Top 10 Rising UFC Stars Getting Smashed 

And requiring surgery because of it lol

Whats worse, it that he still does it. He won last night and did the worm again lol.

Bless him for risking his shoulders🙏

@@jakedalton6236 no one said the worm is worse than a backflip of the cage. The point was that the worm is the dumbest way someone has been injured in the octagon

he deserved it. sometimes, guys with heads as big as his and brawn, take something like dumb luck to show them humility.

One of my favourite UFC lesson :D

Preach!!!

That was fantastic

It was nice to see the kid take it gracefully too. I wish he'd managed to find his feet under him afterward.

Yeah! It sure looked like that douche kid faked a high 5 at 1:05 in order to front kick his opponent... IMO, he had his KO coming from Cowboy!!

O’Malley lost to petr yan. Most definitely lost

o'malley is like a bum compared to Sage, at least in terms of athletic ability and potential. O'malley had much better management / opportunity / guidance provided to him by his employer and those around him, however.

@@Jez4prez1 Not true, Sean O'malley could look as explosive as northcut if he wanted to. There's no reason for him to push the pace in his fights though. He is way more strategic and has better timing and a slower pace allows him to capitalize on those traits.

​@@MrRunescapenator lol. More explosive? Come on. Sean is a skinny fat pothead. Sage is a genetic freak in comparison, doing backflips n crap, while studying some advanced degree. Sean isn't more strategic. The only strategy is by the UFC, picking fighters for him giving him easy street. UFC legit had to do that after what happened to Sage.

​@@Jez4prez1 Sage could never beat aljamain sterling on his best day

damn he was a Chad though

Such a nice dude too.

It didnt make sense that he was dropped - was it politics ?

@@CFox.7 probably just rode out his contract and ONE offered him more money than the UFC to keep him

At least he got to bang Paige Vanzant tho

I've had a similar cheek breakage from a bad cut while falling trees and dropped one across my face, it's a sound I will never forget. Since it's been a couple years, Sage should take Dana's advice and finish his degree. I should mention I truly enjoyed watching him early on, but it seems many, once they suffer that big loss never get their rythem and confidence back.

Well said

Hey, a positive comment on a MMA sight. Nice

Naah, you come in with such media hype you best be on point because you become the target of all those underlooked PREDATORS lol, ala Vanzant

He’s only 26 he still has plenty of time

Yeah I don't get the justification for releasing him...he wasn't mature enough? Of course not, he wasn't mature haha

@@benpriest1418 Dana was just salty Sage got more money from One

Thing is I can see sage coming back to the ufc in a few years. He's still a solid talent

@@olivergonzalez497 yes God forbid any one but the owners making money.

@GSP UFC and stuff he's still recovering from his injury in ONE

damn

Now theyre trying it again with Raul Rosas. Kinda BS they cut a fighter with a record that good, when there are plenty of fighters who have worse but still get plenty;

@@thesehandlesarefuckingstupid yessir. They keep a 4-11 fighter but cut the 9-2 fighter. Rosas is really good. He's the next GSP. He won't lose any time soon. I'm very impressed with Rosas technique and fight IQ. He would definitely take down Sage. It'll be just a matter of who he fights next. Can he sustain the weight of a fighters life and career. And what I mean by who he fights next I hope it's not a vet. Because a true proven, vet will be his worst nightmare. They need to build him up slowly. Not throw him in the fire like they did Sage.

HE'S ONLY 19!!!

I'm so glad that stupid cocky kids are kick out of the promotion regularly.

I love how much of a flop Ben Askren was. Shows you just how big of a joke Dana White actually is. Trading DJ Mighty Mouse to ONE for Ben Askren? LMFAO. Dude should have support Mighty Mouse more and let him be a family man who could whoop the toughest crap talkers.

Nice to know Masvidal had a hand and knee in the destruction of both those hype trains!

@@darktheories1758 If Dana was being honest Might Mouse would be considered by anyone with eyes to be the best MMA fighter of all time.

@@user-uy9gp3rm7e woodley stopped the hype of till by dominating. jorge got cracked by till and easily could've lost a rematch

Let's be real, askren beats masvidal like 98/100 times

The culture at UFC is just disgusting sometimes

@@hmm7829 not really

@@Alvah707 You seriously think it’s not toxic at all? Come on..

@@hmm7829 no the word toxic isn’t appropriate. Sage was a kid with very low experience, the 17 year old has more experience than some of the newer fighters older than him in the UFC. But if you still want to say something about it a better word would be calling him a hypocrite, or not learning from his mistakes. You make it sound like corruption like boxing managers.

Mature does not mean old

For sure. Tony Ferg or Cody Garbrant may not challenge for a title or even get top 5 ranking, but they'll separate the men from the boys on who is worthy of a title shot.

Some other promotions, sure, because they absorbed the best of the alternatives. Also, the best fighters from certain places usually stay in one particular style. Notably, Thailand has some amazing fighters but they tend to stay in Thailand doing Muay Thai instead of coming to the States to do UFC, which isn't as prestigious to them. Fedor was probably better during Pride than almost anyone on the UFC roster at the time, at least in his weight class.

@@InnerDness agreed about Fedor

@@moreblack Both fighters you named did challenge and won titles

@CULI-FABRIZIO i feel the same way, i was having a watch party last night and one of my friends who is a fair weather fan was shitting on tony. he is old now and past his prime, but it’s a bad faith claim to say he’s not a helluva fighter. i think it’s the newer fans (which is okay, not gatekeeping, i was new before too) who count him out.

quite possibly the lamest thing you can do

Agreed, but at least he handled his defeat graciously, and acknowledged the lesson that he had learnt. Trash-talking just seems to be the way of things with so many in today's game. I find it unfortunate, in many ways.

@Tobias Belz 💯💯💯

Mcgregor at the time was proving that trash talk sells. He just followed the blue print. This is partially entertainment

@@bblwarrantydepartment981 of course it is, but if you're going to talk trash the golden rule is to actually be tactful and good at it. Lest you end up looking like a fool. Which, I dare say that he definitely fit that bill. Even conor had distasteful moments where he brought religion into it, which in my opinion is taboo as a muhfucka but everyone loved it. I love toxicity and my favorite humor is the kind that makes fun of people. If you're going to be an asshole, just be good at it.

its always satisfying watching the epitome of your bully from middle school get busted by someone like Cerrone. Humility and Hubris, are always my favorite aspects of a fight.

Exactly!

If only he'd gotten him in a heel hook while unconscious and torn his achilles....

Yup. Hector did what many wanted to do.

Wish he would’ve leg locked his ass and not let loose when palhares tapped

Steroid cheater KO’s steroid cheater. Woopty do.

ilia topuria and raul rosas.

Keep dreaming 🤗

@@PaddyTheBaddyUFC Hey Paddy. Looking forward to seeing you again.

Paddy allready got derailed by Gordon and thats not even close to top 15

​@@PaddyTheBaddyUFCLegeeenndddd

Agreed. Great point. The "I'll fight anyone, anywhere, anytime" is bluster (well, for most I'd say). Though two other thoughts: both opponents have this same disadvantage--though arguably dynamic fighters suffer less from it. And you have to weigh the business aspect: the changes are always a lesser match-up, and not something the UFC wants at all, but substitutions happen despite the best efforts to prevent them due to the investment already sunk for the event. There's no upside at all for the UFC to cancel a scheduled fight. Or is there another alternative?

Makes you wonder how the guys in the early days survived, fighting 2,3 or 4 different opponents a night?

@@m.rivers9201 they didn't

@@Maru7en only the Champ did. lol

It turns a chessmatch into a brawl

No Maycee Barber? I'd replace Giga with her.

Yeah Giga was never a hype train or someone the UFC pushed hard. Dude was just a great guy and won a UFC award for his work with fighting cancer. Lost his biggest fight but he was never pushed fast by the UFC.

Giga only has one loss?

Add one more on the list sugaa show ( Sean O malley)

I would add Bam Bam Tuivasa to this list.

She was legitimate and had some good wins. She just couldn't cut it against top 5. Most can't, thats why they're the top

Sugar Shane was on his way to being this guy but his management team hit the breaks on that.

Sage didn't have a chin that's his problem

@@lerchomat exactly that first tko killed his whole hype train and confidence

The dude really wasn't athletically that much of an outlier lets be real here. It's not like he was a yoel romero type guy. He was good at the start but thinking he was ever going to be champ is pretty delusional. I mean the dude was on the receiving end of one of the nastiest ko's ever from cosmo alexandre who was already a declining fighter. I mean look at how cosmo pieced up by Nieky Holzken who himself is a declining fighter. That's pretty bad when you are literally supposed to be a striking prodigy and then you fuck up your balance almost instantly and get one tapped.

@@SpartanArmy117 what a bright spirit lmao. we wonder what you do here.

Probably the most overrated fighter in UFC history. His left hand was basic n never really had power... everyone finishes Cerrone. He has a basic left hand and roundhouse... that's why he loses, he doesn't have a skill set. He lost that Thompson fight clearly as well... no one brings that up.

@@gabsedits2238 18 wins with 10 KOs thats shows he has power clearly.

Till let the powder take over in the end sadly. He became a yes man, as a fellow scouser he's on the same path as Paddy The Baddy. Good at the start, and then a rapid decline.

@@gabsedits2238 also, before the thompson fight, till gave up on the weight cut with like 5 hours to go and came in 7 pounds over.

At the time when Till was rising. There was a lot of hysteria surrounding British/Irish fighters mainly due to Mcgregor. Tills style with his slide back-powerful straights seemed so much better than it was. Truth is, he was never that good and went on to lose all confidence in himself.

Proof that Dana White is full of shit right there

Right? Makes no sense

Probably had a stacked contract

4-6 but go on

Meanwhile, BJ Penn loses 7 in row including a bar fight and was still in the UFC..

Sage is a good guy, he is basically Wonderboy lite.

@@wasabi5338 😂😂😂

Pretty sure he's Hella smart too, got a petroleum engineering degree from a good school.

*becomes international arms dealer*

He was a good fighter, too. He just got pushed way too quickly so once he lost a few, the momentum was gone. I always liked Sage.

The scariest right hand in the world

Lmao the D throating for sage northcutt is insane. He must have a popular tiktok page now or something, you kids literally came outta nowhere

@@matthewanthony4606 Lotta cretinous weirdos in the MMA fandom...

@@matthewanthony4606 what an embarrassing outburst 😂

The Glazing is wild

he was 17-5

He was never 9-1. The only time in his career that he had one loss on his record was when he was 0-1. By the time he got 9 victories he as 9-4. He did have a heck of a run in there (winning 7 straight) and was 17-5 going up against GSP. GSP must've permanently injured him, he was never the same after that. After that loss, he went on a 6-10 run before he retired.

Usada

Alright, perhaps got the wrong record some how. Buut anyway, he could have been great, but GSP put a stop to that. He was a beast.

Renan Barãro 32-1 or something and then 👎🏼… I was at UFC 173 in Vegas when Tj Dillishaw dismantled him. Was epic!

To be honest this "presentation" is BS! Hernandez was cocky, but was never promoted as a rising star by the UFC. The way he talked to Cowboy on that press conference made him tons of haters, so even if they wanted to make a star of him he dug his own grave that night and burry his potential rise to the stars and he'd need to to something incredible (several times) to become a star. Gillespie lost to Kevin Lee and won his vey next fight. that's his only loss. It's mma. It's normal to lose some. Also - UFC never pushed to make him a star. Nevertheless - he deserves much bigger fanbase than he has, and I hope he'll get them numbers. Giga Chikadze lost to Kattar after 7 fight win streak. That was his first UFC loss. He wasn't promoted as a rising star by the UFC neither. Still, a great fighter with a potential to become a champion one day He's in his prime now. And special BS reward goes to putting Ben Askren in this list. Man was champion in Bellator and ONE FC and was undefeated for over a decade - until he retired. He came to UFC after being retired for almost two years. If we can say Askren was Rising star when he came to UFC than we can say Max Holloway is a rookie.

For me it really gives me more respect for these guys. All the years, fights and beatings they have to to endure just to get to the UFC. With no promises to make it past how many fights their contract guarantees. No wonder fighter pay is such a big deal in the mma game, specifically the UFC.

Derek who ?

@Oodles of Noodles true but his big downfall is his chin. If you watch the Whitaker or Yoel fight he was winning until he got caught and finished. He’s definitely talented just seems his body can’t take the punishment anymore.

@@HandsomeBastard just a guy who’s currently ranked fifth in the Middleweight division. Not a big deal at all.

He was not robbed

@@alcoviteiro you’re one of the only people in the world who think that. Google biggest robberies in UFC history and that is almost always on the list. Brunson led in total strikes landed, significant strikes landed, takedowns and control time on the ground (3:46 compared to Silvas 0). You can not look at that and say “yea Silva deserved that win.”

True. The perils of hype & fast tracking..

I think that’s why fighters like Khabib do well as they had time to grow

@@Yepitsmedude well... I don't think you can consider Sage and Khabib in the same sentence 😂

@@thomasohare yes you can. Most people didn’t think Khabib would turn out like that.

Always enjoyed watching Diakese he has an interesting style, just struck out with tough competition I guess

Dan Hooker unfortunately has become that guy as well. I like Hooker so I hope he turns it around. But he's in the same boat - Some big wins, lots of hype and lots of promise, then things just sort of spin out of control. Hopefully Dan gets back on track. He's by far my favorite fighter from Australia

Marc's done a ton of wrestling training since & looked real good in his last few fights.

I guess Sage should have listened to Dana :)

@@The_Great_Beyond Dana is the one that screwed him in the first place

I miss the Hendo bombs.

U can get wrestler cardio overnight

@jabroni destroyer u just didn't work hard enough

@jabroni destroyer You don’t realise how low you are on the totem pole. Trying to use your wrestling background to impress a point is only shooting yourself in the foot.

@jabroni destroyer the LOTR fanboy is trolling. He's never participated in a competitive sport in his life. It's takes a long time to maximize your VO2 max and it helps a lot if you start a grueling sport like wrestling early on before you start or are at the beginning of puberty as your body is in the optimum time to be able to grow to adapt. The longest fights I've been in lasted a minute max and I was completely exhausted by the end. I opened for my house (the Brits have this house thing like Harry Potter) team in grade 6, the entire rest of the team was from grade 9. I also played for amateur basketball and football clubs but in an international sports complex so we would play practice games against pros to keep them fit and sharp.

@@BilalKhan-yg9jc ehh I’d argue it’s very much genetics, I can hop off the couch and have better cardio than 99% of people after quite a layoff, and it’s not like I was doing any sports before puberty. Some people just built different dude.

good people around him also he ducked islam seems like. a smart decision

Can't u appreciate Hernandez? Dude was awesome

I don't see the hype around Dariush, let alone calling him a beast

Barboza koed dariush too

Dariush isn’t a beast by any means. He’s a good grappler but that’s about it.

19-0 fighting no names in the B and C leagues.

@@herbie747 still

@@blitzblix9455 still what? I'm 19-0 against 3rd graders I should get a million for my next fight right?

@@Repetoire 19-0 is 19-0.

@@Repetoire and you’ll be bens next to make it 20-0 shut up bum and sit down

I know wth??

He took out a bunch of monsters as well

I think it's all about how he came off before the Calvin fight, only to get humbled HARD. He didn't really help himself after the fight either.

Yeah, Giga and Askren don't belong here. I never liked Ben, but he still was an undefeated champ at two respectable orgs (OneFC/Bellator) for like 10 years, came to the UFC close to retirement, still undefeated finished Lawler. Lost a close fight with Maia. Yeah, took a flying knee from Masvidal, then took a cpl million to lose a boxing match to Jake Paul, and suddenly casuals think he was some fizzled prospect, and he's on #2 on this list? I never thought I'd be defending Askren but gotta give respect where it's due.

@@damendred1 yeah that’s true as well. And he had bad hips by the time he got to ufc. Maybe Dana really never liked him lol waited until he was old and slow

Cerrone is shit bro. Guy took a dive for money against mcgregor, how can a man respect somebody who sells his ass for money.

Cowboy in his prime was one of the GOATs

It's underrated

When Lombard was fighting that was the era of the TRT or a lot of juiced fighter's with Henderson 1 of them but he's a mean mothafucka with crazy power.

Hendo was awesome.

Think it's more him realising he's done

@@sirbla1rsco239 he won his last fight. How’s he done?

Nobody's game is perfect. There's someone out there whose strengths are your weaknesses. Some people just have your number.

Too much too fast. They did the kid wrong. Waste of a future legend. Broke him early

Griffin Bonner fight too🤷‍♂️

He could have been someone else and there would have been 2 huge stars 😂😂😂

mighty mouse is the goat

@@iamfishmind ?

@@dylanmulroe9978 ufc traded Johnson for Askren. Google exists.

@@iamfishmind asshole response considering DJ had nothing to do with what the original comment was about besides the fact the only reason Ben was in the UFC was because he replaced DJ.

His spot is deserved.

yes and after that loss the commentator said he fought 5 more bouts and won 4 of them the ufc doesnt make any sense they give some people chanches even if they lose 6 fights in a row but not someone like sage

@@blitzblix9455 how may of those 5 fights did you watch? I watched none.

@@JamesHussain82 If you're trying to point out that you didn't watch the fights because you lost interest in him after the loss, you're a part of the shitty toxic culture that did him so dirty

@@JamesHussain82 That's the real reason

Dana White is a nob head.

Why not?

Nah, he was definitely into it. His whole family was all about the athletics. He wasn't being exploited and the age wasn't the issue. His lack of grappling in MMA was the issue. He'd trained wrestling and BJJ, but not enough under the context of MMA.

UFC just signed a 17 year old lol

Huh?

@@phoenixamaranth Or at the very least not for UFC yet.

A head kick isn't a game plan.

@@nietzschean3138 It absolutely is a part of a gameplan.

@@1994mrmysteryman It's not a game plan in itself. The OP stated his wide stance stopped Gillespie shooting. Throwing a head kick isn't that game plan nor is it any game plan.

@@nietzschean3138 The OP didn't say the gameplan was the headkick. You did. There are a thousand things that lead to a successful headkick. Including the stance, wrestling defence, striking exchanges and much more. Which is all part of a gameplan.

@@1994mrmysteryman The headkick is what finished and won the fight, not the wide stance. Hence, a head kick isn't a game plan. A right hand to head kick is a basic combination. This isn't difficult to understand.

@@Tonysopranoyafinook He did not. He took me down, got up on points and I slapped on a triangle in the final 10 seconds but couldn't finish. I know you're trying to troll but I can't be bothered by betas like you.

I totally forgot about him! Wasn’t he even on the cover of Sports Illustrated?

What’s that? A computer program?

such a great dude too

Ppl always say someone is missing, but can only have so many on a list

FOR REALS!! I remember thinking Roger Huerta was gonna be champ, then he dissappeared forever.

him getting soccer kicked in the face was the highlight of his career

No, he beat himself up with a silly celebration.

an*..." with an all action style" ... not "with a all action style" say the sentence out loud. which sounds better? massive pet peeve of mine... using a in the place of an sounds like a faulty robot. the other way around is even worse, but you dont see it as often... for example... "by an wrestler" obviously doesnt work. cant wait for the obligitory replies roasting me for caring.

@@William-Morey-Baker bro who hurt you?

@@lerchomat A faulty robot presumably

Corey 'ThErES LEvEls tO THiS! tHeRe's LeVelS!' Anderson

...don't anymore... hopefully

Brunson is good but no one will really give him a chance

@@goead true hes a dangerous fight for anyone on a run

@@fofopho 👍

Speak for yourself. Just because you're a failure don't drag everyone down with you.

@@HandsomeBastarddaaaaaaamnn i think he died reading ur comment

A participation trophy will never be the first place prize

A lot of people chase their dreams all the time. Just because their dreams don’t involve a public stage and stardom doesn’t meant their dreams are less than.

How ? He just won again

@@kandycid100 Did you see last weekends fight?

I hope not, I hope this weekend was a lesson that it's not just skill, he has to train harder and not get fat in-between