil Rountree to beat Alex Pereira last night, but most did pick Poatan considering the gap in opponents and even still, this fight managed to over deliver. Massive respect to both fighters, but what Pereira did was nothing short of a terminator like performance. He never took a back step the whole fight even after being rocked.

Most fighters simply win and become highly respected in MMA, but some just struggle to find that audience. These are the fighters that struggled the most to connect with fans.

It does matter it's Joe Rogan, Michael Bisping, Din Thomas, Paul Fedler... name an analyst or expert and they've all been wrong. We all are, that is normal, but in these cases it was almost like they all agreed despite all being wrong. No upsets by the way. They are massive underdogs for good reason usually.

It doesn't matter what some champs do, good luck getting fans to cheer for them and in fact, all the champions on this list couldn't have been boo'd more. So that's what this video is all about. The performances and personalities fans couldn't hate more.

Some fight endings are just extremely suspicious for all the wrong reasons. Were they really hurt? Did they want a way out? Could be either. And in these cases, let's just say it was all very questionable.

Dana White has said a ton of crazy things while promoting the UFC that

These are the moments when the eir apparent takes the throne and just as you think they'll be off to an incredible title reign, they...well... lose. Bigger shoes to fill than perhaps they even expected themselves.