They lied. They cheated (sort of). They stole our money.
One of them even cracked his head open before he even left his dressing room.
These are the 10 worst main-event fighters in UFC history.
Because most of the earlier events were tournaments and thus didn’t have a previously scheduled “main event” per se, I am excluding those from the list.
Second, I’m not including fighters on here who were good, but just happened to mutually put on a bad fight due to having an off night at the same time, an unfavorable blend of styles or game plans or something else (see Arlovski-Sylvia). I’m looking at individual fighters who, in retrospect, didn’t deserve to be in the main event.
Third, I’m only looking at pay-per-views, as the free events tend to have a lower threshold for who can be part of a main event, making free events vs. pay events a bit of an apples-to-oranges comparison.
Fourth, I’m defining the worst as guys who maybe didn’t deserve to be there in the first place, but more importantly put on horrible performances once there. Maybe there are other ways to define it. This one was mine.
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