10 Memorable UFC Debuts
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How iconic is Gaethje struggling to get onto the fence twice, still going for it again and sticks a clean backflip π Legend.
Legend? Yes.
Balls bigger than beach balls? Absolutely.
@@joshuamullins5451 lmaooo itβs true tho, other people wouldβve stopped and been like nah if I try that now Iβll land on my head Gaethje is like βeh fuck it yolo I guessβ
@@SwoleakhulTheBlind eh, I kinda get the sense that Gaethje's whole life has kinda been lived to the tune of "eh fuck it, lets go"
Also iconic that he continually disrespects the staff. Cut men and security. He has a habit of pushing and disrespect. He's an asshole
Justin is a one dimensional bum
i had no idea korean zombieβs twister was in his debut damn
For real what a legend
was thinking the exact same thing
That was a rematch between Zombie and Garcia. Their first fight was in WEC and between those two fights Korean Zombie was viciously knocked out by George Roop. So it was Jung's debut but he was around for a while
@@skurwienieodmulenie9747 yeah I remember being hyped for the rematch. Considering why the hell the judges were on crack in their first fight lol
Yeah that should of been #1. Legit debut
βHe may not know where he is, but heβs standin up!β
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That was funny asf
I laughed so hard
Hahahaha
Sounds like most town centres in the UK at kicking out time.
Who's that commentator?
That Johnson-Gaethje fight was an insane roller coaster. It was one of those fights where the longer it went the more sucked having to remember someoneβs gotta lose.
Both fighters got permanent brain damage...what could be better?
@@joemarshall4226 shut up bro
Right, both performed amazingly.
I thought Gaejthe was doooone
@@sethl3696yeah the dude commenting usually commentates poker not mma
Dude gaethje and johnson literally killed each other and how in the world justin was able to make that cage backflip after that war
Him falling the first couple times never gets oldπ€£π€£
They did not "literally" kill each other or they would have died.
@@jaysoniorg2950 bruh!
@@jaysoniorg2950 cheers
@@jaysoniorg2950 i guess you're popular at parties...
Getting a twister in general is nuts. Getting a twister in your UFC debut is unheard of.
TKZ is already a legend man.
Not unheard of, TKZ done it..
Liam Davies exactly.
so hyped for his next fight in june
1:25 i never noticed that large woman who collapsed after Gathje took Johnson out
she is actually so wide, I have never seen that
@@mamut8413 Pretty sure its Johnsons mom
lol saw them the day of the fight
@@etornamatupra9348 I'd imagine someone of that girth being rather hard to miss visually.
HA. Holy shit! I never noticed that eitjer. Thanks for pointing that out. Must have been a family member or something
5:41 when Conor McGregor thought 60K was a lot of money
Undervalued comment.
Now he at 300 million
And then, Lets talk now....
Its only bussiness
@@suparmanpemuda1121 what does that have to do with anything ? You acting as if he lost his money after Khabib fight.π Guys like you give Khabib fans a bad name.π€·ββοΈ
@@suparmanpemuda1121 π€‘
That Michael Johnson and Justin Gaethje fight was top tier super underrated
Underrated by who?
@@seanmatthewking just saying itβs a good fight that doesnβt really get the recognition lol
It gets a lot of recognition.
One of the best back and forth fights of the past 5 years
Oh yeah easily!
Top 10 debut back flips gone wrong
Lol
Top 10 times Dana almost had a heart attack.
Someone's going to tear an ACL on one of those back flips.
Bob Loblaws law blog
Itβs easy to forget how unreal Conor was. The finish of Brimage was some of the most accurate, sniper-like striking Iβve seen.
Absolutely true now the UFC is full of band wagon fans who don't like him or make fun of him simply because he lost a few fights .... pathetic if you ask me to not see his talent as a fighter
@@sadflute8639 only cuz he lost a few fights in a row** his reign is over he wont be champ again.
@@sadflute8639 found the the people you were talking about below you lmao
He was something the UFC and the mma world all together had never seen. There's a video breaking down the science behind his fight with Alvarez and its incredible
"Easy when you're fighting midgets"...
The fact that Korean Zombie got a twister on his UFC debut is incredible
Iβve gotta admit one of my favourite debuts is Houston Alexander knocking out Keith Jardine
I won't count it as UFC debut cuz he came from wec , the guy he beat was actually their second fight , first one was in wec I recommend it
β@@shaysolomons2492so you wouldn't call it his UFC debut despite it being his UFC debut? I get UFC absorbed WEC but doesn't mean he walked out under the UFC lights for his first fight lmaoooo
@@travismiller1491 fair enough
Gaethje failing at cage climbing gets me everytime! πππ
Look like it hurt too, did you see how his leg bounced like that, I felt that πππ
Makes me cringe a lil
So funny
Must be the most savage figth ever
Reminds me of a stunned cockroach trying to climb up a wall
CM Punk's UFC debut was also memorable.
Haha for allll the wrong reasons...
π€£π€£π€£if not the most memorable
hey at least he tried, its a lot more than the majority of people can say
memeable*
@@mawortz "Do or do not, but don't try"
"60 Gs babbbyyy"... my gawd he had no idea what was in store for him..
Also Conor (2021): THIS IS NOT OVER!
Undeserved if you ask me.
The fight against Mayweather was an embarrassment, a marketing success, but a complete embarrassment. It was the moment where I stopped being a fan. How he went after him in the beginning, flailing about, and then seeing him get tired by round 6 was embarrassing to watch. When all he had to do is pace himself. Practically falling over himself by the end.
Connor got that money from marketing.
2:45 to 2:50 - Anderson catches Leben with a counter jab and a backstepping left straight, staggers him with the counter, then head kicks him from short range and drops him with a 1-2 all in 5 seconds without taking a single hit. insane.
Fell like part of it has to do w how the other guy threw his punches ππ
@@franciscomagallon3364 yeah, wide looping shots without head movement
You have to hit Leben many times to get his interest or defeat him. That guy's chin was so freaking insane.
@@mikeg3439 that Terry Martin fight was crazy!
Michael Johnsonβs sister bouncing up and down in the background and then disappearing will always be iconic
Wait I saw thisπ what happened she like fell forward?
Shes in China now
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After all those videos of jds getting knocked out they finally did him something good
Lol right
That's what happens when the OLD....get fed to the YOUNG
@@jsmooveSNEAKERHEAD arlovski too
Bro fr they doing the legends so dirty these days
IMO JDS should be retired after he beat Derrick lewis
I've always been a big fan of Michael Chandler especially when he was the face of Bellator. I'm glad he was able to execute what he's known for in his UFC debut, especially as the co-main event of McGregor v. Poirier.
Bet your happy after his last fight
All of the debuts are impressive however the fact that Chan sung Jung has one of the first twister finishes in the UFC for his debut is pretty damn impressive β€
It was THE first twister wasnt it?
Imagine Gaethje vs Chandler ends in a draw. Both doing a back flip from the cage. ππ
*plot twist: after a well synchronized backflip, they got a contract with the Cirque Du Soleil.
Who celebrates a draw tho π€
@@kingwan4051 a champ of course
Because u didnt lose your belt
@@kingwan4051 a champ π
So if champ vs interim champ ends in a draw, they both keep their belt?
Justin shoving the commissioner (or whoever) at 1:37 after is failed backflip attempt is hilarious. βNah fuck off this flip is mine.β
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He apparently got fined for that. The ref was just trying to enforce a dumb rule I think.
@@fernandovalencia5411 I mean, fighters sometimes injure themselves while celebrating like Johnny Walker. Or Gaethje himself when he landed on the cameraman
@@looka698 Cameraman shoulda moved.
@@looka698 fuck the cameraman
I like when he says " IT IS ALLLL OVEEERRRRRR"
8:37 no one mentions how beautiful this feint takedown gets him to sprawl and lose the fight. Clean work by Joe.
WOW holy shit
Very nice.
I was looking for that Comment... took a while
TKZ avenging his loss against Garcia in his UFC debut via a Twister is just crazy
@brasi luca Leonard Garcia had a knack for undeservingly beating Asian fighters.
@Generic Username
I am actually making a joke cause Leonard Garcia has two well-known, undeserved wins, both against Asians.
Bro your fuckin thumbnail man π
βHe doesnβt even have the energy to celebrateβ
Does a backflip from 9 feet in the air
Him falling from the cage like a limp dummy, sent my ass straight to Heaven though LOL ππππ€£π
While Gaethje is whupping on MJ against the cage "THEY MAY BOTH HAVE TO TAP OUT DUE TO EXHAUSTION!"
People have torn their acls with that celebration more than once
Initially it seemed that way, buffoon.
Thatβs gotta be an amazing feeling when you win your debut. Sitting on the fences must be an absolutely amazing feeling. Ik from playing sports when you get a big moment like that, itβs like the greatest feeling ever.
Silva is my favorite fighter of all time. Love that man.
"Where the heck is Joe Rogan's debut lol."
krplus.net/bidio/d6qZp6CsaKTUq2k ..
@@InvestmentIdea tf is that
They lost it after his competition in the other dimension for the heavyweight DMT champ of the multi-verse
@@imperatorlightoneous1382 are you truly the emperor of mankind?
@Tyler Wooten wooosh Would be more suitable than βcasualβ..
Gaethje. What a warrior. He basically fought being KOd and still managed to FDup an elite fighter while not knowing if he was alive. That is a spirit. A warrior. My respects.
And then being able to pull off a perfect backflip with all that leftover vertigo.
F
Michael Johnson was a great fighter but he was never elite
debatable. johnson was 9-7 in the ufc by the time he fought gaethje. now hes 12-14.
@@knuckle-sandwichmma681 thing is Johnson goes in either a beast or a terrible fighter. Dude is dice roll definitely considered something if you just ko Poirier in the first round
Anderson Silva is simply a different type of beast man...
No missed strikes, dodged absolutelly everything, was a strike artist, great on the ground, GAVE A SHOW EVERY TIME HE GOT IN THE RING on his prime and wasn't afraid to fight loke today's "legends" that grapple for 5 rounds...
You mean Anderson "sees bisping talking to the ref so perfect opportunity to sucker knee" Silva, yeah whatever.
β@unbornk20si93 looking for tbe ref to pause the fight for a mouth piece nice try
"A different kind of striker" - Anderson Silva was really something else.
The Korean Zombie twister finish with seconds left on the clock will never not be iconic
1:29 the girl in the crowd just disappears ππ
Wow eagle eye
LMAO
She passed out π
@@Frank15982 she did lol look at how they looked at her
The first ultimate fighter finale still gives me goosebumps. Both of these guys deserved that contract.
1:09 the woman at the background disappears after TKO and Gaethje attemps to backflip made me laugh my ass off. So hilarious omg.
It's not a memorable debut unless you stick the landing apparently
Not really
holy shit this comment is dumb
WHAT ARE U TALKING ABOUT ITS ICONIC
Obviously. You gotta finish in style to be relevant. rofl
ππ no r
Michael Chandler is the type of guy to impress Me with His Performance
Finally a fresh joke on the type of guy.
Thanks you π
I think I can beat him even without my wrestling - An Eagle
Dan was in 2 of the most brutal wars in a long time in the ufc right before that and lost both so I don't think he was or will be the same after the poirer fight I think chandler is great but they knew what they were doing with that match-up they pushed him so hard why the hell did he get to be a fucking title fight back up and he never even had a single fight in the ufc before that its kinda weird to me
Chandler would lose to Emanuel yarborough
Im not impressed by his performance
Gaethje walks forward like terminator no matter what. Its insane. One of my favorite fighters ever that the UFC signed. Hes just awesome!
Do Bronx humbled him big time π§π·
Man those combos by Mcgregor back then were SICK!! Especially his 4 punch combo on Eddie Alvarez to become the 1st ever UFC 2 seperate weight class World champ! Love him(I do. But I'm also half Irish) or hate him you gotta be honest about how skilled he really was !
That Twister from Zombie....pure gold!
"float like a bee, sting like a butterfly"
- Tony Ferguson
Yeah
I thought it was Brock Lesnar who said that
Damn π
@@dano1307 nah, i'm pretty sure it was Bruce lee
@@captainbtn yep you're right. Or was it Mike Perry?
That was a great video. No bullshit. Just fantastic highlights. Thank you.
It may not have been shown in this clip but the Griffin and Bonner fight is what launched the UFC to a new height as they punched each other in the face the whole fight and nobody backed down. I was watching this on our local channel and it gave me chills watching these two warriors battled it out as the whole crow just stood up until the end. I won't forget "So you want to be an ultimate fighter" line by the commentator.
2:48. The original 3 piece. One of the greatest punch combos ever recorded in a UFC fight. All three elements in sync. The speed, force, and accuracy of those punches. You could see the force.
Cool but What the hell do u mean by " the original"? I hope you're talking about a cuban journeyman here.....
@@gamebred6995 wrong
@Cryforequanimity ππππ
It was nice but one of the greatest combos? Bit of a stretch.
Forest Griffin vs Stephen Bonnar
Was the first Legendary Classic Fight ππΌ
Not really. It brought the UFC to the masses but there were plenty of legendary fights before that.
@@funnymcfunfuns1455 Name some then.
@@ibrahimtall6209 Ok, that was in 2005. we can go back to the early 1990s. Royce v ken. Royce v Kimo. Royce v Severn. most of the Tank Abbot fights. Shamrock v Severn. Ruas v Varelans. those are all truly legendary classic matchups and great fights and that is just the first 7 UFC events. I can go on and on.
@@funnymcfunfuns1455 none of those fights compare to the Bonnar vs Griffin match. Not even close. You are trying to compare a match that the UFC put in the HoF against just random fights with big names that don't make anyone's top 50 UFC fights of all time.
LoL... I love how Justin couldnβt even climb the cage at first, literally fell off ! π€£ ... but still went and did his backflip he loves so much. ππ
A walk down memory lane. Loved this
JDS was absolutely one of the scariest fighters in the UFC back in the days. His one punch KOs are brutal.
JDS with hair is a mma demigod like IV Hendricks , TRTor full camp Mendes , Salon quality Poirier and of course sea level cain
Brock Lesnar hands down scariest
@@georgewright3949 JDS with hair and Sea level cain would have been the most insane fight ever
@@ricardojornada π€£π€£π€£
He had some of the best hands I've seen in the UFC
It's so weird seeing Conor without his chest tattoo.
It's so weird seeing GSP with hair
It's so weird seeing him without all the baggage.
Or winning a fight.....
Conor fought so much better when 60 grand was a big amount of money, he's that rich now he's probably getting 60k a day in interest on its own, I can't see him getting anywhere near the position of becoming a word champion again.
@@aboutthemetal8783 I think his time is done. The fighters are getting better.
The Bonnar and Griffin match is one of the greatest UFC fights ever.
That Bonnar vs. Griffin fight is such a classic. It was both of their UFC debuts, and they definitely put on an all-out war. I remember watching that fight when I was younger...
How good must Zombie be to debut with one of the rarest submissions ever?
Forced chiropracticπ
He is absolutely incredible. His style is very unique
that submission is pretty rare its only him and this other guy who learned it from KRplus and eddie bravo
whoever those commentators were for gaethje's debut was perfect, UFC should really use them more
Brian Stann was amazing!!
Yes doesn't he a guy from Dazn
todd grisham. came from wwe. super corny
@@PeteyDoe he commentates for Glory kickboxing... not corny. its his job to be a hype man.
It would have been amazing having Rogan or DC in there though.
That twister was a thing of pure beauty!! πππ Wow, just wow!
That was absolutely superb officiating from Big John in the Gaetjhe-Johnson fight, wow, knowing the guys' limit and not stopping it early!
Justin had the toughest debut in my opinion.
@Simon Stipic you probably smell bad
That guy will have major brain damage when he gets older.
@JosΓ© Flores he said toughest not best.Meaning he was the level of difficulty
Justin faced the most adversity
He basically destroyed Johnsons career well him and khabib ofc
I remember watching the first Forest Griffin and Stephan Bonnar fight live. To this day that is still the greatest fight I've ever seen. The cherry on top was Dana giving them both contracts in the end.
Some argue it was the fight that saved the UFC from possibly being unable to continue financially.
@@mikeg3439 that first season of the ultimate fighter, capped off by that fight, is what saved en for sure.
Man. Absolutely iconic .
I love watching chucks reaction to fights. On his feet throwing combos lol
Man, the caliber of competition that some of theses fighters debut against is mind blowing.
"JiΕΓ ProchΓ‘zka
" had a crazy debut too
Not memorable, at least not yet
@@DavidFoundCo I thought it was pretty memorable getting a high-ranked volkan oezdemir right off the bat AND knocking him out cold
More memorable than Charles for sure
Jiri is out of radar.. Like sneaking into somebody's wife
Provider
6:13 when two baseball dads meet in the parking lot after the game
Love the username and avatar
Thanks for the upload π₯
R.I.P Stephan Bonnar. May you rest in warrior heaven ππΌ β€οΈ thank you for the shows
Man I really miss JDS, he was the one fighter that got me into MMA in the first place
He's barely been gone how ocild you miss him, he literally only just fought a few months ago
@@ciaranlynch2128 we miss the real jds. The one that had the greastest run oat at hw. Koing fools left and right, and breaking supposedlly the unbreakable chins of Nelson, Hunt and Carwin.
@@BarraLibre Also won the belt from Cain Velasquez just as his career began to take off.
@@BarraLibre He was never the same after those last two cain fights
@@timothymetropoulos7311 and the stipe fight as well
1:19 Look at the background on the right, ROFL!
big azz knockers
At 1:28 she just straight up disappears
The way she disappears is so amazing and incredible. How could you hide those knockersπ
@@Jeroenoman πππ
Joe Lauzon was a true warrior ! Idk if he's retired but winning or losing he was so exciting to see.
charles was so happy :D
look how he is jumping because of happyness ^^ i love it
The junior dos Santos one made me feel good !!! Cuz it seems like people nowadays forget how good he was at his prime!!! 9 wins streak with 8 knock outs the longest of heavyweight history, a true legend ππΎππΎ
My dream fight in the lightweight division is to see Justin vs Chandler, Tony vs Conor and Dustin vs Oliveira π
Winners justin, conor and porier
Tont
@@john_6232 (grammar pedantry syndrome)
@@ilovegrapes4101 Exactly my prediction too π
Yea Tont is my favorite
That first fight was crazy
That ken vs forrest fight was when I started watching. That fight helped put Dana and the UFC on the map! Such a classic
Gotta love the man TKZ
How clean and smooth looked the Silva vs Leven fight. It felt like an old Van Damme movie in there.
making a twister in a fuckign ufc debut what a legend usually they are rare to see but making it in a debut props!
holy goodness that first fight. Those dudes are tough.
I'm a proud fan to say I've watched all of these debuts live
From one old person to anotherπ»
i'm envious
@@omarmosaad9878 Jesus loves you
@@Smiley-dl4hs i love him too mate you can't be a muslim without loving all prophets.
OG π₯
omg that KZ twister is sick af
1:30 Johnson's sister teleportation is awesome.
I really do miss the old Conor McGregor who had barely any tattoos and who was actually good at fighting.
He still is good at fighting he's just not at the top of the game anymore
@@RajSingh-ul3od nah, he just stopped improving while everyone else got better and better. The conor of 2016 would never beat this Dustin/Khabib either.
@@Nolimits010 You have no idea whether he could or not. Complete assumption.
@@Nolimits010 What you said doesn't contradict what he said lol
@@dangerous8333 Conor in 2016 lost to Nate Diaz and went 2-1 that was not even his best, his best performances were at featherweight. He is not built for the modern top of lightweight guys like Chandler, Gaethje, Makhachev, Oliviera, Poirier, or Nurmagomedov when he was active, they all will smoke him.
Crazy that I still get goosebumps watching that Forrest vs Bonnar fight. Every time.
10 million viewers
People talk about Zahng vs Joanna but this will always be the best fight.
Connor's precision was something special back in 2013
No doubt!.. don't like the guy personally, he elevated and evolved the sport! ... But in the meantime the division was catching up and also evolved and it shows..people forget MMA is actually still in it's mid twenties which means, there's yet to be explored
@@mosesparada6944 in what sense did he evolve mma? Lol what a dumb comment. He made the ufc huge but he did not evolve marital arts in any sense.
My god you people are cringe
@@csrdowms1356 I'm prolly Connie's no.1 hater out here, but to deny that he came in like a storm and captured titles in two weight divisions and put the world on notice and elevated the popularity of the sport, ur in denial!..I'm happy the other guys in the division and the sport overall understand its just as mental as anything else, so in that sense he did evolve the game... I'm not a big fan of estrogen filled fighters all up in there feelings when they fight, sorta like u and ur estrogen filled comments!
@@mosesparada6944 you're confused. None of the things you mentioned constitue him evolving mma.
Evolving the sport means adding new dimensions or a different way of fighting.
No doubt he achieved a lot but that doesn't not mean he evolved mma lol. Buy a dictionary. You're clueless.
@@csrdowms1356 really? So the sport only consist of skill and talent and has nothing to do with mental fortitude?
God i loved seeing the Bonner vs Griffin fight! That was by far the best ultimate fighter fight i ever watched! And the fact that Dana gave em both contracts just is a testament to how epic that fight was
Thank you for including Joe Lauzon. Real UFC legend
Justin Gaethje showed up in the UFC and immediately became one of my favorite fighters
Look at Charles celebration just jumping around, just like when he won the title, incredible story
He is garbage and shouldnβt be on this list
Did you hear the crowd? They were going crazy and was it even the main event? You dont hear the crowd like that anymore
Glad to see The Korean Zombie get his props here. That twister was so satisfying.
Werdum, at the end going down, Tony, "Hold on, don't go down, I'm talking right now, brother" π
It's crazy bec when Anderson debuted, I had already been watching UFC for several years. It was insane to see that in 2006. You knew the sport was gonna keep climbing. Especially after the TUF finale
@Rainbow Dirt chris isnt a bum
@Rainbow Dirt so you're gonna discredit him... Lol.
@Rainbow Dirt Every time someone say something positive about Anderson you're in the comments saying the same thing when is clear that your opinion is crap. Did he abandoned you and your mom?
4:59 Legend. I want that guy back.
9:33 Holy fuck I'd have stopped the fight after that connection. Ref let him take an unnecessary beating when he was already out
The backflip in the first one is incredible
Nothing for me can beat the feeling that I got when I saw Forest v.s. Stephen!! I felt so bad for Bonnar!! Then Dana signs both of them!! That was about the moment that I fell in love with the U.F.C. and fighting in general!!
Damn dawg how old are you
He should have signed that welterweight contender series bro who gave hell but he was black so its a no from white
@@floex_3196 that's your dad, right there
@@sluggak1363 Yes it was because he was black.
@@floex_3196 just turned 30 I was born in 1990 Brother!! Lol.
Griffin/Bonnar is hands down still the greatest fight in history. What a moment, still get chills.
Its crazy to hear the crowd size differences during the flashbacks. Watching them then, It wasn't noticed.
Somehow that Griffin vs Bonnar fight is actually even better than I remember it beingβ¦ and I remember it being one of the best things Iβve ever seen.
Was hoping to see Volkan's first night night in Jiri Prochazka's debut there.
Tony Ferguson is the kind of guy to debut twice
I thought to myself: its such a great video, cut perfectly, I'ma subscribe to this young youtuber, Oh wait its UFC :D
The credit to Michael Johnson that guy is incredible, Gaethje has an outrageous chin, like clay Guida or Chris leben back in the day, guy just eating enormous shots and keeps coming.