10 Flawless Performances in UFC History 

49 of them.

I'd include the Silva fights as well, if already then right on

⁶6⁶I have no

Flawless career Flawless life

They included a classic photo of uncle at 0:25. Chael standing over Anderson Silva when he took the belt from him

TUF 1 Finale #1 for sure, Griffin vs Bonnar made people forget Franklin vs Shamrock

Weili and Joanna over Izzy and Yoel

@@Bananaguy4423 not really, I feel like Izzy vs Yoel was so bad it became iconic af, you hear a lot more about it then Weili vs Joanna

@@alexandre1098 um no

Barber vs Grasso lmao

Flawless! His timing, precision, power, speed, mindset were on point. Miss that fighter now he's really more of an entertainer

I legit expected Eddie to make Conor sweat a little. Watching him get picked apart was unexpected, even with Conor being at the height of his career

Eddie fell off a cliff after that fight too. Hard to tell if he just had some kind of Johnny Hendricks come to earth moment or if that fight broke him.

A lot of her fights might qualify. Besides the two losses to Nunes and the snorefests against Carmouche and Maia, she's flawless in everything she does in the cage

I think Cyril gane vs Derrick Lewis could too, I remember at one point the striking numbers were like 29-1

Well, Valentina won the second fight with Nunes, so we have that.

Who wants to see girl fights tho? Honesty. TF is wrong with you people.

I was thinking this. And Mighty Mouse against Ray Borg

i'd like to see also RDA x Pettis for the belt, and Sea Level Cain x JDS (fights 2 and 3)

I’m not sure who thought Max was on the decline...in my opinion he beat Volkanowski in that second fight, dude has been legit top of the food chain for years. He is far from being in decline.

@@sandrost4243 I thought he had 3 rounds In easily, but that honestly shows how good volkanovski is

I thought that was where they were going when they said Max Holloway

How is it not

As much as hate to agree you’re absolutely right. Honestly the weight cut mishap probably was what disqualified it BUT I’d even put their second fight in the list

Blasian Ray second fight was even worse beating than first fight tho. So the weight issue shouldn’t be...well an issue.

No, it was a split draw. Not flawless

@@sterlingprice886 hello? figgy vs moreno was a draw but not joe vs figgy 2. that fight was homicide

Yea..Mighty Mouse is the goat👍🏽

His competition was trash compared to someone like GSP’s or even Jon Jones.

@@ArielBojorquez lol. He made them look like thrash. Thats how good he is.

@@ArielBojorquez you are just a hater

@@ArielBojorquez No it wasn’t.

i don't think its really ranked

He still ate 100+, couldnt finish, not even knock down Kattar. I get why they put the rest over that maybe Cody vs Cruz is a bit too high, since Cruz won 2 rounds

Did you watch Jon Jones vs Shogun ?

@@Dedicated_.1 what has that got to do with anything?

Imagine landing almost 1k strikes on someone and not being able to put him down at least once Definition of pillowfists

Usman vs Woodley was more like Woodley not even trying look at his fights since then complete trash.

Kabob and barboza was a decent scrap

Miocic vs ngannou

You better close your eyes or Pico Jones will poke you

Justin vs tony

💯💯

Tj should have been here. Khabib could probably get his own top 10 list

Haven’t seen the vid yet but I expected to see that one. Barao was mentioned alongside Mighty Mouse, Jon Jones, and prime Aldo in the convo for pfp best on the planet and TJ made him look like an amateur. Dominating the first 4 rounds with a knockdown in the first and finishing him in the 5th. If that’s not flawless, Idk what is.

Yeah I definitely expected that performance to be at least in the top 5, and I would also add Dillashaw vs Barao 1

Guys. It's not a top 10 video. I dont see how people have so much trouble understanding that

His fight against ortega was more impressive. The clear number one contender destroyed

Kattar's best win is Jeremy Stephens, that was a set up fight to make Max look good

Recency bias

And amanda vs ronda

It certainly was brother.

@@platonicbuu7454 yes. Also Shevchenko vs. everyone not named Amanda Nunes.

Except Holly sucks

@@ck3837 Holly may not be as great as her hype after Rhonda made her out to be, but that fight was pure dominance by Holmes. A lot to do with Rhonda being stubborn and thinking she can out strike a career striker, but Holmes countering all of Rhonda's strikes and and stuffing nearly all takedowns as well as securing her own against a grappler for not being a grappler and escaping the only successful takedown Rhonda got. Nearly flawless. My personal favorite moment was Holmes casually ducking Rhonda's hook and walking off making Rhonda looked stupid.

Was thinking that too

lawler hasn’t won a fight since 2017 😟 maybe he should rematch with woodley at this point

Most of Colby's fights are a masterpiece. I still think he has all the skills to become UFC champion. His fight with Usman will go down in the top five WW championship fights. A big problem with Colby's resume is he beats these guys at the wrong times. Maia was coming off a loss and getting old anyways. RDA had some wins piled up, but was taking on the roll of gatekeeper at that time. Lawler was on a losing streak and so was Woodley. I guess one could argue he fought them at the right times for securing victories, but i still think they'd have meant more had they fought sooner.

@@panspermiapancakes agreed, i honestly believe he is the best wrestler in the division and his fight against woodley he showed much improved striking

Covington is super underrated buts because of his mouth people would rather hate him then except that he is champion material

Homie went ultra instinct in that fight

That was an ass whoopin.

Max “2-3 in his last 5 fights” Holloway

I 'd like to call him the Hawaiian Psycho from now on.

Am I the only guy that felt the Ortega win was more impressive and dominant than the Kattar win?

I didn't watch that fight but i know what you'rw talking about. I thing and he was close to submit him. Truly one of the great title performances in MMA.

that was my assumption for number 1 by the time it got to 2

#1: UFC Fight Night - Eye vs Calvillo

But it isn't over yet buddy

I'll give a tied #1 to everyone who said it was fake and then died from it. Pure comedy.

Every event where Joe Rogan wasnt commentating.

About 7-8 in a row

Too bad he was content with winning the fight via points and be an absolute snoozefest fighter. Granted I'd probably fight like him if I was a fighter but after that Serra fight, the guy's just content with lay and pray. There's a reason people used to make fun of him back in the day

@@samme79 that's certainly one way to look at it. Another way to look at it was that he was able to implement a grappling heavy gameplan, and despite people knowing he was going to do that, they couldn't stop it. Much like Khabib: everyone knows hes gonna wrestle them but they cant stop him and in that sense, it's a flawless way of winning, no? (Side note, GSP did a lot of striking too, remember what he did to Koschek in their 2nd fight)

His second fight with Josh Koscheck comes to mind. In the lead-up to the fight Koscheck talked all this shit about how he was gonna knock out GSP and do this and that, and when the fight came he had nothing for GSP. Koscheck got his eye jabbed shut with a broken orbital bone and was humbled by GSP in every sense of the word.

Frank Trigg was an absolute demolition

And 2

Yeah, that was impressive....Dillashaw was on drugs though....

@@GavachoToro he never failed a test for that fight and "could've because they popped later" can apply to alot more fighters on this list

@@GavachoToro probably.

@@josephnissenson3252 well that’s the problem with getting caught......ever.....because there’s people like me that after you get caught, I’ll always be suspicious of them. And I didn’t finish the video. If I had then I certainly would’ve included all the “cheaters”.

One of my favorite fights.

I see your Randy Tim fight and raise you Randy vs Gab Gonzaga!

@@utsmoi I Raise you Randy vs Tito

@@utsmoi it was a great performance but Gonzaga broke his arm with the kick so its not that flawless

Randy Couture vs. James Toney.

Some media outlets even scored it 50-39 and 50-41. Absolutely dominated

This was the one I was looking for

As a grappler watching that fight, it found it exhilarating as f*ck!!!! I love fights like that- when a person is dominantly controlled and beaten on for a multiple rounds. There is no luck in that kind of victory, only skills. *~^~*(Edit: English is my second language: I apologize for errors in the logos. I’ve liked in Britain, Scotland and the U.S.A., but without fail there is an error somewhere in the language, most often with idioms, though sometimes it’s structural. Please correct my language if it’s egregious. Danke).

@@joshuakehl5891 so did I (also a grappler) but ik its not exactly the option of the masses lol

@@radgiraffe5519 all too true.

Not only that but it should be on top 5.

Should've been over Cruz vs Garbrandt. People forget that Cody lost 2 rounds in that fight

What about any Chimaev fight?

@@jakewastelands3088 lol no. Hes dominated guys that aren't even in the UFC anymore. If he does that to top 10 guys then yeah maybe

@@thenedsmmachannel8970 name of the video is "10 Flawless Performances in UFC History" not "10 Flawless Performances from PFP top" no Masvidal fight no Kebab fight no Chimaev fight... very subjective top 10

We never know what can happen.

Yeah, people forget he's only 29, yet he's already considered the Featherweight GOAT by many. Who knows what he'll accomplish in 5 years.

Being able to do that against Kattar doesn't necessarily mean he'll be able to do it in a Volk rematch once he starts getting blasted with leg kicks.

Yeah , even Khabib said that about Max in a interview after the Kattar fight , Max is not in his prime yet and he can improve and become more skill

I don't know man, Holloway has been competing professionally for 10 years so that 9-year rule which I've come to discover could strike again. Either Holloway is entering his prime or this is a one-off performance that is so damned impressive its overshadowed his previous losses. We'll have to wait and see what happens next, but I'm less optimistic how Holloway will perform in a trilogy fight against Volkanovski, who is an absolute stud of a fighter. Read this article, it has some predictions which are scarily accurate: www.fightopinion.com/2011/06/19/9-year-rule-mma-ufc/

apparently he got knocked out sparring during the training camp for this fight so either way he was screwed

Knowing he wasn't 100% in that fight due to all of the anxiety takes some of the pain out, so him getting styled on by Anderson Silva in such fashion puts a bit of a question mark on his performance. Silva would probably still beat Forrest handily if he was 100% but maybe not in such humiliating fashion. Silva was just on a different level in his prime and if it weren't for Lyoto Machida (who was friends with) and Jon Jones (who was on his level) would likely have been the two division Champion before Conor McGregor.

@@dagwood5041 are you rlly crying 10 years later ?

Im still salty about silva pretending to give him a hand when he was knocked down lol

The Twitter GOAT need more recognition.

@Fuh Q exactly what you’re doing right now

@Fuh Q What are you doing now?

Dildo Danis couldn’t even beat drunk Josh Koschek😂🤡🤡🤡

bruce say that?

@@juanmatemos5695 "imagine"

What about Francis' annihilation of Stipe in the revenge bout?

@@siliziwencanywa1138 Impressive

@@siliziwencanywa1138 Both can be in the list

It wasn’t that thorough.

@@SageSea1 the first fight was so dominant it was almost embarrassing to watch

I didn't think of either one. I immediately thought of Adesanya-Costa and Dillashaw-Barao 1. A little surprised that second one isn't on there at all.

@@davidyerman4502 Definitely, especially how big of an upset that is

@@davidyerman4502 the dillashaw barao is in my top 5

Man you should see what figgy did to Joseph in their second fight 💀💀💀

@@khaikimi6569 son i've been watching the ufc since tito mauled ken. you really think i did not saw figgy commit legal murder against joe b?

- mario yamasaki

Agreed

Why, he gets hit, clearly not perfect just dominant.

@@kaisermccheese6486 you're either trolling or just unintelligent. None of the fighters on the list fought without getting hit

@@heat24 I mean in a lot of his performances he gets outclassed on the feet before taking it to the ground, clearly not flawless. No reason to call each other names too.

@@kaisermccheese6486 who was he outclassed on the feet by? He knocked down one of the best strikers in ufc history and was never in trouble on the feet in any of his fights

And where would we rank the revenge bout demolition by Francis?

@Yuriii And what were those moments? When did he have any success against Francis? That first round was as 10-8 a round as I have seen...

Dominick Reyes looked terrible against Jan Blachowicz, he had nothing for Polish Power and ironically got devastated. A far cry from his otherwise excellent performance against LHW GOAT Jon Jones. Switching camps and feeling entitled after you believe you got cheated not unjustifiably out of the belt must have been big reasons for Reyes' downfall. That and Jan was overlooked and just that good.

Reyes looked like a bear had stood on his ribs then jan picked him apart on his feet . That event was pretty awesome

@@georgewright3949 Jan has absolutely nasty body kicks. If he can land a couple of those on Izzy (which is easier said than done) victory is within grasp.

@chris tesla no finish so it’s nowhere near as impressive

@@rogbot dude that's not fair, Kattar showed a chin of the gods. There were mutliple times Holloway had him rocked and it looked like the ref would step in but then Kattar would somehow get a second wind. There were at least 2 or 3 times that fight should have ended.

@@DiggyDougSauce94 no, holloway just doesn’t hit hard enough. if he did, he would have knocked kattar out

@chris tesla Conor fought Diaz TWO weight classes up and didn’t even fight him at 170. He literally did not even weigh that much. Diaz is actually known as someone with a good chin, both before the Conor bouts and after. Conor also dropped Nate several times which was incredibly impressive. Kattar has never been known as someone with a good chin, this narrative just suspiciously popped up after Max embarrassed himself by proving his inability to finish opponents that have a decent chin whatsoever. Max literally won a UD against Kattar. You can say “ohh welll uhh he did really good and uhh he busted up his face!!” Or whatever but it literally does not matter. He won a decision. And when people look at sherdog in 5-7 years and see that Max Holloway could not finish people, they’ll take note of it. Max Holloway has some very unfortunately unintelligent fans that surround him. Just like his historic inability to finish opponents, his two fights against Volk will be seen as precisely what they were; losses. Max lost twice to Volk and people are so distraught that they throw temper tantrums whenever either man is brought up anywhere on social media. These overt attempts at changing the narrative will lose their power over time, and the end of Holloway’s career could very well be viewed as the day he first stepped foot in the octagon with Volk, the superior featherweight. Losing twice to an opponent like that is exactly what happened to DC against Jon, btw, and you don’t see many people clamoring for that trilogy fight, nor giving DC any chance of winning, do you. In time, you will realize that Max Holloway is in the same situation.

Right! I'm actually angry that they snubbed TJ on this one.

I was coming to comment that tj better be on this list with his 1st performance against renan

Holy shit you're right! How was that not on this list?!

Agreed

Plus that gnarly cut by headkick

I was sitting here watching this thinking this would be number one... only for it to not be on the list... glad I’m not the only one considering that fight.

Was there live in Memphis. Legitimately felt like watching a bully beat the shit out of a defenseless kid

They definitely got it right for the Silva entry tbh. Basically what Conor did but in less time. A more condensed version if you will.

@@Stryker1297 well, Silva vs Griffin wasn't a title fight. and McGregor vs Alvarez was a title fight and pressure was on McGregor because he's there to make a history or get embarrassed. and also, Barao vs Dillashaw 1 must be on the list as well because nobody has ever done that to Renan Barao in his hey day and Dillashaw spanked him badly.

That is not fair Khabib had like 28 flawless performances

Agreed. Dillashaw gave the most spectacular performance as a challenger in a title fight.

Yup. Can't stand TJ now, but cannot deny that performance.

Seems like dillashaw was dirty while he was just turning clean before usada because he had a smarter way to cheat

Theirs like 3 or 4 fight of Nunes that could make this list.

Miesha

@@derriksmith7391 which is insane how some think she not the greatest woman fighter and dat Ronda isn't a legend or one of the best female fighters to ever do it

That’s actually a salient point for MMA jurisprudence. Do you mind if I include your statement in my thesis?

@@joshuakehl5891 go ahead lol

Remember at the start of the video when they said this list wasn't about one punch ko's or hail marry submission?

Against Aldo or old man

@@ronin3635 HAHAHA GOOD ONE

It was a fluke

@@ronin3635 😉😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😉🤘🏻

@Marcus Middleton , yeah. But the first one was more unexpected than the second one, due to Barao's 32 fights' unbeaten streak

oh lol, there's still people giving a shit about that cheater?

@@danii7584, you apparently do not. Then why are you here at first place

@@danii7584 it was an even playing field on that fight. Barao was absolutely juiced up to the gills back then.

I remember watching that fight and just feeling sorry for shogun. I mean, Jesus christ, he beat the fuck out of him so bad that shogun just laid down and tapped.

😦😢🤮 w..w...why? (Though I did laugh hard enough to aspirate my coffee! Brilliant joke, but... ow, man. Ow.)

Should have been ranked higher, for sure.

I completely agree

Christ. When you sleep, do you dream of him as well? 🌸. You’re a simple man with simple needs apparently. Cheers to 1,000 likes!!!

“Goo?” ~Reminds me of the film, “Prometheus”; I’ll leave you with these brilliant words from Percy Bysshe Shelley- “...look on my works, ye mighty, and Despair...”. (I’ve high functioning Autism and, to me, I’ve just created a funny joke, though, from experience, I realize that it’s, most likely only funny to me). C’est la vie!

Last 4**

No, last three dawg

@@mattishastank7383 Lie if u want to but he flawlessly destroyed Till...not one punch landed in two rounds. Why am I even arguing this😂

Yes, but I'm talking about how he got dominated in his last three fights Usman, burns, and Covington. It has nothing to do with the Till fight.

@@mattishastank7383 I know exactly what you’re doing...shitting on Woodley and that shit don’t fly. 5x World champion with multiple flawless victories. Last 4** like I said