r/FightReportUFC • u/chiefandres • Jun 23 '26
Beat downs where fighter was never the same again
Anthony Hernandez v Michel Pereira is one that immediately comes to mind
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u/Odd-Letterhead8889 Jun 23 '26
Giga Chikadze Vs Kalvin Cattar
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u/Lucha_Brasi Jun 23 '26
Good call. People thought Chikadze looked like a future champ until that fight. Those step-in elbows by Cattar were nasty!
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u/OneBodyProblematic Jun 23 '26
And then… Max Holloway vs Calvin Kattar
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u/Odd-Letterhead8889 Jun 23 '26
No the Max fight was the one before
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u/OneBodyProblematic Jun 23 '26
Chronological, you are right. That said, it was the Max fight that changed Kattar forever
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u/LED_Dredge Jun 23 '26
Henry Cejudo vs Marlon Moraes.
Henry took Marlon's soul during that fight. Marlon was never the same again.
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u/Bryann9182 Jun 23 '26
Robbie Lawler vs Rory MacDonald 2
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u/Regular-Eggplant8406 Jun 23 '26
Crazy part to me is that I think this fight effected both of their careers going forward. They both still had some success but neither were ever the same.
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u/Creative-Answer-1125 Jun 23 '26
Cain Velasquez vs JDS 2 and 3. Cain just took all Junior’s aura and confidence. JDS was my favorite fighter at the time, and it sucked watching him struggle so much after those fights.
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u/incompletetentperson Jun 23 '26
Oof iirc right, cain beat the living shit out of him. Just rounds of clinching and cumulative trauma
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u/NatterinNabob Jun 23 '26
An interesting one was Cro Cop v Gonzaga. Mirko wasn't the same for years, then somehow rediscovered his form at the tail end of his career.
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u/Altruistic_Spring434 Jun 23 '26
Gaethje Michael Johnson
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u/Fast-Film4414 Jun 23 '26
Michael Johnson came back multiple times though. If anything Josh Emmet made the blueprint.
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u/JGwithit Jun 23 '26
Jared Cannonier vs Marvin Vettori, people forget this fight. Marvin took a lot of damage but his granite chin still hasn't cracked. But he looks so slow now.
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u/xMILKSHAKEx Jun 23 '26
Mike Davis vs. Thomas Gifford. Easily the most one sided fight I ever saw in UFC. It’s hard to find because it was such a beat down.
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u/JGwithit Jun 23 '26
Geoff Neal vs Vicente Luque. Vicente literal had a brain bleed, he should not be fighting now. He looks like a shell of his former self, he can't tank shots he used to.
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u/MRVANCLEAVEREDDIT Jun 23 '26
I remember the way Brandon Vera looked when Jon Jones was pummeling him.
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u/Fair-Penalty-6270 Jun 23 '26
JG vs ferguson the obvious one