Five Biggest One Hit Wonders In UFC History

Everybody loves a one hit wonder, whether it's Buster Douglas shocking the world or Men Without Hats and their Safety Dance, so it's no surprise the UFC look to embrace it's flash-in-the-pan stars. This is a list of fighters who picked up one big win in their career, but despite their best efforts were unable to capitalise on their unexpected success. Background music provided by Bensound (www.bensound.com) Big Rock - Take the Lead by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100305 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ All footage provided by Zuffa LLC. Please support the official release.

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1. Hey everyone. I just thought I would post a little disclaimer about this video considering some of the comments people have made on here. Firstly I want to say thank you for watching the video and helping to get the channel the numbers that it has, and I will try my best to put out more material over the coming months.
   
   To address some of the points that people have been making on here; There have been a lot of people that have criticised me referring to the fighters in question as 'One Hit Wonders', stating that they couldn't be considered because of having long careers after their big win. Personally, my definition of a one hit wonder is "any entity that achieves mainstream popularity and success for a very short period of time, often for only one piece of work, and becomes known among the general public solely for that momentary success." I consider all five of the fighters chosen to be good competitors, but after their big win they did little to earn recognition other then being "the guy who beat _______". I could have called this video "Fighters who picked up one big win and didn't capitalise on it" but that wouldn't have been very trendy.
   
   As for the inclusion of Holly, I have all the respect for her as a fighter and a person. She was an amazing boxer and justified winning as many titles as she did, but for the purposes of this video I judged her solely on her MMA record, which prior to beating Rousey was solid but with no real high-profile scalps to show for it (a scrappy win against Pennington was probably the biggest), and of course post Rousey she has failed to win at all (although she has been unlucky twice). The other big factor with Holly over the others is the scale of the hype around her post 193. After the Rousey win Holly was hyped up as this MMA tyrant that was going to become the face of the sport and dominate for years to come, and then abandoned her when her next fights failed to live up to expectations. It's similar to one hit wonders in music, and people saying Psy was going to break K-Pop in the West because of Gangnam Style.
   
   I hope Holly can get some big wins and make this list redundant, but as of now it is very hard to argue against her, especially after the GDR fight which IMO she should have won easily.
2. Brock Lesnar
3. keith Jardine was a punching bag for a lot of fighters and was knocked the FUUUCK out by mass ppl. but he did beat 2 former UFC light heavyweight champs, forrest Griffin and chuck Liddell. so that's more than a one hit wonder. just sayin...
4. Dennis was my coach and I learned a lot from him. trained with him for a few years. not a bad guy.
5. Chris "Bitch" Wiedman.
6. Yeah I strongly disagree with Holm being the #1 biggest flash in the pants. She was beating Tate's ass throughout the fight and should have won the title for the new women's division. I'd go with Serra.
7. Gonzaga was good for quite a while but his Cro Cop win gave him too much confidence. Matt Serra wasn't a one hit wonder, he was a blast to watch on the ground. The GSP fight was a fluke. Holly Holm is definitely not a one hit wonder. She's a fucking monster.
8. there is something about Holly Holm , I think she is yummy
9. sonic adventure 1 ftw
10. Matt Serra is not a one hit wonder. He may have never reached the heights he did as ufc champ but he had a great career.And Holly has to much career in front of her to say shes a one hit wonder. Not to mention her boxing career
11. You can add weidman to that list now
12. Paulo Thiago (Josh Koscheck)
    Houston Alexander (Keith Jardine)
    Elvis Sinosic (Jeremy Horn)
    Shonie Carter (Matt Serra)
    Josh Grispi (Mark Hominick)
13. 1 of them has to be Matt sera
14. don't let the thumbs downs get to you. got to start somewhere. I fully encourage any mma channels
15. For future videos, don't have all of the countdown in the first 30 seconds. I'm not gonna even watch now. Have 1 or 2 and some bait in there.
16. Chris Weidman should be one
17. Holly Holm has way to much respect she gets paid way to much thanks for exposing her
18. Johnny Hendricks
19. Pete Williams should get a nod. After murdering Coleman he was to be the next big thing but he wasn't. Thierry soukoudjou is another.
20. Holly should be the first woman to have held a belt in 2 divisions.
    
    She was absolutely robbed against Germaine.