10 MMA Moments That Gave Fans Goosebumps

There are many reasons to love mixed martial arts, the pageantry, the rivalries, the takedowns, the long fights, the incredible finishes, the blood, the sweat, the tears, but occasionally there are

moments

that just hit differently, go beyond from simply seeing or hearing, you feel it. I'm talking about goosebump-inducing chills in those

moments

that make us connect with something that happened in the cage on a completely different level and today we're going to take a look at 10 such cases where our emotions were so high. that created that incredible involuntary movement. body response i'm tommy from mma on point and these are 10 dramatic moments that

gave

fans

goosebumps

number 10 big nog comes home toby keith said i'm not as good as i was, but once i'm as good as ever.

And such was the case when Benitaro Nogueira, 35, faced comedian Brennan Schaab on UFC 134. This event was very special for many reasons, it was the first trip to Brazil during the Zuffa era and marked the first time that UFC would have a broadcast deal to air in brazil noguera was coming off an 18 month layoff after major surgery, his last over ako lost to cain velasquez and while 35 isn't exactly old, 40 professional fights is a lot between surgery, free time and all the miles before there was much concern that this would be the end for the legendary Brazilian, how fitting then that it would be in the arena just three miles from his home the first time in his incredible career that spanned over a decade that he would fight. in his homeland, now all jokes aside, i think you would be surprised to know that schaab was a minus 3 30 favorite, he had three kotkos in his four fight winning streak since losing the ultimate fighter, his last mirko ako Crow Cop, this had it all. the makings of a sad night in brazil, but three minutes into a back-and-forth first round, nogara leveled big brown for the ko victory.

You've never heard 14,000 people louder than this, I assure you the place went absolutely crazy at the sight of Big Nogg's team. celebrating around him with his brother it's pure joy it gives me

goosebumps

instantly look how happy jds is he is overall the happiest man in the world i have never seen him so happy what moment number nine silva spends the torch in a moment that possibly only become more significant as time goes on depending on how the rest of Israel progresses outside of the sanya race. Anderson Silva's fight at UFC 234 with the reigning middleweight champion just before capturing his first UFC gold felt like a big deal the sport had never seen before. like silva and his legendary reign over the middleweight division, but very early on undefeated prospect adasanya was drawing comparisons to his unique style and so, in a rare case of the past meeting the future at just the right time, the ufc was able to book the two for the main event in melbourne, the fight of the night award winner wasn't a fight but of course why would you be talking about two of the most skilled strikers in the game?

Instead, it was a chess match in which Izzy clearly came out on top. best of the spider who in his defense was 43 years old at the time of the fight in the end the two shared a hug that really felt meaningful the iconic image of both athletes leaning in front of each other odasanya staying in the position for much longer until silva held it up as if to say this is yours now get up you can't help but feel chills let's hope israel continues to carry that torch and maintain this moment as one of the greatest generational passes the sport has ever seen number eight. griffin triumphs over shogun shogun hua was the man when he entered the ufc he was the best pride he had to offer without a blemish on his record at 205 pounds after going on a 12 fight undefeated streak in the division and winning the grand prize weight middleweight from 2005 with wins over the likes of rampage jackson ricardo arona little nogg aleister overeem and kevin randleman many felt he was the uncrowned king of the light heavyweight division enter everyone's favorite every man forrest griffin if every man was six foot three and jack will walk around weighing 230 pounds since winning the Ultimate Fighter Griffin had decent success going four and two before his fight with Shogun, but he certainly wasn't expected to win GP Pride.

The winner was a minus 350 favorite forest at the time it didn't look like championship caliber this was just a welcome to the ufc here's a guy with a well known name for hua of course that's not how it happened all. The three-round fight saw a relentless pace from Griffin and although the exchanges were largely back and forth at the end of the second. It became apparent that Shogun didn't have much left and in the third wood he really took it to the pride legend, ending the fight with a dramatic rear-naked choke with just 15 seconds left on the clock.

The now iconic celebration of Griffin throwing his hands in the air. and the exhausted, shocked victory perfectly sums up forrest's humility and what makes him so likable and at the same time gives you absolute chills number 7 jose aldo returns to rio 1 713 days is a long time without a home game, especially when people Called possibly the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world after winning in Rio at the Top 3 Fighting Championship, Jose Aldo would not compete in his home country until long after defending his WEC title twice, then merged with the ufc and defended that title twice his next opponent, the undefeated Chad Mendes, who wouldn't be an easy homecoming on paper, but the young champion, only 25 years old, decimated Méndez with a big knee with only seconds left. in the first round, ending the fight on a definitive note before Goldie could even finish one of her signature posts. -fight quotes aldo was running towards the cage door he was pulling a bj pin he was pulling a forced tap let's hope he wasn't pulling a numb habib no instead with the speed of an olympic sprinter aldo rushed towards a sea of ​​

fans

and jumped straight into their loving arms joe rogan immediately mentioned that the scene looked like a riot and it really was the crowd was losing their minds everyone just wanted to be a part of the celebration they would eventually lift the river king under their shoulders and take him back to the cage, it has to be one of the coolest celebrations in post-fight history and you can't help but get goosebumps every time you see it, number six Tate wins the gold in a shocking return in mixed martial arts as in life.

It's never over until it's over That applies as much to a fighter's career as it does to the fight itself When Ronda Rousey unceremoniously took the Strikeforce bantamweight title from Misha Tate along with his arm in 2012, the way back to have a title seemed more uncertain with each step. a year after getting his face smashed by Katzengano in his UFC debut, who won a title fight against Rousey and a season training the ultimate fighter with the victory, it was only due to a major injury that forced Zingano out of the program that Tate would be given that attention as a coach. and a second chance against Ronda and although his second fight would be longer, the result would be the same.

At that point, it would take a miracle to get a third fight with the dominant champion and while she would quietly pick up four wins, no one was dying for See Rousey Tate three, so Holly Holm had made her way into history and suddenly there was a opening. Holm had to wait for a rematch, but she wanted to remain competitive and so the UFC included Tate with a name that was unlikely to win the championship. The 400th favorite going into the fifth round, Misha would have to finish or the fight would have been a draw, meaning the champion retains a nearly unobtainable fourth title fight.

There were only two minutes left on the clock when she landed a takedown and floored Holmes. back, but there could also have been only two minutes left in her entire life in one of the most dramatic titles in UFC history. Tate put the house to sleep. Her post-fight celebration of her in front of a deafening crowd gets me every time I see it. Rogan. The first thing I thought after the victory is what champions are made of. In fact, they are Joe number five. Matt Hughes is walking again when it was learned that Matt Hughes' vehicle was hit by a train on June 16, 2017.

The prognosis was grim. He was in a coma. He had suffered severe brain trauma recovery seemed far from likely and if he survived he was not going to have any kind of life now this all played out largely out of the public eye after the initial news but recovery has been possible. Doing so is nothing short of miraculous and that is a phrase used by his own doctors with this type of brain trauma as severe as the idea that Matt would walk or talk again was, especially in the time period of the fight night event. of the UFC in San Luis.

In mid-January, next year seemed unlikely, and yet, after a video package showcasing his many accomplishments as Hank Williams Jr., A Country Boy Can't Survive, played across the arena, Matt Hughes again walked up to the octagon to see this man who seemed invincible during his legendary career walk back to the cage his body now much thinner his walk is difficult and yet he continues to approach the fans he keeps moving forward is a testament to the indomitable will to live that some people possess and no matter how you feel about him It was hard not to get goosebumps walking down that hallway a country boy can survive number four sakaraba shakes hands with elio lifts up gracie versus kazushi zakaraba and what he represented for mixed martial arts it is unlike anything that has ever happened or will happen again.

Since its inception, the reason for its existence, that first main event between hixson gracie and nobuhiko takata in front of over 47,000 people at the tokyo dome was to demonstrate the gracie family's japanese style of brazilian jiu jitsu wrestling, It was a battle of ideologies and a source of pride for the Japanese people and although Takada was not up to the task of truly representing the style in a meaningful fight, his protégé Sakaraba was in the Pride 8 subduing Hoiler Gracie, the first royal defeat the family had suffered in major competition since 1951. He was now a Japanese hero and in response, the legendary and undefeated Hoist Gracie would come out of retirement and enter the 2000 Pride Grand Prix tournament to take back what Sakaraba

gave

him.

He had taken away his family. The two met in the quarterfinals and the Gracie family demanded that there be no referee. stoppages and no time limit there would be no back door this was all pride had been building up and the fight would see six 15 minute rounds while gracie was the early aggressor he was simply no match for the new breed that zakaraba represented he was much rather rounded and as time passed boyce's battered body was fading rapidly, just the sight of the towel in his corner's hand caused a deafening roar in the arena, while in the corner waiting for the seventh round, the Gracie family threw in the towel, sakaraba had defeated the legendary and undefeated hoist gracie, the reaction of the public is really something that will give you chills knowing the history and what this victory represented, but an even more symbolically important moment that put your goosebumps ensued when saku approached the patriarch of the gracie family, elio, and waved his hand as if to say thank you for everything you've done for mixed martial arts and in return a knowing smile from the legendary gracie what a moment fantastic number three verdum beats fedor the magnitude of this event and the shocking nature in which it unfolded. happened, there's no way you can watch the fall of the last emperor for the first time in his legendary career and not have the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, sure in retrospect this moment has lost a bit of value, but you really have made. to stand next to the cage verdoom was not a ufc champion he was a ufc reject fedor had not lost against bigfoot he had not lost against hindo they did not give him a victory against fabio maldonado but this is not the fedor defeated by matt mitrione This is the unbeatable super saiyan god super saiyan fedor undefeated by any man for over a decade.

Know that Dr. Kosaka's strike does not count if he believes that people were worried about the Brett Rogers fight, Emilianenko did not enter. This fight was a minus 1100 favorite at this point, many of us thought he would never lose and honestly the fight looked like any other Feidor fight, dropping Verdum early and sure as he was going towards the end he got caught in a triangular armbar, but this is the last emperor we're talking about here will he escape no, he's not, no, as soon as he was locked in, his fate was sealed the seconds before he tappedIt seemed like years when it finally happened, it was like the whole world had collapsed.

Fedor had collapsed. been defeated the stunned commentary team the stunned audience helped verdum look stunned its such a surreal and unthinkable moment that no matter how many times i see it it gives me chills to this day number two anderson silva is defeated this is one of those moments in life, if you are an mma fan, you can greatly remember every detail of the first time you experienced it, you remember where you were, you remember what everyone said, where everyone was sitting, anderson silva being ko by chris weidman at ufc 162 It was simply unthinkable to be sure that Chael Sonnen had pushed Silva to the limit in their first fight at UFC 117, another goosebump-inducing finish, but that was a completely different type of fight.

Silva never looked hurt, seemed unable to implement his game plan and that fight took a lot of time. putting on the mat the idea that someone could knock out anderson silva, the greatest middleweight of all time, a striker who seemed beyond anyone else's understanding of the feat was honestly ridiculous, especially this guy chris weidman which was even like that, I think he knocked out. out mark muñoz maybe he's a fighter, i don't know, it seemed like the most unlikely end to one of the biggest title reigns in the sport, and yet in the second round, silva pretended to be stunned by a shot from weidman, a Typical tactic he would use to confuse and intimidate his standing opponents, Chris lunged forward as the champion deftly dodged his shots like he always did, except for the last one left, he didn't see it, he got goosebumps so shocking that I actually thought Silva was pretending to be knocked out.

Until I saw that the fight had been stopped, that's how unbelievable this sequence of events seemed, it's still one of the most shocking moments the sport has ever had, but Joe Rogan said it best, as he often does in Octagon Number One. , the staredown is probably the best mma fight of all time, it's certainly up there. You couldn't have written a more incredible script if you were trying to make a movie that featured the biggest fight ever. Rory McDonald and Robbie Lawler left parts of themselves in the cage in July. 11 2015 that they were never going to get back Robbie, of course, was at his peak in the final resurgence of his career, the 33-year-old defying the odds and capturing welterweight gold that previous December in front of him, a rematch with The next generation of 25-year-old Rory McDonald, his last fight ended in a split decision two years earlier, since then Rory had eliminated three contenders to get a second chance, this time for gold.

Lawler had been in a few battles recently, three of his last four were fight of the night, I'm sure he was. hoping for an easy night at the office that's not what he got with seconds left in the fourth round, both men were absolutely destroyed physically, the back and forth battle left them both bloodied, battered and exhausted when the horn sounded to end the penultimate round. two men chose instead to go to their corner for another to stare both defiantly telling each other wordlessly I'm still here and I'm not leaving with absolute goosebumps it's one of the most iconic images in sports history it's one of those moments in time that you will never forget and you instantly felt that robbie would take down his title challenger in the final round creating the perfect ending to the perfect fight.

Obviously I think Max won the second one and I'm the biggest fan of Max Holloway in The World, even I feel really gross about doing three fights in a row with the champion, you know, don't touch yourself one bit in video games, thank you, I I appreciate it, you gave it the right time, honey, look at that knockout, does that mean me? I'm a better striker with Ben asking than Paula Costa, yes it's the jab on him mate thanks, shout out to Anthony Romero. I learned it in ESFL because I don't have boost launchers like Iron Man.

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