A well -known slogan used for the UFC is “everything can happen”, and these incredible disruptions prove that exactly.
Although the best man or woman usually takes the gold home in the UFC, there are always upset victories and Schokkos that nobody saw coming.
Here are the greatest disturbances in the UFC history, arranged, starting with an Cinderella story and ending with the ultimate underdog victory by an ultimate hunting winner.
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5. Michael Bisping finally won UFC Gold with a two -week notification on Luke Rockhold
In what a “Cinderella story” is mentioned in the history of MMA, Michael Bisping had to wait 12 years before he finally became champion in the UFC.
After a decade of trying and not securing a title shot, “The Count” had the opportunity to challenge Luke Rockhold at UFC 199 by chance.
When former champion Chris Weidman was forced to pull himself out of his collision with Rockhold only two weeks before the fight, Bisping was ready to board an instant to fulfill his destination.
Although it was the total underdog in the fight, Bisping surprised everyone by eliminating the champion in the first round.
He took Rockhold with a series of punches before the referee called the fight and the Englishman granted a shock title win that nobody saw coming.
4. Sean Strickland dominated heavy favorite Israel Adesanya on UFC 293
It was not the result of the victory of Sean Strickland on Israel Adesanya that was the most surprising. It was the dominant way in which he destroyed the champion who made waves in the UFC.
Adesanya was the tough favorite for their fight at UFC 293 and was the reigning UFC Middleweight Champion.
He had just recovered the title of Alex Perreira and was planning to go on a dominant second regime as a champion.
Strickland, however, dominated Adesanya in 5 rounds and won the UFC Middleweight Championship in an impressive way that nobody saw coming.
Adesanya called the loss a “bad dream” and showed what he thought about the devastating loss by Strickland in Australia.
3. The dominant run of Ronda Rousey ended in Ko through Holly Holm
Few hunters have been so dominant in their divisions as Ronda Rousey was in the early days of the Divisions of the UFC women.
However, that made Rousey's knock -out loss of Holly Holm on UFC 193 all the shocking.
Rousey's last UFC Ladies Bantamweight title defense was her eighth time that she defended the belt she won in the very first women's fight in the UFC.
However, she came into the fight with Holm, a former boxer, miserably unprepared. Her sparring images were underwhelming and she seemed to have the intention to go to toe with the much more experienced boxer.
Yet nobody could watch the dominant Rousey and she certainly seemed to win another early Ko victory.
That is what defeated her a second round knockout, even more scorable. Rousey run a big shot of Holm, but to eat a huge kick on the head to stand out and claim the Bantamweight title of the UFC ladies.
2. Juliana Pena defeated Geit Amanda Nunes in a huge shock
No one in the world of MMA saw Amanda Nunes, usually referred to as the greatest female hunter in the history of UFC and lost her Bantamweight title of the UFC women to Julianna Pena.
However, that is exactly what happened in one of the greatest disruptions in the UFC history. Pena had a long way to become champions, which started with her debut in 2013 after winning the ultimate hunter.
Pena was a huge underdog against nunes. The reigning champion had not lost since 2014 and defended her title against some of the great ones, such as Ronda Rousey, Valentina Shevchenko and Cris Cyborg.
Nunes dominated the first round and the fight seemed to go as expected. However, all of that changed into the second round, where Pena hit the champion with a series of perfect opposing before she brought her to the mat.
With more than a minute in the round, Pena mounted the back of the nunes, so she had to tap a coded choke and her UFC Ladies Bantamweight championship in one of the greatest disturbances in UFC history forfeited.
1. Matt Serra shocks the world by eliminating Georges St-Pierre
It is unlikely that something will ever come close to so large as when Matt Serra Georges St-Pierre shocked UFC 69.
Serra had come up via the ultimate hunter -TV program and won the fourth series to have a chance at the UFC Welterweight Championship.
That fight was against one of the greats of all time in the UFC. St-Pierre was a dichotomy champion in the UFC and is one of the greatest hunters ever from Canada.
The resident of Quebec was strong to beat Serra, whose recording in the main event was seen more as a sales argument for the ultimate hunter than a real deserved title.
He quickly drove any idea that he would not be in the fight by flying out of the blocks, while Serra brought the fight to the champion in the Octagon.
He dropped St-Pierre several times in the first round, finally assembled him and ground him in the mat while the crowd and Joe Rogan exploded with excitement on comment.
Serra came out of nowhere to become the new world champion and shocked the world with the greatest upset in the MMA history.
St-Pierre may have avenged his loss later, but he can never take that victory from Serra.