Shocking fighters

[tamarslay3]

by shocking fighters I mean people you never expected to be good but they are or vice versa, guys you expected to be good but aren't.. I am using the Dawn of MMA mod and all I have to say is this would have never happened in WMMA2. I think it shows how much better WMMA3 is.

Year is 2001 by the way.

Shockingly good:

Ebenezer Braga: 17-5, #23 P4P, Beat Royce Gracie to win title in 1997

John Lewis: 12-5-1, #22 P4P, Won lightweight title in a Tourney

Amaury Bitetti: 17-6, #4 P4P, Current Middleweight Champ beat Kazushi Sakuraba

Antonio McKee: 9-1, #19 P4P, lost Welterweight title to Matt Hughes

Jorge Patino: 20-7, #7 Light Heavyweight, was on a 4 fight winning streak till he lost a title fight in Pride

Igor Zinoviev: 13-7, #21 P4P, beat Renzo Gracie and Kazushi Sakuraba in the same tourney

Shockingly not-so-good:

Akihiro Gono: 10-8, somehow did beat Royce Gracie though

Caol Uno: 10-8-1, went on a 4 fight losing streak, now on a 2 fight losing streak

Bas Rutten: 22-11, started off pretty good and then slowly fell off, I expected alot more then 22-11 out of Bas




Tra Telligman almost made the good list after he won the heavyweight title but now he isn't so good with a record of 11-7. Chuck Liddell almost made the not-so-good list but he has been on a tear as of late. From 5-4 to 10-5 his record is now and just beat Belfort by TKO in the 2nd round.

[Predicted]

Default database -> Ethan Sutton is 10-8, he was a very good gatekeeper of sorts in my WMMA2 game, I guess the horrible gym he joined can explain that.

[jesterx7769]

Despite being Rookie of the Year his skills are far behind many other top young fighters at the beginning of the game.

[timmyismint]

Ken Shamrock is unimpressive, but Oleg Taktarov is great. Royce Gracie was great at the start, but is now falling. Dan Severn is amazing.
In my starting in 89' ODB game, Hassan Fezzik has had a bad start.

[kimura]

shockingly bad : Carl Chenoweth. Career got off to a good start going 5-1, only to have dropped his last 5 matches in a row, all 5 of those matches have been cans in an attempt to get him back on winning ways...

[Pinke]

Daniela Sadorra ...

I hired her as a can, and she just always does the opposite of what I want her to do.

Losing to Janinha an Simone King, so I thought I would run out her contract just having her get destroyed.

She has gone on to defeat Alisha Wood, Layla Holmes, Veronika Sablikova, and Chelsea Lawson. So now I'm just going to keep throwing her at tougher opposition till she predictably loses.

[Verbec]

Tyler Aidi. I never expected him to be a contender. Came into my Featherweight Division after 10 Wins against local canadians. Lost his first fight to the mighty power of Brain Claremont. Then i pitted him against a struggling Lamont Banner, who I tought will also knock him out. But Tyler Aidi submitted him with a Rear Naked Choke. Then he won an easy fight against Paco del Rio with the Rear Naked Choke again. Kenji Akita was his next target and this time I thought his winning days are over and for 2 1/2 rounds Akita just overwhelmed him, BUT late in the third round he sweept him, put Akita on his back and choked him out with 2 seconds left in the Round.

#21 Featherweight now.

[jesterx7769]

Bogdonovich is tearing it up in one of my games going 5-0 so far, mainly against guys that should have beat him. He's KO'd two wrestlers on the shoot in, guess thats how you make up for no ground game

[ovoj]

Bogdonivich!!! Currently 5-2 and steamrollering himself into title contention. Frankly, its annoying. He's ranked #10 LHW in the world and has taken out (all matches i expected, nay, WANTED him to lose) Jon Silvers, Russell McPhee, Aleksei Chekhov (#16), Jin Katou (#12), Mike Watson (#10). next up for him? Duno...dont wanna sacrifice anyone to those canon ball fists

[1234]

Tadamasa Yamada, shockingly bad since he joined me:

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[ovoj]

There have been soo many that are shockingly bad and a few good.

Good:
Jerry Bogdonovich: Next in line for a title shot after climbing up the ladder, progressively beating ranked opponents. Only signed him for the fun fights factor. He's got dynamite in his fists, so much so that Rubenstein WOULDN'T stand with him and kept trying to take him down (he lost the 3rd round by stupidly pulling guard and loking for subs off his back while eating elbows to the face).

Allen LeFleur: God knows i signed him as a can. Lost his first fight and has since then racked up 7 straight wins.

Bad:

Terron Cabal: Currently 1-2. beat Peltonen then loses to manu'a and herringbone.
Seth O'Breen: Came in 14-0. Left 16-4.
Numerous others have come in unbeaten or with massive reputations only to lose a tune up fight or while trying to give them some exposure (Affonso Villar, Noah Van der C,Li-Kong Ho, Anderson Desailly, Braulio Moura and EVERY DAMNED JAPANESE IMPORT ) but those are the worst 2.

[Bigpapa42]

Christopher Sharp in my current GAMMA game. I always pick him up, build him into ranked HW with a few gimme wins, then feed him to some better fighters who can take advantage of his waiting-to-break chin. He's won 4 straight in this game, all in the first round by TKO via strikes. The last two were against ranked HWs. He doesn't have monster hands, but he keeps KOing guys when the come in for a takedown. I'm almost afraid to put him in there against a top guy.

[justtxyank]

Jeff Carlton is the most surprising to me. I ran an openweight tournament that saw him defeat Boyer in the finals. He then beat Foster for the HW title and has defended against Raul Hughes and a rematch against Foster.

Foster has been pretty bad for me though. After a successful title defense to start my game against Boyer, he lost his strap to Carlton, lost a rematch to Carlton, lost a match against Raul Hughes and then lost in the opening round of my openweight tournament the next year to Hyun-Shuk Lim.

[Paatero]

Foster seems to turn out bad for me as well. It's a shame, I like the idea of an unbeatable 'poster boy' heavyweight champion with his style. There aren't so many 'unbeatable' fighters in general, though.

Lawrence Herringbone and Darin Blood are fighters who should by their skills go far, but they go on losing streaks for me, Blood's never mentally prepared and even when he is, a wrestler takes him down and Darin never attemps a sub, even though he has great submissions.

John Rivero has done great for me, submitting Anthony LeToussier in a non-title match since Rivero failed to make weight (LeToussier retained although he lost), before that he had beat Mike Watson in a contendership match up, and when I sent him to heavyweight, he submitted Raul Hughes. Eventually, after putting up a great submission and grapple match with champ Norman Pike, he was RNC'd in the fourth round.

[justtxyank]

Foster seems to turn out bad for me as well. It's a shame, I like the idea of an unbeatable 'poster boy' heavyweight champion with his style. There aren't so many 'unbeatable' fighters in general, though.

Lawrence Herringbone and Darin Blood are fighters who should by their skills go far, but they go on losing streaks for me, Blood's never mentally prepared and even when he is, a wrestler takes him down and Darin never attemps a sub, even though he has great submissions.

John Rivero has done great for me, submitting Anthony LeToussier in a non-title match since Rivero failed to make weight (LeToussier retained although he lost), before that he had beat Mike Watson in a contendership match up, and when I sent him to heavyweight, he submitted Raul Hughes. Eventually, after putting up a great submission and grapple match with champ Norman Pike, he was RNC'd in the fourth round.

I am new to WMMA, so when I read the thread about real life comparable and saw Blood=BJ Penn I wanted to make him a star. He's lost every single fight for me. :(

[BrokenCycle]

Yamada is a piece of crap and I hate him. I signed him to a rather large contract, and has gone 1-3. I was even worried he would lose to Leon Banks of all people.

[falling_star]

Spencer Rubenstein, a favorite of mine in WMMA2, totally sucks now. He started the game as LHW champion, and now he is unranked with a 44% reputation. He first lost the belt to Marlon John by getting KO'd in under 2 minutes, then dropped a decision to Bryan Van Den Hauwe (who steamrolled his way to a title shot before losing against John and dropping 2 in a row), and then got KO'd by Kendall Tracey (again in under 2 minutes).

He FINALLY picked up a win by squeaking past Ricky Heath in a very poor rated split decision victory.

[ovoj]

yeah Rubenstein is pretty pish in my game. using him as a sort of lower gatekeeper. if that makes any sense.

[IWWROCKS]

Cody MacKenzie...loved the guy on ultimate fighter but shocked at what's just happened. After beating a few half decent fighters, I reward him with a shot at Sean Sherk who's been fantastic. Ranked 2nd in the world amongst Lightweights, next in line for a shot at Ben Henderson should he win.

First Round, Cody drops Sherk but Sherk controlled most of the round, and despite a solid arm in guillotine attempt from Cody (how's he not finished the guillotine?!) he edged the round.

Second Round, Cody drops him with a good shot, hits a flying knee but again Blurcat said Sherk edged it, probs due to controlling the round.

Third round, Cody with a big right hook sends himself into title contention. Im amazed.