Max Holloway is in pole position to win KO of the year after his iconic victory at UFC 300.
In this thread, I've compiled every
#1
ranked KO on Tapology for each year since 2010.
A beautiful shot of nostalgia.
Drew Dober was knocked down for the first time in his UFC career this year on 18th appearance in the promotion.
There's currently 3 fighters in the UFC with 20+ appearances that have never been knocked down or stopped by strikes. I find that seriously impressive.
Ilia Topuria is 15-0 & a UFC world champion after defeating all time great Alexander Volkanovski.
Khabib Nurmagomedov went 15-0 by defeating Vadim Sandulitsky(0-0).
Levels to the game.
McGregor has fought
-Mendes on one leg
-10 year undefeated Aldo
-Diaz on a weeks notice
-50-0 Mayweather in boxing
-Khabib after a 2 year lay off
The rhetoric that he avoids opponents needs to go away.
And so comes to an end one of, if not, the greatest run of PPV headliners in UFC history.
UFC 284: Makhachev-Volkanovski
UFC 285: Jones-Gane
UFC 286: Edwards-Usman
UFC 287: Pereira-Adesanya
UFC 288: Sterling-Cejudo
UFC 289: Julianna Pena
Jack Della Maddalena, Ian Garry & Shavkat Rakhmonov are the only 3 ranked Welterweights in their 20s.
They're a combined 20-0 in The UFC.
They should NOT be matched against each other at this point IMO.
Time for Colby Covington & Kamaru Usman to defend their rankings.
Justin Gaethje taking a fight down the rankings vs Rafael Fiziev.
Dustin Poirier taking a fight down the rankings vs BSD.
Michael Chandler giving the unranked Conor McGregor his shot.
My respect .
Tony Ferguson vs Clay Guida:
Guida wins, Ferguson owns the outright record for longest losing streak in UFC history.
Ferguson wins, Guida owns the outright record for most losses in UFC history.
Ciryl Gane's last two wins;
Derrick Lewis
Tai Tuivasa
28 minutes, 34 seconds.
....................................
Sergei Pavlovich's last two wins:
Derrick Lewis
Tai Tuivasa
1 minute, 49 seconds.
Conor McGregor has headlined 7 UFC PPVs that sold 1M+ PPV buys.
Brock Lesnar has headlined 4 UFC PPVS that sold 1M+ PPV buys.
Ronda Rousey has headlined 2 UFC PPVS that sold 1M+ PPV buys.
Jon Jones has never headlined a UFC PPV that sold 1M PPV buys.
Harsh truth of it.
January of 2015:
Jared Cannonier competed in the UFC at Heavyweight.
Conor McGregor competed in the UFC at Featherweight.
In 2024, they will compete in the same division.
USADA updated their testing pool data base for 2022 yesterday.
Henry Cejudo is officially back.
Conor McGregor remains absent and hasn't tested in approx. 8-9 months.
Reported total payout for fighters competing at UFC 270 was $1.8M.
With a cost of $74.99 to order the event, Fighter pay is covered by just 24K PPV buys. An utter disgrace.
The late great, Anthony Johnson, has the most Knockdowns(13) in UFC history without ever being credited with hitting the canvas himself.
Chito Vera(12) & Israel Adesanya(12) have a chance to surpass this record in the coming weeks.
Post
#UFC276
, Israel Adesanya has the second lowest UFC finishing rate amongst the current champions with Carla Esparza the only fighter below Stylebender.
Post UFC 300, The BMF title will have been on the line more times than the Undisputed Heavyweight title in the previous 2 years.
That's the era of UFC we're in.
Jake Paul vs Tyron Woodley bombing with 65K PPV buys.
For context, The last time The UFC posted a lower number was UFC 43 with an estimated 5OK. 18 years ago....
Francis Ngannou may have the greatest backstory out of all the champions and the UFC couldn't build it.
Every megastar the company has ever had is not because of Dana White but in spite of him.
Tom Aspinall has the opportunity to become the first English Born fighter to win a UFC title at UFC 295.
Dan Hardy(UFC 111)❌️
Alistair Overeem(UFC 203)❌️
Darren Till(UFC 228)❌️
Tom Aspinall(UFC 295)
We're approaching May and Molly McCann is the only female to have won by strikes in the UFC this year.
24 fights in total. 18 decisions, 5 submissions and 1 spinning elbow.
UFC Heavyweight Rankings update:
Tai Tuivasa is now
#3
(+8).
Derrick Lewis is now
#5
.A slot below Curtis Blaydes despite sending him to the shadow realm in 2021.
Dominick Cruz wasn't knocked down in his first 23 bouts as a pro. He's been dropped 7 times in his last 5.
Time waits for no man. Even Max Holloway will suffer the same inevitability.
Mike Perry is now 6-0 since leaving the UFC in 2021.
Michael Seals(Triad Boxing)
Julian Lane
MVP
Luke Rockhold
Eddie Alvarez
Thiago Alves
One of the most impressive career turnarounds to be seen in combat sports.
Jail Herbert's first four opponents after signing to The UFC from Cage Warriors. Same division as Paddy Pimblett, wild difference in opponent level.
Francisco Trinaldo
Renato Moicano
Khama Worthy
Ilia Topuria
BKFC was held in California last night. CSAC are one of the commissions that release fighter pay. The last UFC event held in the state was UFC 298.
Here's a side by side of the pay from both events. Mike Perry, incredible.
Source-UFC 298: Forbes
Source-BKFC 4: MMA Junkie
Yoel Romero competes for Bellator's LHW title at 46 years old this weekend.
The oldest athlete to fight for a Bellator title since, checks notes, February.
Every fighter Chael Sonnen has faced in the last 14 years has been a World champion for a major promotion at one point in their career.
That streak would break if he were to face Jorge Masvidal.
Sonnen's record:
Joanna Jedrzejczyk removed from the UFC rankings. There is not have enough world level talent in the UFC's female divisions to even consider a release of JJ.
Last 10 bouts at Middleweight for both Israel Adesanya & Robert Whittaker. This is one of the highest caliber fights that can be made in all of mixed martial arts.
Holly Holm in the UFC including this weekends event.
14 Fights
7 main events
4 Co-Main events
No one in MMA has lived off one single moment more than Holly Holm.
Jeremy Stephen's had 9 defeats in his time as a a UFC Featherweight but just look at those names. What a schedule he endured.
Max Holloway
Charles Oliveira
Jose Aldo
Frankie Edgar
Zabit Magomedsharipov
Yair Rodriguez
Calvin Kattar
Cub Swanson
Renato Moicano
Colby Covington has 8 wins in The UFC. Those fighters are a combined 1-10 in the promotion after fighting him & 7 have been cut.
Scratch that, It's Sean O'Malley.
👀 Ilia Topuria plans on defending his featherweight title just ONCE before moving up to lightweight...
He wants to face Islam Makhachev for the number one spot in the pound-for-pound rankings!
Thoughts?
Patricio Pitbull knocked Michael Chandler out in 61 seconds in 2019 and I haven't seen the video on Twitter once this week.
That about sums up the lack of hype for Bellator on the bird app.
Nate Diaz' resume in the UFC. A fighter with that service should be able to go out on his terms.
-26 fights
-15 years
-Title challenger
-3x PPV main events
-Est. 4M PPV sales.
-TUF winner
-8 x FOTN
-15 bonuses
Calvin Kattar has now absorbed 1,120 significant strikes in the UFC and has yet to be knocked down.
Max Holloway holds the record with a ridiculous total of 1,812.
The top 3 Fighters on the current roster that have never been knocked down or finished by strikes in their UFC career. Max Holloway, Jon Jones & Marlon Vera.
Alexander Volkanovski enters UFC 284 with a with 4 inch height deficit.
The last fighter to win a UFC title fight with a worse height disadvantage was Alexander Volkanovski.
A lot of people excited that UFC 277 is reportedly scheduled for London.
The last time a PPV was in England, Michael Bisping fought Dan Henderson at 5AM local time.
Post UFC 284, every Featherweight champion will have attempted to claim a second title at a different weight.
No division has a better lineage than FW IMO. Four of the greats!
Cody Garbrandt gets labelled as "No Chin" with regularity.
His career losses(3) and knockdowns(5) are against fighters that have at one time failed a drug test in the UFC.
Per Tapology, the lowest selling MMA PPV of all time in Pride 32 with 30,000 buys.
At $49.99, PFL World championships are going to break that record very easily.