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It was a long, crazy year of fights in mixed marital arts. Simply put, 2014 was busy and had no shortage of decisions left in the hands of the judges.
Most of the time, the judges got it right. However, like we’ve seen in so many cases, the judges got …
It was a long, crazy year of fights in mixed marital arts. Simply put, 2014 was busy and had no shortage of decisions left in the hands of the judges.
Most of the time, the judges got it right. However, like we’ve seen in so many cases, the judges got it wrong and caused controversy throughout the MMA world.
That is what we call a robbery.
In 2014, what were the five biggest robberies the judges handed out? Let’s take a look back and see what the most controversial calls of the year were.
2014 was not the best year for MMA. In particular, it wasn’t the best year for the UFC, but as goes the biggest tree in the forest, so goes the rest of the forest.
It was a bizarre year rife with injuries, discontent among fighters and fans and e…
2014 was not the best year for MMA. In particular, it wasn’t the best year for the UFC, but as goes the biggest tree in the forest, so goes the rest of the forest.
It was a bizarre year rife with injuries, discontent among fighters and fans and even the occasional bout of litigation being threatened (or pending). These are not exactly the foundational components of a positive 365-day run.
You should also remember that we all learn things over the course of a year. The UFC learned some things, the fighters, fans and media learned some things, and the sport itself learned some things.
Here’s a list of a few of those things.
For what the sport had at its disposal, 2014 was a fairly competitive and entertaining epoch for mixed martial arts as a whole.
Injuries certainly played a role in prohibiting a higher degree of excellence, but the handful of elite fighters leftover we…
For what the sport had at its disposal, 2014 was a fairly competitive and entertaining epoch for mixed martial arts as a whole.
Injuries certainly played a role in prohibiting a higher degree of excellence, but the handful of elite fighters leftover were able to efficiently suffice for the loss.
From memorable title upsets to unforgettable headliners, the past 12 months offered excitement of all shapes and sizes.
But for the fans who enjoy witnessing a fighter come out of his or her shell in effort to stake their divisional claim, certain fights stood out more than others.
Here are the biggest breakthrough performances of 2014 as new names have launched themselves to the front line of the sport.
You can’t take the sum total of an entire year, tie it up in a box and slap one label on it. Life is too complicated for such a simple procedure. Something’s bound to break or ooze its way out.
So it is for mixed martial arts. It’s easy to look at all …
You can’t take the sum total of an entire year, tie it up in a box and slap one label on it. Life is too complicated for such a simple procedure. Something’s bound to break or ooze its way out.
So it is for mixed martial arts. It’s easy to look at all the downward-sloping trend lines and conclude, as some have, that the sport suffered a bit of a crash in 2014. It might be just as easy to point to a handful of great scraps and great stories and conclude, as some have, that this was another wonderful year for MMA and that everything is perfectly wonderful, thank you so very much.
But as Akira Kurosawa showed us all those years ago, the truth always dwells in the messy middle, where emotion holds no sway and tidy graphics go to die.
That’s where we’re going to try to exist right now, as we evaluate both the good and the bad in the year that was for MMA.
We can’t cover it all, but we can surely provide a panoptic perspective. Because as faithful readers of this “listicolumn” (I just made that term up) know, the final stats only reveal so much. Here are the real winners and losers in all of mixed martial arts for 2014.
2014 was a down year in terms of business for mixed martial arts.
But the action in the cage was better than ever, for the most part. There were classic fights from the championship level on down to the lowest of preliminary bouts. We even got the MMA …
2014 was a down year in terms of business for mixed martial arts.
But the action in the cage was better than ever, for the most part. There were classic fights from the championship level on down to the lowest of preliminary bouts. We even got the MMA version of a unicorn—and entire Ultimate Fighting Championship card filled with nothing but finishes.
Whittling all of that action down to a single award for Fight of the Year was a nearly impossible task. Our three Bleacher Report lead writers cursed and called one another names. We threatened to quit on several occasions.
But at the end of the day, we were able to figure out a consensus. On Monday, we gave you our Fighter of the Year. On Tuesday, we hand out our prestigious award for the best fight of 2014.
Read on to find out our choice.
MMA is notorious for giving us upsets. It’s the beautiful nature of the sport. 2014 continued that tradition with some stunning upsets.
Some of the most famous MMA moments were upsets—Gabriel Gonzaga’s head-kick KO of Mirko Cro Cop, Matt Serra’s …
MMA is notorious for giving us upsets. It’s the beautiful nature of the sport. 2014 continued that tradition with some stunning upsets.
Some of the most famous MMA moments were upsets—Gabriel Gonzaga’s head-kick KO of Mirko Cro Cop, Matt Serra’s chasing down a wobbly Georges St-Pierre and Fabricio Werdum’s frantic celebration after submitting Fedor Emelianenko.
For 2014, we have narrowed down the field by taking the betting lines from oddsmakers. All of the finalists were more than 3-1 underdogs in their respective bouts. Ranking them came from a combination of betting odds, stylistic matchups and quality of competition. That is what gave us the final list of 2014’s biggest upsets.
Bellator, Invicta FC and the UFC are all represented on this list.
Without further ado, let’s get started with the 10 biggest upsets from the past 12 months of in-cage action.