Greatest First Round Fighter Of All Time....

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: PsychoIcon
Date: February 07, 2012 at 09:49 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/greatest-first-round-fighter-of-all-time.45183/

BJ "The Prodigy" Penn. It has to be. In all his losses except maybe the second Edgar fight he won the First Round.
Nick Diaz fight, he won the first round, lost miserably.
Fitch fight dominated the first round but faded later in the fight.
Came out strong in the first Edgar fight, then slowed down.
Picked GSP apart both times he lost, but won in the first round.
Took round 1 from Machida and he weighed in at 225 lbs!
6 first round finishes
26 fights and only lost the first round 1-2 times.
Just a thought that I had, and if BJ had the will of Nick and the Physical gifts of GSP, he would be a monster.
Any other strange statistics that relate hand in hand with that fighters greatness?

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: derek666
Date: February 07, 2012 at 09:54 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/greatest-first-round-fighter-of-all-time.45183/

Carwin was the best 1st round fighter!!!!!

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: residency
Date: February 07, 2012 at 09:59 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/greatest-first-round-fighter-of-all-time.45183/

Joe Lauzon. 21 wins (and 21 finishes), 15 in the first round. Of his six losses, only one came in the first round.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: MikeyHatTrick
Date: February 07, 2012 at 09:59 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/greatest-first-round-fighter-of-all-time.45183/

Frankie Edgar
Reference UFC 125 and UFC 136

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: MacWombat
Date: February 07, 2012 at 10:16 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/greatest-first-round-fighter-of-all-time.45183/

PsychoIcon said:
BJ "The Prodigy" Penn. It has to be. In all his losses except maybe the second Edgar fight he won the First Round.
Nick Diaz fight, he won the first round, lost miserably.
Fitch fight dominated the first round but faded later in the fight.
Came out strong in the first Edgar fight, then slowed down.
Picked GSP apart both times he lost, but won in the first round.
Took round 1 from Machida and he weighed in at 225 lbs!
6 first round finishes
26 fights and only lost the first round 1-2 times.
Just a thought that I had, and if BJ had the will of Nick and the Physical gifts of GSP, he would be a monster.
Any other strange statistics that relate hand in hand with that fighters greatness?
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Good point other than the fact that he lost the first round to GSP in the second fight. I was immediately thinking of Joe Lauzon when I read the title to this thread, especially the G-Sot fight.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Biggs
Date: February 07, 2012 at 10:36 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/greatest-first-round-fighter-of-all-time.45183/

derek666 said:
Carwin was the best 1st round fighter!!!!!
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+1
Honorable mention to Phil Baroni

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: TheCanuck
Date: February 07, 2012 at 11:21 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/greatest-first-round-fighter-of-all-time.45183/

derek666 said:
Carwin was the best 1st round fighter!!!!!
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first 1 i thought of as well, minus the JDS fight

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Flound
Date: February 07, 2012 at 11:23 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/greatest-first-round-fighter-of-all-time.45183/

MacWombat has it right. Penn didn't win the first round in the 2nd GSP fight.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Flound
Date: February 07, 2012 at 11:28 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/greatest-first-round-fighter-of-all-time.45183/

PsychoIcon said:
...if BJ had the will of Nick and the Physical gifts of GSP, he would be a monster.
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Wanna know what else? If pigs flew out of his butt on demand, BJ would be a bacon gun... :lol:
Jeremy Horn - 69 first round finishes....

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: PsychoIcon
Date: February 07, 2012 at 11:55 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/greatest-first-round-fighter-of-all-time.45183/

Flound said:
PsychoIcon said:
...if BJ had the will of Nick and the Physical gifts of GSP, he would be a monster.
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Wanna know what else? If pigs flew out of his butt on demand, BJ would be a bacon gun... :lol:
Jeremy Horn - 69 first round finishes....
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against who?....

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Hitman21
Date: February 07, 2012 at 12:24 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/greatest-first-round-fighter-of-all-time.45183/

derek666 said:
Carwin was the best 1st round fighter!!!!!
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This

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: WilliBeamen
Date: February 07, 2012 at 01:00 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/greatest-first-round-fighter-of-all-time.45183/

TheCanuck said:
derek666 said:
Carwin was the best 1st round fighter!!!!!
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first 1 i thought of as well, minus the JDS fight
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Carwin is still a beast if one shot lands your going to sleep

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: JC507
Date: February 07, 2012 at 01:00 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/greatest-first-round-fighter-of-all-time.45183/

Royce Gracie.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: GoodCat
Date: February 07, 2012 at 01:04 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/greatest-first-round-fighter-of-all-time.45183/

Flound said:
PsychoIcon said:
...if BJ had the will of Nick and the Physical gifts of GSP, he would be a monster.
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Wanna know what else? If pigs flew out of his butt on demand, BJ would be a bacon gun... :lol:
Jeremy Horn - 69 first round finishes....
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Out of about 120 fights. Not that good, when you look at it overall. Barely over 50%

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: smfowns4
Date: February 07, 2012 at 01:32 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/greatest-first-round-fighter-of-all-time.45183/

Sokoudjou.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Flound
Date: February 07, 2012 at 01:45 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/greatest-first-round-fighter-of-all-time.45183/

GoodCat said:
Flound said:
PsychoIcon said:
...if BJ had the will of Nick and the Physical gifts of GSP, he would be a monster.
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Wanna know what else? If pigs flew out of his butt on demand, BJ would be a bacon gun... :lol:
Jeremy Horn - 69 first round finishes....
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Out of about 120 fights. Not that good, when you look at it overall. Barely over 50%
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Not that good? In 115 professional mixed martial arts fights, one fighter has his fights not leave the first round a total of 69 times. That's 60% on the money. I wondering how many fighters have a first round rate like that. Carwin comes to mind (83%), JDS (80%), Cain (70%). Hell, Anderson's is 54%. Belfort, another 60 percenter in the first. And yet Psycho is excited at Penn's 23% first round finish rate plus how he fared in 4 other fights which he lost.
See the point? Just because Penn does his best work in the first round doesn't make him the greatest first round fighter - there are many fighters who've done better in the first round for longer against just as good if not better competition.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Fight Magnet
Date: February 07, 2012 at 01:52 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/greatest-first-round-fighter-of-all-time.45183/

Flound said:
:ugeek:
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Crunch the numbers on an early Mike Tyson.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Flound
Date: February 07, 2012 at 02:03 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/greatest-first-round-fighter-of-all-time.45183/

FIGHTMAGNET said:
Flound said:
:ugeek:
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Crunch the numbers on an early Mike Tyson.
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Awesome noimbers there...
12 first round out of the first 16 (75%) and 15 out of the first 25 (60%). Career total, 41.3%

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Fight Magnet
Date: February 07, 2012 at 02:07 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/greatest-first-round-fighter-of-all-time.45183/

Flound said:
FIGHTMAGNET said:
Flound said:
:ugeek:
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Crunch the numbers on an early Mike Tyson.
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Awesome noimbers there...
12 first round out of the first 16 (75%) and 15 out of the first 25 (60%). Career total, 41.3%
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Yep, it's to bad his career took a header near the end.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Rocksteady
Date: February 07, 2012 at 02:14 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/greatest-first-round-fighter-of-all-time.45183/

I always thought Sokoudjou was the best first round fighter of all time, he beats most guys he fights in round one, then goes on to gas really hard.