For this video, we'll be taking at some of the worst matchmaking mistakes in MMA, covering fights like Conor McGregor vs Donald Cerrone, Jon Jones vs Chael Sonnen, Chuck Liddell vs Tito Ortiz 3, and more.
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I had forgotten about how bad that kris moutinho fight was. Sean's hands hurt after such a beat down.
That kid sure did have heart though nobody can take that away from him.
That was a last minute replacement though tbf
They pulled that gremlin out of the trailer park and offered him an 8ball of meth to take the fight on short notice
@@kanekennedy8819did they give him another fight or did they cut him after that ?
@@LouieOcean2 He was working at a paint shop a week before the O’Malley fight. It’s a shame his 2nd UFC bout went even worse
Calling Velazquez vs Ngannou a mismatch is a complete rewrite of history. Velazquez was a 2-to-1 favorite going into the fight. At the time Ngannou was 1-2 in his last 3 and Velazquez’s wrestling was seen as a stylistic nightmare for Ngannou. Ngannou may have destroyed Cain and eventually became an unstoppable force in the division, but at the time that fight made perfect sense
Yeah but Cain was also coming off a 3 year lay off from injuries so I guess of depends how you look at it
Agreed....It wasnt a miss match, Cain is a better fighter just bad timing
If it had been 5 years earlier it may have been considered a mismatch the opposite way
Indeed, i remember a lot of people saying Cain would expose Francis forever
Cain hadn’t been the same since the second JDS fight, 6 years prior. His injuries negated everything he could have possibly ever done. If that fight happened 6 years before, it would have been different.
Conor/Cowboy wasn't a mistake. It was a faster starter with poor cardio vs a slow starter. There really was only 2 ways that fight couldn't gone... Conor blasts through him in 1 round, or Cowboy weathers the storm and takes over in the late rounds.
So we just going to forget Cowboy was on a losing streak getting finished 2 times in a row before fighting McGregor?
It was perfect matchmaking, Cowboy knew exactly what he needed to do
Cowboy was in just for the money
Well said indeed
Long time cowboy fan and was happy he got a piece of the mcgregor money but knew he was fucked as soon as it was made
Chael also said the jones fight was “the only time I felt like a lamb about to get slaughtered”
Man that Uriah Faber petr yan fight was brutal to watch. Faber held on but damn that was bad
Watching my guy Big Rig get served up to Costa still hurts to this day.
Johnny Hendricks has/has dans lolllll ??
Yeah that was a cruel match up. Kind of like when UFC wanted to put khamzat against Nate .
It was obvious that he Hendricks was juiced to the gills before USADA. He deserved everything that happened to him, for being a dirty cheat.
Technically Bj was right... It did look like a professional versus an amateur
Ouch! You're not wrong, but sometimes the truth hurts. BJ was an absolute monster in his prime, but when he fell off, he fell ALL the way off.
Why did you hit enter like 7 times between sentences like you were going to have something interesting to say
The same reason why you commented like you were going to say something worthwhile
@@YourFutureBoyfriend That didn’t really make sense but ok
Hendricks vs Costa has to be the worst
Yeah the UFC was not happy with him. Granted he did miss weight his fight prior at 185 lmao missed at 170 and 185 lmao
Idk chuck liddell actually looked like a scared elderly man out there. Dana is right. Whoever sanctioned that should be fired. And the Tito was just classless as they come.
Definitely bad but I gotta say O'Malley vs Moutinho. Dude was an actual medium-grade AMATEUR fighter vs the soon to be bantamweight champ. It was legitimately as one sided as a 3 round fight could possibly be. It's like if you put a somewhat decent college draft pick into a one-on-one with Kevin Durant.
This may legitimately be the first time I have heard Cain speak
Look at uncle Chael putting Jon Jones over after an a$$ whoopin for a guy that he can’t stand personally. A consummate professional till the lights are off and curtain drawn. Also it’s so crazy to think about how close Sonnen came to 3 world championships: weight miss by his opponent making it ineligible for the championship by the rules at the time, less than half a round away from convincingly beating prime Silva, and minutes away from a doctor TKO over prime Jon Jones by way of stopping those punches strategically with his face. What a legend
A minute away for the Silva fight and like 30 seconds for jones right at the end
The only factual thing Tito ever said was that Chael got all his opportunities with his mouth.
Chael had taken full control of Tito's tiny mind when Tito said that.
agreed
Mcgregor vs Cowboy made sense at the time. I specifically remember a lot of people including gsp saying it was a good matchup. Conor was out for 2 years after khabib loss and cowboy was in a 2 fight losing streak after fighting gaethje and tony and it was also just a year after he destroyed hernandez.
You mean when Cerrone took a paycheck to "blow the roof off of this place"? He lost the respect of most MMA fans on that day.
@@SSC604 "lost the respect of most MMA fans" lmao. Y'all just wanted mcgregor to lose. Cowboy was always known for being a slow starter and Conor implemented his game plan.
@@SSC604he lost the respect of you lmao. stop acting like you speak for all MMA fans dork. you sound like stephen a. smith
Micah parsons wants to be an eagle so bad. Howie will make it happen for a 5th round pick.
Feel bad for Cowboy. He was unmotivated and as he said, just wanted a way out, and when the door opened, he took it. Prime cowboy could’ve been a crazy match
Absolutely no doubt. Cowboy has amazing cardio and can last 16 rounds
Don't feel bad. Cowboy is a legendary POS
wouldn't have changed shit. Maybe could've took another 10 seconds of ground and pound and that's it
To be honest Cowboy was on was win streak and I was facing Conor at comfortable weight “170”, but man Mcgregor destroyed him
Probably rigged
@@Squirrelpadre Cowboys face says otherwise
@@chasinggold6437 the fight tape says otherwise if your comment
@@Squirrelpadrelmao
@@Squirrelpadre I don’t know to many 40 year olds who can eat a kick to the face
Lol the Korean zombie checked in with the “veterinarian” 😂 I guess a regular physician would call the fight off lol like “sir he’s a zombie no longer living”
I swear theres multiple mma channels that made this exact same video and released it all at the same time.
Cerrone vs Mcgregor wasnt a "mistake". They wanted to make Conor look good and wanted to give cerrone a payday lol. Fuckin handpicked match. They knew what they were doing
Anderson Silva vs Forest Griffen was truly embarrassing
Ufc proves time and time again that this doesn't exist, anything can happen in the octagon, everyone thought Leon & Sean were a "miss match" 😂
10 years earlier BJ would’ve beaten the breaks off that version of Yair
Had to be Will Brooks Vs Alex Oliveira. Huge weight miss and made a huge factor to one’s career
Ha! Dana criticising the commission that sanctioned the tito v chuck fight. Also dana: Hey cm punk, you wanna fight in the ufc?
After everything Chuck did for Dana, Dana should have given him a few million dollars to not take that fight.
I've also noticed a pattern with the UFC anytime there's a new Prospect they'll do one of two things either sacrifice one of their Legends or throw the up-and-comer to the wolf's because they think they're "ready"
I wouldn't fully count the Conor/Cowboy fight as matchmaking mistake. Watching the embedded series you could tell that Cowboy had some type of leg injury when he was limping around everywhere. Cowboy was injured but wasn't going to pull out because he wasn't going to miss out on the paycheck that comes with fighting Conor on PPV. I think if Cowboy wasn't injured and just looking for a paycheck that the fight would've been much more competitive than it was.
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Frankie Edgar got a little bit back for BJ Penn though. He thrashed Yair pretty good!
8:11 30 seconds away from a win
So if Costa was 'gifted' the easy fight against Hendricks then who has he really beaten in the UFC? An old Johny Hendricks. Uriah Hall who was a giant mental case in the cage. Yoel Romero which was a war and a good win. An embarrassing loss to Izzy, an even more embarrassing loss to Vettori. Then Costa beats an old Luke Rockhold who was on his way out of the UFC. Costa has arguably only beaten 2 fighters in their prime(Hall, Romero) and that was 4-5 years ago but the guy is somehow still ranked #6? Not only that Costa is being discussed as a title contender if he beats another unranked fighter(Khamzat). The UFC is a joke.
The only reason cain vs francis was a bad matchup was simply because cain was coming off a 3 year lay off due to injuries. Aside from that it really wasnt a abd matchup since cain had only lost twice.
That was exactly his point
The worst matchup I watched was Mike Davis vs Thomas Gifford. 3 brutal 10-8 rounds with a last second vicious faceplant ko.
tkz would’ve been a great tune up fight for Conor
Depleted Johnny hendricks 😂😂
Worst match was thug rose vs Carla Esparza, carla was getting married the week after their fight and rose didn't want to hurt her ti badly as she didn't want to mess up her face or cause her an injury that may effect her big day so rose was being very careful with her shots and not going all in and the same with carla she knew how dangerous rose could be and again because her big day was just around the corner she was trying no to let rise hit her witch essentially just ended up with the 2 backing away from each other throwing light shots every now and again, this fight cost rose her belt and it was easily the worst title loss of ufc history I do think on paper it was a good match up but yea rhe timing of the fight was so poor and this obviously played a massive role on how much of a flop the fight was
Cerrone took a dive for few millions even his granma was laughing at the end his grandchild "lost" all the way richer
OK, I don't know who did the research for this video but, maybe watch the fight before making a video. Cain v Francis was no mismatch. Anybody that watched the fight will remember that Cain blew his knee out. Francis was extremely one dimensional back then, and he had no cardio. Cain has a great chin, unbelievable wrestling, he was a cardio machine (cardio Cain), and was much quicker. He definitely had a viable chance to win, not a mismatch by any stretch. Brock Lesnar is every bit as big as Francis, remember how that worked out, or did you skip that one as well?
Penn vs Rodriguez wasnt bad match making. They have penn what he needed. He needed a serious wake up call. If it wasnt in the ufc penn would've fought somewhere. If he won penn would've thought he could still go. He needed to lose bad
I still wanna see McGregor vs Siver 2
Tito knows he’s not better than chuck when they were both in their prime chuck slept him so he can act like that win means something but deep in his heart he knows chuck is better than him
They're both cte ridden dinosaurs
That zombie fight was pointless
tito ortiz vs chuck liddell still breaks my heart
Diaz Lawler 2 comes to mind
I still think cain could've taken him down.
Like many former fighters *Chuck Liddell* has early onset dementia due to CTE. He probably doesnt even have the mental capacity to consent to a fight.
Can’t blame matchmaking you’ve got to be able to fight any style it’s mixed martial arts for a reason
none of these are mismatches, the ufc did it all on purpose to build new fighters names.
It's MontageKingMMA
yooo lol you might be on to something they actually sound so similar 😭
I remember that Chuck v Tito fight, didn't watch all the drama leading to it.
My head hurts with the Fedor/Bader rematch, just wow Poor Fedor
faber really be looking like lord farquad
Hey Narrator did you use to run the channel montagekingMMA you sound just like him
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No!! Conor McGregor was offered gaethje. He wanted cowboy cerrone
If your goal is to keep your cash cow fat and on top then booking Conor vs Cowboy was a brilliant booking decision.
when all even chael sonnen has to say is "yea he destroyed me" you know it was bad
Hey you should show the finishes in the video
Thinking about that toe injury that Jon got makes me cringe in pain
Max Blessed Beat The Korean Zombie way worse
11:48 Chuck and Tito looking different here..only their hairstyle is same
Cowboy said he would bend him over and knock the lucky charms out of him.
Hendrix was in the juice
I don't think any of these were "mistakes", they knew exactly what they were doing
Including Cowboy vs Connor is hilarious because the mma community wanted to crucify Stephen A for saying it
McKenzie vs Mendes was hilariously bad also
Sucks Cain had the injuries he did. Plus he didnt overlap with Francis prime wise, being in the late stages by then, or Tom or HW JBJ. Those four are the best imo at HW, and none were able to fight in their prime (and doesnt look like we will get Aspinall v JBJ, which is the one.)
The UFC really loves feeding their veterans to the up-and-comers. It's almost like they're using the Legends before us as sacrificial Lambs
Nate Diaz vs Khamzat was a mismatch which fortunately never happened
Man a prime fedor in bellator will be scary
Can anyone confirm is Kris Moutihno is still alive? I havent heard anything about him since he blocked 800+ punches with his face
He had another fight in the ufc n got stopped in either first or second round but I’m pretty sure he’s cut from the roster now
Pretty sure he got cut from the UFC after losing to many fight's and just genuinely not being a good fighter
Worst match up ever.... Forest Griffin vs Anderson Silva! That was embarrassing!
Tito thinking he's a baddy for knockout a 50 year old chuck liddell who clearly shouldn't have been in the cage in the first place proved nothing he still shit compared to liddell and both in in their prime tito stood no chance against liddell, but the worst bit of that fight was his celebration.
Some of these r not miss matches at all...
Wasn’t a mismatch by ranking or anything but Holloway vs Kattar ended up being about as bad of a beat down as I’ve ever seen
KHABIB VS AL Iquinta shoulda been number 1
If Tito Ortiz wasn't on orange juice he was on apple juice for sure ;)
I don’t think Connor vs Cowboy was a mistake - Sure one sided, but giving someone like cowboy the big money fight near the end of his career seems like solid ideology to me
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The kris Sean fight is not ufcs fault
I mean Jon Jones it’s a bad mismatch for every fighter 😂
Strickland vs Izzy should get a honorable mention
Imagine being in this video as the lower rated fighter. Ego would die
CM Punk vs Mickey Gall
Who tf put the Hendricks vs costa fight together
It's pretty possible to get it right every time if they just stick to the fucking rankings... AND the rankings were always right. Some fighters stay high in rankings even though they don't firght for years or continue to lose and stay in the top of the division...
Khamzat vs Nate would’ve been the worst one. Nate would’ve died
Holland nearly died instead
How abt Jerome Masvidal vs. Ben Askren?
Who’s Jerome?
@@Ishbikes obviously George
@@brutal_gamingtm1178 yea Jorge causal. Regardless, that wasn’t a mismatch…Khazmat vs Nate was a mismatch.
“Mistakes”
If that wasn’t an early stoppage Chael would still be champion to this day
cm punk vs mickey gall
Putting a short-notice fight on this list just makes you look bad. Was that filler or just a mistake? "All Things to Make The Video Longer"
That Tito vs Chuck Liddell fight always make me laugh 😂
Prime Fedor prime Jones would have been nice
Are you serious? how do you not put Justin VS Tony? it was one of the most brutal one-sided beatings i have seen for a very long time to the point i wanted to turn away the fact it was legend Tony made it that much harder. That beating was so bad that it was the main cause of his downfall when a fighter takes a beating like that hes never the same. You guys drop the ball big time not adding that fight to the list in my opinion.
This dude is an AI, you don't lace up four ounce gloves
I cannot stand Tito Ortiz such a cringey dude
How worsted match making Fedor and Ryan it's just a lost one must lose in the sport so one have to be winner
Khamzat vs Nate would've been here if it happened
The thumbnail is silly..... Just cause someone was outclassed doesn't make it bad matchmaking..... No one ever thought McGregor was gonna do that...... Cowboy is a dog he could jump in right now no training no weight cut he still can throw with everyone
😂😂😂mcgregor couldn't win a fight against a top 10 now lol
100 percent FACT Conor mccoverrated is his nickname for a reason!!! Never defended a single title, NOT EVEN 1 TIME...... but I'm sure one of his casual fangirls will be here shortly to cry wolf 😂😂
Gajthe, porier, Oliveira, Islam, fiziev, gamrot, jalen turner, Dan hooker, grant dawson, and moicano would all beat him at lightweight currently. And I know I'm forgetting a few of the top of my head
@@440-fishermandrock8dude I'm a die hard khabib fan and although I don't like McGregor actions the man is not washed losing to Dustin and khabib both two of the greatest UFC lw in UFC history doesn't make you washed and if he comes back comes back focused he clears 8 out of 11 people you named
@@Batgod211light weight rankings champion Islam makhachev 1 Charles Olvera 2 Justin gaethje 3 dustin poirier 4 Beneil Dariush 5 Michael chandler the only person mctapper might have a chance against is Michael chandler because mctapper can't grapple n Beneil Dariush would take him down n smash him dustin poirier already beat him twice Justin gaethje whold destroy mctapper he whold be lucky to make it out of round 1 Olvera whold eather ko him or submit mctapper n well Islam makhachev whold destroy him just like khabib did so again who will mctapper beat no one
Light weight rankings champion Islam makhachev 1. Charles Olvera 2. Justin gaethje 3. Dustin poirier 4. Beneil Dariush 5. Michael chandler 6. Rafael fiziev 7.mateusz gamrot 8.arman tsarukyan 9. Dan hooker 10.grant Dawson
Chael sonnen 50-00
Ain't nobody like tito man