5 MMA Fights That Ended In A Shock Result

As an only recently emerging sport, MMA has seen more than it's fair share of one-sided fights. That's because the sport was underground and many of the best fighters hadn't yet been discovered at the time.

in fact, if you caught Cyborg Santos' demolition of Jan Finney at Strikeforce in San Jose recently, you would have thought that nothing much had changed in Mixed Martial Arts.

Anyway, it is still true that MMA has the ability to spring a surprise result or two and here are my top five shocking mixed martial arts resuls.

Five: Liddell vs Franklin - UFC 115

Chuck Liddell is, definitely, one of the all time greats of UFC. Rich Franklin, while a decent fighter, is, er, not. While Liddell's dominance was waning, the nature of his defeat to Franklin was definitely a shock result. Despite having his arm broken by a Liddell kick right at the start of the fight, Franklin somehow managed to knock Liddell out with punch in the first round. End of Liddell.

4: Georges St-Pierre v Matt Serra at UFC 69

At the time, Georges St-Pierre was almost certainly the best pound for pound fighter in MMA. In fact, he still is. The trouble is, when he faced Matt Serra, he clearly bought into his own hype and didn't prepare properly. The result: Serra, an 11-1 outsider, won by TKO. Thankfully, St-Pierre has upped his game since.

3: Mike Brown vs Urijah Faber at WEC 36

Urijah Faber had dominated the featherweight division in the UFC for a little over two and a half years before this 2008 fight with Mike Brown. No one really gave Brown much of a chance, but a right hook to Faber's jaw soon changed more than a few minds. The referee called a halt in the first round with Brown emerging victorious.

2: Frankie Edgar v B.J Penn - UFC 112

No one - I repeat - no one saw this one coming. BJ Penn had neve been taken down and hadn't lost for 8 years when he was matched with Edgar at UFC 112. By the end of the five rounds, both of those records were no more and Ultimate Fighting Championship had a new lightweight champion.

1: Emelianenko v Werdum, Strikeforce San Jose

It is almost an absolute truth that Fedor Emelianenko is the best mixed martial artist ever. Apart from a single fight in which he had to retire, Fedor had never, ever lost. Until that is, he fought Fabricio Werdum in June 2010. While Fedor dominated the early stages, Werdum's arm bar and triangle choke hold combination meant that the best MMA in the world finally tapped out.

Jim Haines has spent too much time betting on UFC to be fit enough to actually fight, but he is hopefully that there will be a super-super-heavy-overweight category in the UFC sometime soon.

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