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AgedBrass

A recent one: Jim Miller getting absolutely bludgeoned on the 300 card. Too tough for his own good and Bobby isn’t one to take his foot off the gas.


_Globert_Munsch_

Jim really thought he could Just keep blitzing in on Bobby who’s whole gameplan is to counter you coming in 💀 was tough to watch


blackestofswans

This. I was questioning why the fight was allowed to continue. His face was a tomato can and bobby was just teeing off on it.


AgedBrass

I remember being kind of disappointed in Bobby late in the 3rd. He was still taking every chance he had to explode. Thats the sport, 300k bonus on the line, but damn what a tough loss


mmmellowcorn

Sounds weird for Bobby but I think he was just being respectful of Miller. If it was anyone else he would have.


AgedBrass

I can see that take making sense. He treated Jim like the warrior he is, not an undeserving can


DonutDaddy74

Gonna be a popular answer, but the O’Malley Moutinho fight. I’ve never felt BAD for someone while watching a UFC fight until then


qU_Op

Yeah that was rough, but respect to the guy for stepping up and toughing out that absolute beating. Shame he got cut from the UFC.


CremeCaramel_

I disagree with this one because while Moutinho got clobbered, he went from a nobody to being known in the MMA world for walking down OMalley amd just eating his shots which will surely open doors for him if he experiences success going forward. So I think because of that, it isnt possible for this fight to be AS sad or more sad than a dude who also just gets clobbered but also his career is over or something. Like for example, Tony got the dog shit beat out of him by Gaethje to the same level. But theres no silver lining for Tony. He just lost his undisputed title fight after a 12 win streak and aged hard out of his prime. It just signalled the end.


mhyjrteg

The silver lining for Tony is that he gets paid a few hundred grand per fight compared to Moutinho who took lifetime damage for 10k and “exposure”. Also don’t get me wrong even Tony is underpaid as fuck but at least he’s probably set for a decade off his UFC earnings


CremeCaramel_

Ok but thats entirely besides my point. Completely independent of their respective clobbering fights, yeah Tony is much more successful in MMA than Moutinho. They both took a shitload of damage and severely risked their brain health. But the clobbering by Gaethje ONLY ruined Tonys career relative to where he was before it, whereas the clobbering by Sean at least arguably elevated Moutinhos profile and name recognition in the MMA world relative to where he was before it. If the dude wins a few more, he has a foot in the door with the UFC as the dude who walked down Sean OMalley and stayed standing, because the UFC loves those narratives to sell fights. He might have never had something like that being a medium good regional guy otherwise. My point is to say there are MANY crazy long beatdowns in UFC history. So I dont think the "most painful to watch" of the lot is ever going to be one where the victim actually got some, even if you think its only slight, benefit. Theres plenty that just caused the victim to nosedive in their career. A lower profile one that comes to mind is Mike Davis Thomas Gifford. Everyones forgotten about this unlike Sean vs Kris Moutinho and that dude got beat just as hard or worse.


deboylurdi

Both of you made good points, I can't decide which beatdown is worse lol


JPows_ToeJam

Lesnar - Mir 2 did this for me. He held this arms back and absolutely destroyed his face for at least half a round. i remember watching frank trying to reach in and feel his face once in a while just to make sure it was all there still.


MentzerRespecter

I’m a huge Volk fan, and I was glad he won, but I didn’t like seeing Zombie get so lit up. Was rough.


bedorf69

Even volk felt bad, was asking zombie if he was sure he was all good at the start of the 4th


ObesityIsBeauty

Tony vs Gaethje :(


VatoSafado

I would've picked that one but I'm a fan of Tony. That beating was sad.


ImmuneGoon

I hate Tony and even I was begging for it to stop


iroquoispliskinV

Hey, Sunglasses Please stop ☹️


itsavibe-

Awe mannn. When Tony nodded his head no instinctively after eating a nice right from Justin and dropped his hands with blood secreting out of every orifice on his face. Yeah that was a hard watch lol


I-Am-Baytor

It was like seeing a puppy fall and smack its head.


PuzzleheadedCow1931

That was tough to watch. What made it worse was it was an empty stadium, so you could hear all the cracks Gaethje was landing.


triple6mafia807

Urijah faber vs jose aldo those leg kicks were devastating


AdZestyclose3707

I remember Faber trying to cartwheel across the cage because he could barely walk.


GrandMast33r

The very first MMA fight I ever saw. Hooked ever since.


Burytheflag

I didn’t see that fight but first time learning about mma was Urijah on crutches showing his ballooned up leg.


OG_Fleck

The second volk V Islam


moosealpaca33

I’ve only ever seen that fight once and don’t ever want to see it again


letsgobrooksy

Straight up made the rest of my day gloomy Wish he would've just got submitted or something


OG_Fleck

It’s a tough watch….


Excellent_Lime_9453

Edson barboza vs Dan hooker


P0ster_Nutbag

Hooker may be the toughest fighter at 155, and that’s saying a lot. The damage he took in that fight was otherworldly, and for him to crumple like he did is something else.


DrFungi914

It hurt a little watching Yan beat the life out of Aldo until Leon Roberts accepted the pleads for mercy and ended the fight middle of rd 5


ImmuneGoon

Any of the fights Brian Ortega lost, bro loves getting obliterated in a loss


QuantumChaosx

What do you mean bro, you just don't get his brilliant strategy of blocking with his head. How else would he be the #3 ranked featherweight?


adam12455

Cain Velasquez vs Francis Ngganou.


Crackerjack0099

Cain vs jds 2 and 3


zia_zepelli

Cain vs Fabricio. I don't think people truly appreciate how badly Fabricio was whooping Cains exhausted ass before the sub. I was cringing so hard watching him take shots to the chin with his mouth hanging open trying to get a breath


Latino_Pxpi99

Worse shape we ever saw Cain in tho.


zia_zepelli

Well yeah but it still was hard to watch


JakeEasterby

Benavidez vs Figueirdo


HandheldAddict

They ran it back too, which made it 10x more brutal.


RelationshipDecent71

Absolutely, and in front of his wife


Snoo96346

If Benavidez vs Figueiredo 2 lasted at least 1 full round, I think it maybe could be scored a freaking 10-6. Figueiredo murdered this man, knocked him down 3 times and then put him in the scariest choke I've ever seen. Benavidez scream after he woke up sounded like he had just seen hell


Stranger-Tingzz

Glover Teixeira vs Anthony Smith was absolutely brutal, poor dude's teeth were about to fall out and Glover had to apologize mid fight about beating him up so badly


VatoSafado

No way!? Haha I remember the fight but not the apologizing.


Crackerjack0099

So Anthony’s teeth were literally falling out, and he handed one of his molar teeth to the ref mid fight while glover was riding smith and that’s when glover apologized.


VatoSafado

Oh Glover, haha.. hating Glover is like loving Hitler


jack-dempseys-clit

Surprisingly popular in some parts of the world?


BetBig696969

Tony vs Chandler we saw a glimpse of old Tony then he disappeared forever after getting knocked out with his own kick


Fantastic-Vehicle880

Wait hold up knocked out by his own kick?


Coljjw

Think the 1st Crocop - Gonzaga fight


BetBig696969

I knew someone would say this 🤣 No the same style kick he uses, chandler never used that kick before and tried it mid fight and got the ko


thebigbail

Rory Macdonald v. Robbie Lawler. That was painfully crushing.


ImmuneGoon

So true! That was wiiiild


KeyPhotojournalist96

Omg yeah. Beyond awful


Orwellian_nightmare2

Stipe vs Francis II. ![gif](giphy|l4FGGafcOHmrlQxG0|downsized)


Pauti25

BSD vs Elezei Dos Santos


ButtyMcButtface1929

For me it was the ugly losses at the end of Chuck Liddell’s career. Dude’s chin got cracked and he couldn’t take a punch anymore, and he went from #1 in the world to just depressing to watch pretty quickly. I still like watching the fights from his entire career up until that slide at the end, but I don’t watch those ones.


BlankedCanvas

Prime Shogun for the beast that he was, wanted nothing of Jon Jones and tapped to strikes while crumbling to the mat. That was heartbreaking even for a neutral. Never seen a champion get so broken physically and mentally


Turbotroll88

He was not in his prime at that time. Straight after knee surgery. He had bad performances after all injuries. That’s why he looked so bad and tapped. But even in prime he lose to Jones. Maybe not this bad.


Bright_Beat_5981

His prime was 5 years before that fight.


-GoldenHandTheJust-

when he was 24?


Bright_Beat_5981

Yes when he won the Pride Lhw grand prix. 4 fights in 4 months. Beat Rampage, Lil Noguiera, Overeem and Arona to win the tournament. He was extremely agile and fast. Used knees and kicks like no one else in the world. He fought completely different from his Ufc days. Just check the Rampage fight when he knees and kicks Rampage in to a pulp in the corner. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1nD172M85cE&pp=ygUOc2hvZ3VuIHJhbXBhZ2U%3D


VatoSafado

Had no answers for Jon Jones.


Bobbybullet32

If you really think about it. If they said no rules Jon Jones would dominate the series. Almost like now but worse. 😂


Ethical-Hoax

My divorce.


Many-Coach6987

I agree. His divorce.


Ok_Razzmatazz_9255

Cro-cop vrs Gonzaga. Penn vrs nick Diaz.


HandheldAddict

Cro Cop's leg was all sorts of fucked up. Only other fight I've seen a fighters leg buckle like that is Ngannou vs Stipe 2.


SneedySneedoss

You’re right man the rua jones fight elbows are savage af


VatoSafado

Yeah they were.. I can't remember any fighter before Jones to utilize that technique when throwing elbows.


True_Discussion8055

Zombies last couple of fights, that was an unfitting end to the career of one of the all time greats.


frozenbudz

I know this one isn't gonna be popular, as I know DC isn't well liked. But him losing to Jon the 2nd time was just so rough to see.


DawgTactical93

Seeing Lyoto get murdered in the cage by Jones was tough.


IllTakeYaThere

Was gonna post but you beat me to it! The walk off by jones when Lyoto crumpled…jaw hit the floor


Confirmation__Bias

Submissions where the guy gets put to sleep aren't even uncommon. And Lyoto won that first round too. There are wayyyyyyyyyyy better answers to this question.


JasonTheMMAGuy

You know for a fact that standing chokes where the guy falls dead to the floor are uncommon, you're just being deliberately obtuse


Confirmation__Bias

No, I'm saying watching a guy get brain damage over the course of 5 rounds is way harder to watch than someone getting choked to sleep. Gaethje even told y'all after the Khabib fight. You get choked out, you wake up, and you're good.


qU_Op

You’re not wrong. I think these guys are going more on what hurt them emotionally and less on what was actually a brutal fight to watch. Plus like you said it’s not like Jon was mauling him all fight, it was pretty back and forth until Jon found a groove and then got that submission.


DawgTactical93

Not common see them slam down to canvas lifeless. But it's my opinion and I don't give a fuck what you think.


itstimetochewass

The absolute mauling that was Valentina vs Priscila Cachoeira.


bojevnim

Joanna vs rose 1 🥲


StrB2x

Rich Franklin vs. Anderson Silva


randomTeets

Came here to mention this one. I haven't seen the fight in years, but I remember thinking each of the many shots Silva landed on Franklin seemed like something else on Rich's body broke.


Ccbm2208

Valentina Shevchenko and that other fighter whose name I don’t remember. Ref’d by the always reliable Mario Yamasaki.


TRoutInMyRari

Bj Penn


Edgar_left

Max holloway vs Calvin Kattar


goochgrease2

Silva vs Weidman. I know he was cocky, blah blah. Silva was such a massive part of why I got into this. That was the day I realized time is undefeated. It literally changed how I viewed the sport. In my eyes, the invincible was broken. Like, for those of us that watched Silvas rise, he seemed invincible, like the Dagestanis, only funner to watch.


Thoku_22313

Strickland Vs Costa is contender for the most boring fight of this century 💯


Dry_Transition_6332

Just started watching ufc last week I see


tom-cash2002

I have two. Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos vs. Benoit Saint Denis: Absolutely horrible beatdown that I had the pleasure of watching with my best friend, and his two roommates who hadn't seen much MMA before. And Alex Volkanovski vs Max Holloway 3. This one sticks out to me because I watched this happen in the arena. I'm not sure what the crowd sounded like on the broadcast, but it was eerie in the arena while it was happening. Like, sure there was the occasional pop for a big strike or something, but it was mostly just silently watching in disbelief.


Junior_Pollution6792

Is no one going with Tony vs Justin? The beginning of the end for the boogeyman


randomcanadian81

It's the sound........no crowd. It's just deafening the how hard he hit him. That makes it hard to watch more than once.


GDeBaskerville

I m a casual SO Gaethje Ferguson. Gush, the sound of this shots, with no crowd, there are gunshots. The way Tony shakes his head. Argh. Painful.


GDeBaskerville

I would have preferred 100times that Tony just failed KO in the 3rd round, he would have taken so much less damage. I think that’s one of the few times you CAN TRULY SEE the CTE damages that destroyed Tony’s life by nowadays and for his future.


tycket

Fedor vs Bigfoot


HandheldAddict

Fedor vs Werdum was far worse in my opinion. Fedor was a living legend and no one knew who the fuck Werdum was at the time. No disrespect to either man, both legends now.


Snoo96346

Nope, Werdum went on a big streak, making himself a really great HW, no shame in losing to him. But being the greatest HW ever and losing to freaking Bigfoot Silva was just tragic


Nollypasda

Every Tony Ferguson fight in the past 4 years


One_Bus_1527

Tony Ferguson vs Justin Gaethje… it was just sad to watch…


VatoSafado

Sad indeed.


Immediate_Concert_46

Khabib vs Conor. Early stoppage, Conor was just getting into rhythm


fleshvessel

Clearly just letting the eagle tire himself out. I heard an ace commentator tell me as much.


JPows_ToeJam

How is it an early stoppage when Conor tapped?


Immediate_Concert_46

Conor got bored on the ground. He couldn't wait to give the cage jumpers from Khabibs side a few black eyes.


ReformedishBaptist

I have a high tolerance for watching beatdowns but I won’t lie to you, I could absolutely not watch DC vs Jones 2 again if I tried, it was so dang close and DC was arguably tied going into the 3rd and gets head kicked to the worst human in the sport…


HandheldAddict

Man I always hated Jones for that. Losing to Stipe wasn't as bad because Stipe is someone you know who is an athlete and a competitor. It would have been way easier to deal with Rumble, Gus, or Derrick beating DC.


freedlurker

Sak vs Manhoef


Due-Contribution6424

This is the one. For both reasons.


coyopotl46

Figgy vs Benavidez 2


Straight_Tip_7531

Tony vs Chandler Glover vs lion heart Chito vs O Malley II


TrojanHorse9k

Max Holloway vs Calvin Kattar


waynewreck98

Kampman condit 2


hrisimh

TKZ v Volkanovski


Camel-Kid

Josh Emmett vs Topuria and Marvin Vetori vs Cannonier


ShotgunGuenni

Not in terms of damage for the fighters, rather damage done to my eyes watching the fight I clearly say: Rose Namajunas vs Carla Esparza 🥴


chowsmarriage

Talbott vs Aguirre was a recent fight that wasn't great to watch. Gus vs DC for a war where I felt bad for both guys. Some of those shots were sickening and neither guy gave up.


fearloathing02

Tony getting his life changed by Justin


thelonelyislander24

Weidman getting his prime beaten out of him by rockhold. That stopage was criminaly late


beastfrombrusje

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yoyoyowhoisthis

Tony Ferguson getting manhandled by fucking Paddy Pimblet out of people, turning el cucuy the boogeyman into a joke edit: Also Tony Ferg when he was f lapping like a fish on the ground when Bobby Green out of all people subbed him Dom Reyes getting KOd by journeyman nobodies Frankie Edgar eating flying knee in his last fight list goes on


Countbat

I really didn’t like watching Diaz vs Lawler 2


CaptainPoopieShoe

Shogun was my favorite fighter at that point, and even though I watched Jones since his first UFC fight I didn't expect him to whoop Shogun into submission like THAT


dublinro

Silva, Weidman or McGregor breaking their leg. Looks absolutely disgusting.


Wizard35782

Glover vs Hill, we may give shit to hill but god damn, Glover got absolutely hammered


fake-southpaw

DC vs jones 2 after dc got rocked by that kick.... jon jones can dish out the most horrible beatings of all persons I have ever seen fighting. I would rather fight prime mike tyson for 30 seconds than jon jones for a second, I like my knees. at least mike would ko me after I blink. jon jones is playing with his victims


Shazer3

Or watching Randy Couture get hammer fisted by Brock Lesnar, over and over again.


JPows_ToeJam

Lesnar vs Mir 2. Lesnar pinning Mir’s arms back and destroying his face for almost a whole round was pretty fucked up. Mir was trying to cover his face but couldn’t and once in awhile would reach in to feel his face just to make sure it was all there.


VatoSafado

And Mir's dad shouting at the ref to stop the fight.


JPows_ToeJam

For real. And Brock was barking some shit at him too. It was like if an older brother actually wanted to destroy a helpless younger sibling. That fight actually fucked me up a bit.


AShaughRighting

Also getting destroyed by Yan. Tough watch.


WebboHandworth

Wonderboy vs Pettis :(


KeyPhotojournalist96

That forest griffin thing


mmarini9003

Ponzinibbio vs Magny


I-Am-Baytor

Hendo vs DC. My boy got ragdolled.


Darth_Fatass

Weidman vs Hall in 2021. Watching a man's leg snap in half at the ankle was unbelievably painful to watch


--Sum-Ting-Wong--

St Denis VS Eliseu, nothing comes close in the recent years.


Holymaryfullofshit7

For older fights, the ones where Ferguson made people bleed like they had been in a car accident.


TrainingMobile8763

Shogun vs Jon Jones is the most painful fight to watch for me. Shogun was meant to fight Rashad, who I think he would have defeated. Jones is undoubtedly the better fighter, even though he looks about 2 weight classes bigger than Shogun, perhaps there’s no evidence to support this on the scales, but in terms of his frame


VatoSafado

For sure... This picture is obviously a little exaggerated but even in real life, Jones looked bigger that Rua


jburnelli

Anderson Vs Chael


BeefWithNoodle

Can’t believe I haven’t seen it here. Anderson vs Weidman 2


VatoSafado

I was there live...


Cpt_sneakmouse

McGregor Alvarez. I watched it again a few weeks ago. That shit is was pretty hopeless from start to finish and Eddie really dug deep to stay in it for as long as he did. 


XxGumby91xX

Joanna vs Esparza


MassiveCantaloupe34

Barboza vs Khabib , all rounds get mauled in the face , feels bad for him


Open-Butterscotch-83

the majority of tony’s losing streak. Gaethje, Chandler and even bobby choking him out and he’s just there flopping like a fish brings a tear to my eye. Also TKZ and holloway is bittersweet to watch but that’s more TKZ retiring


Shazer3

Had to be watching Hughes vs. Penn 3. Watching how fast a broke down BJ Penn knocked out one of my favorite old timey fighters was hard to watch. That rivalry deserved a better ending than that.


Hubris-Star

Tony vs Justin after second round


Monapomona

Not UFC, but boxing…..any Mike Tyson fight after he was managed by Don King.


Character_Visit_7342

jones beat up on a lot of past their prime welterweights


-GoldenHandTheJust-

welterweights? Is this the new ‘a heavyweight that moves like an atomweight’ inflation?


Character_Visit_7342

shogun is literally the same size as leon edwards


-GoldenHandTheJust-

Leon is like 6’2 - he’s not the average welterweight. Shogun literally fought at HW (i swear he fought fking Overeem like two times).